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What would make breathingeasier to live with?
Do I need a smart inhaler? Does it listen to my conversations? What does an employer actually buy?
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Why LYF
What makes it different—and what you get in return.
Because the useful pieces work together: automatic cough capture; inhaler use and technique coaching from your smartwatch; sleep, activity, stress and vital signs; local weather, pollen and air quality; connected peak-flow readings; quick symptom and asthma-control check-ins; and food ratings, medicines, supplements and hydration in the same picture.
Then comes the return: your Breathing Fingerprint, personal insights and nudges, guided breathing exercises, education, your daily plan and a report for your care team. Try a step, see what changes and build on what helps. One place to understand your breathing and put that understanding to work.
A wall of charts leaves you doing the detective work. Generic tips leave you guessing what helps you. Fixed reminders leave you without coaching or follow-through.
LYF gives you personal insights, a practical next step, coaching when it matters and progress you can see. Automatic capture takes repetitive logging off your hands. One breathing co-pilot to help you build and maintain better breathing—not another stack of apps to manage.
The idea is familiar: see how everyday life moves a condition, then choose better—every day, not once a quarter. The parts are different, and deliberately so. A glucose monitor is a sensor you wear that reports one number through the day. Respire LYF needs no extra sensor and ships no hardware: it runs on your own phone and watch, reads the ten everyday factors that shape your breathing, and works on the days before a tough one—the short night, the late dinner, the missed inhaler step. One number tells you where you are. LYF tells you what to try.
Work on tonight’s choices. Not just yesterday’s chart. Sleep, meals, stress, air and inhaler routines belong in your breathing story. LYF finds recurring patterns and turns them into a step you can use—tonight’s dinner routine, tomorrow’s walk or your next inhaler use. It follows what changed so you can build routines for better breathing, alongside your usual care. It does not predict attacks or change prescribed treatment.
If you live with asthma, COPD or a cough that will not go away, yes. You do not need to be a tracker. You do not need to understand health data. You need a phone. Respire LYF does most of the noticing for you, explains what it found in plain words, and gives you something to do about it—between the appointments, where your breathing actually happens.
Trends show. Insights explain. Coaching puts it to work. Reports show your progress. An example: late dinners alone meant quiet nights; short sleep alone did too. Together, they preceded a cough spike on nine of eleven nights. LYF surfaces the combination, suggests an earlier dinner after a short night, and follows your cough afterwards. You get the pattern, something useful to try and a way to see whether it helped—not just another chart.
That is the whole point of it. Between flare-ups you have something to do, not just something to record: keep the routines that go with your better days, practice the inhaler step your watch flagged, know which conditions matter for you and which do not, and try one small change at a time. Your prescribed action plan stays your guide when symptoms worsen; Respire LYF works on the ordinary days in between.
You should not have to become your own data clerk. Cough is counted for you. Sleep, activity, stress and vital signs come from your watch. Weather, pollen and air quality arrive for your location. With a compatible smartwatch, inhaler use logs itself; compatible smart peak-flow readings transfer without typing. Add a meal by photo or voice and how you feel. Your return is a personal pattern, a step worth trying and progress you can see.
Because the usual suspects are not always the culprits. Your inhaler routine stays the same, yet tougher periods keep following particular meals. Or pollen looks like the culprit—until you see how differently your breathing responds on high-pollen days with less stress. Respire LYF helps you uncover those combinations, choose a practical next step and follow what changes. You get more than a suspicion: a way to build on what helps, and a clearer conversation with your clinician.
No—by design. Respire LYF works through Insights, timely nudges, guided exercises and reports built from your own record. You never type questions into a chat and hope for a sensible answer. The co-pilot brings the next useful observation or step to you, inside the experience you already use, and it stays inside safe, everyday boundaries.
Your own picture of how your breathing responds to your life. Ten everyday factors around the outside; your breathing in the middle. As your record grows, the factors that matter to you move closer and the ones that do not move away—combinations included. Nothing else builds you one of these, because nothing else reads the ten factors and five indicators together. It is the picture your guidance is drawn from, and it gets sharper every week.
