SmartBP® is your heart's essential health partner - A simple blood pressure app capable of tracking BP, heart rate, weight, medications & ECG/EKG (Electrocardiogram).
SmartBP® is a blood pressure app that enables you to log, monitor, evaluate, and share BP reports using iOS devices and Apple Watch. In addition, SmartBP connects with Apple Health. With your health information at your fingertips, you can now take a more active role in your own health. For those with prehypertension or hypertension, SmartBP can assist in monitoring progress, identifying trends, and managing all your blood pressure and heart measurements, ultimately aiming to enhance your overall heart health and blood pressure. SmartBP is a smarter way to manage your blood pressure measurements and track your progress.
Disclaimer:
1) SmartBP allows you to record, track and analyze trends in your blood pressure. You can either manually enter your records or use a blood pressure monitor to sync with SmartBP through Apple Health. SmartBP alone does not measure blood pressure. You need a separate blood pressure monitor to measure blood pressure.
2) SmartBP is NOT a substitute for a doctor or professional healthcare or advice. Any health related information provided is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the advice of healthcare professionals.
3) SmartBP Cloud Sync is not a replacement for backing up your health data. While we strive for the highest data security, no measures can ensure 100% protection. Regular data backups are the user's responsibility.
For information on how to use the app, visit our website
* Video: www.smartbp.app
* FAQ: www.smartbp.app/faq
Features-
- Log your systolic, diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate and weight. Body mass index (BMI), pulse pressure (PP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) is automatically calculated. You can manually enter measurements or seamlessly sync them with a supported Bluetooth BP monitors such as:
* A&D
* Omron
* Beurer
* Transtek
- Quickly add notes (e.g. before dinner) and measurement information (e.g. sitting, left arm) using tags.
- Store and access all your blood pressure measurements anywhere and anytime using Apple HealthKit. Avoid manual data entry and reduce errors by automatically uploading blood pressure measurements to HealthKit by auto-syncing with SmartBP. The following Blood Pressure Monitor Apps can connect to HealthKit (check for compatibility with different models):
* A&D
* Omron
* iHealth
* Withings
- Share your blood pressure information with your doctor, healthcare provider or family using email, text message (SMS), Apple HealthKit. Create blood pressure reports in PDF format with blood pressure data, charts and stats and share with your doctor or healthcare provider.
- View 7, 14, 30 day summary grouped by daily AM/PM averages and tags. Create, share and print summary PDF reports and CSV file.
- Print PDF reports or charts directly
- Analyze your progress through clear graphs and statistics (including mean and variability). Filter data using tags to assess lifestyle changes or medication effectiveness. Compare tagged graphs side by side and observe systolic vs. diastolic blood pressure correlations.
- Track your Heart Rate trends
- Sync ECG records
- Back up your health data and access it on all your mobile devices with SmartBP Cloud. This is an optional service. We do not sell your health data.
- Sync directly between iPhone and iPad through Bluetooth or WiFi without sharing on the cloud.
- Back up blood pressure data by exporting to Dropbox, and Drive, or import from CSV files into the app.
- Protect your data with TouchID, FaceID or Pin keypad protection.
- Set medication reminders & track effectiveness.
- Intuitive color coded data to identify normal, prehypertensive, stage I and II hypertension. These limits can be modified. Categorize your records based on 2017 ACA/AHA, 2023 ESC/ESH or create your own custom categories.
- Create multiple user profiles and manage them from a single app/device.
- US and international height and weight units supported.
