Being is a one-minute breathing app. Open it and it starts: breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 1.5, breathe out for 8, hold for 1.5. Four rounds make a minute. Gentle taps and sounds guide each breath, so you can do it with your eyes closed.
It's free on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/being-one-minute-to-calm/id6755574588
There's no account and no tracking, and the app doesn't connect to the internet.
Being is a Family IT Guy project: https://www.familyitguy.com/being/
ios/is the app for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV, with its widgets. It's the code of version 1.2, the version on the App Store.android/is a version for Android phones and tablets, Wear OS, Android TV, Android Auto and Android XR.
You need a Mac with Xcode. It builds with Xcode 27.2.
- Open
ios/Being.xcodeproj. - For each target, pick your own team under Signing & Capabilities. To install it on your own devices, change the bundle identifiers too. They start with
com.wawwo. - Pick the Being iOS, Being watchOS or Being tvOS scheme and run it.
You need JDK 17 and Android SDK 36. From the android folder, ./gradlew :mobile:assembleDebug builds the phone and tablet app. Swap mobile for wear, tv, auto or xr to build the others.
The code is shared under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0, in LICENSE.md. You can use it, change it and share it for anything noncommercial. You can't sell it or use it to make money.
The name Being and the app icon aren't covered by that license.
The fonts, DM Sans and IBM Plex Serif, come with their own license, the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Both are in font-licenses/.
The code is shared as it is. Pull requests aren't accepted.