# Heart Rate Zones: PulseZones — Weekly Zone 2 Training Goals

> Apple ecosystem heart rate zone tracker for training goals and live workout data. (iPhone/iPad app by BRADLEY EUGENE FRANKLIN.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/heart-rate-zones-pulsezones/id6812593511 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [BRADLEY EUGENE FRANKLIN](https://appshunter.io/developer/6806688660)
- Category: Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 4 App Store ratings · 3 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 15 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Mexican Spanish
- Released: 2026-09-18
- Data updated: 2026-10-24
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/heart-rate-zones-pulsezones/id6812593511/reviews.md

## What is Heart Rate Zones?

PulseZones is a heart rate zone tracker for every screen you train with: iPhone, iPhone Duo, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Set a weekly minutes goal for each zone, train with live zones on your wrist, and watch the week fill in.

MADE FOR IPHONE DUO
• Unfold for two panes: your week beside your zone bars, your live ring beside your zone breakdown
• Fold it and everything fits the cover screen

BUILT FOR APPLE WATCH
• A native Apple Watch app. Start a workout from your wrist and see your current zone, bpm, and time in zone update live
• One ring for all five zones that fills as your heart rate climbs
• Time in zone adds up for the whole workout. It doesn't reset when you leave a zone and come back
• A watch face complication that shows this week's zone progress and switches to live zone bars during a workout (Zone 2 free, all five zones with Pro)
• Haptic taps when you move up or down a zone (Pro)
• Workouts save to Apple Health with heart rate, calories, and GPS route

NEW: APPLE TV
• This week's zone goals on the big screen, free
• With Pro, your live ring, timers and zone breakdown appear on your TV while you train
• Link with your iPhone camera. Your data goes straight to your Apple TV over your Wi-Fi. Nothing is uploaded

START FROM YOUR IPHONE
• Tap Start Workout on iPhone and PulseZones launches it on your Apple Watch, then mirrors your zones live on your phone
• No Watch? On iOS 26, record on iPhone using a Bluetooth chest strap or compatible earbuds for heart rate

GUIDED WORKOUTS (PRO)
• Four guided sessions: Zone 2 Steady (45 min), VO2 Max 4×4 (43 min), Threshold Tempo (49 min), and Recovery (30 min)
• Your Watch taps at each segment and nudges you up or down when you drift out of the target zone

SIRI, SHORTCUTS AND THE ACTION BUTTON
• Start a workout with Siri, add it to Shortcuts, or map it to the Action button on Apple Watch Ultra
• A Live Activity shows your zone and bpm on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island

CHOOSE YOUR WORKOUT
• 14 workout types, including walking, running, swimming, hiking, cycling, HIIT, and strength training

DISTANCE, GPS ROUTES AND CARDIO FITNESS
• Live distance and average pace (speed on rides) for walks, runs, hikes, rides, and open-water swims, in miles or kilometers
• Outdoor walks, runs, hikes, swims, and rides record a route and save it to Apple Health
• A VO2 max tile shows your latest Apple Watch cardio fitness reading and recent history

FREE FEATURES
• Automatic zone-minute totals from Apple Health for the current week
• Weekly goal tracking for Zone 2
• Live workouts on Apple Watch and iPhone
• Manual workout logging
• Daily step count
• This week's dashboard on Apple TV

PULSEZONES PRO
• Weekly goals for all five zones
• Custom zone BPM ranges, plus a Karvonen (heart-rate-reserve) calculator built from your age and resting heart rate
• Month and Year history, advanced charts, and workout history for the past two months
• Week-over-week comparisons, matched day for day so a partial week never looks worse than it is
• Guided zone workouts
• Haptic zone alerts on Apple Watch and the detailed weekly complication
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
• Live workouts on Apple TV

PulseZones Pro is available as a monthly subscription, an annual subscription with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings.

PRIVACY
Your health and location data stay on your devices. No account, no ads, no third-party tracking.

Privacy Policy: https://claude.ai/artifact/Ur5hSMQpXXfz85Yo2JhTf2#privacy
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

PulseZones is a fitness tool, not a medical device. Talk to your physician before starting or changing an exercise program, especially if you have (or might have) a heart condition.

## Key features

- Live heart rate zone tracking
- Weekly zone minute goals
- Apple Watch native app
- iPhone Duo multi-pane view
- Apple TV live data display
- Guided workouts (Pro)
- Workout logging to Apple Health

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PulseZone Pro Annual | $29.99 | per year |
| PulseZone Pro Monthly | $4.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PulseZone Pro Lifetime | $59.99 | one-time |


## Is Heart Rate Zones safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Heart Rate Zones.

## Is Heart Rate Zones legit?

Heart Rate Zones: PulseZones has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Heart Rate Zones is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

## Recent user reviews (3 of 3)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/heart-rate-zones-pulsezones/id6812593511/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Helpful HR zones app

*2026-10-13*

Nice conglomeration of heart rate data to better understand how I’m spreading around my hr zones through the week

### 5/5 — Much needed app

*2026-09-30*

Very easy to use. This is an app I have been wanting for a long time.

