Love it!! 😊
The accurately and the sensivity to every change in my heart rate is massively better than the MyZone monitor I was using. It does not recognize I have location enabled. Also asks me to upgrade over and over and fails every time.
it forces one to use its HR software
Pretty good. A few niggles but otherwise pretty reliable.
I like the idea of training based on my heart-rate. I purchased a Polar Sense HR sensor for this reason, and the HR part of the "package" works fine. Unfortunatelly, all of this is pretty useless because the app has awful GPS precision. On a 2km run, in average it misses around 200-500 meters (10-25% of the total distance) This issue is present regardless of configurations and settings. I don't recommend the hardware either, as is not compatible with any other app Googe Fit is precise btw
1. You can use other HRM apps. I strongly like BikeComputer Pro -- for running or biking and it works with Polar HRMs. 2. Beat does not allow you to delete sessions. 3. Beat, besides HRM monitoring– which you can get with other apps, is a Polar products advertising app. 4. Beat allows swimming to be recorded on your Polar HRM. 5. Beat does *not* allow pairing with two HRMs. So if you have two chest HRMs, you must delete one to pair with the next HRM.
The app stopped syncing with Polar Flow, which I have connected to Strava so my runs would never show up on Strava for some reason. Who wants to do something manually when it has been working before hand? I can't keep doing it manually. Sometimes when I switch the activity after it reads my pulse, it stops taking readings. I have to then close out the app and start over again. Why?
Has some weirdisms. Every now and then my training notes disappear. It would be nice if the 3 or 4 exercises I use most could be put in a favourites list at the top. Recently I broke my phone. Polar Beat was automatically reinstalled. Great, except some of my excerises weren't listed. Manually uninstalled app then reinstalled it and am now back to where I started.
Like the heart rate coaching part. It helps to come back to fitness after long layoff
Great app, but if out of cell phone coverage has trouble maintaining Bluetooth connection