You need less work, useful help and a reason to come back.
- “Another app to feed.” LYF captures much of your record automatically. Add a meal by photo or voice and a quick check-in. Less logging. More living.
- “More numbers. Still no answers.” Get an explanation, a practical next step and visible progress. Know what to try and see what helps.
- “Day 30. The same advice.” Your guidance grows more personal as you go. Your next step builds on your progress. Keep the routines that help and move forward with support that keeps up with you.
You are here to work on your breathing—not to keep an app busy.
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Phones, watches and inhalers
What you need, what you don’t, and what the watch adds.
No. No dedicated cough tracker. No smart inhaler. No clip-on sensor. Start with a phone. Bring the smartwatch you already wear and Respire LYF turns it into an inhaler coach. A connected peak-flow meter is optional. There is no LYF kit to buy, and nothing for an employer or a practice to ship or recover.
No. Keep your inhaler exactly as it is. Respire LYF is the first to detect inhaler use with nothing on the inhaler: your watch logs the doses it sees and coaches your technique, with nothing attached to the device your doctor prescribed. Technique coaching works today with pressurized metered-dose inhalers used directly, without a spacer.
No. Your phone counts your cough during the sessions you run—overnight on the nightstand, for example—and a compatible smartwatch counts it on your wrist. There is no cough device to wear, charge or carry.
Yes. The phone alone is a complete co-pilot. Cough counting, local weather, pollen and air quality, the respiratory food rating, your Breathing Fingerprint, personal insights, nudges, plans and reports all run on the phone. Inhaler use is logged with one tap on the reminder, or by voice. The watch adds automatic inhaler logging, live technique coaching, cough on the wrist and watch measurements—it is an upgrade, not the price of entry.
It turns your wrist into an inhaler coach. Use is logged automatically. Seconds after a puff, the watch tells you which step of a good puff you missed—for pressurized metered-dose inhalers used without a spacer—and walks you through it next time. It also counts cough on the wrist and brings sleep, activity, stress and vital signs into your breathing picture. Respire LYF supplies the respiratory intelligence; the watch is how you wear it.
Pressurized metered-dose inhalers used directly, without a spacer or valved holding chamber. Dry-powder inhalers and spacer use are different setups—keep the inhaler and spacer your clinician prescribed and use the rest of Respire LYF alongside them. Send us your model if you want to check before you start.
You do not need one to start. If peak flow is part of your care plan, take the reading as usual: a compatible smart meter sends it straight into Respire LYF, no typing. Readings can also be entered by hand. The meter measures the blow; Respire LYF puts it beside everything else.
iPhone and Android, today—and the smartwatch you already wear. Both stores, both platforms. Compatible with major smartwatches: Apple Watch (watchOS) today, Wear OS support coming soon. Technique coaching covers pressurized metered-dose inhalers used directly, without a spacer. Send us your phone, watch and inhaler models and we will tell you exactly what your setup gives you.
Respire LYF’s own watch, coming soon. Join the pre-order list and you will hear first when LYF Watch is ready, with its price and date. There is nothing to pay now. Until then, bring the smartwatch you already wear.
No—Respire LYF uses whatever your watch provides. Available measurements depend on the model, region and permissions. You do not need every one of them to get a useful picture; check compatibility before buying a watch specifically for Respire LYF.
Most of it. Cough on phone and watch. Inhaler use through the watch. Sleep, activity, stress and vital signs from the watch. Weather, pollen and air quality from your location. Connected peak-flow readings after you blow. You add meals by photo, voice or text, and quick entries for symptoms, hydration, medicines and supplements. Automatic capture removes the repetitive work; the details you add make the guidance yours.
Five things. Cough. Symptoms and control. An asthma control check-in, for people with asthma. Peak flow and spirometry, if you use them. Vital signs from your watch. Respire LYF puts all five beside your ten everyday factors, so you follow what changed—and why.
