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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/19/2021

"Great system - basic, easy to use and affordable"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

Breathe looks good and is very user-friendly. There is a wealth of support available through their knowledge base, and their customer support is always super helpful and friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

The system can be quite glitchy, with basic functionality missing. Customer support can take up to 24 hours to get back to you, which can be frustrating when trying to do something there and then. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kayleigh Scarratt of Breathe

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Thank you so much for your review of Breathe. It's great to hear you think of Breathe as a one-stop shop for your HR - we love that. We're happy that you've found our knowledge base helpful and our customer support team friendly - we try our best to get back to our customers as soon as possible but apologies if you've had to wait a little while, as you've mentioned, we'll always ensure we respond within 24 hours. Thank you again, we really appreciate all of your feedback and please do feel free to get in touch if there's anything else we can help with.

Breathe Reviews & Product Details

Breathe is a type of human resource management software solution designed to help users streamline their core people processes online. Specifically tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, Breathe facilitates the management of essential HR functions, allowing businesses to save time, enhance efficiency, and provide peace of mind, regardless of their operational location. Targeted primarily at UK-based SMEs and charities, Breathe addresses the unique challenges these organisations face in managing their workforce. With over 16,000 businesses already utilizing the platform to oversee more than 500,000 employees, Breathe has established itself as a trusted partner in the HR space. Its endorsement by a network of over 950 partners further solidifies its reputation as a reliable solution for organisations looking to modernise their HR processes. Breathe offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to meet the diverse needs of its users. Key functionalities include holiday and leave management, which simplifies the process of tracking employee time off, and sickness and absence monitoring, ensuring that organizations can maintain productivity even when employees are away. The platform also includes performance management tools that help businesses set goals and evaluate employee performance effectively. Additionally, expense management and employee scheduling features streamline financial tracking and workforce planning, while time tracking capabilities provide insights into employee hours and productivity. The platform's employee database and analytics feature allows organizations to maintain a centralised repository of employee information, facilitating better decision-making through data-driven insights. Unlimited document storage ensures that essential HR documents are easily accessible and securely stored, while rota, time, and attendance functionalities help organisations manage their workforce efficiently. By integrating these features into a single platform, Breathe stands out in its category, offering a holistic approach to HR management that is both intuitive and user-friendly. Overall, Breathe provides a robust solution for SMEs looking to enhance their HR processes. By moving core people management functions online, organisations can not only save time but also improve compliance and employee satisfaction. The platform's focus on security and ease of use makes it an appealing choice for businesses aiming to modernize their HR practices while maintaining a strong connection with their workforce.

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Product Description

breatheHR is a software for SMEs that keeps all employee information in one central place and automates all those time consuming HR admin tasks.

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Carl Sadecki

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Core HR Micro (1-10 employees)

£22.00

Per Month

Core HR Starter (11-20 employees)

£39.00

Per Month

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Breathe Media

Breathe Demo - Breathe HR Software | Free Trial

Multi-device responsive website and free mobile app, so you can manage your people admin from anywhere.

Breathe Demo - Holiday calendar and leave requests | Breathe

View holiday and leave in one glance with Breathe's holiday calendar. Respond to leave requests in seconds and get a quick overview of your team's upcoming leave on your HR dashboard.

With Breathe’s HR dashboard, you'll have all the data you need at your fingertips. Enjoy an overview of your HR tasks, holiday coming up, documents to read and upcoming one-to-ones - all in one place.

See how much holiday each employee is entitled to and how much they have left to take on their employee profile. Visualise how much holiday has been taken against your holiday year with holiday usage reports

Breathe Demo - Two-factor authentication | Breathe

Add an extra layer of security to yours and your team's Breathe accounts with our two-factor authentication (2FA) feature.

Breathe Demo - Free mobile app | Breathe

Your people can manage their leave, view their shifts, log sickness and send their colleagues kudos from anywhere with our free mobile app.

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Mona V.

Head of Strategy

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/2/2025

"Simple, intuitive HR software that makes managing people easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

Breathe has streamlined our HR processes and saved us time on admin. Breathe is incredibly user-friendly, even for those who aren’t tech-savvy. I especially like how clean and intuitive the interface is, everything from booking leave to reviewing performance is straightforward. It’s easy to navigate, requires very little training, and gives a clear overview of our team at a glance. The self-service functionality has empowered our team to manage their own records, which saves us so much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

There are occasional limitations with customisation, especially around reporting and integrating with other systems. It would be great to have more flexible dashboards or more integrations with payroll tools. Sometimes the performance review templates can feel a bit rigid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Breathe solving and how is that benefiting you?

Breathe is solving several key HR challenges for us, particularly around time-consuming admin, lack of visibility, and inconsistent processes. Before using Breathe, managing annual leave, sickness records, and performance reviews involved clunky spreadsheets and lots of email chasing. Now, everything is centralised and automated, which has significantly reduced errors and freed up time for more strategic work. It’s also improved our internal communication and accountability, team members can easily access their own records, and managers have real-time oversight of their teams. This has led to a more efficient, transparent, and empowered workplace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Anneli Briars of Breathe

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Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Breathe. We're glad to hear that our self-service functionality has empowered your team and saved you time. We understand the importance of customisation and integrations, and we are constantly working to enhance our platform to provide more flexibility and seamless integrations with other systems. Your feedback on the performance review templates is valuable, please add this as an idea via the Breathe portal and we will take it into consideration for future improvements.

Emma Z.

Office Manager / H&S Advisor

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/28/2025

"Compact HR system"

5/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

It is handy to keep all employee records in one place and makes it easier to track holidays/ sickness and breathe will even analyse the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

It would be good if a calendar were included in the basic subscription, so that if changes are made in Breathe, they would also update on Outlook. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tymiah F.

