Polar Beat: Running & Fitness Software
Company Name: Polar Electro
About: Polar Electro researches, develops, manufactures, and sells heart rate monitoring products, activity
trackers, and training computers.
Headquarters: Kempele, Oulu, Finland.
Polar Beat Overview
What is Polar Beat? Polar Beat is a free fitness, running, and workout app that turns your phone into a fitness tracker. It offers real-time voice guidance, GPS tracking, and the ability to share your achievements with friends. The app allows you to plan, train, analyze, and share all in one place. It also offers premium features that can be unlocked with a Polar heart rate sensor.
Features
- Sign in to unlock 100+ sport profiles
- Maintain a comprehensive training log using different sport profiles
- Map your route with GPS
- Get voice guidance while you train
- See your personal bests
- Set training targets and reach your goals
- Track distance, pace, and route
- Connect to Apple Health
- Share your training on Facebook and Twitter
- Connect with Apple Watch
- Premium features include live heart rate monitoring, calorie tracking, workout analysis, fitness testing, and more.
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Product Details and Description of
Turn your phone into a fitness tracker with Polar Beat, the ultimate free fitness, running, and workout app. Train with real-time voice guidance, use GPS to track your route and distance, and share your achievements with your friends. PLAN, TRAIN, ANALYZE, SHARE. All in one place. FEATURES » Sign in to unlock 100+ sport profiles » Maintain a comprehensive training log using the different sport profiles » Map your route with GPS » Get voice guidance while you train » See your personal bests » Set training targets and reach your goals » Track distance, pace, and route » Connect to Apple Health » Share your training on Facebook and Twitter » Connect with Apple Watch PREMIUM FEATURES Unlock the full Polar Beat experience with a Polar heart rate sensor. [+] See your live heart rate with a Polar heart rate sensor and train at the right intensity for maximum results [+] See how many calories you burned [+] See what you achieved with each workout: improved endurance, increased strength, or burned fat [+] Understand the impact of your workout at different intensity levels [+] Polar Fitness Test – Measure your fitness level while you lie down and relax [+] Polar Running Index – See how your running performance is developing [+] Polar EnergyPointer – See the main effect of your workout in real time - whether you’re burning fat or improving fitness [+] Polar Benefit Target – Set specific training targets - like boosting recovery or improving endurance, and get guidance to achieve it DOWNLOAD Polar Beat now and turn your phone into a personal trainer. FOLLOW Polar Fitness at https://www.instagram.com/polarglobalfitness FOLLOW Polar at http://instagram.com/polarglobal LIKE Polar at http://facebook.com/polarglobal FOLLOW Polar at http://twitter.com/polarglobal SUBSCRIBE at https://www.youtube.com/polar READ all things Polar at https://www.polar.com/blog Note: Continuous use of GPS can dramatically decrease your phone’s battery life.
Top Reviews
By Sammy California
UPDATE on Pairing issues with Polar H10 sensor
I took a few minutes before working out to explore the app. I discovered in the app Settings go to pairing then make sure you have “2 receiving BLE devices”selected. Once I adjusted this setting I have had no issues pairing with the app and my watch. 5 star app for sure. I recently purchased the newest Bluetooth heart rate sensor from Polar the H10. The sensor easily pairs to my iPhone 11 iOS 13.3.1. The sensor also pairs nicely with the +10 year old treadmill and elliptical trainers at my local gym (Vince’s). Remarkably my +15 year old heart rate monitor watch even receives the signal from the new sensor. Pairing the sensor to the Beat App is an issue. I’ve updated the app to the newest version. I usually have to close the app and unpair the sensor multiple times before the sensor pairs with the app. I would love to give this 5 stars if the bug can be fixed.
By easyrider51
Aging gracefully, old guy
I have been using the Polar chest and watch heart rate monitors for the past 12 years for cycling and exercising. There was a period of 3 years when work and travel interrupted my daily/weekly routine and I could feel myself falling into poor health. I bought the H10 chest strap and kick started my regimen again. Polar has provided me with the information I need to stay healthy and evaluate my progress. I have reviewed my spreadsheet data and compared it to my previous data and can see where the lack of exercise has affected my health. It doesn’t have to be high tech in the training room, just high tech enough for me to see where I’ve been and get me to where I want to be. Thanks Polar for keeping it simple !!
By chackbay
Pretty Good App
The app is easy to use. The display is well laid out. I especially like that the app keeps the iPhone awake which is great for treadmills and other indoor workouts, and you can lock the iPhone manually which is good when in a pocket while lifting weights or jogging outside. There are a lot of sport profiles to help organize your workouts. Inexplicably though while there are profiles for obscure activities like squash, floorball, and Finnish baseball (kudos on that), there are no specific profiles for very common gym activities like elliptical and stair climber. It would be nice to be able to name custom profiles. My old Polar/hr watch allowed you to set an upper/lower limit and you’d get alarms for going out of range. I’d like to see something similar in the app. Say I want to exercise in the 145 to 155 bpm range I’d like to be able to set that range and then the app voice coach would tell me to speed up or slow down (that could kick in after a warm up period getting up to range). That functionality would be especially useful when doing certain activities like boxing (heavy bag punching) where you are wearing gloves and the phone is not immediately nearby. Overall the app is good and provides use info and feedback to effectively train.