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Cough capture
Overnight, on the nightstand, without a microphone on all day.
Yes—and the night is where the story usually is. Start or schedule a session, put your phone on the nightstand, and Respire LYF counts the coughs you slept through. A 2005 review found that up to three in four people with asthma are woken by symptoms at least once a week; most cannot say how many times, or when. Now you can—and you can see which evenings the loud nights followed.
No. Conversations are never recorded. Cough processing happens on your phone; non-cough audio is not saved. Microphone access lets Respire LYF hear a cough during a session you switched on—nothing more. A voice note you deliberately make is a separate feature, under your control.
No. You choose when a phone session runs. Start it, stop it or schedule it—for the night, for the afternoon at your desk, for the window that answers your question. You control the microphone permission too.
When it happens, how day and night differ, and what the loud nights had in common. A count on its own is a tracker. Respire LYF puts the count beside your sleep, your meals, your air and your inhaler, and tells you what kept lining up with the noisy nights—then suggests one thing to try, and shows you whether the next week was quieter.
It shows you what your cough has been traveling with; it does not diagnose. A cough that persists or changes deserves a clinical assessment. Walk into that appointment with your record instead of your memory: when it happens, how often, and what has been going on around it. It is a far better starting point than “it’s been bad for a while.”
Check three things: the session is running, microphone permission is on, and the phone is close with nothing covering it. If the record still looks wrong, contact support with your phone model and app version. Never send private audio by ordinary email.
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Personal patterns and everyday help
What the co-pilot finds, and what it hands you to do.
Yes—and, just as usefully, the things that steady you. Respire LYF looks for what keeps showing up on your tougher days and on your better ones, across sleep, food, activity, stress, weather, air, hydration and your inhaler. You have a list of triggers. Where is the list of what steadies you? That second list is where the small steps come from.
That is exactly what Respire LYF is built for. Late dinner alone: quiet nights. Short sleep alone: quiet nights. Both together: a cough spike nine nights out of eleven. A diary can hold the details. It still leaves you to find the combination. Respire LYF surfaces the combination and the one part of it you can move.
Yes. Yesterday’s high-ozone afternoon can make today’s ordinary pollen land harder—a connection you would never spot by hand. Respire LYF shows you when it keeps happening in your own record, and comes with a question worth asking about your day.
Better days matter more than bad ones—they are the ones you can repeat. Respire LYF shows you the routines and combinations that go with your easier breathing, follows what changes after a step you try, and turns what worked into a routine worth keeping.
Personal coaching you can act on today. Try dinner earlier after a short night. Practice the inhaler step your watch flagged. Choose a guided breathing exercise from your plan. LYF follows what your breathing does next, so you can keep what helps and stop repeating what does not. What doesn’t help is never suggested again.
Ten of them. Inhaler use and technique, medicines, supplements, food, hydration, sleep, activity, stress, weather and environment. Each has its own white paper—ten, plus a master paper that brings them together—because each one moves breathing in ways most people have never been told.
Because a single meal can change how your airways behave within four hours—and how well your reliever works. In a randomised meal challenge in asthma, a high-fat meal increased airway inflammation and blunted the response to the bronchodilator within hours. Snap a meal and Respire LYF gives it a respiratory rating with the reason, then shows you how your own meals and their timing line up with your own breathing. Same meal at 7 pm and 9:30 pm can be two different nights.
No—everyone knows that. The interesting part is what you don’t know. Your airways narrow at the same hour of the night in a laboratory with no dust, no pillow and no sleep at all: the body clock does it on its own, and reliever use is several times more frequent in the circadian night. Respire LYF puts your nights beside the rest of your day, so the conversation moves past “I slept badly” to “this is what the loud nights had in common.”
No. Your symptoms are real—and stress makes real things worse. In a controlled study, the same allergen produced more airway inflammation during exam week than in a calm week. Respire LYF reads stress as one factor among ten, in your own record, without blame. Sometimes your ten best breathing days turn out to be your ten calmest, whatever the pollen count said.
