Help & User Guide

1. Getting started

RhythmicFlow is an offline-first breathing and meditation app. The moment it opens you can pick a rhythm and start breathing — nothing to configure, no sign-up wall.

First launch

The first time you open the app you'll see a short, four-page introduction:

• Find your breath — a live preview of the breathing animation.
• Pick your pattern — the built-in rhythms.
• Build routines — chaining steps into a guided session.
• Track your progress — your private practice history.

Tap Continue to move through the pages, or Skip at any time. The last page offers Create account or Sign in — both are optional. The intro only appears once.

The bottom navigation

Three tabs run along the bottom of the app:

Your Profile and Settings are reachable from the icons in the top bar of the Home screen.

2. Accounts & sign-in

You can use almost everything in RhythmicFlow without an account. Signing in is optional and adds:

• Syncing your Premium entitlement across devices.
• Keeping your built-in presets in step with the latest curated set.

Ways to sign in

• Email or username + password — with an optional Remember me.
• Mobile OTP — receive a one-time code by SMS; pick your country code first.
• Google — one-tap sign-in.

Registering & resetting

1. From the sign-in screen tap Create account.
2. Enter a username, email, password, and mobile number.
3. Forgot your password? Choose Forgot password and follow the email code to set a new one.

3. The Home screen

Home is your library of breathing rhythms. It shows:

• Ten built-in presets — ready-made patterns like Box Breathing, 4-7-8, Vagus Nerve, long-exhale and sleep rhythms, each with its own calming background image.
• Your rhythms — anything you've created or customized.

Tap any card to open a session. From the top bar you can reach Premium, your Profile, and Settings.

Prefer a cleaner list? You can hide the presets entirely from Settings → Show Presets and breathe only with your own rhythms.

4. A breathing session

Opening a rhythm starts the session screen — a full-screen animation that expands as you inhale and contracts as you exhale, with the current phase guiding your breath.

Controls

The screen adapts to both portrait and landscape. In landscape the running timer and cycle count move up so the controls stay reachable.

5. Animation styles

Five animation styles visualize your breath. You can switch between them mid-session without losing your place:

• Circle — a clean expanding-and-contracting ring.
• Petal — petals that open and close.
• Rose — a rose that blooms and rests.
• Lotus — an unfolding lotus.
• Breathing Line Diagram — a moving line that traces each phase.

Two styles are available on the free tier; all five are included with Premium.

6. Timer & cycles

Set a session length with the circular timer dial. When the timer runs out the session ends automatically and is logged as completed; stopping early logs it as not completed. Either way the breath time and the number of cycles you finished are saved to your Activity.

Leave the timer off to breathe open-ended and stop whenever you're ready.

7. Sounds & music

Three independent audio layers can play during a session, each with its own volume slider:

• Background music — an ambient loop behind your breath.
• Breathing sounds — gentle inhale/exhale cues.
• Hold sounds — a cue at the top and bottom of each hold.

Choose from the built-in presets, or upload your own audio (any standard audio file) from each picker. Audio respects your phone's focus — it ducks for calls and notifications and releases cleanly when you stop.

8. Background images

Every rhythm can have its own backdrop. Open the background-image panel to pick from:

• Ten preset images bundled with the app.
• Your own photos — upload any image from your device.
• No background — a plain, distraction-free screen.

Large photos are scaled down automatically so they look sharp without slowing the app.

9. Custom rhythms

You're not limited to the presets — design your own breathing patterns.

1. Open any rhythm, then adjust its phase timings (inhale, hold, exhale, hold) and options.
2. Use the Save option in the side panel to keep it as your own rhythm.
3. Rename or delete your rhythms anytime from Home.

Presets are protected — they can't be deleted. If you edit a preset, RhythmicFlow makes a personal copy for you so the original stays intact for everyone.

10. Colors & appearance

Tune how the animation looks, per rhythm. You can set the:

• Fill color of the shape,
• Border color,
• Line color, and
• Ball / marker color — each with its own transparency.

Basic color choices are free; advanced appearance controls are part of Premium.

11. Lock-screen controls

A session keeps running when your screen turns off. A media notification appears on your lock screen with Play, Pause, and Stop, so you can control your breath without unlocking your phone.

12. Activity & history

The Activity tab (center of the bottom bar) is your practice log.

• Week picker — jump to today or any of the past six days.
• Breath Time — total time spent breathing that day.
• Breath Cycles — how many full cycles you completed.
• Sessions table — each session for the day, paginated when there are many.

You can delete a single session or clear them all. With no sessions yet, a calm mandala animation fills the empty state.

13. Routines

A routine is an ordered playlist of steps that plays one after another — perfect for a guided morning or wind-down ritual. Build them from the Routine tab.

