Get rapid alerts for significant heart rate changes due to POTS, tachycardia, exercise or other activities.
Features:
- Haptic alerts based on custom threshold levels.
- Customizable upper and lower threshold levels for current heart rate and difference from recent average.
- The main display shows: current heart rate, moving average of recent heart rate, and delta of current heart rate to average.
- Display colours change to show severity of alert.
- The app tracks alert events with start time of event, event duration, starting average heart rate, and maximum or minimum heart rate during event.
- Triple tap to temporarily silence alerts.
- Review detailed monitoring data on the companion iPhone app.
Premium features:
- View detailed heart rate chart for each event
- Share event info directly from watch, or export from iPhone to Photos app
- Run monitoring sessions directly on your iPhone, without an Apple Watch, by connecting a Bluetooth heart rate sensor
- Generate a shareable PDF report for each session
- Add notes and symptoms to Alert Events
- Export Alert Event raw heart rate data to .csv
- View live session data on the iPhone companion app
- View a summary of Alert Events over last week / month / year
TachyMon was created by the developer for his niece Alex, who was diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) in the fall of 2021. POTS seems to be an increasingly common diagnosis, especially for young women. People with POTS often experience fatigue, brain fog, rapid heart rate increases and other symptoms. Alex was experiencing frequent fainting (syncope) and we noticed the fainting occurred when her heart rate increased rapidly, or when her heart rate reached a certain absolute threshold (150 BPM in her case). Alex finds that the TachyMon alerts help her to sit or crouch down when her heart rate is elevated, and this helps her to avoid fainting, and to feel a bit more in control of her POTS.
It is a simple, but specialized app, and we hope it may help others with POTS, or people in other situations when it may be useful to monitor heart rate changes.
APPLE HEALTH
TachyMon integrates with the Apple Health app. TachyMon stores workout information (including heart rate) with the Apple Health app.
WARNING: It is important to consult with medical professionals if you are concerned about your health. The TachyMon app is intended for informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for specialized medical care.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
I’ve been using this app for about a year, I think. Recently, some features that had previously been free were moved behind a paywall which was very irritating. Just this week, I decided to finally subscribe because I was having a very high symptom week and wanted to better track my HR and symptoms in case I needed to go to the ER. I love the new features that are part of the subscription, and the cost for the yearly subscription is not that bad, all things considered.
My issue is that it just doesn’t work. The app on my phone regularly says that there is “No session” on my app when there IS and the only way I’ve found to fix it is to end the session restart everything…just for it to happen again in a couple of hours. I want to be able to see the data from my session on the app. I don’t understand why it can’t stay connected.
