Spire Mindfulness and Activity Tracker for iOS and Android

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Requires a compatible iPhone or Android smartphone (specific device is included below)
Spire measures your breathing and provides feedback for a more focused and calm day.
When your breathing indicates tension, a gentle notification reminds you to stop and take a deep breath.
The included smartphone app can guide you in short, simple exercises or mini-meditations to increase focus, calm and productivity.
Clip the Spire stone unobtrusively onto your pants or bra to track steps, calories and respiratory patterns.
Incorporates wireless charging, up to 7-days of battery life and thoughtful washer-proof design.
NOTE: Spire measures breathing to give you insight into your state of mind. It is not a mood tracker or medical device.

Product Description State of mind affects how you breathe, but how you breathe can also change your state of mind. Studies have shown that slow, deep and consistent breathing can lower blood pressure, reduce stress and increase the flow of endorphins in the blood stream. Working with leading experts on the respiratory system, digital health and medical/wellness devices, Spire is the only wearable that increases mindfulness and productivity by tracking breathing patterns reflecting our state of mind.

Spire’s in-the-moment notifications makes becoming mindful more attainable throughout the day while in-app breathing exercises and guided mini-meditation sessions promote the modification of negative behaviors. Through consistent, unobtrusive, and actionable insights, Spire users take an active role in making positive, reflexive improvements towards a greater holistic health and well-being. Spire charges on an included wireless charging pad, features a 7-day battery and is washer proof. Track your breath and activity through the companion iOS and Android app.

Compatible with iPhone running iOS 8.3 or higher.

For any questions, problems and initial guidance on how to use Spire most effectively, please email us at hello@spire.io or call +1-800-501-CALM. You can also visit our help center at hello.spire.io

Android devices 5.0+ we are compatible with:

Android 5.0 and above: Motorola: Moto X (2014), Moto X (2013), Moto G (2014), Moto G (2013), Moto E (2015), Nexus 6, Droid Turbo, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S6, Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, Samsung Galaxy S5, Samsung Galaxy S5 Active, Samsung Galaxy S5 Duos, Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S4 Active, Samsung Galaxy S4 Duos, Samsung Galaxy Alpha, Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, Samsung Galaxy Note 3, HTC, One M9, One M8, One M7, LG, LG G4, LG G3, LG G2, LG, G Flex 2, Nexus 5, Nexus 4, Sony, Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3 Compact, Xperia Z3 Dual, Xperia Z2, Xperia Z1, Xperia Z1 Compact, Xperia Z Ultra, Asus, Zenfone 2, Huawei, Huawei P8, OnePlus, One and many more Android models: kindly check your phone’s Google Play Store for “Spire” to see if you can download the Spire app to your phone prior to purchase)

For any questions, concerns and initial guidance on how to use Spire most effectively, please first visit our comprehensive support center at hello.spire.io, call our dedicated call center at 1-800-501-2256; or write us at hello@spire.io.

From the Manufacturer

Calm is calling Spire helps you to discover when you’re stressed, where it happens, and what you were doing.

Learn why Yoga Journal calls Spire as “must-have.” People around the world are using Spire to reconnect with their body, get more done at work, and sleep better at night. Last month, Spire users unlocked over 50 million minutes of calm.

Easily clips on Wear Spire on your belt or bra, where it can sense your breathing.

7-day Battery Spire can truck on for as long as you do. When it’s time to recharge, place it on it’s charging plate and it will charge wirelessly.

Water-Resistant Spire is water-resistant, so you don’t have to worry if it takes a tumble through the wash.

Backed by 7 years of research Breathe easy. Spire uses research from Stanford’s Calming Technologies lab to understand your state of mind.

Product Reviews

An Incredibly Valuable Tool - Highly Recommended!

I am writing this in-depth review due to the lack of comprehensive reviews at the time of posting. Thus far, it seems that this is one of those “love it or hate it” devices. Hopefully, this review will help you decide if this is the device for you.** Who is this device for? I purchased Spire because I was looking for a way to analyze my stress levels throughout the day. As a full-time college student and part-time worker, I experience my fair share of stressful moments. I was looking for a device to monitor my stress so I can learn my triggers. Spire tracks your daily steps, but I wouldn’t consider this a fitness tracker by any means. Comfort/Device Aesthetics Spire is gorgeous. The back of the device is soft and I never feel it rubbing up against my skin during daily use (most of the time, I completely forget I’m wearing it). I typically attach Spire to the inside of my jeans (right where the front belt loop is). Placement of Spire is incredibly important to get accurate readings, so I suggest you play around with the placement until you get it right. The included charging pad is completely wireless; to charge Spire, you simply place it on the wireless charging pad. The clip is strong enough to latch onto your clothing with ease. The device is also “washer-proof”, so if you forget to take it off your clothing, it won’t get destroyed. Functionality The real question that you’re probably wondering.. DOES IT WORK?! Well, let me tell you my experience with Spire (and why I absolutely love this device). I’ll admit that the first day I used Spire, I was completely unconvinced that it was correctly tracking my breathing patterns. Day 2 comes around. After leaving my morning class (which Spire told me I was focused and to keep up the good work), I got stuck in some traffic on the commute home. After about 15-20 minutes of sitting in bumper-to-bumper congestion, my Spire began vibrating. I checked the iPhone app upon arriving home, and Spire told me that I was in a state of tension for 20 minutes. The app presented me with several options for reducing my tension including (but not limited to) a quick relaxation boost exercise and an extended guided-meditation. After finishing the guided-meditation, Spire told me I was now in a calm state. These experiences happen nearly every day. Spire gets it right 9 out of 10 times and always provides recommendations for getting me into a calmer state-of-mind. Final Thoughts **This is not a fitness tracker or a quick-fix to to achieve a less stressful lifestyle. This is, however, the best (and only?) device out there to help accurately measure your level of focus, calmness, and tension. I have been using Spire for several days and it has helped me achieve a calmer state-of-mind.

