Awful navigation, loses data
Using Polar Beat with my H10 just a few weeks now. Sensor seems to work well but this app is wanting. Observations thus far:
#1 - When I waited to download a workout I was unable to do so. Tre only way to record my next workout was to delete the old one from my H10. Fail.
#2 - Just finding the “save a workout” function is inconvenient. Why hide it under the three-dot menu(top right corner) ?
#3 - After you end a workout, you have to restart the app to get the Last Sessions to reappear at the bottom of the Training function. You need to do this before you can get it to sync with Polar Flow.
#4 - It loses connection with my H10 & has to be re-paired. This happened today, AFTER I had already connected & was detecting a heart rate.
I’d genuinely like to rate it all higher, but this needs refinement.
#1 - When I waited to download a workout I was unable to do so. Tre only way to record my next workout was to delete the old one from my H10. Fail.
#2 - Just finding the “save a workout” function is inconvenient. Why hide it under the three-dot menu(top right corner) ?
#3 - After you end a workout, you have to restart the app to get the Last Sessions to reappear at the bottom of the Training function. You need to do this before you can get it to sync with Polar Flow.
#4 - It loses connection with my H10 & has to be re-paired. This happened today, AFTER I had already connected & was detecting a heart rate.
I’d genuinely like to rate it all higher, but this needs refinement.
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Apple Health sync
I have tried everything but polar beat not syncing w apple health. It worked quite well before though.
Pairing stinks
Why does (sustainable) pairing have to be difficult?
POS
Just want a HR monitor not this piece of Shi data collection device for the flipping company. Had one 30 years ago. Perfect. This thing is POS intrusion
Just keeps failing
My son purchased this for me 6 months ago and it’s worked twice! I don’t understand why, after following all the instructions and replacing a brand new battery twice my chest polar beat will not work? I certainly wouldn’t recommend this product.
Just too much trouble and tired of spending so much time just to have it fail again and again.
Just too much trouble and tired of spending so much time just to have it fail again and again.
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Go buy it
The best HR monitor by a mile highly recommended
Works Well
I’ve been using this app for 2 months in conjunction with the polar H10 heart rate monitor. I’m 56 years old. When I started my resting heart rate was in the mid 60s. It is now in the mid 40s. I’ve been really pleased with the progress. I’ve made in two months. With the exception of a brief period about 10 years ago I have never really been a runner. I run 3 to 4 times a week. 2-1/2 mile course. I’m just trying to improve my pace while maintaining my heart rate. This app and the H10 monitor have been major game changers!!
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Forgets sign in.
I have just downloaded this app and every time it forgets my password details on my iPhone .Asks to press forgotten password then after rest back on. But next time have to go through same process again. Frustrating
Use it for setup, ignore it otherwise
Polar always knocks it out of the park with hardware and stumbles with software, and Beat is no exception. It doesn’t support live activities (or any lock screen functionality), so you have to unlock your phone to track your workout. HR zones are difficult to see in most views. The Watch app similarly doesn’t run in live mode, and also can’t access the HR data from the paired iOS app, displaying only “–“ for heart rate.
To Polar’s partial credit, Beat does integrate with Apple Health now, with everything but your maps (why?) visible across the entire Health ecosystem.
The upshot? Polar’s half baked apps are only needed for initial setup and firmware updates for their HRMs. You can pretend this app doesn’t exist the rest of the time.
To Polar’s partial credit, Beat does integrate with Apple Health now, with everything but your maps (why?) visible across the entire Health ecosystem.
The upshot? Polar’s half baked apps are only needed for initial setup and firmware updates for their HRMs. You can pretend this app doesn’t exist the rest of the time.
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Disappointment
Won’t see the connection to heart monitor , have a great phone , even my mediocre Apple 3 can read the Bluetooth and this fails to monitor a entire run lost and several times failed
JJUK
Elite A*
Will not pair
Did EVERTHING recommended - will NOT pair to my watch. New battery, fully charged watch, blue tooth on then off then on, paired & unpaired now won’t pair. Deleted Polar app & reinstalled same on blue tooth. I am drenched from wetting the darn strap. Might stick it in the blender! 🤬
Awful UI
This app feels like it is 2 decades behind anything else on the market today.
Failed to sync with apple health
No review has can’t use at all.
Brill!
Absolutely bloody bonza. Thanks all
Trying to figure out how to operate this thing
This device is not at all user friendly…I have an iPhone and I can’t figure out how this damn thing works ? Why can’t I see my heart rate ?
Mostly OK
The app is decent, more or less, but one feature that would help it greatly is if it doesn't detect a great rate after, say 2-3 minutes, it ends the workout.
One of my greatest super powers is that i often forget to end the workout so 24-48 hrs later when i go to start a new workout it is still running.
This is one of the features that MyZone excelled at when i used that product.
Doesn't seem like it should be that challenging to add an auto end
One of my greatest super powers is that i often forget to end the workout so 24-48 hrs later when i go to start a new workout it is still running.
This is one of the features that MyZone excelled at when i used that product.
Doesn't seem like it should be that challenging to add an auto end
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It’s okay
Not intuitive. I want to train zone 2, it shows me “Zone 2” but doesn’t explain how it decided on zone 2 (as there are different methods).
Too much information. Just want Heart Rate displayed. Don’t want distance pace etc. there should be one page that is simply heart rate and zones. FFS. I don’t need all the bells and whistles. Give me a clean uncluttered option.
Too much information. Just want Heart Rate displayed. Don’t want distance pace etc. there should be one page that is simply heart rate and zones. FFS. I don’t need all the bells and whistles. Give me a clean uncluttered option.
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UI Improvements
This app isn’t too bad if you have a Polar chest strap but it would be nice if it supported Live Activities so I didn’t have to open my phone every time to see my heart rate zone, time, distance, etc. I’d also like to be able to make settings adjustments during a workout, such as voice guidance.
Where is the manual target heart rate set?
I bought this app so I could set a target heart rate and be alerted when I got to it. I have zero interest in anything else it might do. I have been looking for 30 minutes but cannot find this anywhere in the menu