Office Administrator and Operations Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/4/2025

"Makes HR admin super easy!"

4/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

I find the platform incredibly easy to use and very intuitvie - its easy for the team to use and navigate and me myself as a HR administrator. I find the interface to be clean and simple, it's very flexible with all of the features you can add to, I like the idea of your whole employee profile with promotions etc being in one place. Automated reminders are really good for keeping things streamlined. I can see easily when someone has made a change in their profile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

I would love to be able to see all info on a staff member in one page rather than going to all the different tabs, maybe could do jump to X section instead? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Anneli Briars of Breathe

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Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Breathe! We're glad to hear that the platform has made HR admin tasks easier for you and your team. We understand your suggestion about viewing all info on a staff member in one page. Please submit this as an idea via the Breathe Portal and we'll keep that in mind for enhancing the user experience.

Jelka I.

Executive Assistant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/20/2024

"Easy to use interface, clear on holiday booking!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

It's useful to see when other people in the company are off so you can choose your dates knowing that they are most likely to be approved. Sickness is also very easy to record and refer back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

I believe this an additional paid for feature, but cancelling holiday required authorisation before we can book anything else, which can lead to delays.

Also, HR Users dont show which the rest of the company you have to search for them seperately, and they also dont show in the group calendar so you can't see when they are off. In small businesses this is really useful to have the visibility of the entire company even if they are a HR user, or Managing Director. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Human Resources

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/8/2025

"Great System"

4/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

User-friendly with an interface that is easy to navigate. The Intercom forum is very useful for finding instructions on how to do different things and how to use/navigate through the system. The customer support is also excellent and easy to get through to. Also integrates with Hireful, which is great for streamlined recruitment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

Reporting could do better, custom reports could be very useful. You can extract loads of data via full data reports, but this involves loads of filtering and data manipulation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Anneli Briars of Breathe

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We're glad to hear that you find Breathe user-friendly and easy to navigate. Thank you for your feedback on the reporting feature. Please add this as an idea via the Breathe portal and our team will take this into consideration for future enhancements.

Milly H.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/8/2024

"HR Software that makes my life easier!"

4/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

Easy to go from different client portals. Centralised documentation and an easy platform to navigate. Makes for an efficient relationship as a remote consultant when helping employees and the employers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

Not being able to change working patterns and holiday allowances in advance was a big one, but the recent update has changed this which is great.

I would like the Time and Attendance module to be a bit easier to understand! I have a lot of clients that using clocking in software and are therefore reluctant to move to BreatheHR as it doesn't quite fit their needs, nor do I understand it well enough to promote it. I have a call arranged with my Account Manager to hopefully resolve this too.

It would be good to be able to bulk upload Company Documents as this is time consuming! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Katy W.

Projects Team Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/28/2025

"Managing my team is easy with Breath HR software"

5/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

It's an easy platform to manage a team in one place with easy access to their profiles/documents/training. It hasuseful tools to help manage things like annual leave (such as displaying the % used vs the days worked etc). I can also upload all their paperwork into the system for only myself and them to see. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

I do find the layout a little tricky to navigate sometimes - I might find a page of useful info and then struggle to find it again a second time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Anneli Briars of Breathe

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We're glad to hear that Breathe HR software is making team management easier for you. We appreciate your feedback about the layout, please submit this as an idea via the portal and we will take it into consideration for future improvements.

Nathaniel C.

Admin Coordinator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/25/2025

"Breathe is a simple-use and beneficial HR system for small businesses"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

The ease of annual leave booking and inputting of sick days, and especially the shared calendar - makes it simple and effective to see who is and isn't available each day of the week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

The onboarding and recruitment process for new staff could be better. Although the system does provide this, it is very limited in its capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Anneli Briars of Breathe

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Thank you for your feedback on the onboarding and recruitment process. We're constantly working to improve our system, and your input is valuable in helping us identify areas for enhancement. Please submit your feedback for improvements as an idea via the Breathe portal and our team will take it into consideration for future developments.

Dan W.

HR Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/13/2025

"The best HRIS I have used"

5/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

I like that it is plain and simple to use, no difficult set up as there was such an ease of implementation. The account manager we have at customer support is great and the frequency of use has skyrocketed. There are a number of features which we would like our partners to use more but this has been something of a slow burner and more support on this would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

The offboarding tasks could be integrated more smoother and if there is an integration to payroll systems and docusign, this would make it easier to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Anneli Briars of Breathe

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Thank you for your positive feedback on Breathe's ease of use and the support from your account manager. Please submit your suggestions for improving offboarding tasks and integrating with payroll systems and docusign as an idea via the Breathe portal; your input will be considered as we continue to enhance our platform.

Verified User in Education Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/7/2025

"A straightforward HR system that gets the job done"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Breathe?

Breathe HR makes it really easy to manage day-to-day HR tasks like tracking holidays, absences, and employee records. The interface is simple and straightforward, which means you don’t need a lot of training to get started... I also like the automated reminders for probation reviews and appraisals - it’s a small thing, but it helps keep everything on track. The document storage feature is handy too, especially for keeping contracts and policies in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Breathe?

Some room for improvement. The lack of customisation can be frustrating if your company has specific processes or reporting needs. I’d also like to see better integrations with other systems like payroll, as switching between platforms slows things down. Notifications can be hit or miss as well... sometimes you don’t realise something needs approving until it’s too late. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Breathe solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps to centralise our HR processes, making it easier to manage employee data, track absences, and handle holiday requests. It’s particularly beneficial for maintaining an organised record of documents like contracts and policies, which reduces admin time and ensures compliance. The automated reminders for key events like probation reviews also help us stay on top of employee performance management, saving time and preventing missed deadlines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.