Pauser POTS Heart Rate Monitor
Stress & Dysautonomia Tracker
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Alerts both ways, a sit-to-stand heart rate test, trigger tags and a PDF report for your specialist. Built for POTS, dysautonomia and Long COVID. Needs Apple Watch.
Your Apple Watch sees the spike. Pauser helps you find the cause and take a pause at the right time.
Pauser is a heart rate monitor and symptom tracker built for life with POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), dysautonomia and orthostatic intolerance, Long COVID and ME/CFS, and stays simple on fatigue and brain fog days. Start the morning with a Standing Check. Get a nudge on wrist when heart rate climbs or drops, see what was happening around it, then settle with a guided pause and watch your heart rate respond on a live graph. Bring a detailed PDF report to your next appointment.
Built for POTS, dysautonomia, Long COVID and ME/CFS
• Standing Check: a guided sit-to-stand heart rate test right on your Apple Watch. See the BPM rise when you stand, whether the rise holds, and how today compares with your week.
• Pacing: set a personal heart rate ceiling in Activity Monitor, get wrist alerts as you approach it, to pace your day and stay inside your energy envelope.
• Alerts both ways: set high and low limits (drops and tachycardia spikes).
• Symptom tracker: one tap to log salt, water, blood pressure, glucose, medicines (with reminders), moods and POTS/dysautonomia symptoms like dizziness, lightheadedness, heart palpitations, fatigue and brain fog.
• Flare-up and trigger tracker: tag flares, crashes and triggers in seconds: heat, long standing, poor sleep, skipped meals, stress, menstrual cycle, missed medication, or create your own tags.
• Your heart health between appointments: a Sit-Standing Test Report and a full PDF report of your heart rate trends, HRV, alerts, triggers, symptoms, activity sessions and pauses with heart rate response, ready for your cardiologist, neurologist or POTS specialist.
Find the cause
Each alert gathers what came before it: sleep, steps, workouts, vitals, salt, water, medicines, calendar meetings and the places you name. Compare alerts with any of these and discover triggers/causes of your POTS or dysautonomia flares, from a hot shower to a stressful meeting. End an alert with a guided breathing pause and see the recovery in a real-time graph
Activity Monitor
Heart rate tracker for any activity: a shower, cooking, a meeting, a walk, a workout or a recumbent bike session. See your start, peak, low and end BPM and how fast your pulse settles. Forgot to start one? Log it afterwards.
Take a pause
Guided breathing and meditation with live heart rate graphs. See how your heart rate responds in every session, and over weeks, which pause technique helps you settle fastest. Start with a 30-second Quick Calm on your wrist, customize inhale, hold and exhale durations, or build a Prana Flow: your own sequence of conscious breathing techniques. Every session works seated.
Stress relief, anxiety and heart health
If your body reacts before your mind catches up, Pauser helps you notice the moment, name what was happening around it and pause.
See when stress or anxiety spikes your heart rate, what came before it, and your heart rate + HRV trends. Awareness first. Calm you can see.
What needs the watch
Background heart rate monitoring, wrist alerts, the Standing Check, Activity Monitor and live heart rate during pauses need an Apple Watch paired to your iPhone. Without a watch, you can still log, use guided breathing and create reports. Pauser also reads sleep, steps, workouts, HRV, blood pressure, oxygen and glucose from Apple Health.
Your data, your control
Your data is encrypted in transit and never sold. You can delete your account anytime.
Built on our founder's 20+ years of meditation and breathing practice: a conscious pause at the right moment changes what happens next.
Pauser is a wellbeing app, not a medical device, and does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition. Ask a healthcare professional for medical advice.
Support: support@pauser.health
By using this app, you agree to Apple’s Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & Reviews
Alert tagging with symptoms
Added customized tagstress, Dysautonomia, POTS Symptom tracking
Enhanced Sit-stand test insights
UI improvement for salt-water tracking
Bug fixes
The developer, Pauser 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Location
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Pauser Inc
- Size
- 128.9 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.5 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 8.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
18+
- 18+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Pauser (monthly) $4.99
- Pauser (yearly) $29.99
- Copyright
- © Pauser Inc. 2023
