Opera Air adds Winter Boost in time for the holidays

December 8th, 2025

Hey all,

It’s been a busy year at Opera! In February we launched Opera Air – the first browser with mindfulness at its core. Backed by the passionate and growing Air community, we’ve been steadily updating our mindful browser ever since. So before we close out 2025, we wanted to look back at where we are, how far we’ve come – and share a cozy new Boost, Winter Night, to herald the holiday season.

A year of mindful innovation

With the mission of helping you feel better as you browse the web, Opera Air launched with two core mindfulness features: Take a Break and Boosts. Accessible right from your sidebar, they allow you to jump right into a mindful exercise or a brain-enhancing soundscape in just a few clicks.

Take a Break comes with breathing exercises, neck stretches, and two forms of guided meditation, with options ranging from 3 to 16 minutes. In addition, you can set Opera Air to remind you, via the Body Battery, to step back and take a mindful break. Since February, we’ve added new language options for voice guides and subtitles, a progress indicator for the exercises, plus updates to the Body Battery so you never miss a break reminder. And it looks like many of you don’t! Over 9 months of exercises have been completed over the course of the year – a powerful testament to the benefits of having built-in mindfulness tools just a click away.

Boosts are lush soundscapes that stimulate brainwave activity. Combining lo-fi music, natural sounds, and binaural beats, they can help achieve mental states like Energized Focus or Deep Relaxation. Boosts are already a big hit with you, our users – believe it or not, you’ve listened to over 12 million minutes to date. That’s the equivalent of 23 years! We’ve kept on improving them too: now, you can enjoy a redesigned menu, play your own music to a Boost, or even share your favorites with a friend. We’ve also continued to add new musical tracks and ambient sounds – like a cat’s purr or a crackling fire – to our Boosts, making them more customizable than ever.

And that’s not everything! In addition to upgrading our core mindfulness features, we’ve also added Dark Ambience, gave a stray cat – Inara – a home in Opera Air, plus partnered with Oxford Mindfulness, sponsoring their Annual Gathering in Marlow.

So what’s next? Well first, we wanted to say thank you to our Opera Air community – so many of the updates above have come about because of your feedback, so please, keep it coming! To say thank you, we created a seasonal Boost that will help you get cozy this holiday season: Winter Night. Featuring atmospheric piano and nostalgia-laden guitar overlaying a fire crackling and birds chirping, Winter Night invites you to slow down and reflect on what’s special about this time of year.

With that, we wish you a mindful holiday season and a wonderful end to the year. But we’re far from done: there’s much more to come in 2026! More Breaks, more Boosts, more mindfulness content – you name it.

So if you’re an Opera Air user already, stay tuned – don’t forget to follow our Instagram page for more mindful content. If you’re new to this, introduce more mindfulness into your life today – download Opera Air.