Panic
Panic peaks in ten minutes. We're here for those ten.
One tap from the home screen opens a guided flow with the breath already moving, from intent to first guided breath in under a second. No paywall, no profile, no quiz. The panic flow is free, forever.
No menus. No choices. No reading.
In a panic attack, cognitive function collapses. Nobody can read a menu, choose a session length, or rate their anxiety one to ten. So the button lives on the home screen, and one tap opens the flow with breathing already in progress. Most apps make you choose during a panic attack. We make the choices for you.
The breath that holds up in a trial.
The default pattern is cyclic sighing: two short inhales through the nose, one long exhale through the mouth. In a 2023 Stanford randomized controlled trial it outperformed box breathing and mindfulness meditation on mood and respiratory rate. No counting, nothing to remember, which matters when cognition has collapsed.
Balban et al., Cell Reports Medicine (2023)
And one phrase you will never hear in the flow: "take a deep breath." Hyperventilation is the somatic engine of many panic attacks, and forcing deeper breaths makes the chest tightness and dizziness worse. The most common breathing advice makes panic worse. We removed it.
Racing, drifting, spiraling.
Three taps, three routes, built around how panic actually feels, not how it's described in textbooks. Racing sensations get the breath. Drifting, dissociated moments get the reality anchor: name, date, place. It's designed for the part of panic nobody talks about, the part where you think you've lost your mind. Spiraling thoughts get the senses. Wait four seconds and we choose for you.
Every other panic app ends when the attack ends. We've just gotten started.
When you tap "I'm back.", the flow doesn't drop you on a home screen. A quiet aftermath plays: the validation that what happened was a panic attack and you stayed with it, the permission to move slowly, and a word for the shame, which is just adrenaline on its way out. The thirty minutes after a panic attack are when the next attack gets built. We're with you for those thirty.
The attack is ten minutes. The work is the days between.
Cyclic sighing wasn't tested as an emergency technique. The Stanford protocol was five minutes a day, every day, for a month, and that daily dose is what improved mood and lowered resting respiratory rate. The breath you reach for mid-attack works better when it's the breath you already know.
So the daily practice lives here too. The same pattern ships as a breathing Shape for the everyday baseline, the journal keeps the record of your weeks, and the programs carry the longer work. Most people run this on two apps: one for the attack, one for the practice between attacks. We built one.
A person is one press away.
Every panic screen keeps a reach strip at the bottom. Press and hold to call your trusted contact, with no double-confirmation. Below it, a crisis line for your country is always visible. If you cannot keep yourself safe, or the panic is not lifting, please reach a person. In the US, call or text 988. Elsewhere, findahelpline.com lists local services.
Stillee is a companion, not therapy, and not a substitute for professional care.
Crisis tools are free. Forever.
The panic flow and the 3 AM tracks will never sit behind a paywall. If you're in the worst moment, the app works. That's the whole point of it.
We don't promise to stop your panic attack. We promise to be with you through it.
Keep reading
- Best app for panic attacks What to demand from any app that claims this moment.
- What actually helps during a panic attack. The clinical research on those ten minutes.
- Why "take a deep breath" is the wrong advice for panic. The physiology problem with the most repeated advice in the world.
- The panic hangover: what happens after the attack ends. Why the half hour after matters as much as the attack.