Saagara Reaches Milestone with “Health through Breath – Pranayama”

Local Start-up Wins Award, Releases New App Update, and hits “What’s Hot” Page on App Store

ANN ARBOR, OCTOBER 22, 2010—Local digital health and wellness company Saagara has received an Editor’s Choice Award at the World Maker Faire in New York City for their mobile application “Health through Breath – Pranayama”. The app has also recently passed 100,000 downloads world-wide, topping the charts in numerous countries. To punctuate recent success, Saagara has just this week released a large update for their flagship application.

In late September, Saagara surprised Maker Faire attendants with its seemingly out-of-place app presentation. Saagara was later selected as a recipient of an Editor’s Choice award—given to only 10 of 500 “makers” presenting at the Faire. Since then, the app has appeared in articles about golf and deep breathing, and has been picked by a U.S. Olympic athlete.

On the evening of October 22, 2010 the iPad version of the app landed on both the “New & Noteworthy” and the “What’s Hot” pages for iPad apps in the Health & Wellness genre—a true illustration of the growing popularity and success of the app.

The latest version of “Pranayama” dramatically improves graphics (offering HD graphics exclusively on the iPad), offers a new musical style, and enhances the app’s custom feature. With the new version, users of the app may now create multiple breathing patterns and store them as presets, effectively allowing users to create completely custom breathing exercises.

World-wide the application has made its way into the App Store in fifty separate countries, with the iPad version reaching number one in the health and wellness stores of 21 countries. The app is a favorite in countries such as Japan, France, and Switzerland.

The app has been available for almost a year and has received incredible amounts of praise and user recognition. Users have posted over 100 positive reviews recognizing the usefulness, effectiveness, and overall quality of the application giving it an overall score of 4.5 stars—an uncommonly high score on the App Store.

About Saagara LLC
Saagara is a digital health and wellness company founded in late 2009 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company combines holistic health and modern technology to create mobile apps usable on today’s Apple and Android smart devices, as well as the web. Saagara is committed to providing simple, powerful, and easy to use applications which empower you to live happier and healthier lives. Visit Saagara on the web at www.saagara.com.