This app has a lot to offer. I like how you can add specific tags and notes per reading, scroll through previous readings, see them graphed, etc. The phone is much easier to use and navigate than the watch. On the phone, as soon as you add sys, it automatically moves to dia, then pulse, then weight, and finally tags and other useful information. HOWEVER, on the watch, you have to select each section individually. That’s a tiny screen. There are four individual spaces you must select before you can add data. And it won’t save until you have entered data for each space. If you have big fingers, it’s tedious work. The watch does show similar stats when you scroll through the screen. One way shows you an average and deviation for the sys/dia for the last month. The other way shows your most recent three data entries. It would make more sense if the first entry you saw was your most recent, though. It would make it easier to try to deduce what has personally or environmentally changed between the two readings to better understand their differences. You could always go to the phone to see the information, but it’s not immediately available on the data history. You need to select each entry individually to see tags and determine if you want to read corresponding notes. I really appreciate the ability to use the watch for data entry, but it’s more time consuming than just using my phone. (So I guess I just need to keep better track of my phone.)
Developer Response
Thanks for the detailed review and feedback. We will start looking into ways of further improving the watch app’s user experience. If you are interested in helping us with feedback on our new design, send us an email on support@evolvemedsys.com
Great tagging feature!!
Valasel
It's amazing to me how few BP apps include the ability to track factors that might be contributing to BP problems! The flexibility of the tagging features in this app allows you to tag & track - then graph- whatever you want: stress levels, salty diet, major public events (I noticed my BP spike for days after Las Vegas shooting), specific medications or supplements, caffeine intake, etc. It has helped me learn that for me, salt seems almost irrelevant and stress is about 80% of the problem. I'm now tracking Toprol closely as I think I might be having an uncommon but not unheard of paradoxical reaction, with more Toprol raising my BP.DEVELOPER SUGGESTIONS: ... TAGGING: It would be really helpful if tags could be ordered; if not, it would be helpful if list were at least alphabetized. Also would like to be able to ditch some of the tags provided by app......DEFAULTS: Being able to set defaults for measurement site and measurement location would speed input nicely!......BONUS: The ability to have multiple profiles would be nice. Some of us have non-smartphone-using elderly parents to track!Thanks for a great app!!
Developer Response
Update 8/22/22: Hello there! We have addressed all your requests. Please check it out and let us know what you think!
Basic but does the job
StaMike
I’ve been using this app for a few years. It’s pretty basic but it does the job. Provides data numerically and in chart form which is helpful. My gripes include: 1/ Unattractive, bulky design. 2/ Awkward UI forces order of entry at beginning, so while I may have most of the data for the end of a reading, I can’t enter it until the BP is recorded at the very beginning. 3/ Creating history reports is limited and not intuitive. PDF format is fine but there are few options for saving/sharing destination. I’d like to save directly to Drive but it’s not an option. I have to email it to myself, then save to Drive from there. I get the option to send direct to doctor via email, but my doc communicates via a portal, not email. So it’s a 3-step process to save to my own files, and a 4-step process to share with my doctor. Screen data is displayed in color indicating optimal, normal, grade 1, 2, 3, etc. according to limit values, however, history reports are generated in BW (the SmartBP logo is in color, though), making it impossible to glean anything from a quick glance. But the charts come in handy as a remedy. Date range selection takes some getting used to - you have to adjust the year before month/day or your attempts are rejected w/o explanation. There are other little niggly things, but you’ll have your own after you use it for awhile.All in all, I think it’s the highest rated app for BP tracking - I would have rated 3.5 instead of 4 if I had the option - and I obviously haven’t 86ed it. Like I said, it basically does the trick.
Developer Response
Wow. This is very insightful. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We will make sure we address your concerns. With reference to saving to Drive, you can do it in just 2 steps and you have couple of options in the History screen. 1) Select share icon and email PDF report, here you will get multiple options on sharing your PDF report from messaging, email to Drive 2) The other option is to use the cloud and select Drive from here (easiest but make sure you select your data or else the export option doesn't show).Also, I would very much appreciate it if you can explain what is 2/ as I'm not able to understand the comment about forcing from the top. Could you please send me a message on support@evolvemedsys.com. We should be able to address all your other concerns in the next releases.
Type is super tiny!
