Blood Pressure Companion

The free version is great. Allows you to create and print a spreadsheet of readings with 5 or 6 columns of info such as date, pulse, MAP, notes, weight, systolic and diastolic readings. You can write notes for each reading such as: took meds, did not take meds, or a highly stressful day. Can setup to automatically sync info to Health app. The MAP reading is especially helpful in giving an assessment of your arteries blood flow to major organs such as kidneys and brain. I have read that Doctors usually consider anything between 70 and 100 mmHg to be normal. All in all this a free app, which you can upgrade, that gives you basic useful information.

After open heart surgery I temporarily had a home care unit that transmitted the daily data to my cardiologist, but soon decided on continuing taking these readings with a calibrated scales and Omron unit. At first I was going to do a spreadsheet for managing my daily weight, BP & HR readings. Fortunately found this app first & Decided to try it out. At first I almost went back to the spreadsheet idea, as I found putting in my existing data was kind of quirky and the app seemed user- unfriendly at first. I’m glad I stuck with it, it seems to do what I need and seems stable and useful. Would’ve given it 5 stars but because of the initial hassle of putting in my pre-existing data, and because it’s easy at first to wipe out today’s data if you forget to go to the time data first every entry, & change that first. Also there is a bug, it gives you a note saying the weight data failed on every entry when putting in preexisting readings. I recommend giving an option for taking daily readings for entering a quantity of readings - maybe by hitting the “q” key for example, which would then ask you for a start date & time for the series of daily readings & let you put in the series of back data smoothly. Of course the “weight failed” note every time bug needs to be fixed. I’m in favor of a “my report” option where the user can customize their output report to the doctor to include or exclude and format their own monthly report, and that would be used for every monthly report instead of having to edit the PDF every month. And I’m hoping there aren’t any bugs that start showing up later, but backing up all your data is very important- I haven’t done that yet. Those are improvements I’d give it 5 stars for! But overall, it is a useful program so far!

App helps me maintain a diary of my BP & MAP (mean arterial pressure) w/ability to make notes on the present variables at the moment from exertion to medications to symptoms like chest pain. It automatically moves a copy of the results to a health app. Also I can look at weekly, monthly & annual trends. Highlighted results when my dbp (diastolic) or sbp (systolic) aren't in target range allows me to see quickly those variations which could signal a need for further attention or evaluation. So easy to add the data. Scroll to numbers rather than type in, weight can be adjusted anytime & notes can be added each reading. (Used to be an app whereby I could hold my iPhone to my chest for BP. Found it reliably close yo a BP machine. I deleted it only bc it wasn’t updated to current iPhone IOS. Miss that portable BP “cuff”.) Glad to use this app. Recommend for those wishing to maintain feedback for themselves OR their doctor bc info can be exported to another source for review. I don’t need that right now but I will have the baseline data when the time comes. Worthwhile!