Inner Balance™

HeartMath Inc.

About this app

Inner Balance™ gets your heart, mind, and emotions in sync to improve health, well-being and performance.
It is now available for popular Android devices.

HEARTMATH® SENSOR REQUIRED: This is the companion app to the Inner Balance sensor. This app requires any of the HeartMath Inner Balance sensors such as Bluetooth® or the Inner Balance USB-C sensor which connects to your phone and clips to your earlobe to measure your heart rhythms.

Don’t have an Inner Balance sensor? You can purchase a sensor at https://store.heartmath.com/innerbalance.

Inner Balance is based on years of scientific research and designed to teach you how to shift your emotional state in the moment – so you feel better and think more clearly.

Learn to synchronize your heart, mind, and body to reset your composure and inner clarity, calm reactive emotions, and neutralize stress. This practice creates an inner state called coherence. Over 400 independent, peer-reviewed studies have been published on HeartMath technologies and methodologies that demonstrate the benefits of coherence including feeling calmer, more centered and focused, with access to more intuitive discernment to make better decisions. Inner Balance provides you with an accurate, real-time coherence score. Guided meditations and dynamic graphics coach you toward improved results.

LEARN HOW TO:
• Restore emotional balance in the moment
• Synchronize your heart, mind, and body to reset your composure and inner clarity, calm reactive emotions, and neutralize stress
• Feel calmer, more centered and focused
• Access more intuitive discernment to make better decisions

Using Inner Balance just three times a day for three to five minutes has been shown to make a meaningful difference in your overall well-being. Inner Balance guides you, and measures your progress, as you shift your emotional state and watch the changes occur in real time.

FEATURES:
• HRV Coherence Feedback - Real-time score guides your practice and helps you increase coherence
• Guided Meditations - Reduce stress, upgrade your meditation practice, sleep better and more
• Real-Time Coaching Tips - Encouraging onscreen prompts
• Advanced Options - Four challenge levels, customizable settings and screens
• Access to a free cloud platform where you can save and review all your sessions and benefit from tips and training


BENEFITS:
• Neutralize stressful reactions that erode health and composure
• Reduce fatigue and exhaustion
• Improve mental focus under pressure
• Quickly shift from reactive states to calm and balanced states
• Learn to quiet the mind and still restless thoughts
• Build resilience and faster recovery from stress
• Improve coordination and reaction times in sports
• Enhance your meditation practice

HOW TO CONNECT YOUR INNER BALANCE APP TO THE SENSOR
Inner Balance Bluetooth Sensor:
1. Attach the ear clip to your earlobe and press the soft button on the sensor pod to activate a blue flashing light.
2. Open the Inner Balance app and press the “Start” arrow to make the app start scanning for the sensor.
3. Once you see your sensor ID number displayed and verify that it matches the number on the back side of the sensor pod, tap it to accept and wait 15-20 seconds for the device to calibrate and begin the first session.

Inner Balance USB-C Sensor:
1. Attach the ear clip to your earlobe and plug the USB-C sensor into your Android device. Accept the prompt to open the Inner Balance app.
2. Once the app is open, press the “Start” arrow and begin your first session.

Ratings and reviews

Constly crashes. Why is this even running in the system at all if I'm not using it? Also every time I run it a directory called 'baidu' appears in the root of the the file system. Some online messages say this is a Trojan. I really expected higher quality from Heart Math Instatute. Makes everything else suspect. Also Bluetooth is temperamental when I have no problem with be any other device. Uninstalled...

I find the app to have some flaws and inconsistencies. If I follow the instructions with my breathing and focus, I'll often dip into the red. Yet if I'm distracted, ruminating, or thinking about something anxiety-inducing, it stays consistently green. Seems random. I wish there was a pause option and an option to adjust settings mid-session. There seems to be an issue with the rewards feature. Overall, I'm not sure I'm feeling any positive changes.

I've been using inner balance for nearly a year now and I find it extremely inconsistent. For instance, if I'm following the breath meter to a T, then why on Earth would it dip into red from a series of green, high coherence? If I'm focused on the breath, why would it suggest I'm not breathing correctly? I am starting to find I have a better practice without the app to be honest and feel less self-conscious about what I'm doing. My breath can't be incorrect when it's deep and consistent.

What’s new

Bug fixes and maintenance.