App Profile: Cardalis

Cooking Organist

Rating: 4/5

I am not the first to get irritated that this useful health monitor does not make it clear how to update the alerts. My dog had one high breathing rate, and ever since, I get a daily admonition to contact my vet about a (null) high breathing rate. I have e-mailed the data to my vet, which did not cancel the daily alert, and I don’t want to erase the data history, so we can look at it over the long term. Hopefully, Cardalis developers will reply (I also e-mailed the company), but as this is a minuscule part of the parents company’s work, I don’t think they care. The app isn’t even mentioned on their website, though the medication with the same name is.

RaiinbowEyes

Rating: 2/5

Good measuring breathing rate, but not to track it. It keeps all the measurements jammed into one big line graph. So if you take it daily for months, it becomes impossible to see the actual numbers or even trends over the past week or month- which would be the most useful to see if there's an issue or for upcoming Vet appointments. You can't change the date range for the graph either. I tried emailing myself the results but it just sent a picture of the same graph. So you would need to clear it out every month to see anything decently. Wish the app would have a date range function or even an additional page where it lists the actual numbers. You can't change the breathing rate limit. You have the option to, but there's no way to get the keyboard part of the screen to retract to press "done" and save it. If you quit the app it does not save it.

G*star*rawr

Rating: 4/5

1. My cat was diagnosed with chylothorax. Vet told me to use this app to monitor her breathing. Please let me specify that it’s a CAT, not a dog :) 2. My vet also told me to monitor the awake breaths, not just sleeping. Please let me specify waking vs sleeping. Because it’s an important distinction. 3. Please show me my comments in the chart. Could be just an icon that we can tap on to view the comment. 4. Don’t show us the splash screen every time we open the app. It unnecessary and annoying and slows us down, and the pet may not stay still that long.