HeartRate+ Coherence PRO

I’ve been using this app for a few years and love it. My go-to pattern is 15 seconds- 30/20/30/20 (4.5s inhale / 3s hold / 4.5s exhale / 3s hold). This has been my tech-enabled method to practice an ancient Taoist meditation practice, and is a great way to lead a group meditation which induces empathy among participants. What better way to feel what it’s like to be someone else than to feel their own heartbeat intrinsicially? Great work!

I used your app when it first appeared and really liked it. Thought it was awesome. That was a long time ago before you decided to start charging for it. OK, I get it, you need to make some money off your development. No problem with that. why can’t you get it to work with my watch? I don’t really wish to pay to have to jam my finger on the back of my phone to get the same functionality I had before you started charging. What’s the deal? Is it to sell different sensors? Does HeartMath have you ever a barrel? It seems like there aren’t a lot of reviews considering how long the app has been out. I’m wondering if this is just a side project that has been partially abandoned and you’re just making a few bucks off the people that decide to pay for the ability to stick their finger over a lightbulb. Again, my main question is why will it not work with my watch? I would pay for the app if it will work with my watch. My watch is Bluetooth. Why will it not work? It’s somewhat infuriating that all these apps that do heart rate, variability monitoring, etc., want to force you to buy another device. Anyway, please answer my question so I at least know that maybe someone is reading these reviews. Thanks. Other than not having a coherence feature, Welltory seems to be the best app I have found so far that doesn’t force me into buying another piece of hardware, FYI to anybody that cares

It was a good app until the last update. How it crashes each time i start a session.

Somehow the audio guidance is not working.

Does not work with Suunto heart rate monitors.

Useful breathing app which could be easily improved. No customer support, outdated recommendations for heart rate monitor and only for a belt model ( really?). Useless coherence graph because of rescaling, tiny and dark font for coherence score and timer.

Bought Classic. Flash was on and finger correctly positioned over lens. App doesn’t work. Requesting refund. Developer responded and instructed me to update to new version which addresses and corrects heart rate detection failure. I updated app and enabled camera in iPhone settings. Heart rate detection failed repeatedly. I will request a refund. Update: I got app to detect heart rate by completely covering iPhone 11 Pro lenses with two fingers. Will cancel refund request.

Can I use this app with Apple watch?

I’m using a polar HR chest band, which the iPad recognizes, but the app refuses to. There is no flash alternative on an iPad so I wasted the money on this app.

I used to recommend this app to my stress management clients but it stopped working with my new iPhone. I read a review that it was working with the newer models but it isn’t true. This is such a shame. It was my all time favourite app.