Apnea Trainer: Freedive5.8.1

Ranked in the top 5 best-selling sports apps in Germany, Australia, the UK, and France.

----- Description -----
The precise breath-holding training app for freedivers, snorkelers, and anyone who wants to hold their breath longer.

Imagine you’re snorkeling in the ocean on vacation and see big, colorful fish 6 meters below the surface-you’d love to dive down on a single breath and take unforgettable photos. With Apnea Trainer, that’s possible. By training three times a week, you’ll quickly double your time underwater.

Your personalized training plan:
Answer a few short questions about your skill level and your goal-Apnea Trainer will use this information to create a training plan spanning several weeks that’s tailored just for you. Each session is scheduled and builds on the previous one, so you’ll see measurable improvement week after week. Your progress is tracked automatically-all you have to do is train.

Four training modes:
. Apnea Training - Inhale, hold your breath, exhale. Optimal intervals for maximum performance improvement.
. Pranayama - Four-phase breathing for relaxation and preparation right before snorkeling or freediving.
. Cyclic - Cyclical breathing training in rounds with hold and recovery phases that specifically increases your CO₂ tolerance.
. Custom Pro - All four phases freely adjustable from 0 to 240 seconds for competitive athletes.

The smart Performance Index automatically adjusts training times to your level-you’ll improve without having to do the math yourself. Visual and audio cues (voice prompts and haptic feedback) guide you through each phase. No need to think-just train.

Apple Watch:
Start and control your workout right from your wrist. During the exercise, you’ll see your heart rate in real time and be guided through each phase by gentle vibrations-without having to look at your iPhone.

Stopwatch & Progress:
With the built-in apnea stopwatch, you can measure and save your best breath-hold attempts. Track your personal bests on weekly, monthly, or yearly charts and share special milestones with friends.

Logbook for real dives:
Record your freedives with location, map preview, duration, max depth and notes - with location suggestions, and depth in meters or feet. Your training sessions appear in the logbook too, including a heart-rate graph per session.

Widgets & Apple Health:
Three home screen widgets show your streak, weekly goal and today's training status at a glance. Live Activities bring your running session to the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island. Completed sessions can be saved to Apple Health as mindful minutes.

Motivating Streak System:
Stay on track and dive deeper and deeper. Maintain your daily workout streak, advance through deeper and deeper zones, and earn over 35 awards for consistency, volume, and personal records. If you miss a day, a “Freeze” joker will save your streak. Share your unlocked achievements and new personal bests with a single tap as a beautiful image on your social media.

Privacy & Sync Without an Account:
Your progress is securely synced across all your Apple devices via iCloud without requiring registration or an account. The data is stored exclusively in your private iCloud database-no tracking, no sharing, and the highest privacy standards.

More than 10,000 active users confirm its success: Beginners can double their performance within 7 days by using Apnea Trainer for 3 minutes daily. Advanced athletes have reported consistent performance gains of 10 to 20 seconds within 10 days.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://apnea-trainer.com/privacy/

Version History • Clearer training view with a compact Liquid Glass card and a distinct preview of the next breathing phase.
• Training progress and breath-hold milestones appear directly on the circle.
• Improved layout on small iPhones and iPads, including larger text sizes. 5.8.1 2d ago • During plan workouts, the next action and its duration are now shown; before the final inhale, the following breath-hold is also visible.
• Fixed the free-training countdown and restarting after a session ends.
• Simple countdown switch in the speaker dialog, shared with advanced sound settings. Easier access to the logbook in your profile.
• New English training voice with standard and extended guidance, plus revised countdown scheduling.
• Settings are grouped by topic. Voice options appear only when Voice is selected.
• Expanded dive logbook for depth, dynamic and static apnea, with disciplines, personal bests and progress charts.
• New sick leave option: protect your training streak while you recover, without using jokers. Training reminders pause too.
• Clearer training previews and CO₂ tables with progressively shorter rests between holds.
• Adjust the final inhale for each session.
• Cooldown starts immediately after the final breath hold: breathe at your own pace, see the time remaining and feel a double vibration at the section change.
• Clearer audio and countdown options, plus follow-up plans that preserve your progress.
• Training frequency changes now apply to the current plan week, with a short confirmation animation and an immediately updated overview. 5.8 4d ago I reworked the preparation before a breath-hold: maximal holds now start with a calm breathe-up, and every hold in a training plan gets one long, full breath instead of four seconds. 5.7.4 Sep 13 I fixed the audio before a breath-hold, separated the countdown vibration from the sound switch, and gave Cyclic Breath Training the same sound settings as every other training. 5.7.3 Sep 12 An update for everyone who trains with their eyes closed:

