Welltory: Heart Rate Monitor Reviews

Don’t buy the subscription! Total waste!

ProgrammerMom1980

I purchased the subscription. Every time there is an update I lose my subscription and have to FIGHT with the developers and support to get my subscription reinstated. I paid for a year. I have gone more time without this app then using it because it’s not always worth the fight. The customer service is terrible. It’s too bad. The science behind this is questionable because it doesn’t take into account people’s individual medical histories.

Twenty First Century!

The Original Swig

It’s scientific! But cool! I gotta go back to high school biology!

Measurement accuracy issues on XR

StartupSam

Maybe it's the phone, but I've done development with basic heart rate sensors before, and for whatever reason the signal from my finger is always super clear - way more pronounced than most. Even so, I've tried Welltory measurements repeatedly - sitting, lying down, relaxing, pressing, arms in various positions - and I can't get better accuracy than 90% and it tells me there's a problem. I thought it might be an XR issue, but another HRV app I've tried (HRV4Fitness) doesn't have this issue - optimal signal quality from them. They also show the real waveform, which makes it easy to see that they're getting accurate measurements. Whereas with Welltory, the event spikes (not the real waveform) don't line up with my actual heartbeat, especially with small rate increases caused by breathing. All of the stats and integrations look great - measurement just seems terrible even on the same hardware. Might try it on Android later (those stats do look nice) but will leave the review low on here for now.

To expensive and not worth it

jesswrob

Don’t even bother downloading this. It’s an app that wants you to download a million more apps so it can give you the data. It will also ask you to purchases the full app and it looks like it’s 6.99 but the full year purchase is $85.00 which isn’t worth the price and they refuses to refund.

Invaluable intro to HRV. App needs much work.

Korky Bulchik

This app is a beautiful and valuable tool for learning more about HRV. It is great to look at a large collection of measurements over time to see how your habits and lifestyle changes affect your stress levels. It is fun for learning and has opened my mind up to a universe of possibilities for enhancing my general well-being. Conducting “experiments” with lifestyle changes has been down right invaluable and amazing for me. I am so grateful for this app because I don’t have to go off “facts” anymore. I can conduct consumer-grade “experiments” on myself to see how environments, habits, activities, thinking style and other factors affect my wellness. HRV is only part of the picture and high HRV may not always be an appropriate reflection of mood. HRV is potentially very valuable and this app offers a great introduction to the concept and measurement. Many aspects of HRV and the direct relevance to physical health are evolving areas of research and have not made it beyond research into standardized conventional medical practices, for the most part. Do not, under any circumstances, use the information from this app to assess your own health in place of consulting a licensed physician. HRV is always changing. The less data you have, the less meaningful your measurements will be. That is a basic principle of statistics. I’ve taken many measurements that differ within the same our. The “facts” presented during the measurement period are mostly meaningless without context. To say “going to be earlier decreases melatonin” and similar statements is tenuous and hard to apply to individuals. These “facts” are pulled, like the concept of the app itself, from ongoing research that is evolving rapidly. Very little is firmly known about sleep in the world of scientific research and applications of research will change dramatically over the next 5-10 years. Again, consult a doctor about your individual case of you are having health problems, including insomnia, period. Many people can thrive under circumstances that make others suffer. The subjective analysis of the data needs a lot of work. General recommendations regularly contradict frequency domain analyses of readings. Gold standard HRV readings need 24 hours of data. Keep that in mind. An HRV snap shot may or may not be an objectively poor assessment of your general state. The best case scenario is to forgo the app analysis and learn to read numbers and look at the averages over time, which the app now allows you to do beautifully. I’m excited for the future of the app and HRV. It’s nice to have a mostly objective way to measure my stress levels and see how they relate to my perceived energy levels and mood. Again, reading analyses in the app do contradict each other. Best to look at averages and compare the data to how you feel over time to see if any correlations exist. Most of the time you may not find any. And I would be cautious of using the apps correlations without personal reflection. You can really grow with this app and learn about yourself if you try to remain unbiased and embrace the randomness of how your respond to things. Do as many readings as you can over a long period of time to get the most objective assessment of your personal HRV. Compare trends with factors you may not be able to account for in the app. There is much to learn with HRV and the evolution of research is worth keeping tabs on.

Informative and helpful

Starry-Flow

Awesome app to add

Very disappointing

Kostya1

I tried to cancel subscription but I couldn’t because this app doesn’t exist in my subscriptions list When I tried to cancel through they website they send me back to subscription list .I think it just simple spam

My table’s results...

AshleyZM

Um. My table will apparently have a low (14%) energy day. Measured by holding phone in the middle, nowhere near the camera and light 5” from table service. Table’s heart rate is better than mine. 70’s. To be fair, the accuracy rate was only 38%. Nice that is reported. I did have very different ratings when done back to back (with my finger). Speck case, super thin and covered light and camera. Great concept but, nope.

Trial

rr9/30/19

It says 7 day free trial however after 12 hours it has disabled almost every feature. I can’t trust it anymore.

Great App!

Cnwmomto3

Pretty spot on with my health, without me mentioning stress it can tell by my not only my heart rate, but also variability and other factors when I’m under stress, when I’m feeling drained, etc. And offers advice on how to become healthier!

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