Put supplements in the picture, not just on a list. Log one once, and Respire LYF shows what repeatedly goes with it in your own breathing—which the label never can. That is a better conversation with your clinician or pharmacist than a good week and a hunch. Respire LYF never tells you to start, stop or change a supplement or a medicine.
Read the Supplements white paper Read the Medications white paper
Because Respire LYF measures what happened next. Trends and Reports put the weeks side by side; Insights tell you what your cough, symptoms and inhaler use did after the step you tried; your Plan keeps the routines that earned their place. “I think this helped” becomes a record you can build on—and take to your care team.
Day thirty is sharper than day one. Personal from your first day; from there, your own patterns and your own responses shape the guidance. Nothing resets when your inhaler changes or your season changes: the picture keeps learning.
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Privacy and control
Straight answers on the things people are right to ask.
No. We do not sell personal data and we do not give advertisers access to respiratory or wellness data. The privacy policy sets out the service providers that help run the platform and the other permitted disclosures.
Cough audio does. Your account does not live only on your phone. Conversations are never recorded and cough processing happens on the device. Your record syncs so that your insights, plans and reports follow you, and the service processes data for account features, support, analytics and research as the privacy policy describes.
Anonymized, aggregated data may support research and product improvement, as the privacy policy describes. The policy explains consent, retention and your rights. Any research that needs more from you is a separate decision you make.
No. Employer programs see aggregate participation and experience reporting—how many joined, how many kept using it, what they found useful—never an individual’s record. The safeguards are agreed before a program starts and stated in the participant information.
Yes. Change permissions in the app at any time, and contact the privacy team for access or deletion. The privacy policy explains your rights and any retention the law requires.
Yes—bring the questionnaire to the first scoping conversation. Encrypted connections, role-based access, cough audio processed on the phone and never stored, no data sold, and a business-associate agreement where your deployment needs one. It is answered for your deployment while the program is scoped, so your buying team reviews a defined service rather than a brochure.
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Care, evidence and FDA policy
How Respire LYF sits beside your care, and what the rules allow.
Yes—that is how it is meant to be used. Continue your prescribed treatment and follow your action plan. Respire LYF works on the ordinary days between visits and gives you a clearer account to bring to the next one. Your clinical team stays responsible for diagnosis and treatment decisions.
Not for the functions it offers today. FDA’s General Wellness guidance (6 January 2026) covers software that promotes healthy lifestyle choices to help people “live well with certain chronic diseases or conditions.” FDA’s software policy lists logging inhaler use, symptoms and triggers—and sharing them with a clinician—among the functions that are not medical devices, and says it does not intend to enforce device requirements on low-risk self-management and coaching functions that make no specific treatment suggestions. LYF’s everyday guidance—capture, personal insights, timely coaching, progress and the report—is built function by function inside those policies. Respire LYF is not FDA-cleared; it does not diagnose, predict attacks or direct treatment.
FDA General Wellness guidance · 6 January 2026 FDA on self-management and coaching software
No. It helps you keep your existing routine, practice your technique and see what goes with your better days. Changes to a medicine, dose, timing or device are decisions for you and your clinician or pharmacist—bring your record and your questions to that conversation.
No. If your breathing is suddenly or severely worse, follow your action plan and get help now. Respire LYF is not an emergency service and does not predict attacks. It works on the ordinary days in between.
Because in a 2016 review of inhaler use—144 studies, 54,354 people—only 31% used their inhaler correctly, and the error rate had not improved in forty years. A familiar routine can carry the same missed step for a decade. A counted dose is not a well-taken dose. Respire LYF puts live coaching on your wrist, seconds after the puff, so the correction arrives at the inhaler and not at the next annual review.
Technique coaching works today with pressurized metered-dose inhalers used without a spacer.
