Norbu: Stress management + HRV

Mindfulness Devs

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About this app

🏆 The User’s Choice in the #GooglePlayBestOf 2020 Personal Growth category!

Norbu is a stress relief and mindfulness app built for stress management, anxiety relief, emotional balance, better focus, and healthier habits.

Use guided meditation, breathing exercises, anti-stress games, the Gratitude Timer, AI Coach, Goal Planner, and a 2-minute HRV test to understand how your body is handling stress and recovery.

Understand stress in 2 minutes with an HRV test

Norbu includes a 2-minute HRV test using your phone camera. HRV stands for heart rate variability. It is a simple way to see how your body is responding to mental, emotional, and physical load. This is more than a pulse check. It gives you extra context about stress, recovery, and readiness, so you can choose what may help most right now: breathing, meditation, a short reset, or more rest.

HRV has roots in space medicine and is now widely used in athlete recovery and performance monitoring. In Norbu, this becomes practical biofeedback for everyday life: a clearer signal from your body in a format that is easy to use.

What HRV and biofeedback can help you do:

spot overload earlier
notice when you may need more recovery
track changes across days
choose the right practice for the moment
build a better self-care routine

Breathing exercises, meditation, and stress relief that fit real life

Norbu gives you short daily practices for stress relief, anxiety relief, burnout support, focus, and emotional balance. Use guided or silent meditation, calming breathwork, anti-stress games, and mindful resets to step out of overwhelm and come back to yourself.

Whether you need a quick reset between meetings, help winding down at night, or a calmer way to move through a hard day, Norbu helps you build small habits that support long-term stress resilience.

Breathe Instead of Smoking

Norbu includes a free practice called Breathe Instead of Smoking for people who want to smoke less, stop smoking, or handle cravings differently.

When the urge to smoke hits, the hardest part is often the first minute. This practice helps you pause, breathe, shift your attention, and move through the craving with more awareness and less autopilot. It is a simple form of support for anyone looking for craving relief, nicotine craving support, or a healthier replacement for a smoke break.

This can help if you want to:

quit smoking or cut back
get through nicotine cravings
replace smoke breaks with breathing
interrupt automatic smoking triggers
build a healthier routine one step at a time

Tools for everyday wellbeing

In Norbu, you can use:

HRV test and camera-based biofeedback
breathing exercises for calm and recovery
guided meditation and mindfulness
anti-stress games and short resets
Gratitude Timer for positive reflection
AI Coach for personalized support
Goal Planner for consistency and habits
challenges that help you stay on track

Norbu is built for everyday wellbeing, not perfection. It helps you understand your stress, recover your energy, improve focus, support healthier habits, and feel more grounded in daily life.

Important
Norbu is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. Camera-based HRV is available on supported devices, and measurement quality may vary by device model, camera quality, finger placement, and lighting conditions. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Ratings and reviews

I just downloaded it. It might be a good game but the English in this game is rather odd and I am not sure if I answered the questions accurately because I am not sure if I understood them as the writer intended. In the results page I had some trouble understanding the categories because I knew all the words I just was not sure what they meant in context. This stressed me out and made me feel axious so I am unsure weather this app will be good for me due to the strange wording.

Loved it instantly. One of those rare games where there's no pressure, no timer,just amazing. I'm not instantly and insanely relaxed, but this game has immensely helped me out of the sudden and constant stressing and random panic attacks from just the tiny stimuli of stress.Thank you to developer,this app is very helpful

Love this app but shame on you promoting gambling adds every time you want to use it without subscription. How about being a bit more creative I don't mind adds but GAMBLING on a meditation app! How about some healthy living or well being adds there's plenty out there.

What’s new

New in Norbu: Biofeedback via HRV test.

More than a pulse check, it helps you understand how your body responds to stress and adapts to mental, emotional, and physical load. Based on methods once used in astronaut training and now applied in professional sports. In just 2 minutes, see whether your body is coping well or needs more recovery.

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