Ease Down

Feel your pulse.Follow the breath.Watch your body settle.

A 90-second wellness check-in for iPhone: your pulse read through the camera, a breath to follow with haptics, and a second look at where you landed.

Available on the App Store for iPhone with iOS 26.

No account. No server. Your pulse never leaves your iPhone.

How a check-in goes

Ninety seconds, start to finish

Nothing to set up, nothing to get right. The app moves through the steps on its own and stops when you are done.

Step 1: A baseline reading

Rest the pad of a finger over the rear cameras, next to the flash. The torch lights your fingertip and the camera watches the small colour changes that come with each beat. Frames are read and discarded on your iPhone — nothing is recorded.
about 15 seconds
Step 2: A breath you can feel

If your pulse is up, the number shrinks to the top of the screen and a glowing orb takes the centre. Haptics mark the inhale and the exhale, so the rhythm is something you feel rather than something you have to watch.
about 60 seconds
Step 3: An optional focus step

Sums, counting, or Steady Tap — a slow ring that swells, one tap each time, no faster. No countdown, no score, nothing to fail. Turn it on or leave it off in Settings.
off by default
Step 4: A second reading

The camera looks again and puts the two numbers side by side, before and after. Your body doesn’t respond the same way every session, and the app never reads that as a failure.
about 15 seconds

How the reading works. The torch lights the fingertip resting on the rear camera, and the app follows the small changes in colour that blood flow produces as it passes the lens — a technique called photoplethysmography. The result is an approximate wellness reading, not a medical measurement, and it is never presented as one.

Why it feels different

You are watching your own body, not an animation

Biofeedback you can see

Most breathing apps ask you to take the exercise on faith. Ease Down shows your own pulse before the breath and again after it, so there is something real to look at.

Haptics you can follow with your eyes closed

The inhale and the exhale arrive as taps in your hand. Close your eyes, keep your finger where it is, and the rhythm is still there to follow.

Ninety seconds

Short enough for a desk, a car park, or the gap between two meetings — and short enough that you will actually do it.

Private by design

No account, no sign-in, no server. Camera frames are discarded as they are read, and the numbers from your check-ins only ever move through your own iCloud.

Works with your sensor

The camera is enough. Your strap is welcome.

The camera is the main path and needs nothing but your finger. If you already wear a heart-rate sensor, the app will read it live instead.

Bluetooth heart-rate straps and watches in broadcast mode: Garmin, Polar, COROS, Wahoo and standard chest straps.
Chest straps broadcast as soon as you put them on. Watches need broadcast switched on by hand before a session — the steps are on the support page.
The camera works with nothing extra — no strap, no pairing, no accessory to buy.
Apple Watch does not broadcast heart rate over Bluetooth. Support for it is planned, not shipped.

Pricing

One free check-in. Then unlock everything once — no subscription.

The first check-in is the whole thing: the reading, the breath, the result. Nothing is held back to make a point.
After that, a single one-time purchase unlocks everything — unlimited check-ins, Bluetooth sensors and every breathing rhythm.
Nothing renews and nothing expires. The price appears in the app in your own currency, from the App Store.

Questions

The things people ask first

Is Ease Down a medical app?

No. Ease Down is a wellness app, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or monitor any condition, and its readings are approximate — wellness context, not a measurement to act on medically.

If you have chest pain, feel faint, or struggle to breathe, call your local emergency number or speak to a doctor.

Do I need an account?

No. There is no sign-up, no sign-in and no password. Open the app and start a check-in.

What data leaves my phone?

Nothing from your readings. Camera frames are read and discarded on your iPhone, and there is no server behind the app to send them to.

If you leave iCloud on, the numbers from your check-ins sync through your own private iCloud database — Apple’s infrastructure, your account, not ours. Purchases are handled by Apple. The Privacy Policy spells all of it out.

Which iPhones does it work on?

Any iPhone running iOS 26, using the rear camera and its torch. A Bluetooth heart-rate sensor can be used instead, and is optional.

Is there an Apple Watch app?

Not yet — it is planned. Apple Watch does not broadcast heart rate over Bluetooth, so it needs a companion app rather than a pairing, and that work is still ahead. Watches from other brands that broadcast, such as Garmin, Polar and COROS, already work.

Ease Down is a wellness app, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or monitor any condition. Readings are approximate and are meant as context for how you feel, nothing more.

If you have chest pain, feel faint, or struggle to breathe, call your local emergency number or speak to a doctor. Questions about any of this go to support@easedown.app.