• My Plan: during the recovery pause between two breath-holds, the guidance went quiet after the first two breaths – sound and vibration stopped, even though the screen kept showing breaths. Now every breath gets its cue and its vibration back. The countdown numbers stay off during the pause on purpose, so it stays calm.
• Heads-up before a long breath-hold is now on from the start – until now you had to switch it on in Settings first. You can still turn it off there.

Thanks to everyone who reported this – without those messages it would have gone unnoticed. 5.7.2 Sep 9 A small update that acts directly on your feedback:

• The heads-up before a long breath-hold now comes consistently about 8 seconds in advance in every mode – no more firing way too early.
• Cyclic Breath Training: the heads-up now announces the correct hold time of the current round. Thanks for reporting this!
• Apple Watch: fixed a display issue when the iPhone app and the Watch app briefly run different versions.
• Session end: the X now properly discards changes again – and if you change the timer or cycle target during a running session, it takes effect immediately.

Enjoy your training – and thanks for every bit of feedback, it makes the app better! 5.7.1 Sep 2 This update delivers your most requested improvements:

• You decide when a session ends: tap the cycle counter during training and set a cycle target (e.g. 10 breath cycles) – or choose "Until I stop" via the time display and train without a limit. The minute timer is still there, too.
• Change training days per week anytime: adjust your training plan's frequency (e.g. from 3 to 5 days) without resetting the plan – all your progress is kept.
• Consistent transition into every breath-hold: each hold is now preceded by the same sequence (exhale 4s, inhale 4s) – and the heads-up sounds ~8 seconds in advance.
• Always know where you are: plan sessions show "Round 3 of 8" and mark every upcoming hold on the progress bar.
• Calmer recovery breaks: during long rests the voice guidance stays silent in the middle – only the start and the end are announced.
• Your old stopwatch history is back: times from version 4 are imported automatically and appear in your history again, if you have not switched your iPhone 5.7.0 Sep 1 • New: heads-up before a long breath-hold. Just before any hold of 20 seconds or more, the app shows “Up next: hold”, plays a gong and vibrates twice – in free training, in every plan session (CO₂/O₂ tables, max test) and in Cyclic Breath Training. Turn it on under Settings → Heads-up before a long breath-hold.
• Apple Watch: the heads-up reaches your wrist too – with a vibration and a hint on the watch.
• Apple Watch: streak, best time and next plan session now stay reliably in sync with your iPhone, even after restarting the watch app.
• Settings now show whether iCloud sync is active. 5.6.0 Aug 28 • The average in the stopwatch now really covers the last 7 days. Until now it averaged your last 7 attempts, even when those were weeks apart.
• Your list of times is now sorted by date — the newest attempts are at the top, so you can retrace how the average is calculated. Your best time stays in the summary and is still marked in the list.
• If you haven't trained for over a week, you'll see a dash instead of a number: there's nothing to average in that period. 5.5.5 Aug 18 • Switching your training mode is easy again: the selector below the diver is now wider and shows the neighbouring modes, so you can see right away that you can swipe or tap.
• You can also switch modes directly in Settings again, just like you were used to. 5.5.4 Aug 16 • Apnea Trainer now speaks Turkish and Croatian — that makes seven languages. The app follows your system language automatically. 5.5.3 Aug 14 • Switch training type right on the start screen: the new selector below the start button lets you swipe between Apnea, Pranayama, Custom and Cyclic — tap it to open that type's settings instantly.
• Breathing sequence fixed: in plan sessions the end of a recovery phase could be followed by inhale after inhale — voice cue and countdown stuttered. Every recovery now ends cleanly on an exhale.
• The lungs shift colour fluidly with your breath: inhaling fills them green, holding gradually blends green into red, exhaling lets the colour drain away.