Lacemaker 427
I tried it, and then deleted it. The letters and numbers are minuscule and impossible for me to see without a magnifying glass. Looking at that big white screen full of blank space, I wonder why they didn’t use the space more intelligently. I am a senior citizen with new glasses last month, but I can’t comfortably read anything on the screen in this app without magnification or massive eyestrain. If the developers intended to make this app only for younger folks with 20/20 vision, fine,…but don’t write off all of the seniors and people with vision challenges who suffer with blood pressure and/or heart rate issues. I’m going back to my iPad Notes app where I can set the text size to a comfortable level, and simply input the readings on the keyboard. I use symbols to allow my doctor to quickly see where the HR was too low (🤍), the systolic or systolic was too low. or both were too low (🔻🔻). I have different symbols for hypertension, and this method has worked well for me. If you upgrade to a variable typeface, I may try again, as the graphing ability is a convenient feature. Even that was so small and faint , so I struggled to see it. Perhaps the developer should hire a vision challenged programmer to point out the sad inadequacies in this app and help to solve them.
Developer Response
Update Apr 13th: Good news. We have made the fonts bigger. Hope this works for you. Please let us know if you have any questions. You should be able to upgrade to version 8.2.1 anytime now on the App Store. Also, would appreciate a response or acknowledgement on email as requested earlier. Update Apr 11th: We have an update planned this week that will increase the font size and hope you will be satisfied with the outcome. Also, as requested earlier, please email us directly as it is hard to troubleshoot here.Update Apr 3, 2023:Can you send us a screenshot of what specific areas are you having difficulty with and we would be more than happy to fix it for you. Our email - support@evolvemedsys.comAlso, were you able to resolve the issue of limit classification selection based on your previous message? If you are genuinely interested in resolving these issues, please directly email us and we will get them fixed. It’s very hard for us to narrow down your concerns here.The US default limit classification is according the 2017 AHA/ACC guidelines. But the good news is that we also have a custom limit classification that includes a “low” category. You can set this in the “limit classification” within the more section of the app. Make sure to consult your doctor to review the current 2017 ACC/AHA classification before changing to the custom. If you need help finding it or more info on the guidelines, please let us know - support@evolvemedsys.com
SmartBP is ready for iPhone Duo. Unfold it and turn it sideways, and the app uses the whole inner screen with side-by-side layouts. Log a reading on one side while you watch your trends on the other. Your history, insights, Compare A & B results and Lifestyle goals all spread out the same way, so you can see more at a glance. Folded, everything works just as it does on any iPhone.
Siri can now do a lot more in SmartBP. Log your blood pressure without typing: Siri asks for your top number, bottom number and pulse, and you can add a tag or a note. You can also ask for your last reading or your average for the past week or month, add a note to your latest reading, or say "Log My Medications" to mark the doses that are due now as taken.
The Home screen now shows your latest readings right on the Summary card. There's also a new measurement guide that walks you through 7 simple steps for an accurate reading. If you've been signed out, a new card helps you sign back in so your backup and clinic sharing pick up again.
Your streak no longer ends after the 28-day challenge, so you can keep it going week after week. Log on at least 5 days of each 7-day streak to earn a free week, up to 4 free weeks in all.
The heart rate card has a simpler layout. Its chart key now shows the range for each line, and the Min-Max band has a new color that's easier to read.
iPad now works in both landscape and portrait. Dark Mode gets a new dark launch screen and brighter Lifestyle colors. Premium members will see refreshed cards and a crown on their profile, and sync dates now follow your region's date format. New users also won't see full-screen ads during their first 30 app opens.
We've also fixed several issues. Lifestyle goals check off automatically from Apple Health again, the notes and correlation screens no longer flicker, and Compare A & B stats stay up to date after you change filters. This update also includes other stability and performance improvements.
Version 11.7
Subscriptions
SmartBP Premium Annual
Premium ad-free version with many features
$39.99
The developer, Evolve Medical Systems, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
Identifiers
Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Health & Fitness
Contact Info
User Content
Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Information
Seller
Evolve Medical Systems, LLC
Size
444.1 MB
Category
Medical
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
