Pulse Tags vs HeartCloud Sync
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pulse Tags
Track your daily heart rate changes on your Apple Watch. Tag events like stress or illness to monitor their impact. View historical data, averages, and get notified of significant deviations.
- Hourly heart rate averages vs. 7-day averages
- Digital Crown scrolling for detailed values
- Add tags for heart rate event causes
- Watch face complications for quick data access
- Notifications for significant heart rate changes
- Browse full history of tagged values
- Add notes to tagged heart rate data
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Pulse Tags is a simple yet powerful Apple Watch app to track changes in your daily heart rate. In many cases changes in heart rate can be caused by things like stress, caffeine or flu/other diseases. In such cases you can choose to tag the specific heart rate event and use Pulse Tags to keep track of how often for example stress has caused your heart rate to elevate. Pulse Tags requires an Apple Watch with watchOS 9 or later. Pulse Tags integrates with the Health app and uses data stored in the Health app. Key features: -See how your hourly heart rate (bpm) averages compare to your seven day hourly averages. -Use the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch to scroll between different values. -See detailed heart rate values recorded within the selected hour. -Add Pulse Tags as complications on your Apple Watch faces to see updated heart rate data directly on your watch faces. -Get notified if your hourly heart rate average is significantly higher or lower than usual. Please note that notifications and complication updates can get delayed or even blocked. Keep Pulse Tags as a complication on your active watch face to ensure better notification performance. -Tag heart rate changes with a possible cause or symptom. You can also tag heart rate changes directly from the notification. -Browse full history of tagged heart rate values. -Add and edit notes to tagged heart rate values. -Privacy: Information read by Pulse Tags is only used locally on your Apple Watch and iPhone while relevant data is synced to your personal iCloud. This data can not be accessed by anyone else but you. -Tutorial and in-app purchases on iPhone. If you have any questions we will happily help you: contact@sydvesti.com
HeartCloud Sync
Visualize your health, activity, and workout data from your iPhone and Apple Watch. Securely share this information with your doctor through your account. Monitor general wellness and fitness.
- Visualize health data
- Activity tracking
- Workout data visualization
- Secure doctor sharing
- Apple Watch integration
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OVERVIEW HeartCloud's iPhone and web apps offer powerful new ways to visualize the digital health, activity, and workout data on your iPhone, and then upload it all to the HeartCloud web app where you can do even more with it. This includes the ability to optionally share health data from your Apple Watch and other devices securely and privately with your doctor(s) using your HeartCloud account. LEGAL, PRIVACY, and SECURITY Your use of HeartCloud Sync and HeartCloud, Inc.'s web apps are governed by the terms of use provided here: https://heartcloud.io/iOS/app/view/legal/terms-of-use You can read our privacy policy here: https://heartcloud.io/iOS/app/view/legal/privacy-policy You can read about what data we ask for (and why), plus how we protect the information you upload here: https://heartcloud.io/iOS/app/view/data-protection Note: HeartCloud Sync should be used to monitor and improve your general wellness and fitness, rather than to establish a clinical diagnosis, as that should be done by a licensed healthcare provider.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HeartCloud Sync at 100% against Pulse Tags's 67%. HeartCloud Sync also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Pulse Tags's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pulse Tags sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and HeartCloud Sync sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pulse Tags holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 33 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Pulse Tags's written reviews are positive against 100% of HeartCloud Sync's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pulse Tags ships an update every 2 months, HeartCloud Sync fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pulse Tags | HeartCloud Sync |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (23 ratings) — better | 4.3 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 478 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sydvesti Oy | HeartCloud, Inc. |
Customer experience
Pulse Tags
HeartCloud Sync
In-app purchases
Pulse Tags
- Lifetime Access$2.99
HeartCloud Sync
- HeartCloud Premium7 Days trial$5.991 Month
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