Filip Brož At the age of twelve, doctors discovered that I had abnormally high blood pressure. After several examinations and two minor procedures, they finally concluded with a white coat diagnosis. In practice, this means that I am afraid of doctors, and as soon as I go for an examination or check-up, they always measure my blood pressure extremely high. Ever since I got the Apple Watch, I've been learning to work with my heart rate.
At first, various breathing exercises and techniques helped me mindfulness, when all you have to do is focus your attention on your breath, become aware of the presence, and the tension will suddenly drop. At the same time, the watch gives me feedback and I can monitor my heart rate. However, more detailed information about the heart rate is not systemically available. The HeartWatch app, which has recently undergone a major update, effectively solves this problem.
The application is the responsibility of a lesser-known developer, Tantsissa, who created a unique application that will provide maximum information and data about their heart rhythm to every user with an Apple Watch on their wrist. Your iPhone will then display the detailed information.
HeartWatch is based on round color diagrams. The number you see is your average heart rate for the day. The colors then indicate which heart rate zones you were in during the day.
You can see three colors in HeartWatch: red, blue and purple. The red values indicate your maximum heart rate, blue the lowest and purple the average values. From a health point of view, it is desirable that your values are as much as possible in the blue zone, i.e. the lowest heart rate. A number of health conditions and diseases are associated with high blood pressure.
The app also offers a detailed breakdown of each day where you can see your blood pressure minute by minute. You can easily compare the measured values with what you were actually doing and how your pressure reacted to it.
HeartWatch will also be appreciated by athletes, for example, because the application can filter, for example, only values measured during sports performance. Thanks to this, you can distinguish an ordinary day from all sports activities. You can easily compare, for example, maximum and minimum heart rate. If you sleep with the Apple Watch on your wrist, you can display the heart rate values measured during the night.
To find out the current heart rate, you can use the application on the Watch, which can add a complication to the watch face. You can then add various notes to the measured data directly in the watch during the day, so that you have a better overview of what you just did. Just use Force Touch and dictate.
For three euros, I didn't hesitate too much with HeartWatch, because this app turned out to be one of the most useful I have on the Watch. If you are in any way interested in measuring your heart rate and want to have the most detailed data possible, HeartWatch is an obvious choice.
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May I ask how it is with the demands on the battery of the Apple Watch? It is said that this app should be economical due to the fact that it takes data from Health? But then it cannot offer such accurate and "minute" measurements.. So how is it?
Thanks for the info:)
In my opinion, it is economical, i.e. it is optimized for regular use. During the time that I have been testing it and using it, I have not noticed any rapid loss of battery in AW. So I wouldn't worry about it ;-)
The app pulls data from Health (via HealthKit), so it consumes NOTHING. :)
Sure, you tweeted me. :) And it makes sense. Here in the article, however, I was struck by the idea of a minute-by-minute overview... When I look at my Health, I don't have such data there - at best 6 times an hour, but rather less. And so the question for me is whether it is an app (i.e. whether it initiates more frequent measurements) or whether it is a poetic license of the author of the article :)
Thanks for the insights.
Ah… I'll take a look. :)
Well, what I tested and looked at, the application on AW can measure the current heart rate, so I think it doesn't just take data from Health...
So, according to the developer, it really "only" pulls data from Zdraví..
I've had it for a few weeks too and I'm thrilled. It shows the heart rate beautifully and I discovered that I regularly have a high heart rate at work :-)
Do you have high blood pressure and working heart rate? Do you have a general idea of what these two names mean? :)
Taking measurements from the wrist without a chest belt as somehow valid is sheer naivety. If you want to work with your heart rate in any reasonable way, you need a chest belt. Wrist gauges are not able to record any sharp fluctuations at all. I have been interested in this for about 14 days. I ended up buying a Polar V800. I fully charged the watch and today I have 75 percent battery. And I went jogging with it once, I went to 4 spinning classes and I wear it all day as a daily activity monitor and I sleep with it at night. Notifications from the smartphone also receive it. And despite the fact that Polar is miles ahead of Apple in working with a stepper, it cannot be used as a medical device. You need a medical holter to measure your heart rate or blood pressure all day long. And the pulse has nothing to do with pressure. It is logical that with a higher heart rate you need to have a higher pressure in the load. But that's normal and there are tables for that. It's normal if your heart skips a beat at work. But you can find that out just by feeling the arteries in the neck. You need arrhythmia or extra systole, not even Polar and Apple from your wrist. I guess so.