Is there a good app for track heart rate?
Lacks Features: 50 apps already serve this, and 25 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to track heart rate, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| heart-rate monitor support | missing-feature | 6 | It's a shame that it doesn't include heart rate |
| cardio heart-rate tracking | missing-feature | 1 | have better cardio tracking with heart rate and record keeping |
| heart rate monitor functionality | bug | 1 | several functions (including the heart rate monitor) have outright stopped working |
| no real-time heart rate tracking | missing-feature | 1 | The old app showed heart beats and tracked it in real time |
| heart-rate data sync | missing-feature | 1 | dados de frequência cardíaca, coisa que o Adidas Running nunca sincronizou |
| heart rate monitor paywalled | price | 1 | just don’t make the heart rate monitor cost money |
| Bluetooth heart-rate monitor pairing | reliability | 1 | jedes Mal ein Glückspiel einen neuen Bluetooth Herzfrequenz Messer mit der App zu verbinden |
| no heart rate monitoring on Apple Watch | missing-feature | 1 | there is no heart rate monitoring while working out |
| no heart rate tracking with zone audio alerts | missing-feature | 1 | I’d like to see it track heart rate and have audio warnings when leaving one zone for another |
| no heart rate graph on device | missing-feature | 1 | I can’t see the graph of my heart rate on my device |
| inaccurate live heart rate | reliability | 1 | i could be doing 150bpm, sweat dripping and heaving but it reads as 110bpm |
| lost sleeping heart rate view | missing-feature | 1 | I like to use it to see what my heart rate is while I'm sleeping but I don't get that anymore |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heart Beat: Heart Rate Monitor | 4.4 | 3,157 | Free |
| Heartica: Heart Rate Monitor | 4.6 | 12,196 | Free |
| Wellmy - Heart Rate Monitor | 4.7 | 12,307 | Free |
| InPulse - Heart Rate Monitor | 4.6 | 176,882 | Free |
| iCardiac: Heart Rate & Health | 4.7 | 27,702 | Free |
| Cardiogram | 1.3 | 6 | $0.99 |
| BeatMirror: Track BPM | 4.7 | 248 | $6.99 |
| Heart Rate Variability Logger | 3.6 | 18 | $9.99 |
Should you build it?
Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature. Opportunity here scores 60 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
7 attempts, mostly stale and none above 107 stars — scattered hardware hacks, no sticky software winner.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| aashari/example-android-mi-band-2 | stale | 107 | Java |
| toxicbishop/VITAL-Health-App-Flutter | active | 78 | Dart |
| k-perry/pulse_observer | stale | 38 | Python |
| vidhipitroda/Patient-Health-Monitoring-System-IoT-Based | stale | 29 | |
| MilosRasic98/OpenHRStrap | active | 26 | Jupyter Notebook |
| PratyushSingh07/cyclofit | stale | 26 | Kotlin |
| MuradIsazade777/PulseTrack | active | 22 | C# |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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