# heartbeatz Connect — Unleash your watch heart rate

> Broadcast Apple Watch heart rate to BLE/ANT+/Polar fitness devices. (iPhone/iPad app by NPE Inc.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/heartbeatz-connect/id1485336131 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [NPE Inc](https://appshunter.io/developer/424774346)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Sports
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 27 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2019-11-26
- Data updated: 2026-08-15
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/heartbeatz-connect/id1485336131/reviews.md

## What is heartbeatz Connect?

Heartbeatz connect app must be used with the heartbeatz device purchased at https://store.npe-inc.com. Heartbeatz broadcasts heart rate data measured by the Apple Watch® to any BLE/ANT+/Polar receiver such as Peloton® bikes, Garmin head units and treadmills.

Heartbeatz setup is simple; mount WYÛR to your bike or treadmill, start the heartbeatz connect app and pair to WYÛR. Bikes and treadmills using proximity awareness will automatically associate with heartbeatz. Once associated, exercisers can start their workout and the bike or treadmill will display the heart rate data measured by the Apple Watch® in real-time. 

Your Apple Watch becomes a BLE/ANT+/Polar Heart Rate Monitor when you use a WYÛR connected to your watch allowing you to used your Apple Watch heart rate with virtually anything that will connect to a heart rate monitor.

By using Apple Health to record your workouts you can close your rings and have your heart rate data show up on your Peloton, Garmin, Heart Zones or in front of you on any treadmill or rowing machine supporting BLE/ANT+/Polar  heart rate monitors.

## Key features

- Broadcasts Apple Watch heart rate
- Connects to BLE/ANT+/Polar receivers
- Works with Peloton, Garmin, and treadmills
- Real-time heart rate display
- Integrates with Apple Health for workouts

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yearly | $9.99 | per year |
| Monthly | $0.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| heartbeatz Pro Unlimited | $19.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of heartbeatz Connect?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 👍 Works with Garmin/Zwift
- 👍 Connects Apple Watch HR
- 👍 Cost-effective alternative
- 👍 Responsive support (sometimes)
- 👍 Good for specific use cases

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes/freezing
- 🐛 Duplicate workouts logged
- 🐛 Connection issues
- 🐛 Battery drain on watch
- 🐛 Permissions issues
- 🐛 Unusable after updates
- 🐛 Inconsistent functionality
- 🐛 App doesn't close properly
- 🐛 Negative distance recorded
- 🐛 Outdated watch OS support
- 🐛 Subscription model disliked

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes in the middle of workout
- App asks for Apple Health permissions repeatedly
- Duplicate workouts created in Apple Fitness
- App on watch is laggy and buttons don't work
- Watch app asks for Apple Health permissions twice on start
- Permissions to read/write heart rate data toggle off
- App doesn't work after last update
- Cannot find Runn sensor
- Duration shown on Apple Watch does not reset
- App writes data to Apple Health 10 times per second
- Cannot disable writing to Apple Health
- Kills watch battery even when not running
- Records double the miles/distance
- Initial connection can be flaky
- Need to shutdown app on watch after each use to reconnect
- Immediately jumped to three minutes from zero
- Doubled running distance
- Timer already at over 10 minutes on start
- App transmits HR from Apple Watch to Zwift via Runn sensor
- Recording workouts with npe Runn does not work
- Cannot swipe for different metrics on watch
- Timer is not elapsed time since start of run
- Distance written to Apple Health is double
- Save button does not work reliably
- App records 'minus' XX-km
- Device connected, started new run, timer already over 10 minutes
- Cannot get Heartbeatz device to connect to phone or watch
- Watch's functionality to 'Start workout' disappeared
- App needs to stay in foreground to broadcast HR
- Cannot start other apps while broadcasting HR
- No longer connects with ant/Bluetooth device after watch OS update
- Cannot have two pods listed on the app
- Missing speed, cadence, incline metrics
- Only ability to record 'cardio' or 'hitt' workout
- Recent update removed ability to record walk or run
- Cardio workout has no distance or pace metric from Runn device
- Legacy Heartbeatz might still work
- Takes longer to pair with version 2
- Only get Cardio or HITT, no choice of activity
- Apple Watch complication removed in version 2
- HR sensor on Apple Watch Ultra not very accurate
- Need to close all other apps using heart rate on watch
- Cannot get elapsed time, distance, pace on one watch screen
- Hasn't worked since iOS 9
- Doesn't work with iOS 16 and Watch OS 9
- App is unstable and unusable
- Latest update for iWatch OS8 broke the app
- Latest version no longer shows total climbed or reports to Apple Fitness
- Worked with Wahoo Elmnt Bolt for first ride, hasn't worked since
- Discarding a workout from Apple Watch no longer works
- App crashes on watch and cannot be closed
- Connection to heartbeatz device appears sluggish
- Device doesn't show proper battery load
- Software could be stronger
- Too complicated to switch between tags/bikes
- App seems to run battery down
- App disappeared from Apple Watch after update
- Newest update dropped functionality for older watches
- App requires watchOS 7, cannot use with older versions
- App disappears from Apple Watch after last update
- Latest 'update' makes app 100% dead
- HR not displayed in app or on bike computer
- HR reading gets stuck and does not update
- App constantly runs on watch and cannot be closed
- App opens right back up again even after killing it
- Cannot kill the app on Apple Watch, restarts on its own
- Drops every 50-100 strokes for a couple of minutes
- Doesn't pair with watch
- App cannot be closed on the watch
- Keeps running after workouts, activates itself
- Stopped working three days in, blank black screen
- Suddenly stopped working, shows - - bpa
- Doubling issue in Apple Health
- Heartbeatz app on Apple Watch stopped picking up heartbeat
- Double-logging problems in Health app
- App needs a setting to NOT write data to Health app
- First watch screen no longer shows needed information for runners
- Low priority: Make two buttons pressed simultaneously function as pause

