If you are writing about Help Me Breathe, this page is meant to save you an email. It gives you a description in three lengths, the facts you may want to check, a short bio, the logo files and screenshots, and the one address that reaches the person behind the site. Everything on this page may be quoted or reproduced without asking.
Boilerplate
Three lengths. Use whichever fits and edit freely, but please keep the spelling of the name and of the address, and keep the sentence that says who makes it.
One line
Help Me Breathe (helpmebreath.com) is a guided breathing timer with seven paced patterns, free to try, made by one person who is not a clinician.
Three sentences
Help Me Breathe is a guided breathing timer at helpmebreath.com with seven paced patterns and a plain-language guide for each. Three sessions are free with nothing to sign in to, then one plan at $10 a month or $100 a year; the pages for anxious moments and panic attacks stay open to everyone, with no advertising. It is made by one person, Georges Rayess, who is not a clinician and says so on every page.
One paragraph
Help Me Breathe is a guided breathing timer at helpmebreath.com. It runs seven paced patterns, among them 4-7-8, box breathing, heart coherence and cyclic sighing, with a visual pacer, sound and vibration cues, and a plain-language page for each technique and for situations such as sleep, panic attacks and public speaking. The first three sessions are free with nothing to sign in to; after that there is one plan, $10 a month or $100 a year, with everything included. The two pages written for anxious moments and panic attacks run for anyone, permanently, with no advertising and no upgrade prompt. The site is built and written in English and Arabic by Georges Rayess, who is not a clinician: every health claim on it is checked against the primary literature and published next to the limits of the study it came from.
Facts to check against
- Name
- Help Me Breathe: three words, each capitalised, with the final e. Not "HelpMeBreathe" and not "Help Me Breath".
- Web address
- helpmebreath.com, without an e at the end. The address with an e, helpmebreathe.com, is a different domain that is not ours and does not reach us. The Arabic site is at helpmebreath.com/ar.
- What it is
- A website that runs in the browser, can be installed as an app from the browser, and works offline once a page has loaded. There is nothing in the app stores.
- What is on it
- Seven breathing patterns, each with its own page and timer; fourteen guides for situations such as sleep, panic attacks, focus, public speaking and running; six comparison pages, including one that prices the breathing apps against each other; a research page that lists every study the site relies on; printable breathing cards under a Creative Commons licence; and fourteen follow-along videos on YouTube. All of it is in English and in Arabic.
- Price
- Three sessions free on each device, with no account. Then one plan: $10 a month or $100 a year, everything included, with a 3-day free trial that needs a card and a 14-day unconditional refund. There are no tiers and no lifetime unlock. Stripe is the merchant of record.
- What stays free
- Every technique, every session length and every word of writing. The pages for anxious moments and panic attacks run the full timer for anyone, permanently, with no advertising, no upgrade prompt and no email form.
- Accounts and data
- Sign-in is an email link, a six-digit code or a Google account; there are no passwords. An account holds an email address and a plan. Settings and session history stay in the person's own browser and are never uploaded.
- Who makes it
- Georges Rayess, on his own, from Lebanon. He is not a clinician, and no clinician has reviewed the pages. The about page carries the editorial policy in full.
- Dates
- The site went online in 2026. The version described here was published on 9 September 2026 and the Arabic site on 11 October 2026.
- Contact
- contact@helpmebreath.com. One inbox, read by one person.
Who makes it
Short. Georges Rayess builds, writes and maintains Help Me Breathe on his own, from Lebanon. He is not a clinician.
Longer. Georges Rayess is the one person behind Help Me Breathe: the code, the writing, the reading of the research, the design, the videos and the replies to email. He is not a doctor, a nurse, a psychologist or a therapist, he holds no medical qualification, and he says so in the second paragraph of the about page and in the footer of every page. What he offers instead is an editorial standard: he reads the actual papers, quotes them rather than paraphrasing them into something stronger, and writes the limits of a study next to its result. He built the site because a breathing pacer is a small piece of software that should be simple, work on a bad connection, cost little and never sell what you did with it, and because most of the tools that do the job are wrapped in something else.
What is worth writing about
If you need an angle, these are the choices that set the site apart. Each is written down on the site itself, so you can check it rather than take my word for it.
- The crisis pages carry no money. The pages for anxious moments and panic attacks run the full timer for anyone, with no advertising, no upgrade prompt and no email capture, and the site's own checks refuse a build that puts any of those on them.
- The free rule is dated. When the timer went behind a plan on 11 September 2026, the about page said so, with the date and the reason, instead of quietly changing the promise it had made.
- Citations are quoted, not summarised. The phrase "studies show" does not appear without a named source. Where a finding matters, the supporting sentence is quoted in the authors' words, and the sample size and the limits sit next to the result. The science page lists every study the site relies on.
- No passwords and no profile. Sign-in is a link or a code, the account holds an email address and a plan, and the record of a person's practice never leaves their browser.
- Two languages from one person. Every page has an Arabic twin at the same depth, with its own timer, its own social cards and the same free rule.
- The apps-compared page recommends the free option. The comparison prices the well-known apps by hand, dates every price, labels its two affiliate links, and concludes that a plain pacer is enough for most people.
Logo and screenshots
The mark is a lowercase b: a ring with a gap at twelve o'clock and a stem. Use the files as they are. Please do not recolour, rotate or add effects to them, and do not set the wordmark in another typeface.
- Logo, SVG: mark and wordmark, scales to any size.
- Logo, PNG: 1200 × 300, transparent background.
- App icon, PNG: 512 × 512.
- Social card, JPG: 1200 × 630.
The screenshots below were taken on 8 November 2026 from the live site. Use them freely; a caption naming helpmebreath.com is appreciated. Click one for the full-size file.
Interviews and questions
Email contact@helpmebreath.com. I answer within two working days, usually sooner. I am in Beirut, two hours ahead of UTC in winter and three in summer, and I am happy to do a written Q&A, a recorded call or a podcast. Written answers are the quickest.
Three things to know before you ask. I will not comment on anyone's medical situation, and I will not say that breathing exercises treat a condition, because I am not qualified to and the evidence does not support it; what I can do is walk you through what the studies on the science page show and where they stop. I will share usage and revenue numbers honestly when asked, including when they are small. And nothing on the site is for sale to writers: there are no paid placements, no sponsored reviews, and no position on the apps-compared page can be bought.
A note on what this is
Help Me Breathe is a timer and a set of plain-language pages written by one person who is not a clinician. Nothing here is medical care, nothing here diagnoses or treats any condition, and none of it replaces advice from a professional who knows your history. Some breathing patterns are not safe for everyone. Please read the medical disclaimer before you rely on anything on this site.