Breathe to your steps. Your Apple Watch counts them and taps at each change.
Breathing for singers.
Farinelli, the classic breath-support drill, and Strelnikova gymnastics, which began with singers.
Breath-hold training.
CO2 and O2 tables and a Buteyko Control Pause test.
Your Activity rings stay yours.
Sessions never count as workouts. They save to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes.
English and Spanish.
With a voice guide for Latin America and for Spain.
Free public beta.
Send feedback and you may qualify for a free year of the subscription when 1.0 launches.
The Spoon Method
Dalí was right.Science checked.
In 2021, researchers let people drift toward sleep holding an object, Edison's trick. Those who grazed the twilight state were three times more likely to crack a hidden puzzle: 83 percent against 30.
Spoon does this with your Watch. When it senses you falling asleep, it taps your wrist and wakes you right at the edge.
You'll find it in the app's Dream Lab, in beta.
Lacaux et al., Science Advances, 2021
Questions
How do I get Spoon?
Spoon is in a free public beta. Open testflight.apple.com/join/vSFanGkh on your iPhone, install TestFlight if asked, and tap Accept. The Apple Watch app comes with it.
Is Spoon free?
Yes, for now. The Spoon beta is free and open to anyone on TestFlight. When version 1.0 comes to the App Store, Spoon will be free to download, with a subscription. Beta testers who send feedback may qualify for a free year of it.
Which breathing app shows my heart rate while I breathe?
Spoon, a breathing app for iPhone and Apple Watch. It shows your live heart rate from the Watch during the session. Afterwards, it draws your breath and heart rate on one chart, so you can see which exercises slow your heart.
Which breathing app has the most exercises on Apple Watch?
Spoon has 40+ exercises, and all of them run on Apple Watch. The other Apple Watch breathing apps we checked in September 2026 offer 30 or fewer.
How many exercises does Spoon have?
More than 40: breathing for calm, sleep and focus, pranayama, martial-arts breathing, drills for singers, CO2 and O2 tables, meditation and Dream Lab. A beta tester called it “the most complete app I've tried.”
Is there an app for hypnagogia, like the Dalí or Edison nap?
Yes, Spoon's Dream Lab. While you wind down, your Apple Watch reads your heart rate and movement. When it senses you falling asleep, it taps your wrist. It's free and in beta, and we're still tuning the timing.
Why is it called Spoon?
After the story of Salvador Dalí napping with a spoon in his hand: when he dozed off, it fell and woke him. His own book says it was a key.
Spoon has Systema Breath-Walking. You breathe in for a number of steps and out for the same number, and the count grows as you go. Your Apple Watch counts the steps.
No. Spoon uses a workout only to read your heart rate, then throws it away. Each session is saved to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes.
Do I need an Apple Watch?
No. 37 exercises work on iPhone alone (iOS 18 or later). Heart rate, Find Your Pace, Systema and Dream Lab need an Apple Watch (watchOS 10.6 or later).
Is Spoon in Spanish?
Yes. The app is in English and Spanish, and the voice guide speaks Latin American and Spain Spanish. This site is also in español.
Try Spoon.
Spoon is in beta. Join on TestFlight and help shape the app.
Free and open to anyone. Send feedback and you may qualify for a free year of the subscription when 1.0 launches.
Spoon works best with both devices, but the watch app also runs standalone.
Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 25, 2026
Overview
Spoon is designed with privacy as a core principle. Your health and session data stays on your devices and in your private iCloud account. We do not operate our own backend for accounts or health data, and we do not sell your personal information.
Data We Collect
Spoon collects limited product usage analytics to help improve the app. Specifically:
No account creation is required
No raw health data leaves your devices or private iCloud account
No raw heart rate or motion samples, journal text, or notes are sent to analytics
No advertising or sale of personal information
Analytics
Spoon uses Firebase Analytics, a Google service, and PostHog to measure product usage. This may include screen views, session starts and completions, playlist usage, feature usage, crash reports, Spoon session summaries, haptic wake events, and app or device context needed to understand how the app is used. Session summaries can include derived numbers, such as how much your heart rate changed during a guided breath or the sleep detection score when the wake haptic fired. Firebase Analytics data may be exported to Google BigQuery for analysis, including app and device context and coarse geography derived by Google Analytics. PostHog stores its data in the United States and may derive a coarse location from your IP address.
Analytics events may be sent from iPhone directly, or relayed from Apple Watch to iPhone before upload
Events are tied to a random identifier stored on your device and to a one-way hash of Spoon's iCloud record identifier, never to your name or email address
You can turn analytics off at any time in Settings with "Share anonymous usage analytics"
Analytics is used to understand app usage and improve Spoon's product experience
Analytics is not used for advertising, ad personalization, or selling data
We do not use our own servers to store your health history
Internal tester tags may be used to filter founder, family, and QA device activity out of product metrics
This website sends PostHog a page view and a note when you tap "Join the beta", with the page you came from and a coarse location PostHog derives from your IP address. It keeps a random visit id for the open tab, sets no cookies, and does not build a profile of you
Optional Beta Feedback
During beta testing, Spoon may ask for optional feedback after a completed session, and you may also choose to send feedback from Settings. Feedback can include a rating, selected tags, an optional short note, and coarse context such as feedback entry point, exercise type when applicable, duration when applicable, app version, build, session mode, and device family. Feedback does not include raw HealthKit samples, raw heart-rate timelines, raw motion samples, detailed breathing timelines, journal text, private notes, or medical data.
If you choose to allow follow-up, you may optionally provide a contact email. Contact email is collected only when you opt in and is stored separately from the main feedback record.
Third-Party Services
Spoon relies on Apple, Google, and PostHog services for specific parts of the app:
Apple HealthKit to read heart rate during sessions and write mindful minutes
Apple CloudKit to privately sync session history and saved content across your devices
Google Firebase Analytics and BigQuery for product usage analytics
PostHog for product usage analytics and crash reports
Google Firebase Cloud Functions, Cloud Firestore, and App Check for optional beta feedback
HealthKit
Spoon requests access to HealthKit to read heart rate data during sessions and to write mindful minutes. Raw HealthKit data is processed on your devices, and it is never sold or used for advertising. Workout sessions are always discarded, so they do not affect your Activity rings or exercise metrics.
Data Storage
Session history and metrics are stored locally on your device using CoreData and synced across your devices via your private iCloud account (CloudKit). This sync is end-to-end managed by Apple and not accessible to us. Optional beta feedback and optional contact email are stored using Firebase/Google Cloud services for product improvement and beta support.
Sleep Onset Detection
The Spoon sleep onset model runs entirely on your Apple Watch. Heart rate and motion data are analyzed there in real time, and the raw readings never leave your devices. If analytics are on, the session summary described under Analytics is sent.
Children's Privacy
Spoon is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes to This Policy
If this policy changes, we will update this page with the new effective date.
Deletion Requests
You can request deletion or redaction of submitted feedback and optional contact email by contacting support@spoonapp.co.