Runtastic Heart Rate PRO & Pulse Monitor app review: turn your iPhone into a heart rate monitor

Runtastic Heart Rate PRO & Pulse Monitor

Price: $1.99 (as of June 9, 2013, marked down to Free)

Runtastic Heart Rate PRO & Pulse Monitor by runtastic is an app that turns your iPhone into your very own heart rate monitor. It’s free for a limited time, so get it fast and save yourself a couple bucks.

It’s often useful to be able to track your heart rate. Athletes, those with a medical condition, people recovering from an illness, and even pregnant women often need to know how many times their hearts are beating per minute. With this app, you can check your heart rate any time: when you wake up, while you exercise, directly after you exercise, or while you’re lying in bed.

Features of the app include the ability to mark down exactly what you were doing when you measured your HR, you can share your HR with people on Twitter or Facebook or by email. You can filter your measurements by measuring types, see your resting heart rate, your max heart rate, and your heart rate before and after working out.

You can see your heart rate in a graph, and set reminders so the app reminds you to take your heart rate at a certain time each day.

This app is free from ads.

Runtastic Heart Rate PRO & Pulse Monitor was updated to Version 1.1.1 on April 30, 2013. The update made some minor bug fixes. The current version has 115 customer ratings with an average of 4.5 out of five stars. Feedback comments are positive.

I found that the reader was very sensitive: if your finger isn’t covering the whole light and camera portion entirely, the app won’t read your heart rate. So make sure you place your finger properly. Other than that, the app is well-designed and it will be really useful to track my heart rate.

Pros

• Free for a limited time
• Well-designed
• Simple user interface

Cons

• The measurement mechanism is very sensitive so sometimes it takes a couple of tries to get a reading if you don't have your finger placed 100 percent correctly

For: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad with iOS 6.0 or later. Runtastic Heart Rate PRO & Pulse Monitor is optimized for iPhone 5.

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