HeartPeace2.9

HeartPeace helps you to meditate by providing real-time feedback about your inner peace.

The feedback is provided by measuring your cardiac coherence using heart rate variability analysis algorithms that determine your parasympathetic vs sympathetic nervous system activation. Therefore, a heart rate monitor is required.

You can use the back camera as a heart rate monitor but it's recommended to use a BLE heart rate monitor because they are more accurate, allow more freedom of movement, work while the screen is turned off and consume less battery. More info about compatible monitors in settings.

The feedback is given by displaying an animation that resembles your inner state. The more inner peace, the bigger, slower, and blueish the animation will be.

Feedback is also presented using sounds so headphones are recommended, if you have low inner peace you will hear a crowd sound but if your inner peace is high you will hear monks meditating and deep sounds.

To better focus on breathing is advised to sit down, use headphones, and close your eyes to minimize distractions.

The app has option to integrate with the Health app by storing sessions as mindfulness sessions.

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You can select in preferences the back camera to measure heart rate from your finger. Place your finger gently over the back camera and flash and try not to move it much.

Although the camera heart rate monitor works fine it's recommended to use a BLE heart rate monitor because it's more accurate, allows more freedom of movement, consumes less battery, and works while the screen is turned off.

Only heart rate monitors that accurately measure R-R intervals and have Bluetooth 4.0 (BLE) are supported.

Here are a few that have been proven to work well:
. Polar H7, H9 or H10
. CooSpo H6
. Wahoo TICKR
. 4iiii Viiiiva
. Zephyr HxM
. Cardiosport TP3
. Suunto Smart Belt
. R1 Blue Sigma Sport

Not compatible devices:
. Apple Watch
. Wahoo TICKR FIT Heart Rate Armband
. Wahoo BLUEHR
. Polar OH1 Armband
. Vernier Go Wireless Heart Rate
. MyZone MZ-3
. UnderArmour UA Heart Rate
. LifeBEAM hats
. Decathlon GEONAUTE
. TomTom BLE HRM
. Mio ALPHA
. Scosche RHYTHM+
. Fitbit Charge HR
. Lezyne HRM
. Most cheap chest AliExpress straps
. Knock off brand monitors

Version History Fix reminder view issues 2.9 03/20/2021 Fix connection bluetooth issues 2.8 02/16/2021 Performance improvements 2.7 01/26/2021 Fix iOS 14 issues 2.6 11/12/2020 Add HealthKit Integration 2.5 10/06/2020 Fix not stopping background session 2.4 08/25/2020 Export sessions in CSV format 2.3 08/10/2020 Updated description of supported Bluetooth heart rate monitors 2.2 07/31/2020 New sounds
Bug fixes 2.1 07/14/2020 Added HRV help text
Improved UI for iPhone SE 1st generation
Bug fixes 2.0.2 07/07/2020 Minor bug fixes 2.0.1 07/01/2020 Background session audio for BLE heart rate monitors
Session history persisted to CloudKit
Session details with relevant metrics and timeline charts
Set reminders to build a healthy habit 2.0 06/28/2020 Navigation improvements 1.7 04/14/2020 Performance improvements to PPG monitor 1.6 03/30/2020 Improved heart rate camera detection 1.5 03/16/2020 Added possibility to read heart rate from the device camera and finger 1.4 03/05/2020 Bug fixes 1.3 02/28/2020 Added multiple sound presets 1.2 01/26/2020 Added a new charts screen.
General fixes and improvements. 1.1 01/18/2020 1.0 11/15/2019