Mobile heart monitor app

parkerknoll

Can anyone lead me to a reliable free heart rate monitor app for android?   Tia

400ixl

Have you got a smart device to monitor with? That should give you compatible apps.

Google Fit can do it for a lot of smart devices.

parkerknoll

No, I was just looking for a fingerprint one

PHK

Phones with optical fingerprint sensors that can read heart rate generally come with suitable software already. 

Which phone do you have?

Ayr_Rage

For anything apart from taking a basic pulse you'll need a smart watch/band or other hardware along with the corresponding app on the device.

I have a Huawei Watch 4 Pro and the Huawei Health app and the ECG function has been very useful in showing my periods of heart arrhythmia to health professionals who are, of course, doing the diagnosis and treatment.

Please don't get the topic off track with anti Huawei comments.

parkerknoll

PHK said:

Phones with optical fingerprint sensors that can read heart rate generally come with suitable software already. 

Which phone do you have?

Samsung s21

uknick

And, don't waste your money on devices that say they can monitor your blood pressure.  None of them work.

km1500

'heart rate a monitor' covers a lot of things - what exactly are you wanting to monitor?

is it just your pulse rate?

Ayr_Rage

uknick said:

And, don't waste your money on devices that say they can monitor your blood pressure.  None of them work.

Oh yes they do !

https://consumer.huawei.com/uk/wearables/watch-d2/

https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/huawei-watch-d2

LightFlare

I use one called “cardio”

the free version is very basic - but it does the trick 

uknick

Ayr_Rage said:

uknick said:

And, don't waste your money on devices that say they can monitor your blood pressure.  None of them work.

Oh yes they do !

https://consumer.huawei.com/uk/wearables/watch-d2/

https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/huawei-watch-d2

Really?  I'd have thought Apple would have added it to their watch if it did work properly.  And, did you look at the footnotes on the Huawei page?;

"1. The practice guidelines of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring recommend 24-hour BP measurements at 15–30 min intervals, with at least 70% successful readings including 20 daytime and 7 night-time ones. Data obtained during the use of this product is for reference only, and should not be used as a basis for medical research, diagnosis, or treatment. This feature will be made available via OTA updates to the latest version.
2. This feature is not intended for medical use. Results are for reference only, and should not be used as a basis for medical research, diagnosis, or treatment."

If the manufacturer says it's not accurate enough for medical purposes, what is it good for?

The Trusted Reviews didn't say whether they'd checked the data against a dedicated blood pressure monitor to gauge its accuracy.  A bit of an oversight if they touting it to be of use.

Don't misunderstand me, I suffer from high blood pressure and would love a wrist monitor that let me know what it is at any time.  But, I'm not sure the technology is there yet.