Apnea Assistant: Breathe Deep!

Apnea Apps

About this app

Train Smarter. Dive Deeper. Breathe Better.

The Assistant includes 18 guided apnea and breathing exercises, of which, two fully customizable training generators, and 30 in-depth Learning Center articles, giving you a complete training and education platform in one app.

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

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

What You Get with the Apnea Assistant
- Personalized O2 & CO2 Training Tables: Build tolerance, increase efficiency, and train with structured progression tailored to your level and goals.

- Dynamic Apnea & Apnea Walk Programs: Improve performance safely with targeted plans and real-time feedback.

- Advanced Apnea Timers: Use the Custom Builders for Molchanovs exercises like the 16 x 50 and 500 Under/Over and the Personal Best table to measure your progress.

- Custom Training Builders: Design your own apnea tables and breathwork sessions with fully customizable builders.

- Easy Account Management: Alarms, progress tracking, analytics, logging sessions, monitoring personal bests, and identifying measurable improvements over time have never been easier.

- Library & Learning Center: 30 in-depth articles covering freediving science, physiology, safety protocols, and training methodology.

- Clean & Intuitive Training Experience: A distraction-free interface designed to keep you focused on performance and progress.

Why It Works
- Built by active and experienced freediving instructors - not generic developers
- Structured progression instead of random timers
- Designed with safety and long-term performance in mind
- Combines training tools with education in one system

Who It’s For
- New freedivers building a solid foundation
- Advanced divers pushing performance
- Spearfishers increasing bottom time
- Breathwork and pranayama practitioners
- Scuba divers improving breath control
- Anyone serious about structured breath-hold training
- And those who are passionate about exploring the underwater world

What You Gain
- Smarter, data-driven training
- Safer and more efficient progression
- Measurable performance improvement

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.

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.

Very helpfull app. The only thing I would suggest is to improve the instructions on what to do before you hold your breath for the CO2 tables. Do you take a deep breath or do you just take a normal breath? That is the question...

What’s new

Release v2.6.1 (May 18, 2026)

New:
- Our Apps page. Look forward to our new app Simple Breathing!

Updated:
- Changed the color of the app icon, to be consistent with the color scheme of the app.
- Various UI tweaks, particularly on the Settings page

Fixed:
- Fixed a bug where email based accounts couldn't change their email address or password
- Other minor fixes