ECG Monitor, Handheld ECG Heart Rate Monitors for Smart Phone, Wireless Heart Rhythm Tracking Without ECG Electrodes Required, Home Use SnapECG Portable EKG Devices for iPhone & Android

Positive in any regard. It is quite affordable, small, lightweight and very easy to use. Important feature, there is no costly annoying subscription needed, cloud storage is totally free, only requires registration. It does work very well and totally flawless with Apple iOS devices. You just have to download the SnapECG app, install the app and you are ready to go. Switch on Bluetooth, start the app, hold the SnapECG device with two fingers or your thumb on the contacts and the result will be a 30 second ECG. You can generate a good looking pdf which you can send, using the app, to yourself or to your doctors or other health professionals. Regarding the accuracy of the SnapECG device and app, I can say that it was displaying all my know heart issues. For privacy reasons I don't want to go into details but I can state, that this little device is very reliable and I'm very happy with it's reliability. In my opinion this device is a must and if your doctors are talking you to one of your ECG, you will learn when to contact your health professionals for verification.

I have owned this for over year now. The device its self is fine. The associated software though is a disappointment. Does not update in background, often fails to connect to server, consequently fails to record. When you are already in an abnormal arrhythmia condition trying to get it to work is not what you need. Needs longer runtime setting, ideally a 30min setting. A previous phone I owned also would flag it up as containing a virus. Does not do though on my Samsung A71. Such a device needs to work reliably. May look at the Kardia, but the companies are virtually next door neighbours, so not sure if the same software issues will exist.

The device arrived nicely packaged with instructions, spare battery and small pouch. Sourcing the SnapECG App (in Appstore) and installation was straight forward. After studying the instruction manual carefully, I unfortunately struggled to connect the device to my iPad Pro after starting the App. My error was in trying to link up the device in the “Settings” menu of my iPad together with my other bluetooth devices. I failed to do this repeatedly. What seems to be fairly unique about this device is that it only connects (with bluetooth) when measurements are required and immediately disconnects after. The single channel ECG trace is good but with quite a bit of artefact and shows all components of a single channel ECG, suitable for a doctor to interpret. As a medic I was easily able to identify normal rhythm, extra beats (ectopics) and normal morphology of the wave form (complexes). The trace can be easily saved as jpeg/pdf or shared directly with your doctor. Very neat.

Electronically this appears to work perfectly. It IS easy to connect (it doesn't need pairing), the app was easy to find (I used QR code) and install on my Samsung phone. Taking a reading is simple and reliable, I've used 2 thumbs or 4 fingers and both read fine. You press "record" on your phone app (close by) and touch the pads to activate the device, it takes a second or two to connect to the app and then there is a 5 second countdown and a 30 second reading time. It does keep history and there are some basic settings you can adjust like how long to take a reading for. However, the interpretation is far from idiot proof, presumably because they can't give medical diagnoses. The link in the app to a technical article in wikipedia isn't massively helpful. Most of my readings are described as "may be an abnormal rhythm". I was checking for atrial fibrillation which I occasionally get so I was concerned. I wondered if it simply wasn't reading accurately but I checked with others in the family and they do get different readings that make sense so I decided it WAS working. In the end I realised the device considers ANY reading under 60 bpm or over 100 bpm as "may be abnormal" deserving an amber notice and under 50 bpm gets a red notice. But since I have bradycardia (which is merely a low resting heart rate - c55 is common and under 50 sometimes) that's not helpful and not insightful into atrial fib etc. That said, there are further readings showing trend and rhythm lower down so if you realise this, you CAN see information that appears to provide meaningful insight if you know how to interpret it. I'm not medically trained so I'm going to have a word with my doctor to make sure I've got the right end of the stick, but I think I have.

Excellent little device that is simple to use. My wife suffers from paroxysmal AF and I have recently been experiencing some odd Arrhythmias. This SnapECG recorded my arrhythmia which A&E doctor found helpful and as a result am having a 24 hour monitor provided by local hospital cardiology next week. In summary excellent device for showing a cardiac abnormality, but it won’t provide a diagnosis of the problem, but it’s a good starting point for a doctor to have confirmation that there is a problem that requires further investigation. I have noticed that some doctors that are used to looking at a 12 lead ecg trace don’t seem to pay attention to the information recorded by the snap ecg they just say ‘ that’s not what I am used to seeing’ , but some doctors do look at the detail. For instance when wife knew that she had episode of AFib, it recorded a wild range of heart rate and abnormal arrhythmia during the trace, and when you know there is no problem the trace on snap ecg is normal so am confident in its accuracy to identify a abnormality.