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23 Top Heart Rate Monitors for iPhone

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iPhone is unlike any other smart phone. Not only it lets you make phone calls and have a lot of fun with the apps available on iTunes, you can also use it to become more healthy and even lose weight. There are lots of cool applications to choose from in the health and fitness categories. Take heart rate monitors. You can not only track/monitor your heart rate with these apps but also how much you are burning on an everyday basis. A great way to get on the right track and stay on it.

Here are the 23 best heart rate monitor apps for iPhone:

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iRunXtreme: iRunXtreme is a highly sophisticated application that lets you monitor your heart rate using your iPhone microphone. As easy as that!

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Fitview: Fitview is a complete tracking application for every aspect of your health. You can track your body sugar, heart rate, and … Very useful for the methodical types among us.

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FitnessBuilder: FitnessBuilder is perhaps the only application you need to get yourself in shape. It’s a complete guide (w/ videos) to take your workout to the next level. Allows you to track your HR and calories burned as well.

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12 Fitness Calculators: 12 Fitness Calculators provides you with everything you need to keep track of your progress when it comes to fitness and weight loss.

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Heart Rate Monitor: HRM is another cool iPhone app that monitors your heart beat by using your iPhone’s microphone.

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iHeart: iHeart is a pulse reader that lets you figure out your pulse rate by holding your iPhone in your hands. Can’t get any easier than this. Not too shabby.

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iPulse: iPulse is a decent heart rate monitor that not only counts your heart rate but also comes with a log system to help you keep track of your activities.

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iNewLeaf: a sophisticated app that helps you keep track of your workout and track your progress easily. You can also keep track of how many calories you are burning and how much fat you are carrying. Good choice for those who live an active lifestyle.

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Vitalsview: whether you want to track your body fat, your heart rate or blood pressure, you can do it all with Vitalsview.

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Gym Tracker: a wonderful utility application for every gym addict. It lets you keep track of your heart rate, exercises, and all other relevant information. It can also help you take your workout to the next level.

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iHeartRate Monitor: iHeartRate makes it easy to track your heart rate. All you have to do is tap on your iPhone.

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BeatMonitor: another decent app that uses your iPhone’s microphone to track your heart rate.

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Gym Bio: Gym Bio is a useful application for those who go to the gym on a consistent basis. Helps you track your workoutts and get more out of them.

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Hcalc: Hcalc makes it easy to track your heart rate and target a specific range for your workouts.

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Hrate: Hrate is a simple ap that uses your heart rate information to come up with your zones.

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Aerobic View: Aerobic View is a cool little app that lets you get more out of your aerobic workouts.

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myCheckUp: myCheckUp is a cool health application for iPhone that lets you prepare and track your checkup data for the next time you are going to visit a doctor. Track your heart rate, your weight, and more with myCheckUp.

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Fitness Calculator: Fitness Calculator is a complete health calculator to cover all your needs.

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MyWorkOut: MyWorkOut is another simple application that lets you store and track your health information.

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RPM – Heart Rate Calculator: RPM is a simple app that gives you your heart rate with your taps.

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iBPM+ – Heart Rate Monitor: a complete dashboard for all your fitness stats. Your heart rate, calories burned, heart rate zones, and …. are all provided to you in iBPM+.

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Heart Log: Heart Log is a simple logging application designed for anyone who has heart issues or wants to keep track of her heart rate on an everyday basis. Simple but gets the job done.

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Absolute Fitness: if you are planning to take better care of your heart and what you take in, you should use Absolute Fitness to track your heart rate, calorie in-take, and your overall progress towards a more healthy life.

There you have it. If you are looking to track your heart rate on your iPhone, you won’t go wrong with the above apps. Best of all, most of these apps are cheap too! Don’t forget to suggest your favorite apps.


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9 comments
  1. Anyone application which can work with usual bluetooth HR transmitter like Zephyr HxM or similar? instead of ugly way – measure HR via microphone

    Ernst says...
    December 3rd, 2009 at 8:48 am
  2. I agree with Ernst. These applications are not interesting as long as they do not support bluetooth HR transmitters. I also like to have GPS-tracking functionality (e.g. like the Nokia Sportstracker application).

    Sdfg says...
    December 8th, 2009 at 11:18 am
  3. How can this give you an EKG heart rate like a heart rate monitor does with a transmitter? They are all talking about pulse not hear rate. there is a difference, Can the Transmitter made by Polar be used with these applications?

    Lois says...
    December 10th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
  4. Hi Lois. Not with all these applications. We are in the process of updating this list to address the issues you and many others have brought up.

    Ci says...
    December 11th, 2009 at 7:05 am
  5. Hello, guys

    My question was rhetorical.
    Actually, Apple doesn’t include full featured bluetooth stack into iPhone firmware, for bluetooth heartrate monitors RFCOMM/SPP (Serial Port) is required. As far as I understand this is a reason of many “toy” apps for heart, instead of real fitness and medical ones.

    Ci, we have to admit, iphone is bad choice for cadrio workouts or medical telemetry. All reviewed apps are for “wow” effect only.

    As trail runner I prefer Windows Mobile applications, becauses there are not a problem with any BT hardware devices. For example: RunGPS.NET

    This is a typical situation for iPhone, if you are looking at similar market (one of my interests) – devices for the cars: OBDII dongles, iPhone “can” work with WiFi devices only, this is unreasonable – they are more expensive than bluetooth ones, drain the battery quickly.

    As summary: this is not holy war :) , I like my iphone, but apple developers are not good, too many semifinished features in iphone were completed yet by enthusiasts.

    Ernst says...
    December 15th, 2009 at 6:31 am
  6. P.S.
    Actually, I use GymNow app on iPhone,
    this is my favorit app for fitness.

    Ci, sorry, when I said about “toy” apps, I mean heart measuring feature. Of course, in your review there are excellent apps as training log and diary.

    Ernst says...
    December 15th, 2009 at 6:36 am
  7. By wearing a Polar transmitter it will measure the actual electrical activity of your heart in moment to moment (or beat to beat) variation. Anything that reads off your wrist is not measuring this activity—it is measuring the opening and closing of an artery at a specific point. In the case of your wrist, that artery is the radial artery. On your neck, it is the carotid artery. Either way is going to be less accurate than actual heart rate. I would love to see the tranmitter worn and the I-touch recording the EKG. :-) Happy Holidays.

    Lois says...
    December 18th, 2009 at 7:18 am
  8. I was using polar watch with chest belt transmitter for a long time earlier.
    and recommend to use Zephyr HxM chest ECG transmitter, instead of Polar, it’s better than polar one:
    1. re-chargable battery with USB dock station.
    2. Lighter than polar.
    3. it has builtin accelerometer for measring speed/distance/cadence.

    and Zephyr has open protocol for developers.
    and , of course, cost – cheaper than polar.

    Ernst says...
    December 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 am
  9. In addition to previous post,
    I was talking about bluetooth transmitters.

    Ernst says...
    December 22nd, 2009 at 8:23 am
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