Camera Heart Rate Variability at App Store analyse

App power index: 285 (based on ranks around App Stores today)
Lifestyle Health & Fitness
Developer: A.S.M.A. B.V.
Price: 0 free
Current version: 5.0.7, last update: 6 months ago
First release : 12 Jan 2014
App size: 23.62 Mb
4.6 ( 9536 ratings )
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Camera Heart Rate Variability is the first app that lets you record, plot and export time and frequency domain Heart Rate Variability Features - without requiring any heart rate monitor.

Camera HRV uses a technique called photoplethysmography (PPG for short), which consists in detecting changes in blood volume during a cardiac cycle, by illuminating the skin and measuring changes in light absorption. PPG has become quite a popular non-invasive method for extracting physiological measurements such as heart rate and oxygen saturation. However, most applications today focus simply on heart rate or respiration rate.

Supported devices for the camera measurement: iPhones 5, 5S, 6, 6S, 6+, 6S+, SE, 7, 7+, 8, 8+, X, XS, XS Max, XR, 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max, 12 mini, 12, 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max, 13 mini, 13, 13 Pro, 13 Pro Max

Camera HRV can assess cardiac autonomic regulation through quantification of sinus rhythm variability. Since HRV aims at quantifying autonomic regulations, it can be used as marker of sympathetic or parasympathetic predominance, and therefore become relevant in many applications. In athletes for example heavy training is responsible for shifting the cardiac autonomic balance toward a predominance of the sympathetic over the parasympathetic drive, and HRV analysis attempts to quantify this shift.

Other applications span from stress monitoring, assessment of pathological conditions and even emotional regulation during financial decision-making.

Main Features:
- extracts, plots, stores and exports heart rate, rr-intervals, time and frequency domain heart rate variability features (AVNN, SDNN, rMSSD, pNN50, LF, HF, LF/HF)
- configurable time window for feature extraction (30 seconds to 5 minutes)
- automatic RR-interval correction
- event annotation
- comparison between up to 3 recordings lets you get a better understanding of autonomic regulation and sympathetic/parasympathetic activity under different contexts in a glance
- data export/storage on iTunes and Dropbox (csv format, exports heart rates, rr intervals, events and computed features). Data export needs to be performed from the history -> recording view, by clicking on the export button (bottom left).
- integration with the Health app (writes Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability)

Find out more at this link: http://www.marcoaltini.com/2/post/2014/01/heart-rate-variability-using-the-phones-camera.html
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1 heart rate variability 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2 camera heart rate variability 1 ⭐️⭐️
3 heart rate variability logger 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4 Camera-M USA 13 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Available in countries
Country Price
Canada 9.99 CAD
China 48 CNY
France 7.99 EUR
Germany 7.99 EUR
Italy 7.99 EUR
Netherlands 7.99 EUR
Portugal 7.99 EUR
Spain 7.99 EUR
Poland 6.99 EUR
UK 6.99 GBP
India 699 INR
Japan 1000 JPY
Korea, Republic Of 9900 KRW
Poland 39.99 PLN
Russia 599 RUB
Turkey 229.99 TRY
USA 6.99 USD
Korea, Republic Of 7.69 USD
Ukraine 7.99 USD
Available for devices
iPhone4, iPad2Wifi, iPad23G, iPhone4S, iPadThirdGen, iPadThirdGen4G, iPhone5, iPodTouchFifthGen, iPadFourthGen, iPadFourthGen4G, iPadMini, iPadMini4G, iPhone5c, iPhone5s, iPadAir, iPadAirCellular, iPadMiniRetina, iPadMiniRetinaCellular, iPhone6, iPhone6Plus, iPadAir2, iPadAir2Cellular, iPadMini3, iPadMini3Cellular, iPodTouchSixthGen, iPhone6s, iPhone6sPlus, iPadMini4, iPadMini4Cellular, iPadPro, iPadProCellular, iPadPro97, iPadPro97Cellular, iPhoneSE, iPhone7, iPhone7Plus, iPad611, iPad612, iPad71, iPad72, iPad73, iPad74, iPhone8, iPhone8Plus, iPhoneX, iPad75, iPad76, iPhoneXS, iPhoneXSMax, iPhoneXR, iPad812, iPad834, iPad856, iPad878, iPadMini5, iPadMini5Cellular, iPadAir3, iPadAir3Cellular, iPodTouchSeventhGen, iPhone11, iPhone11Pro, iPadSeventhGen, iPadSeventhGenCellular, iPhone11ProMax, iPhoneSESecondGen, iPadProSecondGen, iPadProSecondGenCellular, iPadProFourthGen, iPadProFourthGenCellular,

Latest version Camera Heart Rate Variability: 5.0.7

minor improvements

Apps Changes History:
  • 6 months ago: New App Version 5.0.6 ☛ 5.0.7
Cryptic Interface for Nerds

The Interface ist pretty, yet designed for scientists, with an additional diploma to be able to run this App. I could not make use of this App and am trying out "breathcoherence+". May be, thatll work...

Dont buy this app, doesnt work AT ALL!

I was interested in measuring my HRV to track my recovery and this app was not expensive, and didnt require any equipment. It doesnt work at all! It displays double whatever my heart rate is at the time, and doesnt want to record most of the time. When it does record, there is nothing in the other tabs; most importantly, it doesnt calculate my HRV which is why I bought it in the first place. I tried so many times, an even kept my finger on the camera for 2 minutes. Anyway, hopefully I have prevented anyone else from buying the app.

Inaccurate

Im very sorry to say this app is very inaccurate and inconsistent. I work with a team physiologist in my training and weve been testing this for ease of use compared to chest strap and watch monitoring but its not accurate and not worth the money. If I was consistent then it would still work but one test gave me a measurement of 102 and seconds later the test gave me a 51, ridiculous. So disappointed

Impressive app

I am a cardiologist exploring new ways to use smartphone as a diagnostic tool. This app is one of the best example of “iPhone as diagnostic tool” I have found. The design of this software is more sophisticated than other heart rate devices in the app store. The smoothing algorithm with cubic spline method is ingenious. The programmer validated his HRV measurement with validated clinical instrument and this enhanced the trustworthiness of his method. One small piece of advice: Bland-Altman plot and paired t-test should be used to compare the camera HRV with the clinical gold standard measurement. Overall, I am really impressed by its sophistication. I wish you good luck in your future project.

Logging not working

Logging to Dropbox does not work for me. Bummed.

Training Aid for a Winning Performance

Great app to manage your HRV without a HR monitor so you can execute an endurance sport training program without overtraining. I used this app for the last 3 months of my prep for the 2014 Boston marathon. I am a 56 year old female who wanted to run under 4 hours. Injuries due to over training kept my performances in my last 5 marathons between 4:01 & 4:06. Using HRV to assess the state of my nervous system (relaxed or stressed) I could better manage the level of exertion as well as rest in my daily training sessions. Result: 3:46:02 Boston Marathon which ranked me 56 of 768 in my division. A winning performance for this weekend athlete.

Total complete utter garbage

Looked really promising and maybe it is but I wouldnt know since it is absolutely not useable. App has never once gotten even a single reading because it crashes every single time you begin the process. Fix this thing asap or refund my $4. Update.. Looks like they deleted my bad review upon the new release however it STILL doesnt work. Crashes instantly every time. The app itself looks great but how would anyone know if they cant work out the bugs and get it to function??

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