Glimt

Glimt

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Glimt vs Breathwrk

The breathing app that works even when you forget

Breathwrk is great — if you remember to open it. Glimt interrupts you. It lives in your menu bar, detects when you're on a call, and floats a guided breath over your screen before you've even thought about it.

One-time purchase — no subscription

Two completely different models

This isn't just a feature difference. It's a fundamentally different approach to the same problem.

Breathwrk

You go to it

Open the app, pick an exercise, do it. Great for intentional sessions — morning routines, pre-sleep wind-downs. But when you're deep in work and forgetting to breathe, Breathwrk doesn't know.

Glimt

It comes to you

Set an interval, forget about it. Glimt taps you on the shoulder during your workday, floats a breathing exercise over your screen, and disappears when you're done. You don't have to remember anything.

Feature by feature

Glimt
Breathwrk
Works automatically during your workdayBreathwrk requires you to open it
Native macOS appBreathwrk on Mac runs as an iOS app
Lives in the menu bar
Active hours (quiet outside work)
Box Breathing & 4-7-8 patterns
Custom breathing pattern
Zero data collectionBreathwrk (Peloton) maye access, collect and share health and GPS data under certain circumstances
Works fully offlineBreathwrk: downloaded exercises only; live classes require internet

Own it, don't rent it

Breathwrk costs more every year you use it. Glimt costs $28 once.

GlimtGlimt
$28one time
  • Pay once, own forever
  • 1 year of updates included
  • No renewal, no account, no card saved
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Breathwrk
$9/ month

or $4.08/month billed annually (~$49/year)

  • $49–$108/year — every year, forever
  • After 3 years: $147–$324 and counting
Glimt

Stop meaning to breathe. Just breathe.

$28, once. No subscription. No account. Works quietly in the background of your workday.

One-time purchase — no subscription — macOS only

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