• The indicator circle adopts the organic particle look of the Cyclic training — across all training types, including the colour blend while holding.
• Seconds now count down with a smooth transition instead of snapping over.
• iPad: training and check screens rebalanced — the circle now sits against the body just like on iPhone.
• More precise phase transitions: every phase ends exactly on time. 5.5.2 Aug 9 • Training plan: sessions now start reliably — no more jumping back to the overview.
• Training plan: the overview now shows right away when a session still needs to be unlocked.
• The time projection is shown in full on every screen size instead of being cut off. 5.5.1 Aug 6 • Bug Fix: Cyclic Breath Training: smoother round transition with its own exhale phase, so the next cycle no longer prompts you to inhale while you're still holding a full breath.
• New: After every session of your training plan the app asks how the training felt — your upcoming sessions adapt automatically to your answer. 5.5.0 Aug 4 New in 5.4.2:
• Auto-Freeze: Your Freeze Joker now protects your streak automatically when you miss a day — no tapping needed.
• Vacation mode: Pause your streak while you're away. Up to twice a year, up to 14 days each — your streak won't grow, but it won't reset either.
• Minor improvements and bug fixes. 5.4.2 Jul 14 New in 5.4.1:
• Meters or feet: Depth now shown in m or ft.
• Fixed: The keyboard could not be dismissed on the Custom Pro time fields 5.4.1 Jul 10 New in 5.4.0:
• Logbook: Record your dives with location, duration, depth and notes — with location suggestions, map preview and current position.
• Training log: Your training sessions now appear in the logbook too — including a heart-rate graph per session.
• Live Activities: Follow your running session on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• Widgets: Three home screen widgets show your streak & depth, weekly goal and today's status.
• Apple Health: Completed sessions can be saved as mindful minutes.
• Breathing guide: Learn diaphragmatic breathing — explained step by step.
• Meters or feet: Depth now shown in m or ft. 5.4.0 Jul 9 New in 5.3.2:
• iPad: Fixed a menu layout glitch – the title is no longer overlapped by the bar.
• New completion sound at the end of every session.
• Further refinements and stability fixes. 5.3.2 Jul 7 New in this version:
• Personalized Training Plan: Answer a few questions and get a plan spanning several weeks that adapts to your fitness level.
• Apple Watch: Start and control your workout right from your wrist—with live heart rate and haptic prompts.
• New Cyclic Mode: Cyclic breathing exercises in rounds to improve CO₂ tolerance.
• Many improvements and refinements. 5.3.1 Jun 27 New in this version:
• Personalized Training Plan: Answer a few questions and get a plan spanning several weeks that adapts to your fitness level.
• Apple Watch: Start and control your workout right from your wrist—with live heart rate and haptic prompts.
• New Cyclic Mode: Cyclic breathing exercises in rounds to improve CO₂ tolerance.
• Many improvements and refinements. 5.3 Jun 25 smaller bug fixes 5.2.1 Jun 17 New in this version:
• Motivating "Dive Depth" streak system: Keep your daily streak going, advance through deeper and deeper zones, and protect your streak with the Freeze Joker.
• Over 35 awards for consistency, training volume, and personal records—collect, unlock, and celebrate.
• Share your achievements: Share new personal bests and unlocked badges as beautiful images directly on social media.
• Cross-device synchronization via iCloud—no account required and with the highest data protection standards.

Thank you for your feedback! 5.2 Jun 13 What's new:
• Detailed voice instruction settings: control instructions, countdown, and instruction style individually.
• Optional gong sound as an alternative to the spoken voice for phase changes.

Thanks for your feedback! 5.1.2 Jun 9 New cyclic breathing training mode with a calming particle visualization – rapid breathing, hold and recovery across multiple cycles. New anonymous feature survey: request the next feature right inside the app. Plus various improvements and bug fixes. 5.1.1 Jun 4 Completely revised design with iOS 26 Liquid Glass interface. New performance index automatically adjusts training times to your level. Milestone function, progress charts and improved dark mode added. 5.0 May 31