HeartBreath HRV 4+
Time for slow breathing
Erwin Gabler
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- € 9,99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
More than resting heart rate! 6-8 breaths to determine heart rate AND the variability of heartbeats (measure of stress, biological age) - hard facts right from the iPhone
Did you know that your heart beats faster during inhalation and slower during exhalation AND did you know that this is good for you?
The technical term is RSA (respiratory sinus arrhythmia) - a good arrhythmia controlled by your autonomic nervous system.
High variability of the heart rate stands for a good autonomic balance and activity of the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and relaxation nerve).
HeartBreath is a biofeedback tool, that addresses exactly this relationship between breathing and heart rate.
The app guides you through a simple slow-breathing exercise (with pictures and sounds), while detecting and displaying the intervals between your heartbeats. You can measure, train and evaluate your personal status. No additional hardware devices are needed. HeartBreath is able to detect heartbeats by positioning your finger on the lens of the phone’s camera.
KEY FEATURES:
Integrated VaYou Sound Flows, which provide an exceptional sound experience on acoustic pacing.
High quality and customizable control of the bio-feedback exercise with pictures (you can work with pictures from your photo library) and sounds.
Live display of the current heart rate and variability values while recording.
In just a few breaths, HeartBreath is able to compute your resting heart rate.
No additional hardware is needed. The calculation works with a finger on the lens of the iPhone’s (or iPod’s) camera (for iPad only device models with flash). Optionally, an external heart rate monitor can be used. For compatible devices (Polar H10) display/recording/evaluation of true ECG data is supported. As a special extra, the app allows the comparison of data between the finger on the camera and the heart rate monitor.
Unlike many other HRV apps, HeartBreath offers a precise visualization for every single heartbeat and, if necessary, tools for interactive correction of the beats. This is very important for the high reliability of HRV parameters, since single ectopic heartbeats or data artifacts can result in strange adulteration of HRV values.
Integrated tools to determine your optimal breathing speed. Various studies show that each person has an individual optimal RSA breathing rate in the range between 4 and 7 breaths per minute.
Trend evaluations over longer periods of time.
HeartBreath integrates with the Apple Health app.
Privacy is important to us! The app does not require registration and you have full control over the data of your sessions, which is only stored on your phone.
What’s New
Version 3.3.6
Thanks for using HeartBreath!
This version contains performance improvements and bug fixes.
For any issues, please contact: info@heartbreath.app.
Ratings and Reviews
Wonderful app
I tried several apps in this space and this is by far the best. It shows all the data I'm interested in, and is very flexible. Well worth the money. It's also great that you don't need to create an account and that no data is shared.
Two things that could be improved : in the main results windows and the trend overview the value for "variability" is based on a computation in the frequency domain, instead of a more standard value like rmssd. You can still get the rmssd, but it requires some tapping every time. It would be nice if this were configurable. Also, to get some specific features that are shown in the screenshot and mentioned in the description you need to pay another 10 euros. That should have been made clear.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your motivating feedback and great suggestions. RMSSD is somewhat prone to artifacts. This is the main reason why we choose "variability" (based on LF power) as key parameter.
Helping me too resonate, flow and stay in a coherent state off being
An amazing app
Developer Response ,
Hi, thank you for this great review!
App Privacy
The developer, Erwin Gabler, 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
- Provider
- Erwin Gabler has not identified itself as a trader for this app. If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area, consumer rights do not apply to agreements between you and the provider.
- Size
- 207.1 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2019-2023 Erwin Gabler
- Price
- € 9,99
- In-App Purchases
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- ECG Pro Features € 9,99
- Burma Bliss VaYou Sound € 4,99
- Wind & Waves VaYou Sound € 3,99
- Eternity VaYou Sound € 3,99