Launching today
Breva
Turn your Mac trackpad into a gentle breathing guide
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Turn your Mac trackpad into a gentle breathing guide
50 followers
Breva turns your Mac trackpad into a gentle breathing guide. Choose a breathing pattern, set a session length, and follow a soft expanding orb with optional audio and haptic cues. It works locally, needs no account, and helps you take short reset breaks without reaching for your phone.
Hey Product Hunt,
I built Breva because I wanted a tiny reset ritual that lived on my Mac instead of my phone.
Most breathing apps pull me into a separate device, a subscription funnel, or a full meditation experience. I wanted the opposite: fewer features, less ceremony, and a quick way to reset from the Mac I’m already using. Breva is intentionally smaller: pick a rhythm, choose 3, 5, 10 minutes, or unlimited, and follow the orb, tones, and trackpad taps.
The unusual part is the haptic guidance. If your Mac trackpad supports it, Breva can quietly tap the breathing rhythm under your fingers, which makes it easier to follow without staring at the screen.
What is in this first version:
- Coherent, Easy Calm, Balanced, Calm, Box, and 4-7-8 Sleep patterns
- 3, 5, 10 minute, and unlimited sessions
- Visual, audio, and trackpad haptic cues
- Menu bar quick actions
- Local session history and preferences
- No account required
- Oh, and it's free :)
I would love feedback on two things:
- Which breathing pattern feels most useful during the workday?
- Does the trackpad haptic guidance make the session easier to follow?
Thanks for taking a look.
The trackpad haptics as a breathing pacer is such a clever use of hardware that's just sitting there — eyes-free guidance is exactly what's missing in most breathing apps, you either stare at an orb or you're lost. Did you run into limits with the Taptic Engine on the slower patterns like 4-7-8, or does it handle long holds fine? Local-only and no account is a great call btw — building in the health space myself and I'm convinced that's the right default for anything body-related.
@anton_yakymenko Thanks Anton, really appreciate this. That was exactly the idea: breathing guidance you can feel without needing to keep your eyes glued to the screen.
The trackpad haptics handle the slower patterns well, including 4-7-8, but macOS haptics are pretty intentionally limited: you get discrete trackpad taps rather than a fully custom continuous haptic waveform. So Breva uses them as gentle rhythmic anchors, while the orb and audio carry the longer phase timing.
And agreed on local-only: for an app centered on breathing and relaxation, keeping it local and account-free felt like the right place to start.
The expanding orb is such a nice touch, way more intuitive than those rigid square timers I've tried before. Appreciate that it all runs locally too, no account or signup friction.
@halilkarglraw6 Thanks Halil, that means a lot. I wanted the orb to feel soft and physical, more like something you can settle into than a timer you have to "obey".
And yes, local-only/no signup felt essential for this kind of app. It should just open, guide you for a few minutes, and get out of the way. No unnecessarily long onboard, features etc. :)
love that the orb actually responds to your finger on the trackpad instead of just playing a generic animation. running everything locally with zero setup is a really thoughtful touch for something meant for quick resets.
@n_yalc14858 Thank you Turgay. I really wanted the trackpad to feel like part of the breathing guide, not just a button sitting under the app. :)
Pushary
Bro this is wild!
rooting for this to go viral.
@aadilghani Haha thank you Aadil, appreciate the energy. :D
Pushary
@dvain <3