# Heart Rate Monitor (open-source fitness and health app)

> Heart Rate Monitor is a free, open-source fitness and health app for Android. Monitor heart rate via BLE devices with real-time display, history, and alerts. It has 218 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license, and you can install it from F-Droid.

A lightweight heart rate monitoring app for Android, built with Jetpack Compose and Material 3. Connect to BLE heart rate monitors and track your heart rate in real time. Features: - Bluetooth LE heart rate monitoring: scan and connect to any BLE heart rate device - Real-time heart rate display with animated heart icon - Floating window overlay for always-on heart rate display - Status bar heart rate indicator with auto color adaptation - Heart rate history with chart analysis (powered by Vico) - Heart rate alerts with posture detection (sitting/standing/exercising) - HTTP server and WebSocket server for real-time data streaming - Webhook support for pushing heart rate data to external…

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/XiaochangXu/HeartRateMonitor-composeui |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Jetpack Compose |
| GitHub stars | 218 |
| License | MIT (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.heartratemonitor_compose/ (package com.github.heartratemonitor_compose) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | not linked |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | none listed |
| Official | no |
| Category | Fitness & health |
| Latest release | v4.9.5 (Sep 5, 2026) |
| Last commit | Sep 28, 2026 |

F-Droid builds its apps from source and flags anti-features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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