**Most requested features**

- Add workout type options (rowing, biking, running)
- Add Apple Watch complication
- Allow disabling writing to Health app
- Make screens configurable
- Simultaneous button press for pause
- Improve HR sensor accuracy on Apple Watch Ultra

## Recent user reviews (10 of 68)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/heartbeatz-connect/id1485336131/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Rubbish

*2025-04-30, version 2.2.3*

Rubbish. Doesn't actually do ANYTHING?

### 2/5 — App crash in the middle of workout when the Sleep Schedule of Health kicked in.

*2025-04-17, version 2.2.3*

App halted counting time and then crashed in the middle of workout when the Sleep Schedule of Health kicked in.  Although the data was written back to the Fitness app, I had to start the app again to and start a new workout to continue recording my session.

### 1/5 — Junk

*2025-01-27, version 2.2.2*

Does not connect to iPhone so you can’t record workouts

### 3/5 — Duplicate workouts

*2025-01-03, version 2.2.2*

Creates duplicate workouts every time in apple fitness. App on watch also laggy sometimes and buttons don’t work.

### 2/5 — Asks for Apple Health permissions every time. Not usable any more.

*2024-12-16, version 2.2.2*

Since a couple of weeks (maybe Watch OS11?), on starting the watch app it asks for Apple Health permissions, twice! Then when the app is stopped and started next time it always asks again (twice). 
In Apple health on the iPhone no matter how many times you give permission to read and write heart rate data it toggles the permissions off again when using the watch app.

### 1/5 — Unusable app since last update

*2024-12-01, version 2.2.2*

Doesn’t work any more since last update… I’ve bought my WYUR more than 100€ only three months ago. I’m very upset!

### 1/5 — Apple Watch not supported

*2024-10-01, version 2.2.0*

I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max running iOS 17 and an Apple Watch Ultra 2. Heartbeatz connect can’t find the Runn. If I didn’t have an old Garmin watch to pair, the Runn would be mostly useless. Such a shame

### 1/5 — So buggy it doesn’t work

*2024-09-16, version 2.2.0*

The duration shown on the Apple Watch does not reset from workout to workout - it just keeps running.  So, a two hour walk this morning was recorded by the app as over 7 hours long!  This also resulted in incorrect distance walked since the app calculates distance by multiplying duration and speed.  So a 6km walk was recorded as over 20km!!  

Secondly, the app writes data to Apple Health 10 times every second with most entries recorded at 0m distance travelled.  Very wasteful consuming unnecessary space in the Apple Health database.   

I have reported this to the developers and hope that a fix is released soon.

### 1/5 — Can’t remove writing on iPhone

*2024-08-30, version 2.1.3*

I use the app to connect my Apple Watch to my garmin edge bike computer but I can’t disable the writing from the heartbeatz app to apple health. So I have all my activities twice. One from garmin and one from heartbeatz. As soon as I only allow heartbeatz to read from apple health, it doesn’t work anymore and the app and Apple Watch are unable to show heart rate.

### 1/5 — Watch battery drain

*2024-06-04, version 2.1.2*

Kills the watch battery even when not running.

## Frequently asked questions about heartbeatz Connect

### What does the Heartbeatz Connect app do?

The Heartbeatz Connect app allows your Apple Watch to broadcast its measured heart rate data to any BLE/ANT+/Polar receiver. This includes popular fitness equipment like Peloton bikes, Garmin head units, and treadmills, effectively turning your Apple Watch into a heart rate monitor for these devices.

### What are the key features of Heartbeatz Connect?

Key features include broadcasting real-time heart rate from your Apple Watch, compatibility with BLE/ANT+/Polar receivers, seamless integration with Peloton bikes and Garmin devices, and the ability to record workouts in Apple Health with heart rate data displayed on compatible fitness equipment.

### How much does Heartbeatz Connect cost?

The app itself is free to download and use. However, it requires a Heartbeatz device which must be purchased separately from their online store. The app also mentions in-app purchases, suggesting potential additional features or functionalities may be available for purchase.

### What devices is Heartbeatz Connect compatible with?

This app is designed to work with Apple Watch for heart rate measurement. The broadcasted heart rate data can be received by any BLE/ANT+/Polar receiver, such as Peloton bikes, Garmin head units, treadmills, and rowing machines that support these protocols.

### How can I use my Apple Watch heart rate with my Peloton or Garmin?

To use your Apple Watch heart rate with your Peloton or Garmin, you will need the Heartbeatz device and the Heartbeatz Connect app. Once set up, the app broadcasts your watch's heart rate data, which your Peloton bike or Garmin device can then display in real-time during your workouts.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.2.5 — 2025-07-02

Using new library for Equipment Connections

### 2.2.4 — 2025-06-29

Improved connectivity to devices

### 2.2.3 — 2025-04-05

Fixes for duplicate workout creation

### 2.2.2 — 2024-11-22

Fixed Equipment startup flow

### 2.2.1 — 2024-11-17

Fixes for connecting to Fitness Equipment

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