I used to use this app all the time, but now, with this update, I hate it. Open it, POP UP AD for 30-60 seconds. Measure your current heart rate, POP UP AD, before you can see the results. Before, there were not any POP up ads of any kind. I would not recommend this app yo anyone anymore. If there was a way to purchase a month to month plan with it to avoid the ads, and if the price is reasonable, I would sign up in a heartbeat.
Reviews for Heart Rate Monitor – Pulse App
I understand this is free, & ads are required, but my goodness! They are full page, ridiculously long & occur *every time* you do ANYTHING! The app is useless IMO. It's impossible to stop the ads without completely closing the app. When I go back in, the same ad is there, & it will automatically require you to download the games. Also, my heart rate is typically below 70 bpm, but this recorded that my rate was over 130 bpm multiple times, as I was sitting down. How is this app 4.6 stars? Deleted
I only need this app when I'm having a cardiac episode, and in the last year they started adding ads AS you open the app. Meaning, I literally have to sit a full minute through a health episode watching an ad before I can even get my heart rate that I need. And then, you can't exit the app without clicking on another ad! Totally ridiculous. I've had this app for years and now I'm deleting it and getting a different one.
Works great. I missed my built in HR monitor from my Galaxy S8 when I upgraded my phone, and ended up keeping my old phone around just to use it for that purpose, but i can't carry around 2 phones all the time. This is just as accurate as my old phone and now I don't need to carry both. The noise was too hospital for me, and I was glad I could turn it off. I wish I could turn off the vibration, too, to help with biofeedback without distraction.
App seems okay. Not happy with the setup. After downloading the app and set up. An ad showed up that looked like part of this apps setup. I didn't realize it was an ad until after it started downloading. I swiped to stop the download and exited as fast as I could. I have seen and heard a lot of stories about hackers using all sorts of ways to steal people's information. I hope this wasn't one of them. It would be nice if the ads were obvious that they were ads.
It is an okay app, however I don't feel it is a dependable measure. I took two readings within one minute and both readings were different. The 1st. Reading was 127 the 2nd was 103 and it was done one after another. It was a resting rate I measured. So I cant say how accurate it is. Better off doing it the old fashioned way for accuracy. But will continue to use it for convenience.
After setup you get less than 36 hrs to figure out how to navigate and whether it's providing useful information. After that you can measure once daily, but without the ability to see any results at all. No menu and navigation is not intuitive. Also a lot of intrusive "helpful" verbiage keeps interfering with navigation. I never got to find out if it's worth paying for so I uninstalled. It seemed like it might be but a day and a half isn't enough time to understand it and evaluate it IMO.
all it did was ask to register then immediately switches to the Sheetz app, unless that's uninstalled, in which case it opens my bank's app needless to say it didn't work in even the most basic, fundamental manner.. I mean.. HOW does it even do that? is it trying to hijack another app? Comment reply: Only if your registration screen constitutes an ad. Apparently entering your email OR clicking skip opens a very specific ad. Seems like a significant programming oversight.
Off the bat, great to use, easy interface, accurate data, and lots of tools to use for gaining insight as to what is considered to be actually "normal" or not. Most apps., and like, don't like to actually be that detail oriented, or actually really do as they claim. This app puts its money where its mouth is. And it's free, which is even more amazing!!!! Keep up the good work! 👍
There are so many ads that you really can't do anything with the app. I open it and get an ad. It suggests another app that monitors another diagnostic, and you can only accept it because it won't let you do anything else. Any time you click on anything, another ad appears. When I first downloaded it, I spent over half an hour trying to just get to the point it would measure my heart rate. I just tried again, and on the 3rd ad in less than 5 minutes, I give up. I'm not wasting my time with ads.