### 5/5 — Zones is where it at

*2026-09-30*

Love seeing what zones I’m hitting!

## Frequently asked questions about Heart Rate Zones

### What is the main purpose of PulseZones?

PulseZones is designed to help you track your heart rate zones during workouts across your Apple devices. It allows you to set weekly goals for time spent in specific zones and provides live feedback during training sessions.

### Does PulseZones work on Apple Watch?

Yes, PulseZones has a native Apple Watch app. You can start workouts from your wrist, view live zone data, and use watch face complications to monitor your progress.

### Can I use PulseZones without an Apple Watch?

Yes, on iOS 26 and later, you can record workouts on your iPhone using a Bluetooth chest strap or compatible earbuds for heart rate monitoring. The app also offers live zone mirroring on your iPhone.

### What are the benefits of PulseZones Pro?

PulseZones Pro offers weekly goals for all five heart rate zones, custom zone BPM ranges, a Karvonen calculator, month/year history with advanced charts, and week-over-week comparisons.

### How accurate is the heart rate data in PulseZones?

The app relies on the heart rate sensors of your connected Apple devices or compatible external monitors. Workouts are saved to Apple Health, which aggregates data from various sources.

### What is the pricing for PulseZones Pro?

PulseZones Pro is available through subscription plans: $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year. The annual plan includes a 7-day free trial.

### Does PulseZones have ads?

No, PulseZones does not contain advertisements. The core features are free, with optional advanced features available through a paid Pro subscription.

### How often is PulseZones updated?

The app was last updated on October 8, 2026, with version 2.8. This indicates a relatively recent update, suggesting ongoing development and support.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.8.2 — 2026-10-21

• A new Totals tab shows weekly zone minutes, including current workout progress and minutes beyond your goals.
• More reliable totals across pauses, week changes and saved-workout synchronization.
• Eligible workout details show Apple Health VO₂ max readings with clear attribution.
• Apple Watch GPS loop-lap tracking, with quick access to weekly progress and lap counts using the Digital Crown.
• A cleaner large Watch complication with bars only, more room for the graph and 20% thinner bars. Spoken zone labels remain available.
• Weekly goal settings keep Zones 1–5 in order.

### 2.8.1 — 2026-10-19

• More reliable purchase restoration with clearer status and retry messages.
• Set your weekly Zone 2 goal for free, with clearer explanations of full training plans in Pro.
• A simpler Pro upgrade screen with relevant benefits, clearer annual billing and trial information, and improved price-loading recovery.
• Clearer upgrade messages and improved text layout.

### 2.8 — 2026-10-08

PulseZones now runs on every screen you train with:
• iPhone Duo: a new two-pane layout on the inner display. Your week sits beside your zone bars, and the live ring sits beside your zone breakdown. Fold it and everything fits the cover display.
• Apple Watch: your workouts now reach the big screen too. Start on your wrist as usual.
• New Apple TV app: this week's zone goals on your TV, free. Link it by pointing your iPhone camera at the code on screen. With PulseZones Pro, your live heart rate ring, timers and zone breakdown appear on the TV while you train.
• Private by design: your iPhone talks straight to your Apple TV over your home Wi-Fi. Nothing is uploaded.

### 2.7 — 2026-09-30

A new live workout ring, on your wrist and your phone.
• One ring, five zones: the live ring now shows all five heart-rate zones as sections around one dial, with Z1–Z5 markers at each boundary. Your position on the ring is your heart rate.
• Bigger, clearer Watch display: larger ring, larger zone labels and a bolder time-in-zone readout.
• Faster response: the ring and heart-rate number settle on each new reading in about a second.
• Recovery on your iPhone: the 2-minute recovery countdown and your recovery result now show on the Live tab too.
• Redesigned Live tab: larger ring, an End button in the ring tile, and a bigger, easier-to-read zone breakdown that fills the screen.
• Also: more responsive heart-rate updates on Apple Watch, better Always On behavior, your iPhone stays awake during a workout, and weekly progress that gives every zone with a goal an equal share.

### 2.5 — 2026-09-28

Big update — every workout now tells the whole story:
• Workouts now keeps your last 2 months. Search by type, note or date and filter by zone. Your weekly goal still starts fresh every week.
• Redeem PulseZones Pro offer codes right in Settings.
• Heart rate graph: see exactly when and where your heart rate changed, colored by zone. Drag to scrub, switch between time and distance, and tap a zone to highlight every stretch you spent in it.
• Heart rate recovery: your Apple Watch measures how fast your heart rate drops in the 2 minutes after a workout, with a trend over time.
• Splits: pace and heart rate for every mile or kilometer.
• Share any workout as an image.
• A much smoother live zone ring on Apple Watch that deepens from light to dark as your heart rate climbs.
• Distance and pace for walks, runs, hikes, rides and open-water swims — live on your Watch, in the Live Activity and complication. Choose miles or kilometers in Settings.
• Resting and max heart rate from 3 months of Apple Health data, a new Zone 0 for warm-up time, and a choice of app language.
PulseZones Pro adds a route map colored by zone, compare with a past workout, aerobic decoupling and guided workout scores.

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