Read the Inhaler white paper Read the inhaler-technique review
No—it sits beside it. Six guided techniques, with a timer, for the days between sessions. Pulmonary rehabilitation is a structured clinical program with its own assessment and education; if your care team recommends it, Respire LYF keeps the practice going in between.
Read the Activity white paper Read the pulmonary rehabilitation review
Read the research behind the capabilities—and the studies on digital respiratory support. The team’s published work covers respiratory AI and smartwatch sensing. Eleven white papers bring together the studies on inhaler use, sleep, food, stress and the other everyday factors. External clinical research shows why digital self-management deserves attention; it does not establish Respire LYF’s clinical outcomes. Explore the studies below or ask for an evaluation matched to your population.
Team research White papers Clinical studies of digital support
Yes. Digital support can improve asthma control. The design still matters. A large randomized trial of digital asthma self-management improved asthma control in its uncontrolled-asthma group. A 2026 review of 24 trials found better control overall, but no clear reduction in emergency visits or hospital stays. Better readings and scores are not the same as the full outcome people want.
LYF brings personal understanding, timely coaching and follow-through into everyday life. These external studies inform the field; they are not clinical results from Respire LYF.
More trackers can give you a wall of charts. They still leave you doing the detective work. Cough counts in one place, inhaler logs in another, sleep and air-quality readings elsewhere. You still have to decide what matters, what to try and whether it helped.
LYF gives you personal understanding, a useful next step and follow-through. Spend your effort on better breathing, not on managing another collection of records.
They show the science; the program results come from the program. The white papers explain why each everyday factor matters, with the published studies behind it. A practice, plan or employer that wants to measure admissions, symptoms or cost designs that evaluation with us from the first cohort—and reads its own numbers, from its own population.
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Getting started
Trial, subscription, cancelling, children and support.
Download, check your setup, choose the offer. After you accept a trial or subscription, complete your profile and permissions and switch on what you want to use. A first evening can be as simple as a cough session on the nightstand and one quick check-in.
No. Explore the demonstration and the offer first. Your own record starts after you accept a trial or subscription and complete setup, with the permissions you choose.
Start with a trial. The price, trial length and renewal terms for your account and country are shown on the store screen before you subscribe. If your employer, practice or care program provides access, use its invitation route rather than buying separately.
Through the store that billed you. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. If you cannot find the route, contact support with the purchase channel and account email—never payment-card details.
Apple subscription help Google Play subscription help Contact support
An adult can share their experience with the person supporting them. For children, check eligibility first: the privacy policy excludes children under 13, or under 16 where local law requires it. Ask us about the intended user and setting before creating an account for a child.
Contact the team with the feature, your phone and watch models and the app version. A short description of what happened gets you an answer faster. For a health concern, contact your clinical team, not app support.
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Employers and health plans
What you are buying, what it costs to deliver, and how the first cohort decides the rest.
Because breathing problems affect working life, not just appointments. CDC reports that 8.6% of US adults had current asthma in 2024—before COPD and chronic cough are counted—and COPD is the third leading cause of death worldwide—3.4 million deaths in 2023. Breathing difficulties disturb sleep, limit activity and interrupt work long before they reach a claim. Respire LYF gives eligible employees a breathing co-pilot between appointments, on the phones and watches they already carry, with no hardware to buy, ship or recover. Employees start on their own phone; a compatible smartwatch adds automatic inhaler logging and technique coaching for pressurized metered-dose inhalers used without a spacer.
A co-pilot, not a dashboard—the respiratory counterpart to the diabetes and musculoskeletal programs you already fund, with nothing to ship. Low-effort capture, a personal Breathing Fingerprint, one small step at a time, technique coaching on the wrist and progress people can see—plus aggregate reporting that tells you how many joined, how many kept using it, what they found useful and what they report about nights and workdays disturbed by their breathing. The agreement defines access, onboarding, participant support and the readout.
