[PHOTOS] You Can Now Use Your Android Phones To Check Your Heart Rate. Here’s How

You know why they call them smartphones? Because they are actually smart! One of the interesting functions of your android phone that you may not know about is: you can use it to measure your heart rate.

The Samsung Glazy S5 which was released in 2014 had an inbuilt heart rate sensor but you don’t need your android device coming with a built-in sensor to carry out the heart rate check.

All you need is an android phone with LED flash and a rear-facing camera, couple this with a smart app to interpret information and you are good to go.

Below are some applications you can use for the exercise:

Instant Heart Rate

You will get a tutorial on how to use the app when you first launch it. Here is how it works:

Place your finger over the LED flash on the back of your phone, while simultaneously making sure that your fingertip entirely covers the adjacent camera sensor.

From there, just press the “Measure” button, then give the app about 15 seconds to do its thing. When it’s done, you’ll get your heart rate measurement, and from here, you can append notes to this measurement or share it to another service.

Runtastic Heart Rate

The second app is pretty much the same as the first but on the downside, you can only get to measure your heart rate three times a day except you are a paid member of Runtastic’s subscription service.

Cardiograph

Unlike the other two apps, it is not a fitness service app but functions the same of holding your fingertip over your camera sensor in a way that it’s also covering the LED flash at the same time. When you get your measurement, you can associate activities, and the app will keep a running history of your past heart rate data.

You can get any of these apps from your Google Play Store but do keep in mind that your smartphone is not a medical device so you shouldn’t rely on it to make life or death decisions but they sure contribute to your fitness regimen.

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