TickyTachy vs Upright
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TickyTachy
Monitor your heart rate live, track symptoms, and log triggers to share with your doctor. This app helps individuals with POTS, IST, Long COVID, and other conditions understand their heart health with detailed reports and customizable alerts.
- Live heart rate monitoring on iPhone and Apple Watch
- iPhone camera heart rate measurement
- Guided POTS sit-to-stand test
- Customizable heart rate alerts
- Symptom and trigger logging
- Doctor-ready PDF reports
- Flare risk pattern estimation
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Ticky Tachy is a POTS heart rate monitor for iPhone and Apple Watch. Watch your heart rate live, catch tachycardia spikes and flares as they happen, and bring real data to your next appointment instead of guesswork. Made for people living with POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST), Long COVID and ME/CFS, orthostatic hypotension, anxiety and panic, and anyone who wants a closer eye on their heart day to day. NEW: NO APPLE WATCH NEEDED • Measure your heart rate with your iPhone camera: rest a fingertip on the lens, guided by a diagram of your iPhone model • Or type in a reading from a manual pulse check or another device • Every reading is saved to Apple Health NEW: MAKE YOUR WATCH YOURS • Choose a watch background from collections of art, animals, flowers, colors and world landmarks, or shuffle a new one every 30 minutes • Show or hide the stats bar for a cleaner heart rate screen PERSONALIZED FOR YOUR FOCUS • Pick the profile that fits: POTS and dysautonomia, IST and palpitations, Long COVID and ME/CFS, orthostatic hypotension, anxiety and panic, or general fitness and healthy heart • Your dashboard, watch and alerts adapt: pacing for Long COVID, blood pressure for orthostatic hypotension, cardio trends for fitness. Switch anytime LIVE HEART MONITOR • Your Apple Watch heart rate streams live to your iPhone, with a real-time graph • Glanceable, color-coded complications for heart rate, flares and hydration • Minimum, average and maximum, with trends over the last hour, 24 hours or 7 days THE POTS TEST, GUIDED • Run an orthostatic sit-to-stand test right from your wrist • See your heart rate jump measured against the +30 bpm POTS threshold • Every result saved to your history so you can track changes over time SMART HEART RATE ALERTS • Get notified on high heart rate, spikes when you stand, and sustained tachycardia • Fully customizable thresholds (defaults: warning 130 bpm, alert 150 bpm) • Sleep Mode keeps quiet hours quiet, with no alerts overnight • Alerts mirror between your watch and your phone FLARE RISK PATTERNS (BETA) • An experimental, rule-based estimate from your HRV, heart rate trend, recent triggers and weather • A heads-up before a rough day. Patterns, never a diagnosis LOG FLARES IN ONE TAP • Capture symptoms: palpitations, dizziness, brain fog, fatigue, chest pain and more • Log what set it off: heat, exertion, standing, dehydration, stress, poor sleep • Add severity and notes, from your watch or your phone TRACK THE WHOLE PICTURE • Hydration, sodium, electrolytes and blood pressure, with full searchable history DOCTOR-READY REPORTS • Export a clean PDF of your heart rate, orthostatic results, episodes, symptoms and triggers • Ready for your cardiologist, neurologist or POTS specialist IMPORTANT Ticky Tachy is a wellness and tracking tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition, and heart rate readings, including camera readings, may be inaccurate. Always consult your doctor. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your local emergency number. To sample your heart rate often enough to catch a flare, the app keeps a session running on your Apple Watch. Apple counts that time toward your Exercise ring and active calories, even at rest. You can pause your rings in the Fitness app. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://tickytachy.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://tickytachy.com/privacy
Upright
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Upright is a symptom and standing-test tracker built for people with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome). LOG SYMPTOMS IN TWO TAPS — Track dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, brain fog, and more, even on your worst days. GUIDED STANDING TESTS — A step-by-step flow: lie down five minutes, stand, and record heart rate at 1, 3, 5, and 10 minutes. Leave the app during timers — notifications bring you back at the right moment. With an Apple Watch, heart-rate fields fill automatically during a workout. A REPORT YOUR DOCTOR WILL READ — Your tests, averaged, on one page. Made for the appointment desk. Upright is a documentation tool, not a diagnostic device. It never interprets your results — that conversation belongs to you and your doctor. Health data stays private; heart rate is read-only from HealthKit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Upright at 15.1 against TickyTachy's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. TickyTachy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Upright sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | TickyTachy | Upright |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lyndsay Horne | Abhishek Singh |
In-app purchases
TickyTachy
- Monthly$9.991 Month
- Yearly1 Month trial$49.991 Year
Upright
- Upright Pro$4.991 Month
- Upright Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year