The daily respiratory co-pilot between benefits emails and care appointments. Employees get their own breathing patterns, timely coaching and a way to see what helped. LYF counts coughs, brings everyday factors together and adds inhaler tracking and technique coaching through a compatible smartwatch. It follows through on the everyday choices that a consultation or general wellbeing article leaves people to manage alone. Start with one cohort, fit the responsibilities to your existing service and measure participation and usefulness.
No. No smart inhaler, no clip-on sensor, no proprietary kit, no reverse logistics. Employees start on their own phones; a compatible smartwatch adds the watch features. Agree the device mix before launch, including whether the program funds any optional devices.
Yes—start with one voluntary adult group and let the readout decide. Clear onboarding, agreed measures, an agreed review date. Then read participation, continued use, usefulness and the support it took, and expand, refine or stop on evidence from your own people.
Separate the launch decision from the outcome decision. The first cohort answers who joined, who kept using it, what they found useful and what delivery required. If reduced absence, healthcare use or cost is the objective, agree the baseline, comparison and follow-up before launch, so the business case comes from your population and your numbers.
It is scoped to your eligible population, access period, support and reporting. Tell us who you want to serve and when you want to start, and you get a tailored proposal with clear responsibilities and fees. We pay no referral or placement fees to advisers.
Your population and its size, current respiratory support, device mix and preferred launch window. Bring the benefit owner and whoever owns privacy or procurement. The conversation then focuses on participant value, delivery and the decision the first cohort should answer.
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Care teams and partners
Practices, health plans, pharma and patient-support programs.
The month. A 15-minute review four times a year leaves the other 8,759 hours outside the room. LYF brings that daily life into a report your patient can share. Patients arrive with their cough and inhaler-use trends, the combinations that kept recurring, and the steps they tried and what followed—in one report. Less of the appointment reconstructing the month; more of it deciding what to do.
No. Respire LYF does not alert, does not triage and creates no queue for your staff to action. Clinical responsibility stays with your team. Reports fit scheduled review; patients continue on their existing action plan and their usual urgent-care route. You agree the information shared and the review cadence before launch.
Yes. Start with a defined patient group and an agreed report-and-review workflow. Use the first cohort to establish usefulness and staff time before scoping deeper integration. Tell us which systems you use and the proposal fits your team.
Yes—and with nothing to distribute. Participants get the full co-pilot on their own phone; a compatible smartwatch adds the inhaler coach. Your community can read all eleven white papers today, with no email wall. You bring the community and the support you already provide; together we set the access route, onboarding, responsibilities and how the first cohort is read.
Daily respiratory support for members between care contacts, with a record of what followed. Personal patterns, one small step at a time, technique coaching on a compatible smartwatch, and reports—captured from the member’s own phone rather than built by a nurse on the phone. Scope access, support, privacy and reporting alongside existing care; if the objective is a clinical or economic outcome, design that evaluation in from the first cohort.
Yes—an inhaler record should show more than a dose taken. Respire LYF logs use and coaches technique from a compatible smartwatch, with nothing on the inhaler—pressurized metered-dose inhalers used without a spacer today—and connects both to each patient’s everyday patterns. That gives a patient-support program a technique view it has never had, without a device to supply. Bring the patient group and the question; we scope devices, consent and protocol together.
Yes. Bring your population, your research question and the outcomes you care about—usability, engagement, workflow, clinical outcomes or health economics. We design the study to the question, with the approvals and data arrangements it needs.
Yes—and you should. Request a demonstration for your use case: a practice cohort, an employee benefit, a member program or a patient-support partnership. You will see what participants get, what your team delivers and what the first step involves.
A patient needs a return on the effort—not another digital chore.
- Less work to put in. Automatic capture reduces repetitive logging; photo, voice and quick check-ins make the remaining input easier.
- Useful help to take away. Personal insights, practical next steps and progress give patients something to use between appointments.
- A reason to return. Guidance grows more personal as patients go. Their next step builds on their own progress, rather than repeating the same general tips.
Patients bring a shareable report to the care conversation. For your first cohort, review participation, continued use and patient-reported usefulness together.
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