Cardio Alarm: background voice alarm for bluetooth sensors app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Ignasi Artigas Cucurella
First release : 19 Apr 2014
App size: 1.13 Mb
This app warns you with audio (even in background) when your heart rate goes beyond the limits you set.
NOTICE Apple Watch users: you will still require a bluetooth sensor and background monitoring is not supported by apple on apple watch.
NOTICE: if you use this app at the same time with other fitness apps that use bluetooth, it is recommended to start cardio alarm app FIRST. This will avoid problems with bluetooth device discovery. It is known that some apps keep searching for bluetooth devices all the time, preventing other apps like this one from detecting bluetooth devices.
It will warn you with auditive voice warning even if being in background and/or listening to music. Perfect for working out outdoors!
This app needs a bluetooth 4.0 low energy (BLE) or bluetooth smart heart rate sensor in order to work. Some of the known working sensors are:
- Polar H6
- Polar H7
- Wahoo tickr
- Beets BLU
- Oregon Scientific BLE Fabric Chest Belt
- Runtastic heart rate combo monitor
- Mio Link
- Mio Alpha
- Geonaute BLE
- Sigma HRM
Such sensors are only compatible iPhone 4S or newer, which have bluetooth 4.0.
Disclaimer: do not use this app for medical or critical life purposes.
Latest reviews of Cardio Alarm: background voice alarm for bluetooth sensors app for iPhone and iPad
I had to close all other apps and turn Bluetooth off then on again, then it connected. Works as advertised.
Not working, no Connection,
Followed instructions and it didnt work. Cant find sensor.
Ive been looking for an app just like this which warns you when you are outside your target heart rate zone. Most heart rate apps have predefined zones but this app lets you create your own custom zone, which is great. The major problem for me was that while the iPhone app could finds my Bluetooth heart rate sensor fine, the Apple watch app couldnt find it all. This needs to be fixed urgently. A great enhancement would be if the app could give either an audio warning OR a haptic tap to the apple watch which is more discreet when Im running outside. Ill give it a modest rating now but will upgrade to 4 star if the problem is solved and 5 star if the enhancement is made.
Cannot find the sensor. My other sports apps do. Save your money.