70 BPM · Free heart rate app for iPhone
70 BPM: see what caused every heart rate spike
70 BPM lays your Apple Health heart rate over your calendar, so every spike has a name: the standup, the client call, the commute home.
Free to download · Optional Pro in-app purchases · Reads from Apple Health · Stays on your iPhone
Key facts
- Mayo Clinic: a normal adult resting heart rate is 60 to 100 BPM; a rate regularly above 100 at rest is worth discussing with a clinician.
- Apple Watch can notify you if your heart rate stays above a threshold you choose after you have been inactive for at least 10 minutes, so it is not designed to flag every brief spike.
- Speaking, being evaluated and expecting conflict raise heart rate in many people, which is why a seated meeting can read like light exercise.
What counts as a high heart rate during a meeting?
There is no single line. A reading well above your own usual sitting range stands out; for many adults that usual range sits inside 60 to 100 BPM. Your baseline matters more than a rule of thumb, and a brief jump when you start speaking is common.
What can I do about a high heart rate during a meeting?
- Put your feet flat on the floor and drop your shoulders.
- Breathe in through the nose for four seconds and out slowly for six. A longer exhale is the part that calms.
- Take a sip of water and slow your speech.
- Pause before answering; a two-second silence is enough to reset the pace.
How to see it in 70 BPM
- Wear an Apple Watch (or another device that writes heart rate to Apple Health) as normal.
- Put the meeting in your calendar as an event, for example Weekly review, 10:00 to 11:00.
- Open 70 BPM and tap the event to see only the heart-rate readings inside it, next to the rest of your day.
Meetings already in your calendar need no logging at all. After two weeks, rank them by average BPM: the ones at the top are the ones to prepare for, shorten or put a break before.
Why does my heart rate spike in meetings?
The causes are covered in why heart rate spikes in meetings, and the meeting fatigue app guide looks at the cumulative effect across a day.
Which symptoms are not meeting stress?
Chest pain, fainting, severe breathlessness or a heartbeat that feels chaotic need medical help, not breathing exercises.
Not medical advice. 70 BPM shows heart-rate data your watch has already written to Apple Health. It is not a medical device and cannot diagnose or treat anything. In an emergency, call your local emergency number (911 in the US, 112 in the EU, 999 in the UK). If your heart rate is often high at rest, or you have chest pain, dizziness or breathlessness, see a doctor.