A breathing practice · est. 2026
Calmence is a slow, settling breathing practice. A calm dark interface, a single moving sphere, and a steady rhythm. No gamification. No streak guilt. Just ten quiet minutes a day.
How it works
Calmence is a paced-breathing practice with a single moving sphere. The sphere expands as you inhale and softens as you exhale. The default rhythm is roughly six breaths per minute — slow enough to feel different, gentle enough to stay with for ten minutes.
Most adults breathe twelve to twenty times a minute. Calmence settles into about six. Slowing the breath is a long-standing form in mindfulness, yoga, and contemplative traditions worldwide. Calmence is a wellness app, not a medical device.
The sphere takes the work of counting away. You watch a soft shape rise and settle, and your breath follows. No instructions, no narration, no scoring. Just a steady visual companion.
The interface is dark by default. Gentle haptic pulses can mark inhale and exhale on phones that support it. A soft tone or ambient bed can play if you want one. All of this is optional and silent by default.
The practice
A Calmence session is a single moving sphere that rises on your inhale and falls on your exhale. Sit. Watch the sphere. Breathe with it. That is the entire practice.
Calmence offers a short rhythm-finding screen with a few default rates between 4.5 and 6.5 breaths per minute. You can settle on whichever feels comfortable, or leave the default.
No counting, no narration. The sphere expands for your inhale, settles for your exhale. Optional gentle haptics and a soft tone can mark the turn.
A quiet Insights screen shows your minutes, sessions, and a small affect slider. No scoreboard, no streak shaming, no medals.
Sessions end in silence. A brief affect check — calmer, same, more wound‑up — and you're done. The best practice tool is one that stays out of the way.
Not another breathing app
Most breathing apps lean into streaks, badges, and "level up" loops. Calmence does the opposite. The interface is dark, the copy is plain, and the practice ends in silence.
Your first session
Open the app. Tap once. By the sixth breath you'll be matched to the rhythm — no onboarding carousel, no signup to start.
No account. No onboarding survey. The app opens to the pacer. Tap once to begin.
The orb expands over five seconds, then settles over five. Breathe with it. That's the entire instruction.
By the sixth breath most people are matched to the pacer. The body settles into the rhythm on its own.
Stay for ten more minutes. Daily practice is what makes a habit feel familiar. Skip a day, come back the next, no guilt.
Voices from the field
Real stories land here after our closed beta. We'd rather leave this space empty than fill it with stock photos and invented quotes.
Pricing
At launch, Calmence is free. The full experience — every session length, the dark interface, gentle haptics, optional audio — is available without payment. A premium tier may follow in a later update.
No trial timer. No subscription required.
Questions
About
Calmence is built by Aditya Chilka, a solo founder. The app, the website, the icon, and the words on this page were all made by one person who got tired of breathing apps that turn a quiet practice into a streak chase.
The whole point of Calmence is to stay out of your way. The app is dark by default, silent by default, and free at launch. Your data stays on your phone. There is no account to sign up for and nothing to optimize. If a slow ten minutes a day is useful, that's the entire promise.
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