This is a cool product making my life better

I’ve been using Spire for about 3 weeks now and I’ve been debating about how to review it. I’ve decided to give the product 5 stars. If I could, I’d give it 4.5 but that’s not an option, and I genuinely believe it deserves more than 4 stars. I won’t describe what the product does, if you’re reading this then presumably you already know that and you’re trying to figure out if it actually delivers. I’ll list what I really like about the product, and what I want to see change.Positives:- getting real-time notifications when I’m not breathing properly is simply huge. I was just on a phone meeting and got a notification on my iPhone that it had been awhile since I’d taken a deep breath. Sure enough, Spire was right. It was just a nice little nudge, a reminder, to get back to doing what I know is important, full and functional breathing.- being able to track through my day when I was calm, when I was in focus, when I was tense, it’s really helpful information. Spire can do better on this count and I’ll talk about that in a moment. The data presentation and tracking is not as dialed in as I’d like it to be, but is it better than what I was doing pre-Spire (which was, namely, nothing)? Oh heck yeah.- alerts are great. You set them up within their parameters and now the app gives you real time feedback. If I’ve been tense for 3 minutes, Spire will tell me. If I’ve been in an extended period of calm or focus, I’m going to see that, too. And that’s helpful for determining what I was doing/thinking/focusing on to create that state.- the boosts. Those are recordings you can listen to in order to increase a sense of calm, or focus, increase energy, etc… It’s a nice library of resources. And they have a nice ‘foundation pack’ teaching you some elemental breathing techniques along with getting to know your device and the app.- last but not least, I like having such a modest device to track my steps. I don’t wear a pedometer, I don’t wear a fitness watch, so it’s nice to have Spire do this for me.- some of the problems others have noted have not been a problem for me at all. I wear it on my waistband and initially thought it would bug me. And it did bug me, absolutely. For about 45 minutes. After that I literally forget I have it on. It’s just not an issue. Connectivity is not an issue, either. Setup has been easy and it stays connected to my iPhone 6+ without issue.Things I’d like to see improve:- there are times where I feel like I’m tense but Spire doesn’t recognize it as such. I get that my perspective is a thought while Spire is measuring actual breathing patterns. I suppose this means that even when I emotionally feel tense, I’m still doing a credible job of breathing well. Cool. I do wish I had the ability to adjust the sensitivity of the algorithm, or increase the ‘challenge level’ so that it takes more to register as Calm, but that’s a relatively minor quibble.- I cannot stand the way the foundation pack in the Boost section handles unlocking the next boost after you’ve listened to the prior one. Instead of making it immediately available, it waits until 9am the next business day. So if I listen to one boost Friday afternoon, I don’t get the next one unlocked until Monday morning. That’s just a brain dead design.- could be easier to get more actionable data out of the app. For example, when I just had a Calm streak or a Focus streak, I’d love to be able to add a tag noting what I was doing during that streak. That would be helpful from an analysis perspective.And good news, these last two issues? They are directly remedied in the next version of the Spire app. They are in beta testing on it and I took a look at it, and while it’s still rough around the edges it has great promise and it directly addresses these two points.Bottom line: I think the device and the app are very useful as presently constructed. I emailed some thoughts, criticisms and suggestions to the company and was impressed to receive a detailed and thoughtful response from one of the company’s founders and chief science officer. We’ve had a nice dialogue such that while I’m impressed with what the app can do right now, I think where it’s going is simply going to get better and better.So, do I recommend this for purchase right now? Yes, I absolutely do. I genuinely believe this is one of the few wearable technologies that doesn’t just give you a bunch of data that is essentially meaningless, but can actually improve the quality of your life in important and meaningful ways.

and I need to have a better understanding of my exact triggers

I have only had my Spire a week, but I have some severe stress at work, and have many health issues, and I need to have a better understanding of my exact triggers.

Makes me take notice

I love this little thing.. it really has made me notice when i need to step back and step away.The only thing i struggle is my Samsung S8 keeps coming up that the Spire app…

Four Stars

I really like my spire, it keeps me calm and it tracks me activity.

… Spire has really helped shift my mood for the better - actually getting objective data on the amount of …

My Spire has really helped shift my mood for the better - actually getting objective data on the amount of calm and concentration in a day is profoundly helpful.

Delightful self monitoring tool that buzzes me when I forget to breathe

I purchased mine at the Apple Store as an impulse purchase and I’m super happy I did. The only reason it has four stars instead of five is that I am eagerly awaiting sleep…

Can now identify physical responses to tension right from the start

I waited 6mths before doing my review because I wanted to give this a good try first. I received the tracker & set it up but was finding it was constantly telling me I had to…

I love the way it fits

I love the way it fits. I forget I have it on. It’s durable, and it helps me stay fit

perfect device to remind of mind wondering

Spire is a highly sensitive device to monitor the breathing rate and comfortable to wear. It reminds me to take a deep breath when there is a long period of breathing shallowly.