What’s My Heart Rate
Description: If you want to learn more about this app, or if you are wondering why face photo gives you reading, please visit http://www.whatsmyheartrate.com/about.html#photos.
Measure your heart rate by just looking at your screen. Easy and convenient without needed to finger press on your camera lens.
Your heartbeat causes micro color changes on your face. Our software uses camera and advanced software algorithm to detect these micro changes, with beat-to-beat accuracy. The algorithm is built based on reliable non-contact photoplethysmography concept (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoplethysmograph ).
You may even help your lovely sleeping baby, or your grandparents to measure their heart rate by switching to back camera. This breakthrough technology allows you to measure your heart rate in an easy and unobtrusive way.
This app works best, if the device is being hold still in a bright environment.
Cost: Free
Developer: ViTrox Technologies
What’s My Heart Rate amazingly works. I compared What’s My Heart Rate with a running heart rate monitor connected around my chest. What’s My Heart Rate was accurate to within 2 – 3 beats per minute. To get an accurate reading, make you are using it in a well lit environment and hold the camera in front of your face as steady as possible. It may take a while to start reading your heart rate.
What’s My Heart Rate should be mainly used as a novelty. There are other heart rate monitor apps that provide more functions, like the Instant Heart Rate app. What’s My Heart Rate measure allows you to share your heart rate measurement via email or other social networking site. Though there’s no way to save your heart rate measurements.
Though What’s My Heart Rate may not be the easiest to use or have the most functions of the heart rate monitor apps available to Android, it’s pretty cool to be able to measure your heart rate using a picture of your face.
