I just got this app today but so far I like it. I am a huge stresser. I try not to do it but it's just what I do. I tried this app for the first time today and also monitored my heart beat and pressure with my fitbit and they were consistently the same. We will see how it goes as I continue to use it. So far I would highly recommend this app to anyone.

How is this app supposed to be useful for those trying to manage stress if the notifications received are apart of my STRESS!? - Firstly, this app reads high heart rate as stressful which is complete garbage. If I just came in from a run and the lowest stress I’ve had in weeks but simply due to high heart it tells me I’m stressed. Okay so I started using the app to determine my heart rate instead of stress believing their was correlation between the two. I was wrong but this app tells you otherwise. Okay my second reason is what made me write this review in the first place. Why, why, why would someone build a stress app then send push notifications in a demanding manner? “Time to measure your stress levels!” Really??? Whoever coded this must not truly understand that someone already stressed doesn’t want to see the word “stress” not any “!!!” in their notifications every, single, day.... - especially first thing in the morning after a yoga session. Please fix this + how stress is measured and I’ll change my views because I actually enjoy the layout of this app. The calendar and option to add notes to each scan is beneficial but not so much when the scans are slow + inaccurate.

I have been using this app for a couple of days and I’m a constant stressor and a way for me to cope with my stress and anxiety is to acknowledge that it isn’t all in my head so I thought this app would be great to help me recognize my high stress levels and to see at what points of the day I’m most stressed. The idea behind this app is great but it has one major flaw upon which the whole app is structured. The finger scan. While it’s incredibly intelligent to use the light in one’s fingertip to tell their bpm I think it’s nearly impossible for someone’s bpm to go from 149 to 23 in seconds... even when I’m as still as possible the scanner fluctuates from mid 100s to low 20s-50s or will tell me it can’t scan because my finger moved or isn’t on the scanner yet I’m pushing my finger down so hard that the camera leaves an indent in my finger. Good idea, poor execution.

This just measures heart rate (which does well and is actually kind of cool, using the camera) and does a straight correlation to stress level. In other words, it interprets a high heart rate as high stress and a low heart rate as low stress. But stress isn’t that simple. A high heart rate could just mean you’re out of shape. For example, I have a very low heart rate, and it gave me a stress level of 1/100. This is absolutely ridiculous, as I downloaded the app specifically because I’m a heartbeat away from a meltdown because of the intense stress I’ve been under for a couple months (and I thought the app might quantify it; I like data). This is a useful app if you just want to track heart rate or if you want to track your subjective stress levels (nice record keeping ability for that), but it’s useless for objective stress measurements.