Built by one person, so the fix comes from one inbox.

Exhale never sends engagement or reactivation push. Exactly two notifications exist, and both fire from your device rather than from a server: a daily reminder you schedule yourself in Settings, and one warning two days before a free trial ends.

The second one is a promise, not a nudge — we would rather warn you about a charge and lose the subscription than let it arrive as a surprise. We never see whether you opened either.

Nothing about the press ever leaves your phone — there is no server copy of any of it, and nothing is uploaded. By default nothing is recorded at all.

If you switch on the optional private history, Exhale keeps a count per day in your phone’s secure storage: it knows a Tuesday had three presses, and it cannot reconstruct that one of them was at 03:40. It holds ninety days, it deletes in one tap from Settings, and deleting your account deletes it too.

Open Settings inside the app and tap "Delete account & data" — that wipes the local store and deletes your server-side record. You can also email hello@useexhale.com and we'll delete the record within 30 days.

Streaks turn a relief tool into a guilt tool. If you don’t press for a week, that’s fine; the button doesn’t need to shame you back.

There is an optional private history, because some people genuinely want to see that they showed up. It is off until you turn it on, it never leaves your phone, and it counts days rather than moments — so it can never become a streak to break.

No. Exhale is a general-purpose relaxation cue — one minute of guided breathing. For anything medical, psychiatric, or ongoing, please talk to a qualified professional. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.

Stop the press immediately and rest. Slow paced breathing is well-tolerated by most people, but for some it can cause lightheadedness or other effects. If it happens repeatedly, talk to a doctor before using the app again, and please email so we can learn from it.

Exhale is free to download and opens with a 7-day free trial. After that it is a subscription — annual or monthly, priced on the App Store page for your region.

We remind you two days before the trial ends, once. Cancelling is done in your Apple subscription settings, not by asking us, and if you have paid before there is a Restore button on the same screen.

A short setup: pick a language, a handful of screens on what the minute actually does, and five questions about how you’d use it — the last of them a daily reminder time, which you can skip. Then the trial offer.

That is the only time you see any of it. Every launch after the first opens straight onto the button.

Send it. hello@useexhale.com goes straight to the maker. Every email is read.

Email with: what you tapped, what you expected, what happened, your iOS version, and your Exhale version (Settings → About). Screenshots help.