Heart Analyzer V10 Release Day 🎉

The big day has arrived, Heart Analyzer V10.0 is now available to download.

This release raises the bar to significant new heights. Heart Analyzer has so many dedicated users who check the app and follow their Heart Rate daily, and often more. For all our users, Premium or not, this update is completely free. The app continues to offer Premium features via one-time purchases with No Subscriptions.

I’ll try to briefly highlight some of the major changes in the app with V10.

First up is the Dashboard

When I launched Version 8 of Heart Analyzer with its then new Dashboard, it was the first time the app offered a customizable summary of a user’s Heart Rate and other Vital Health data for each day. Switching days has always been possible, but required use of buttons or the Dashboard Calendar. Late last year I attended an Apple Design Evangelist Session - an experience I wholeheartedly recommend for any fellow indie app developers. Following that session I came away with advice and inspiration on how to create a new and more intuitive experience for the Dashboard. One that let users switch days easily and offered clearer indication as to which day the user was looking at. This is what I’ve tried to create and whilst I was there, the Dashboard cards have all been refreshed and for app Customization Premium users, the Health types can be filtered and sorted to your preference.

The Insights Section

In an effort to give more relevance to the section, the Heart Home has been renamed to Insights. Here you can view updated metrics and charts on various Vital Health types. Trends let you compare the past 30 days to the preceding 30 days. This gives the user quick, understandable summaries into how their Health data is looking. Beyond that I’ve also updated the Heart Reports to use the new Swift Charts for more visually compelling and accurate displaying of Health data.

Deep Analytics

This section has been updated and packed with new charts and Health types. You can now find Cardio Fitness and Sleep Time averages available to track over the past four years alongside updates to all the other types. The Custom Heart Rate Zones feature has also been updated and now allows you to track this zone on your Dashboard! I hope this will bring new Health discoveries to users.

Charts

With the release of iOS 16, Apple have begun offering app developers a native chart library. This is called Swift Charts. As I mentioned in my last blog, these charts really are groundbreaking for the app. If you’re running iOS 16 and WatchOS 9, you’ll find these new charts throughout the app. With line, bar, area & range charts implemented across the app, visualizing your data has never been easier. For Blood Oxygen Saturation, Heart Rate Variability and Respiratory Rate Heart Analyzer now offers updated range charts. These charts continue to indicate average values for the day, but the vertical bars now represent 10th & 90th percentiles of the data. Markers still also indicate the day’s maximum and minimum values. These percentile bars offer better comparisons between day to day changes by ensuring spikes in the data have less effect on the overall picture.

Watch app

There’s something fun about having amazing capability in the Heart Analyzer app right on your wrist. The Apple Watch is such a powerful computer which we carry round with us. It seemed logical to take advantage of that and offer the user more features to monitor their Health on the go even when they’ve left their iPhone behind. The addition of Swift Charts adds real value here, in the Watch app all charts can now be tapped to reveal additional detail. With these charts, a new app layout and new metrics, the Heart Analyzer Apple Watch app takes another big step forward.

Complications and AFib History

All the Heart Analyzer Watch Face Complications that display charts have been refreshed - courtesy of Swift Charts. This looks particularly good with the Recent Heart Rate and Today/Yesterday Heart Rate complications. One Complication is completely brand new for V10, this is the new Recent HRV chart which works perfectly in conjunction with the new Apple Health AFib History feature. The chart shows your recent 12 hours of HRV data which can have a wide variety of use cases from monitoring readiness, indicating stress or even helping Apple Health AFib History users assess periods when their heart might be running in AFib.

I’d like to take this moment to give a huge thank you to all the Heart Analyzer beta testers. Updates like this wouldn’t be possible without users volunteering to take the time to download and try out new app releases. Providing feedback is hugely valuable to the entire development process and it’s what makes this update so fantastic.

I hope you enjoy this update, please remember to share it and leave a review on the App Store if you get chance.