# Cardiograph Classic

> Your Personal Heart Rate Meter

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id441079429](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id441079429)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id441079429`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** MacroPinch Ltd.
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (3,458 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.9.12
- **Last updated:** 2019-10-14
- **First published:** 2011-08-03
- **Size:** 18 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cardiograph-classic/id441079429)
- **Website:** [http://macropinch.com/cardiograph\_classic](http://macropinch.com/cardiograph_classic)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://macropinch.com/privacypolicy.html](http://macropinch.com/privacypolicy.html)

## Description

Cardiograph Classic measures your heart rate using your device's camera and saves each measurement to a personal history. It supports multiple profiles, lets you add quick notes and locations, and can export or print complete results for sharing or safekeeping.

With a clean, medical-inspired design, Cardiograph Classic also offers built-in help and iCloud sync so your profiles and measurements stay up to date across iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

## Rankings

- #31,075 — Overall

## Review summary

Cardiograph Classic is praised for easy use and for providing a pulse history that some users share with doctors. Many report readings are reasonably accurate for casual tracking, and it’s helpful for monitoring irregular rhythms and heart-rate trends. However, multiple reviews cite reliability and accuracy problems: readings can be off or zero at times, the app can stop working or fail to launch after updates, and it isn’t a medical-grade tool (not an EKG) with mixed physician acceptance. Some users also dislike the fake waveform. Overall, good for basic tracking, limited clinical utility.

### Pros

- Easy to use with quick pulse readings
- Helpful for tracking irregular rhythms and heart-rate trends over time
- Readings are reasonably accurate for casual monitoring and can be shared with doctors
- Generally positive user sentiment and appreciation when it works
- Good for building a history of readings to discuss with clinicians

### Cons

- Inaccurate readings: users report the app overestimates heart rate or is not close to medical devices
- Unreliable performance: works for a while then stops, and recent updates fail to launch
- Not a medical-grade tool: not an EKG and has mixed acceptance by doctors
- Waveform animation is misleading or not representative of actual blood flow
- Poor handling of irregular rhythms (Afib) with reads often failing or showing zero

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id441079429)