TachyMon 4+
Custom Heart Rate Alerts
Whip Development Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Get rapid alerts for significant heart rate changes due to POTS, tachycardia, exercise or other activities.
Features:
- Haptic alerts based on custom threshold levels.
- Customizable upper and lower threshold levels for current heart rate and difference from recent average.
- The main display shows: current heart rate, moving average of recent heart rate, and delta of current heart rate to average.
- Display colours change to show severity of alert.
- The app tracks alert events with start time of event, event duration, starting average heart rate, and maximum or minimum heart rate during event.
- Triple tap to temporarily silence alerts.
- Review detailed monitoring data on the companion iPhone app.
Premium features:
- View detailed heart rate chart for each event
- Share event info directly from watch, or export from iPhone to Photos app
- Run monitoring sessions directly on your iPhone, without an Apple Watch, by connecting a Bluetooth heart rate sensor
- Generate a shareable PDF report for each session
- Add notes and symptoms to Alert Events
- Export Alert Event raw heart rate data to .csv
- View live session data on the iPhone companion app
- View a summary of Alert Events over last week / month / year
TachyMon was created by the developer for his niece Alex, who was diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) in the fall of 2021. POTS seems to be an increasingly common diagnosis, especially for young women. People with POTS often experience fatigue, brain fog, rapid heart rate increases and other symptoms. Alex was experiencing frequent fainting (syncope) and we noticed the fainting occurred when her heart rate increased rapidly, or when her heart rate reached a certain absolute threshold (150 BPM in her case). Alex finds that the TachyMon alerts help her to sit or crouch down when her heart rate is elevated, and this helps her to avoid fainting, and to feel a bit more in control of her POTS.
It is a simple, but specialized app, and we hope it may help others with POTS, or people in other situations when it may be useful to monitor heart rate changes.
APPLE HEALTH
TachyMon integrates with the Apple Health app. TachyMon stores workout information (including heart rate) with the Apple Health app.
WARNING: It is important to consult with medical professionals if you are concerned about your health. The TachyMon app is intended for informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for specialized medical care.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s New
Version 1.2.7
New summary heart rate chart.
Fixes for problems loading and scrolling sessions.
Ratings and Reviews
Brilliant
After finding out that we had a family history of POTS, I downloaded this app to see if I had some of the signs. Using using Tachymon readings I was able to figure out that what I have always thought to be low blood pressure is most likely POTS. I was able to adjust the alarm thresholds so they are triggered for more severe changes, which was really useful. I find it most helpful for alerting me to implement strategies when flare ups are confirmed, and to take ECG readings from my watch during flare ups so that I have them for my doctor to look over to rule out any other contributing factors as we go about the diagnostic process. Overall a really great app and the first of its kind, so kudos to the developer for creating it to fill the need of others with POTS.
Disappointed - features removed
I loved this app but then all the features were removed and put behind a subscription paywall. This is what we call the disability tax.
The creators claims to have made this for a sick daughter/niece so you would think that they would understand that how slimy it is to take advantage of the chronic illness & disability community.
Developer Response ,
All the features were not removed: monitoring and haptics alerts remain free - specifically so users could access these critical features without a subscription. Review of sessions in the companion app also remains free. If you are having trouble accessing these free features please email info@whipdev.com for support.
Great idea but won’t work
I would really like to use it and think it’s a great idea but I’ve tried everything and it just keeps saying I need to allow the health app permissions. But I have them all on and tried to delete and reinstall it to see if it would do something but it still says it cannot activate..
Developer Response ,
Please contact info@whipdev.com for support.
App Privacy
The developer, Whip Development Inc., 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Whip Development Inc.
- Size
- 23.6 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 8.5 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright ©2021-2024 Whip Development Inc
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- TachyMon Premium Monthly $3.99
- TachyMon Premium Annual $24.99