# Polar Beat: Running & Fitness

> Workout tracking app

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id555252645](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id555252645)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id555252645`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Polar Electro
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (40,780 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.5.12
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-12
- **First published:** 2012-10-15
- **Size:** 125 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/polar-beat-running-fitness/id555252645)
- **Website:** [http://www.polar.com/beat](http://www.polar.com/beat)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.polar.com/en/legal/privacy-notice](https://www.polar.com/en/legal/privacy-notice)

## Description

Polar Beat turns your phone into a GPS-powered fitness tracker. This free app supports 100+ sport profiles, keeps a detailed training log, maps routes with GPS, and provides real-time voice guidance while you train. Sign in to plan, train, analyze, and share every achievement with friends.

PLAN, TRAIN, ANALYZE, SHARE — all in one place. Premium features unlock with a Polar heart rate sensor, including live heart rate, calories, and advanced insights like the Polar Fitness Test, Running Index, EnergyPointer, and Benefit Target. It integrates with Apple Health and Apple Watch, and you can share workouts on Facebook, Twitter, and more.

## Rankings

- #7,435 — Overall
- #58 — watch

## Review summary

Polar Beat on iOS is praised for real-time data and Apple Health integration when it pairs, but suffers from persistent H10 pairing failures, unreliable HR readings, and Bluetooth instability. Many reviews cite long or failed pairings, crashes, and incomplete workout data. UI gaps (no lock-screen widgets, limited zone customization) and concerns about monetization and slow support also recur. A few users report good value and accuracy when it works, but reliability and support remain major issues.

### Pros

- Real-time workout data and Apple Health integration when the sensor connects
- Easy setup and Apple Health linkage praised by some users
- Noted high HR accuracy when connected for training data
- Good value for money according to several reviews

### Cons

- Unreliable pairing and frequent disconnects with the H10 heart rate monitor
- Inaccurate or missing heart rate readings and distances (HR disappearing)
- Frequent Bluetooth/sync issues, long pairing times and unpairs/crashes
- UI/feature gaps: lack of live lock-screen metrics, no zone customization, and overall complexity
- Privacy/monetization concerns and slow customer support

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id555252645)