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Tech Review: Instant Heart Rate App by Azumio

Considering a heart rate monitor to see how fast that big old muscle is really beating? The instant heart rate app by Azumio is a great tool for tracking heart rate throughout your day.

Amber Lee

Written by Amber Lee Last updated on Nov 22, 2021

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Considering a heart rate monitor to see how fast that big old muscle is really beating when you’re working hard? If you’re tracking changes over a long run or activity, we’ve reviewed several heart rate monitor options for you in the past, but if you’d like a quick sampling through your day or workout, you should check out the Instant Heart Rate app from Azumio.

Here are a few pros and cons for this app:

Pro: Fast to Use

This app tracks your heart rate over a period of ten seconds using changes in color in your fingertip, which you place over the camera lens. The app updates you on progress, and gives you the results in an easy-to-understand graphical interface.

Pro: Storage and Sharing Options

The app comes with heart rate timeline tracking, sharing, and a reference chart. Azumio has just released the ability to have a timeline of heart rates for personal tracking. While they did not have this ability before, they did offer the ability to export your results to Facebook, Evernote, and more.

Con: Not So Flashy

There’s a given margin of error with this app, since you have to be sure your finger is covering a camera lens when you might be shaking and sweaty after a workout. Also, if you don’t have a flash on your phone, you have to be in fairly good light for the app to work, since it uses the color changes of your fingertip for measurement.

The app also has a few other advantages. The Instant Heart Rate app is available for both iPhone and Android, and and it’s also free, which is always a welcome feature.

In summary, this is a great tool for when you’d like a one-off heart rate measurement without an expensive unitasker. But be forewarned, since you just put your fingers all over your camera lens, make sure to wipe it off before that sweaty post-workout selfie, or you’ll be disappointed!

The Instant Heart Rate app is available for free at Azumio.com.

Amber Lee

About Amber Lee

As someone originally more comfortable in a server room than a weight room, Amber Lee began as a technical support geek and training and development specialist. She started really enjoying the gym when she found CrossFit in 2007 and joined CrossFit Boston. Never one to do anything halfway, she received her certifications in CrossFit Level I, CrossFit Olympic Lifting, and Crossfit Endurance shortly thereafter.

While still working in technology, Amber continued moving forward with her coaching education, teaching outdoor classes and eventually moving away from CrossFit to pursue more knowledge about kettlebells and primal movement. She received her HKC in 2010. After taking time off to work in fine dining, do some consulting, and work with a trainer, she received her RKC in 2012. In December of 2012 she opened her gym, GiryaScope Kettlebell Training, just outside Boston, Massachusetts.

While Amber is still called upon to consult in the world of software, hardware, and medical devices, for the most part she focuses her time on developing her knowledge of movement. Amber was certified as a Primal Move instructor in March of 2013, and attended the CK-FMS in May of the same year. She considers any training that helps her clients move, feel, and function better to be worth attending. When not studying, she loves to research new software and gadgets designed to make fitness more fun, and help coaches manage their time and businesses more efficiently.

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