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Breathing is analogue.

A cassette player for your breath.

A free breathing app for your phone. Pop in a tape, press START, breathe along. The wave shows you the rhythm, Maria guides you with her voice.

For a short break, before something important and for falling asleep. Even three minutes help.

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AtemTape is coming soon. Until then, try it right here: breathe with the wave.

CALMIN 5 SEC · OUT 5 SEC
INHALE5
WAVE UP = INHALE · DOWN = EXHALE
AtemTape while breathing: light device, green display with a breathing wave, the tape Calm at the top and Maria’s line below AtemTape while breathing: dark device, amber display with a breathing wave and the word EXHALE

Why a cassette player, of all things?

The reels turn for as long as you breathe.

And why retro?

One job

The device can only breathe. Nothing that pulls you further, no “just one more?”.

Made to touch

Buttons that click. A tape that snaps into place. Vibration in the rhythm of your breath. You feel what you do.

Warm, not slick

Soft tape hiss, paper, small signs of use. It feels calmer than a perfect surface.

Your phone is built to keep you hooked. Feeds, notifications, streaks you don’t want to lose. Even many breathing apps are crowded: libraries, programmes, statistics. Before you can settle down, you have to make choices.

A cassette player did exactly one thing. Tape in, press play, and it simply ran. The tape doesn’t rush and doesn’t skip. It runs at one steady pace until the side is over.

Breathing is like that too. Your breath is the most analogue thing you have: a calm rhythm, in and out, on and on. AtemTape gives that rhythm a device that wants nothing else than to breathe with you.

Maria Böhme standing by a lake in the evening sun, eyes closed, hands on her chest
Maria Böhme

A real person behind it

You breathe with Maria.

Behind every tape is Maria Böhme, breathing coach, certified Buteyko Clinic instructor and founder of AtemFlow in Germany.

She chose the rhythms, and it’s her voice you hear, in English too. When the display says:

MARIA: LET YOUR BELLY SOFTEN

that line comes from Maria herself.

Four steps, just like a real cassette player.

Shelf with Maria’s tapes: Awake, Focus, Calm, Unwind and Sleep1

Pick a tape

Each tape is a breathing exercise. You choose by how you feel.

The device with a tape inserted and the orange START buttonThe device with a tape inserted and the orange START button2

Press START

The big orange button. There is nothing else you need to set.

Display with a sun over the sea and the word EXHALE3

Breathe along

The display shows INHALE and EXHALE. Maria guides you with her voice, and the phone vibrates in time.

Printed receipt with duration, breaths and a line from Maria4

Take your receipt

At the end the device prints your receipt: minutes, breaths and a line from Maria.

Maria’s tapes

Five tapes for five moments.

Each tape has its own breathing rhythm. You don’t need to know any of them, you just breathe along. Some have two sides: side A picks you up, then the device turns the tape by itself.

CALM

In between

When you want to come back to yourself for a moment.

  • Ain 5 sec, out 5 sec
UNWIND

After stress

First a few sighs that take the edge off. Then breathing out twice as long as in.

  • ASighs, 1½ minutes
  • Bin 4, hold 4, out 8
FOCUS

Before something big

Before a conversation, an exam or an appointment.

  • Ain 4, hold 4, out 4, hold 4
SLEEP

In bed

First settle in, then your out-breath gets long and soft, without holding.

  • Ain 4, out 4, 2 minutes
  • Bin 4, out 8
AWAKE

Morning or afternoon dip

Longer in than out, a short hold at the top. It wakes you up without winding you up.

  • Ain 4, hold 2, out 2

You can also give every tape your own rhythm. Maria’s voice, the signal tone, nature sounds and music are mixed at the mixing desk. More tapes are on the way.

At the end you get a receipt.

Like an old till, the device rattles out a receipt after every session: how long you breathed, how many breaths, how many days in a row, and a line from Maria.

Tear it off and share it. If you like, you can also print a Z report with the totals of all your receipts.

AtemTape receipt with tape, duration, breaths, breathing curve and a line from Maria Receipt from the AtemSender with a Polaroid of the closedown test card clipped to it

A thank-you for your tip

The AtemSender: a TV set that only broadcasts breath.

A second device inside the app, made of wood, with a picture tube, ivory keys and dials. Press a programme key, the set counts down 3, 2, 1, and your breath runs on the tube: as a station clock, an earthrise, a fireplace or an oscilloscope.

  • The same tapes as programmes, the same voice from Maria
  • Broadcast time on a number drum you turn with your finger
  • At closedown a test card, a receipt and a Polaroid
  • Teletext with your breathing minutes and things worth knowing
3 trial broadcasts are free
The AtemSender with the fireplace: the flames rise and fall with your breath The AtemSender while breathing: a test card on the tube breathes along, Maria’s cue below The AtemSender with the earthrise: the Earth rises over the lunar horizon in time with your breath

What it costs

Nothing. And everything stays with you.

No account, no ads, no subscription. If you like AtemTape, you can drop something into the tip jar. Any amount: as a thank-you, it unlocks everything.

  • The Petrol Edition: both devices in a deep blue-green
  • The AtemSender without limits
  • The image pack with oscilloscope, fire and earthrise for AtemTape
  • Pricefree
  • Sign-upnone
  • Your datastays on your phone
  • Adsnone
  • Session length1 to 45 minutes
  • ForiPhone and Android
  • LanguageEnglish, German, Spanish

Good to know: Some tapes include breath holds. Breathe and hold only as long as it feels good. AtemTape is not a substitute for treatment. More in the help section.