StressScan - check your stress Reviews

by Bobcat46

I use several apps to measure my heart beat. StressScan used to be reliable but lately the readings jump up and down so i have stopped using it

by Polymath-in-training

Worked fine the first 3 times I used it. There’s this annoying thing they do each time, though. They pop up another suggested app before they show you your results. I just cancel that. But the 4th time, it brought up Instagram. I can’t cancel out of that. Each time I try to use this app, I get Instagram instead. So I deleted it. I deleted Instagram, too.

by Tspack27

This just measures heart rate (which does well and is actually kind of cool, using the camera) and does a straight correlation to stress level. In other words, it interprets a high heart rate as high stress and a low heart rate as low stress. But stress isn’t that simple. A high heart rate could just mean you’re out of shape. For example, I have a very low heart rate, and it gave me a stress level of 1/100. This is absolutely ridiculous, as I downloaded StressScan specifically because I’m a heartbeat away from a meltdown because of the intense stress I’ve been under for a couple months (and I thought StressScan might quantify it; I like data).

This is a useful app if you just want to track heart rate or if you want to track your subjective stress levels (nice record keeping ability for that), but it’s useless for objective stress measurements.

by Wyygfikgvgij

I have been using StressScan for a couple of days and I’m a constant stressor and a way for me to cope with my stress and anxiety is to acknowledge that it isn’t all in my head so I thought StressScan would be great to help me recognize my high stress levels and to see at what points of the day I’m most stressed. The idea behind StressScan is great but it has one major flaw upon which the whole app is structured. The finger scan. While it’s incredibly intelligent to use the light in one’s fingertip to tell their bpm I think it’s nearly impossible for someone’s bpm to go from 149 to 23 in seconds... even when I’m as still as possible the scanner fluctuates from mid 100s to low 20s-50s or will tell me it can’t scan because my finger moved or isn’t on the scanner yet I’m pushing my finger down so hard that the camera leaves an indent in my finger. Good idea, poor execution.

by Durango1718

I took my “stress level” the moment I woke up and it said I had a high stress level of 72. Moments later, literally 3 minutes later, after coming out of the bathroom brushing my teeth and sitting on my bed, I took my “stress level” again. It now tells me my stress level is low at 43. How could it change so drastically within 3 minutes? Yesterday I took it literally a minute and a half apart. It went from 50 to 66. You’re not going to tell me this thing is accurate in accounting for stress. Heartbeat? Sure. But totally not stress.

by Unicornvolleyball

StressScan was already giving me stress just by trying to log in. No matter how I tried to sign in, it would say error or just take me to a whole new page. I was so stressed by then I just gave up

by Tenisgurly

It’s so obnoxious when I’m trying to be consistent in tracking my levels and StressScan decides to jump from 137 down to 0 and back again. I can’t get any accurate data on those days.

by InkVIRGIN

How is StressScan supposed to be useful for those trying to manage stress if the notifications received are apart of my STRESS!? - Firstly, StressScan reads high heart rate as stressful which is complete garbage. If I just came in from a run and the lowest stress I’ve had in weeks but simply due to high heart it tells me I’m stressed. Okay so I started using StressScan to determine my heart rate instead of stress believing their was correlation between the two. I was wrong but StressScan tells you otherwise. Okay my second reason is what made me write this review in the first place. Why, why, why would someone build a stress app then send push notifications in a demanding manner? “Time to measure your stress levels!” Really??? Whoever coded this must not truly understand that someone already stressed doesn’t want to see the word “stress” not any “!!!” in their notifications every, single, day.... - especially first thing in the morning after a yoga session. Please fix this + how stress is measured and I’ll change my views because I actually enjoy the layout of StressScan. The calendar and option to add notes to each scan is beneficial but not so much when the scans are slow + inaccurate.

by KJPod

The iPhone 11 series has been out for more than six months and I can’t find any official word on which lens I’m supposed to use for the test. Pity because it’s kind of a neat app but if it’s not going to be supported with updated instructions I’m thinking I should start looking elsewhere.

by CaseysLMT

Great app! Hate to see you discontinue it after IOS 9. 😕

by Vgojdebg

Some reviewers complained that it measures HR as an indicator for stress. This is incorrect. It also measures heart rate variability, which it uses to create a 0-100 stress score. I compared sitting quietly and breathing slowly to sitting thinking about stressful things and the measures seemed to reflect that accurately. So far, I like it.

by Weatherdude9

Use it everyday! And it easy and fast, the ads aren’t good bad but it would be nice to have a Ad Free one I be willing to pay a little for that. also should come up with an Apple Watch app so it can use the Apple Watch Heart Rate measurements as well

by PLGM

I've used other free stress check apps this is my favorite so far. It's accurate easy and ads aren't too intrusive. It also checks my heart beat accurately so I don't have to use another app for that. Ricommend.

by Boarderchik05

Appears to be accurate. I wish there was an app to use on my Apple Watch. It would make taking a reading so much easier!

by Gali Genesis

i like to use this when i study and after/ before my quizzes and tests! this is so accurate! i HIGHLY recommend

by Evidentlyk

This is such a great app! It’s incredibly accurate too. My beginning score was the max stress level at 100 with a resting heart rate of 111 laying down. My goal is to find ways to deal with and lower my stress level and track it effectively on StressScan every morning and night.

by 😭 Anxious

Well, why does StressScan need camera?

by MasterReviewZ

I want to thank y’all so much because I had major anxiety and I wanted to see how stressed I was I usually get high heart rate when I get stressed, I was 98 on the stress chart which goes up to 100 this seems accurate do to how badly I feel and am if you just worked out use the work tag and such instead of complaining how it’s bad for not being accurate it’s indeed not stress but heart rate the notifications can even be turned off

by Rainbow Dash53

It really knows how stressed you are, so you try to lower your stress! Great app!

by LeahLee881906

Very accurate.

by Hannahvh

StressScan has a beautiful design and is fun to use, but does not record stress well. It only records heart BPM (which I naturally have lower). I tested this on some of my most stressful moments (finding out I lost money, etc) and this indicated I was in a “very low stress” state and showed me a smiling cloud - which just adds more annoyance.

by Dizzletubehd1o1

It is so good I so recamend StressScan to y’all
But now i no that I am a very stressed woman