Heart Buddy
My circumstances have changed recently and I am no longer in a position to be able to maintain Heart Buddy.
The app is still currently available on the App Store in case it helps anybody out. If Heart Buddy is important to you, then be wary of any future Apple updates as they may well stop Heart Buddy from working on your device.
Best wishes
Sean
Heart Buddy - Quick Introduction
Heart Buddy - Peace of mind and simple to use
Heart Buddy is an easy to use iOS app for the iPhone or iPad. Heart Buddy continuously monitors the heart rate and raises an alarm when it detects a low or high heart rate. This could be indicative of a seizure, a problem with a pacemaker, or other heart problems.
Heart Buddy is totally free: no subscriptions, no adverts, complete access to all advanced features. Heart Buddy is already helping people and it can help you too.
Continuous, realtime monitoring of the heart rate throughout the whole night, the day and wherever you go.
Customise Heart Buddy's alarms: including those for high/low heart rates; low battery; signal loss; and more.
Heart rates displayed on charts and updated as each heart rate is collected.
Remote control feature which allows you to view and control sessions from another room in the house.
Heart rate saved on the device and optionally in the cloud.
Review heart rate charts from those saved in your history to spot patterns and gain valuable insight to heart rate behaviour.
Share heart charts to your other devices, family, or email them to healthcare professionals.
The Heart Zones feature keeps you informed of heart rate changes without even needing to look at the app.
Optionally connect your iPhone/iPad to a bluetooth speaker to allow alarms to be heard remotely, elsewhere in the home.
Designed and tested with the Wahoo TickR Fit Heart Rate Sensor with up to 30 hours battery life. Also works with other bluetooth low-energy (BTLE) heart sensors.
Heart Buddy - Heart Monitor
Heart Buddy continuously monitors the heart rate in realtime and raises an alarm when it detects a problem.
The Heart Monitor screen displays:
the current heart rate in real time
the highest and lowest heart rates seen so far.
heart rates plotted on a chart.
sensor battery level and signal strength.
option to view a chart for the whole session.
alerts are raised when triggered by your customised alarms.
Heart Buddy - Heart Rate Charts
Heart Buddy displays the heart rates gathered for a session on a chart which allows you to visually check the heart rate over a selected period of time.
charts up to a 12 hour period.
scrollable for charts 12+ hours.
jump directly to the highest or lowest heart rates.
share charts via email, airdrop, printing.
share charts to the Notes app and add your own comments.
export the heart rates to a spreadsheet.
Heart Buddy - Heart Rate History
Heart Buddy builds up a history of heart rate data which allows you to revisit and review your previously recorded sessions.
display a chart for any session in your history.
sessions stored on the device and/or in the cloud.
sessions in the cloud can be viewed on your other iOS devices.
important sessions can be locked to prevent them from being accidentally deleted.
each session keeps the date/time it was collected, the highest and lowest heart rates, the duration of the session and all the heart rates gathered over the period.
Heart Buddy - Alarms
Heart Buddy allows you to customise alarms which alert a carer when they are triggered.
Customisable alarms.
alarms can be turned on or off independently.
alarms include high/low heart rate detection.
alarms for low battery levels.
alarms for low signal strength.
pre-recorded messages tell you the reason an alarm has been raised.
Heart Buddy - A quick preview
Below is a short video preview showing a few of Heart Buddy's screens.
Heart Buddy - In Action
If you have a camera monitor then you can switch on Heart Buddy's extra large display and get an up-to-date heart rate measurement at a glance.
In the video below, Heart Buddy is running on an iPhone 5S - which is visible in the top left-hand corner of the picture.
Heart Buddy is connected to a Wahoo TickR fit bracelet and is monitoring and displaying the current heart rate.
Heart Buddy is also connected to a Bluetooth speaker in another room and raises an alarm if it detects a low or high heart rate.
Spread the word and let other people know about how Heart Buddy could be helping them.