Step types

Building & playing

1. Tap the + button to create a routine and add steps in the order you want.
2. Give the whole routine a background image and a done screen message for when it finishes.
3. Press play to run it — each step advances automatically, with a gentle haptic tick on every transition. Tap to pause, long-press to stop, and use the Skip button to jump ahead.

Sharing & limits

• The free tier includes two routines; Premium makes them unlimited. Existing routines are never deleted if you're over the limit — only new creation pauses.
• Premium also unlocks routine sharing links, publishing, and the advanced per-routine customization (orientation, progress bar, colors, clip sizes, and more).

14. Sharing & your own media

RhythmicFlow isn't a walled garden — you can share what you make, and bring your own images, sounds, and video into any rhythm or routine.

Share a rhythm

From a rhythm's options, choose Share. The app takes a snapshot of that rhythm — its timings, colors, animation, background, and sounds — uploads any of your local media so it travels with the link, and hands you a share URL you can drop into messages, email, or any app's share sheet.

Share a routine

Routines share the same way. The whole playlist travels: every step, its order and timings, the notes, and the audio or video clips attached to each step. Your recipient gets the complete routine, not just a name.

Opening a shared link

1. Tapping a RhythmicFlow link opens the app directly if it's installed; otherwise it leads to the Google Play listing and imports automatically after install.
2. The shared rhythm or routine is added as your own editable copy — tweak it freely. It never overwrites the original or changes anything for the person who shared it.

Bring your own media

Almost every media slot accepts your own files, picked from your device:

Your uploads live on your device and are used only by you. When you share a rhythm or routine that uses them, those files are uploaded so the recipient can play them — otherwise nothing leaves your phone. Large images are scaled automatically, and large audio/video clips stream smoothly and are cached on-device after the first play.

15. The note editor

Note steps (and a routine's done-screen message) use a rich-text editor with a toolbar pinned at the top.

Formatting

• Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough.
• Heading, bullet list, and left / center / right alignment.
• Text color, size, and font family from quick pop-overs.

Editing & clipboard

The toolbar includes a full clipboard cluster so you can move text reliably on any keyboard:

16. Reminders

Schedule gentle nudges to keep your practice going. From Profile → Notifications you can add reminders that fire:

• Once — a single one-off reminder.
• Daily — every day at a set time.
• Weekdays — only on the days you choose.

Reminders survive a reboot, and you can edit or remove them anytime. They need notification permission (Android 13+).

17. Profile & Settings

Profile

Reached from the top-bar icon on Home. Here you can edit your username, email, mobile number, and profile picture, view app credits (including photographer attribution for the preset images), and log out.

Settings

• Dark Theme — one tap toggles between the deep-navy night theme and the lavender day theme. Both are carefully contrast-checked for readability.
• Show Presets — hide or show the ten built-in rhythms on Home.

18. Premium

RhythmicFlow is free to use. Every breathing rhythm, all the core tools, and your private history work offline at no cost. Premium is an optional subscription that unlocks deeper customization.

What Premium adds

• All five animation styles (free includes two).
• Unlimited routines (free includes two).
• Advanced appearance & color customization.
• Routine sharing links and publishing.

Plans & billing

Premium is offered as a Monthly or Yearly plan, billed securely through Google Play. Prices show in your local currency at checkout. There is no free trial. Manage or cancel anytime from your Play Store subscriptions — if you cancel, Premium stays active until the end of the period you've already paid for.

See the Pricing and Cancellation & Refunds pages for full details.

19. Your data & privacy

RhythmicFlow is private by default — no analytics, no ads, no trackers. Your rhythms, practice history, and uploads stay on your device.

20. Troubleshooting & FAQ

Notifications or reminders don't appear

On Android 13 and newer, apps need explicit notification permission. Open your phone's Settings → Apps → RhythmicFlow → Notifications and allow them. This also enables lock-screen playback controls.

A routine video won't play

Make sure you're on the latest version from Google Play. If a single clip still fails, tap Skip to continue the routine, and report the routine to support so we can look into that clip.

Pasting into a note isn't working

Use the Paste button in the note toolbar (the clipboard icon). It inserts at the cursor or over your current selection. Select All, Cut, and Copy sit right beside it.

The session screen looks cramped in landscape

Rotate the device freely — the layout reflows so the timer, cycles, and controls stay visible in both orientations.

I lost my history after reinstalling

Practice history and private rhythms are stored on your device and aren't backed up to the cloud, so a reinstall starts fresh. See Your data & privacy.

My audio cut out during a call

That's intentional — RhythmicFlow yields audio focus to calls and other apps, then releases cleanly. Restart the session afterward if you'd like.

21. Getting help

We read every message. If something's broken or you have an idea:

• Email support@rhythmicflow.app.
• Or open an issue on GitHub.

RhythmicFlow is developed and published by Satyam Technologies Private Limited, Patna, India — info@satyamtechnologies.net.