Heart Buddy User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience83.3% of reviews
Neutral8.3% of reviews
Negative experience8.3% of reviews

~ Based on 36 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Heart Buddy Safe?

Heart Buddy appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Heart Buddy is 79/100.

This assessment is based on 57 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.1/5.

Safety Analysis

75.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
19.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 57 App Store ratings for Heart Buddy.

Is Heart Buddy Legit?

Heart Buddy appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Heart Buddy is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

The BEST real time heart app around

For some time I’ve been looking for an App that does 2 things, provides real time alerts and allows customisation. And not just standard customisation of high and low thresholds, but full ability to adapt to your needs. It’s an absolute great app and in my opinion should receive some sort of funding to help its running
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Great App

Easy to use, and very accurate, with excellent record keeping.

The best heart monitoring app on iOS!

It’s a great app for heart rate tracking. I love the alarm feature and alerts even work when your phone is turned off unlike so many other heart monitor apps on the App Store. Many other apps won’t even allow for alerts. This is definitely a superior app!

I like it so far!

It seems like a simple and great app that’s also practical for everyday use, I’ve downloaded a bunch of apps already and none seem to work for me so I’m hoping that this one does! It seems to be working really well but it’s having trouble connecting to my Apple Watch.

Superb for HIIT training 😍

What a find! Perfect live heart tracking, intuitive app and really easy to use with my Garmin HRM-Pro heart tracker, which does not support live tracking (go figure). Highly recommend Heart Buddy 🥰

Henry

Would be a good app if did not interrupt music stream. Incompatible with multitasking. A buddy for a heart, not a person.

Very good free app

I have a Nautilus exercise bike that came with a chest strap. When this broke I couldn’t find a replacement so got a Garmin one but it wouldn’t connect to the bike but is fine with this app. Large numerical display was exactly what I wanted and more accurate than the bike’s stuff.

update pls

can you make an update so it can connect to any watch

Good

Good app, I wish it would stop alerting me that the notifications have been turned off , I don’t want them on.

Great App

Simple to use. Set custom heart zone alarms. Exactly what I needed.

Doesn’t work

Shame as I wanted it for my Epileptic Daughter ☹️

So Grateful to have this wonderful free app

This app is so helpful, so clear, so intuitive, and so elegantly designed. In just using it for two days I have already learned valuable things about what makes my heart rate fluctuate and have some ideas how to keep it calmer. I’m amazed and grateful for the talent, skill, and insight of the designer and of his generosity in making it available free to all. I think it will help so many people who aren’t located where they can easily access specialized medicine, can’t afford it, or don’t have time to locate it and get to it often. This app provides immediate information on how your heart is behaving so you can see what’s going on better and what seems to help and what doesn’t.
I looked for a link to provide a tip and there wasn’t one. If the developer is ever again in a position to maintain the app, I’m sure many users would be happy to donate towards its upkeep in appreciation for how it has helped them! I would!
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Not working

Just goes round and round and nothing connects

Thank you

Thank you for this amazing free app. It has been just what I was searching for. I have chronic fatigue and POTS, this has been perfect for pacing.

Works with ifit smartbeat strap

Just downloaded it and seems to work well! So nice to have an app that doesn’t charge a monthly subscription. Thank you 😊

NerdStaFarian

This is a great app! It’s intuitive, easy to use and accurate. Thanks!

Excellent free app with great features

I have not been able to find any other apps that do quite what this app does and for free to top it all off.

You can set alarms at different heart rates, export the data easily via email or other options. It seems widely compatible with different devices.

Finally a HR app that actually monitors!!!

I’ve downloaded dozens of apps looking for just one that will monitor my heart rate without having to look at my phone. It’s incredibly distracting and dangerous to have to look at my phone every five seconds to see ifI’m in my heart rate zone. Heart Buddy allows you to simply set an alert for your high and low HRs. Then you get an audible alert if you go above or below that range. Simple. Effective. I had trouble connecting my Polar chest strap at first, but another user solve the problem by removing the battery and replacing it. That also worked for me.
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One suggestion

First I would like to thank you for developing this application.

One suggestion from my daily use is, sometimes the device lost connection for few minutes for whatever connection issues, and then the alarm would sound loudly, “sensor ware disconnected”.

This is a false alarm and I’m hoping you could add a configuration to allow us to turn off alarms when connection lost since often times, the connection will resume quickly. I’m using a wahoo device but the frequent false alarm is making it hard for me. So it would be nice to have the configuration.

Thanks again
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Very nice!

Need to set up. Easy to read the large numbers on the screen.
Thanks.