Sylph: Breathwork & Focus
Martin Rost Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Sylph: Breathwork & Focus is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Martin Rost. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 23, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 34 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 23
- 2026 · v2.0
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About Sylph: Breathwork & Focus
Just breathe. Nothing else. Sylph is breathwork, meditation and now focus, stripped to the essentials: a precise breath pacer with haptics, 15 breathing techniques, a meditation timer that just runs, and a focus timer for deep work. No sleep stories. No therapy modules. No endless content feed. — BREATH PACER WITH HAPTICS — A circle that breathes with you, in sync with subtle haptic pulses. Feel every inhale, hold and exhale, even with your eyes closed. — 15 BREATHING TECHNIQUES — Box Breathing (4-4-4-4) for focus under pressure 4-7-8 to wind down before sleep Coherent Breathing (4-6) for heart rate variability Physiological Sigh as a fast stress reset Alternate nostril breathing (Nadi Shodhana), Tummo-inspired power breathing, Triangle, Slow Breathing and more Each technique comes with a short explanation, no mysticism. — NEW: FOCUS TIMER — Sessions of 25, 50 or 90 minutes, followed by a short break. See the time left on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. A quiet sound and a gentle haptic tap when it's done, plus your focus time for the week at a glance. — MADE FOR iPHONE DUO — Pick your session, close your iPhone Duo, and focus begins. Open it to pause. The cover display shows the time left. Prefer to work with it open? Start without closing. — MEDITATION TIMER — A simple timer with a gentle gong at the start and end, with optional interval bells. Pick a duration, pick a sound, sit. — 12 AMBIENT SOUNDS — Rain, ocean, forest, wind, creek, fire, birds, white, brown and pink noise, singing bowls and Tibetan bells. Mix any two. — iPHONE, iPAD AND APPLE WATCH — A new design in light and dark, with sessions always dark. On iPad, Sylph uses the full screen. On Apple Watch, start any breathing exercise right from your wrist, with haptics and no iPhone needed. Mindful minutes go to Apple Health if you want them to. — PAY ONCE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. — Box breathing is free. Sylph Pro unlocks everything else with a single purchase, forever, including the focus timer. No renewal, no trial that quietly turns into a plan. — PRIVACY — No account. No tracking. No ad networks. Anonymous usage stats via TelemetryDeck, your data stays on your device. Sylph is built by a single developer who got tired of opening a meditation app only to find a podcast about productivity. Inhale. Hold. Exhale. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sylph.appstellar.de/en/privacy/
What’s new
Version 2.0 · Updated October 23, 2026
Sylph 2.0 is here. - A new design in light and dark - Focus timer (Pro): 25, 50 or 90 minute sessions, breaks, a weekly summary, and a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island - iPhone Duo: close it to start a focus session, open it to pause - iPad: layouts that use the full screen, portrait and landscape - Polish for the breathing circle, contrast and VoiceOver
App privacy
The developer, Martin Rost, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Identifiers: User ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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