No data export😫
I love the blood pressure device itself and think it can potentially be a real game changer. The app is fine in general but as others have noted there is NO DATA EXPORT feature. It will send you simple blood pressure readings to Apple health but the other metrics are not supported in Apple health so don’t get logged. If you want this data you have to log it yourself or screenshot it. This is a simple and obvious function so I assume they just want you to pay for their overpriced subscription.
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Lots of Inaccessible Data
Anybody who buys this BP monitor has a certain degree of OCD. There are a lot of datapoints. You can scroll through to see your (daily, weekly, monthly, and more) (averages, highs lows), for (all day, morning, afternoon, and night) for (at least eight metrics from BP to SERV). That’s awesome!
You can export two of those metrics (BP and heart rate to Apple Health). Unfortunately, Apple sees the time it’s downloaded, not the time that the reading was taken. The phone readily sees the phone to sync. But, you literally have to have the phone against the machine to sync each time. So, if you take readings every four hours and do not sync until night, you get four readings at 10pm rather than spaced out every four hours). And it is only for two metrics.
You can pay $20 per month for exportable PDF reports. But, the report is for two readings taken a minute apart. It lists all 8 or more metrics. But, most of the 2 pages is just an explanation about all possible ranges. It doesn’t provide a true analysis that explains the interactions between your specific set of metrics. For example it says high blood pressure is bad, high SERV is good. It does not say, you have high BP and high SERV which means you fall into this category.
But, I don’t need that analysis if I have all of the data. So, I’d pay $20 per month to download a csv file that I could use to build my own analysis with Excel charts and using my preferred AI tool with my own prompts.
But, no. Can’t do that—which is of limited utility to either me, as an OCD geek, or my cardiologist since he only cares about trends, not a single set of datapoints with a long explanation of definitions that he studied for 10 years.
Hopefully this is remedied. But, it’s such a simple option that I can only assume that some developer thinks he’s going to make a mint by withholding. People will loose interest because of the lack of utility. And the developer will stop developing and live off of the limited revenue until finally closing down five years from now.
You can export two of those metrics (BP and heart rate to Apple Health). Unfortunately, Apple sees the time it’s downloaded, not the time that the reading was taken. The phone readily sees the phone to sync. But, you literally have to have the phone against the machine to sync each time. So, if you take readings every four hours and do not sync until night, you get four readings at 10pm rather than spaced out every four hours). And it is only for two metrics.
You can pay $20 per month for exportable PDF reports. But, the report is for two readings taken a minute apart. It lists all 8 or more metrics. But, most of the 2 pages is just an explanation about all possible ranges. It doesn’t provide a true analysis that explains the interactions between your specific set of metrics. For example it says high blood pressure is bad, high SERV is good. It does not say, you have high BP and high SERV which means you fall into this category.
But, I don’t need that analysis if I have all of the data. So, I’d pay $20 per month to download a csv file that I could use to build my own analysis with Excel charts and using my preferred AI tool with my own prompts.
But, no. Can’t do that—which is of limited utility to either me, as an OCD geek, or my cardiologist since he only cares about trends, not a single set of datapoints with a long explanation of definitions that he studied for 10 years.
Hopefully this is remedied. But, it’s such a simple option that I can only assume that some developer thinks he’s going to make a mint by withholding. People will loose interest because of the lack of utility. And the developer will stop developing and live off of the limited revenue until finally closing down five years from now.
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Wonky operation and poor support.
Experienced serial problems over first 6 months of operation. Even as a paying Care+ subscriber ($$) support was pretty much worthless. I already know how to restart my phone and reset device. I’m well practiced at it. I have learned that it adds 10 to 20 points to my BP when this happens. I cancelled the subscription. Marketing is great, operations OK, support non-existent.
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Great information
Easy to set up and sync with the Pulse device. Great information about my arterial health.
Single user
Needs multiple users. Or at least a way to delete a reading. If you have someone else use it it completely messes the whole thing up.
