Instant Heart Rate: HR Monitor

If you do not have any physical health issues, don’t get it. You do not need it. Especially if you think you may have anxiety. It can make it worse. you may get anxious once you see that your heart rate can be higher than you expected in certain situations, like social activities, hot weather, long walks, etc, crowded areas. It can cause you to obsess over your heart rate when you do not need to most of the time. It can make you feel uncomfortable seeing it go over 100 or sometimes even in the 120s-130s especially after working out or other physical activities. and for the most part that is normal. As long as you don’t have any history of cardiac issues and you are generally healthy. I suggest staying away from the app. If you’re concerned about your health, go schedule an appointment with your primary doctor. As for the app itself, it generally works pretty good. Sometimes it can glitch or the numbers can be off here and there so you may need to rescan your finger once more. There are lots of adds so if you aren’t going to buy the premium, be prepared for lots of adds. But for the most part, it works fine. But a reminder, if you do not have history of cardiac issues or any other health conditions, do not use this app to diagnose yourself. If you have any health concerns, go check in with a doctor.

I use this app all the time and have been using it for going on 4 years. I like to monitor my pulse in different mental states and under the influence of different substances. I know, I’m odd. Without upgrading it takes fairly accurate readings, you can create custom tags to apply to your readings, add notes to your individual readings for more specificity, and it saves the actual chart from every reading. My only complaints are minor to the point of almost being negligible. For the chart there seems to be some accelerometer involvement instead of being purely based on the cameras readings, and the result it gives you after the 15 second reading is your final pulse at the end of the test and not an average of the 15 seconds. Anyone who is curious about how different variables alter your physiological state and want an easy way to test, notate, categorize, chart, and compare, then this is the app for you. Did I mention that it does all of this for free? Yea, that’s a pretty big deal for all of this functionality.

This is very helpful for people who have any issues with their heart rate, skips, palpitations, heart issues, bc at the very moment you feel a difference or discomfort you can take your heart rate, see the live read out of the skips or palpitations, & generate a report that you just print off & take to your DR. There’s also a “stress test”, tho that name isn’t exactly a medical grade stress test in which either a pt is put on a treadmill & made to go to their carefully calculated highest HR for age & wt, while they’re heart is monitored before during & after., or a pt is given a med IV that raises the BP & HR to this calculation. This stress test monitors only HR while you’re sitting then beeps for you to stand for about 15 secs. It then shows the HR on a graph, & another bar shows where you fall as far as at rest, less fit, all the way to fit. This confuses me bc you’re sitting/standing, not being active to tell if you’re fit. Then it gives a % from 0 to 30% which it doesn’t explain your score or even what the % means, & I’m an RN who’s worked in cardiology testing! I wish it included an 02 sensor, so if there’s an issue, that would be a solid piece of information, since lung probs can cause or be effected by the heart. Overall I find it very helpful for my Afib. And it’s free!;)