Apnea Assistant: Breathe Deep!

Apnea Apps

About this app

Train Smarter. Dive Deeper. Breathe Better.

The Apnea Assistant combines 18 guided apnea and breathing exercises, including two fully customizable training generators, a free 28-day 4-Minute Challenge, and 30 in-depth Learning Center articles into one complete freediving training platform.

Built by the Freedive Academy Panglao instructor team, with more than 50 years of combined teaching experience, the Apnea Assistant is a professional freediving training system - not just a simple timer.

Originally developed for our students in Panglao, the app is now available to freedivers worldwide.

NEW: Free 4-Minute Challenge

Train toward a 4-minute static breath hold with our free 28-day challenge, developed by Freedive Academy Panglao.

Follow a structured training schedule combining CO2 tables, O2 tables, breathing exercises, recovery days, and Personal Best attempts. Throughout the challenge, you'll receive coaching emails explaining each phase of your training, helping you understand not only what to train, but why.

Whether you're preparing for your first beginner freediving course or you're already an experienced freediver, the challenge will help you build consistency, confidence, and a stronger breath hold.

What You Get with Apnea Assistant
- 18 Guided Training Exercises: Including Classic CO2 & O2 Tables, Personal Best, Five Times Challenge, Three Times Challenge, Dynamic Tables, Relaxation Tables, Set Departure Tables, different breathing exercises, and more.

- Two Fully Customizable Training Builders: Create your own apnea tables and breathing sessions, including Molchanovs-style exercises such as the 16 × 50, 500 Under/Over, and completely custom training sessions.

- Free 4-Minute Challenge: A complete 28-day guided training program with structured sessions, breathing exercises, recovery days, coaching emails, and Personal Best attempts.

- Progress Tracking & Digital Logbook: Record every session, monitor Personal Bests, analyze your training history, and identify measurable improvements over time.

- Learning Center: More than 30 in-depth articles covering freediving science, physiology, safety, equalization, breathing, and training methodology.

- Clean & Intuitive Interface: A distraction-free training experience designed to keep you focused on performance and long-term progress.

Why It Works
- Built by experienced freediving instructors—not generic developers.
- Used daily by students at Freedive Academy Panglao.
- Structured progression instead of random timers.
- Combines training, education, and progress tracking in one system.
- Designed for safe, long-term performance.

Who It's For
- Students preparing for a beginner freediving course.
- Certified, advanced, and master freedivers.
- Spearfishers looking to increase bottom time.
- Breathwork and pranayama practitioners.
- Scuba divers improving breath control.
- Anyone serious about structured breath-hold training.
- Anyone passionate about exploring the underwater world.

What You'll Gain
- Smarter, data-driven training.
- Better understanding of structured breath-hold training.
- Safer and more efficient progression.
- Measurable performance improvements.
- Greater confidence, relaxation, and consistency.

Train with structure. Track your progress. Improve with intention.

Download the Apnea Assistant and take your freediving training to the next level!

Ratings and reviews

This app has various articles, with footnotes siting sources, as well as various breath work practices/tables and a built in log to track your training history/progress. You can log manually update or add a PB STA time, and it has various tables premade as well as an ability to add your own custom tables. It also shows you your training history and will send you up to three reminders (you set the days/times and each can be multiple days at the same time). I also love that it has a dark mode.

The contents of this app has the right kind of education around it. I've tried a few other apnea apps and this is the best free version I've used where the interface is simple and intuitive. Great job putting this together!

very polished user interface. had to turn off Duck Audio setting to keep voice prompts when switching to another app. no connecting HR or pulse ox, but very good flexibility on tables including some with Urge To Breathe.

What’s new

Release v2.7.0 (June 24, 2026)

New:
- Introducing the 4-Minute Challenge: a free 28-day breath-hold training program by Freedive Academy Panglao
- Configure the dashboard, by showing/hiding elements to your wishes

Updated:
- Add Custom table view to user profile