Polar Flow vs Squad HR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Polar Flow
This app helps you track daily activity, analyze workouts with detailed metrics, and gain insights into sleep patterns and recovery. It allows for device management, route planning, and seamless syncing with other popular fitness platforms.
- Activity Tracking
- Training Analysis
- Sleep Insights
- Training Load & Recovery
- Device & Profile Management
- Wireless Syncing
- Third-Party Service Integration
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Polar Flow: Your Personal Sports, Fitness, and Health Companion The exclusive app designed to maximize the potential of your Polar devices. Key Features: Activity Tracking: Monitor your daily activity, steps, calories burned, and distance to stay motivated throughout the day. Training Analysis: Dive deep into your workouts with detailed data on heart rate, speed, pace, distance, power, and more. Understand the impact of each session and optimize your training routines. Sleep Insights: Discover how well you sleep with advanced sleep tracking. Get feedback on sleep stages and quality to improve your rest and recovery. See how sleep boosts your day and track skin temperature changes. Training Load & Recovery: Understand how your training sessions strain your body and get recommendations on recovery time to prevent overtraining. Manage your watch and profile: Customize and manage your Polar device, Sports profiles for different activities, Routes, and Training Targets. Wireless Syncing: Automatically sync data from your Polar devices for real-time updates, notifications, and other insights. Stay Connected: Connect your profile and sync your data with Strava, TrainingPeaks, Adidas, komoot, and many other services. Why Choose Polar Flow? Personalized Guidance: Receive personalized feedback and guidance and understand your progress. Comprehensive Ecosystem: Integrates seamlessly with Polar watches, heart rate monitors, and more for a holistic experience. User-Friendly Interface: Navigate your data effortlessly with our intuitive and clean design. Notification support: Your Polar watch will receive the same notifications as your phone screen—incoming calls, messages, and app notifications. Secure and Private: Your data is safely stored and protected, giving you peace of mind as you focus on your journey. Polar Flow app allows you to share some of your wellness data with Apple Health. This includes details of your training, your heart rate, and steps. Please note Polar Flow app is not intended for medical or diagnostic use. Get Started Today! Download Polar Flow and unlock the full potential of your Polar devices. You can find more info at https://www.polar.com/flow Connect with us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/polarglobal Facebook: www.facebook.com/polarglobal YouTube: www.youtube.com/polarglobal Find out more about Polar products at https://www.polar.com/en/products
Squad HR
This app tracks heart rate for fitness classes, displaying real-time data for multiple users on a large screen to boost motivation. It estimates intensity, energy expenditure, and offers recovery metrics. Compatible with Bluetooth sensors and Apple Watches.
- Real-time heart rate tracking
- Group training up to 14 sensors
- Estimates intensity and energy expenditure
- Apple Watch integration
- CSV data export
- Screen mirroring to TVs
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Overview SquadHR is a training tool for tracking heart rate in fitness classes. Connect up to 14 Bluetooth heart rate sensors in real time, or up to 24 in near–real time, on a single iPhone. Track heart rate, exercise intensity, and energy expenditure on a large TV to boost motivation, optimize workouts, and improve aerobic fitness. Compatible with all Bluetooth heart rate sensors for iPhone. Apple Watches SquadHR works with the free WatchHR app for Apple Watch, so you can track heart rates straight from the watch, no separate sensor required. Key Features - Unlimited member profiles - Real-time heart rate tracking (Bluetooth sensor required) - Estimates exercise intensity, energy expenditure, and training load - Recovery heart rate & HRV calculations (HRV-enabled sensors only) - Time-based activity data for group performance analysis - CSV export for spreadsheet data analysis - Automatic session tracking & workout summaries - Personalized branding on TV & workout summaries - Multilingual workout summaries: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish - Apple Watch support via WatchHR - Screen mirroring to TVs via HDMI, Apple TV, or AirPlay - Easy sensor pairing & management Plans & Pricing - Personal Training (Free): Track 1 heart rate sensor, record workouts, and send summaries. - Group Training (In-App Purchase): Track up to 24 heart rate sensors simultaneously. Subscriptions - Group Training: US$9.99/month or US$99/year (7-day free trial). Auto-renews unless canceled 24 hours before renewal. Manage via iPhone settings. Device Compatibility - iPhones/iPads with Bluetooth 5 (e.g., iPhone X, iPad 10th Gen and above) support up to 14 sensors. - Older devices with Bluetooth 4 (e.g., iPad 9th Gen) support up to 7 sensors. - Time-sharing expands tracking to 24 heart rates on Bluetooth 5 devices and 14 on Bluetooth 4, but with slower updates. - Time-sharing works with Bluetooth heart rate sensors only (not Apple Watches). Support & Contact - Website: trackteam.net - Contact Us: trackteam.net/contact - Privacy Policy: trackteam.net/privacy - Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Squad HR at 100% against Polar Flow's 50%. Squad HR also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Polar Flow sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per month and Squad HR sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Polar Flow ships an update monthly, Squad HR weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Polar Flow | Squad HR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (50K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 49.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 50K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Polar Electro | TRACKTEAM PTY LTD |
Customer experience
Polar Flow
Squad HR
Bugs and requests
Polar Flow
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes during syncing
- Inconsistent data sync between watch and app
- Firmware updates causing loss of user data
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to manually edit workout data
- Integration with more third-party apps
- More advanced training programs and coaching
- Improved sleep tracking and analysis
Squad HR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Polar Flow
- Polar Fitness Program1 Month trial$8.991 Month
Squad HR
- Group Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Group Yearly7 Days trial$99.001 Year









