MAF Fitness HR+ App Reviews

by Edge_G

If you want quality wireless earbuds, buy quality wireless earbuds.
If you want a HR monitor, get a quality HR monitor.
These are decent wireless earbuds, but the HR monitor does NOT work, no matter the sizing.
The coaching whistle is EXCRUCIATING, I have nerve damage so that’s not useful. Controls are opaque & fussy, non intuitive. Training program is: Slow & steady wins the race, eat keto.
Too runner-centric, though they are working on that.They have a walking program, but I’m just done with it.
Buds have too much wind noise on a bike outside.
Not worth it, to me, as a mostly outdoor varied exerciser, not a runner At All.
Running nuts & techies might find it useful, I am neither.

by Newbiehombre

Love the concept. Unfortunately MAFFitnessHRApp is not as good as the concept. Froze on me today. Tried numerous times to reboot no luck. Very slow on top of that. Can’t enter correct info, sub par support. Trying to work with it but no luck. Will return.

by ZaraG

I purchased the MAF headphones after listening to multiple interviews by Phil Maffetone, admiring his research and approach to nutrition & fitness. I figured, “if this guy is the pioneer, his product must be the best”. I was wrong. Mainly because the technology of MAFFitnessHRApp is not adequate. MAFFitnessHRApp is essential to the functionality of the earphones and simply would not work. I emailed customer support (whom was helpful), and over a three week period they asked me to troubleshoot various issues that MAFFitnessHRApp was having. It was immensely frustrating and not what I would expect from elite athletic technology. I ended up returning the headphones. The idea is probably good, but not yet ready for mass marketing. Phil Maffetone seems like an amazing guy, but unfortunately his HR headphones aren’t. (at least not yet...)
Check out MAFFitnessHRApp first and save your money until these reviews change!

by GrannyNancy

Have the earbuds, trying to register in MAFFitnessHRApp and keep getting ‘Response Status Code was unacceptable. 500. Couldn’t find anything on this. Pretty unhelpful error message.

by Well-Being Coach

App opens then immediately shuts down.

by Native Carl

It doesn’t pair with the Garmin Forerunner 735XT at all! It did pair with my iPhone 12, but It didn’t play my music from my playlist! Highly disappointed in this product as I’m a firm believer in the MAF method. Phil you need to disassociate yourself from bioconnect as they are giving your name a bad reputation with inferior products!

by Jh_murphy

After linking with my phone, No sound comes out of the earbuds. HR measures wildly inconsistent over the same workout done on consecutive days - is my heartbeat 203? 85? MAFFitnessHRApp told me both within seconds of each other.

Great idea but a useless product.

by Suzanne49855

I agree, the initial set up to use MAFFitnessHRApp is horrible. I’m hoping customer service can help. It should not be so difficult!

by SMS112233

Set up profile, however, the data that was input was not stored correctly. I.e. I said my height was 5’ 7” and it stored 2’ 5”

by RecceGuru

Will not store height data. When trying to correct weight data, app crashes.

by JayCool412

App does not even hold your height etc. used the ear buds because Phil M. endorsement however that was a mistake they are buggy. MAFFitnessHRApp and the ear buds are not a market ready product and should not be sold. If the company failed then just take the loss don’t dump flawed product on customers.

by Walkabout666

MAFFitnessHRApp simply does not work. Sometimes I log in, other times it won’t take my password. When I do get in it just won’t work. It will not see my new heart rate monitor and it just hangs till I delete MAFFitnessHRApp ..

I’m guessing Maffetone is using high school interns to save money. I’m going back to the Polar app.

by Miws Nimrag

Now that MAFFitnessHRApp has been updated it is working very well for me thus far. Very satisfied with MAFFitnessHRApp . I like the audio information feed.

by Bebe Right

Update - I continue to have problems with the heart rate monitor actually monitoring my heart rate. Today it was saying I had a heart rate of 58 when I was puffing up a hill. I am not THAT fit...and no heart rate alarm?

Update - I’m getting it to work now but only after holding the on switch a very long time to get it to connect. The lights go through red then blue/white and then blue/red and it has to get to the last set of colors before it will connect. Now the heart rate monitor occasionally freezes and I have to take the ear plugs out and put them back in to get it to start up again. Also, I had read about the MAF method as not letting your heart rate too high but there doesn’t seem to be a heart rate alarm...?

It’s a great idea and it seems to monitor my heart rate but all of the audio goes out the iPhone speaker and not the earphones. I guess I wasted my money...

by Talkqwerty778

I’ve been using the MAF HR+ headphones/app for three weeks now, and have not run into the issues that come up in the other reviews. MAFFitnessHRApp is solidly OK - not super pretty, but definitely functional. I’ve had a few issues with heart rate not be captured correctly (first time - showing a ridiculously high heart rate from the start; both other times - stuck at 72). Both were solved by wiping out my ears and/or wiping off the earbud. The updating process is the only thing that bugs me - MAFFitnessHRApp doesn’t warn you that a firmware update is happening, so you might turn off your headphones during a run and later find out you interrupted an update. And you would only know that if you are specifically looking at the tech info.

So MAFFitnessHRApp is fine. The value of having my heart rate called out in my ears vastly outweighs the slight clunkiness of MAFFitnessHRApp (and, who cares if it’s pretty? I just want it to work, which it does).

by Kwoodnyc

I originally gave this a one star review as MAFFitnessHRApp was buggy and nearly useless. I’m happy to say that MAFFitnessHRApp is working and doing everything I want it to do. Thanks for fixing this.

by Jhenry1123

Works as advertised. Heart rate spot on with my Garmin watch. Music plays and sounds good. Voice updates working perfect.

by Ocean City Dave

I am very pleased with everything about MAFFitnessHRApp . The appearance, functionality, and ease of of set-up.

The headphones were pretty easy to fit and seem to be of decent quality. To be honest, I’m not sure why these aren’t more popular. I was skeptical when I didn’t see a bunch of positive reviews. From what I’ve gathered listening to a bunch of testimonials about MAF, it seems to be the way to go, and it seems like it would be imperative to get these as soon as you start.

by Newguy412

App does not even hold your height etc. used the ear buds because Phil M. endorsement however that was a mistake they are buggy. MAFFitnessHRApp and the ear buds are not a market ready product and should not be sold. If the company failed then just take the loss don’t dump flawed product on customers.