SlowbeatA minute to breathe.

Every meditation app I tried felt like a treadmill. Streaks to maintain, mood graphs to read, a six-month curriculum to becoming a calmer person — the premise was always that you weren't enough yet, and the app's job was to optimise you over time.

Slowbeat starts from the opposite assumption. The next sixty seconds matter more than the next six months. There's a meeting in two minutes, a performance about to start, a workout you're warming up for, a sleep you can't quite enter — and your body is somewhere it doesn't need to be. The app is everything you need to fix that, and nothing else.

There's exactly one piece of physiology inside: breathing at about five to six cycles a minute, sustained for a minute, is among the most consistent ways to engage the body's calm response. So that's what the app does — sixty seconds of it, with haptics carrying the rhythm so you can keep your eyes up, or closed. Then it disappears. No account, no servers, nothing leaves the device. Once you've breathed, its job is done.