Serious cyclists know recovery is where fitness is actually built. Pulse Rate gives you daily HRV and resting HR monitoring using just your iPhone — no hardware required.
Cyclists already trust power meters for output — but power tells you what you did, not what it cost you. Pulse Rate adds the recovery side of the equation: a morning HRV and resting-heart-rate read that explains why some high-power days feel easy and others flatten you. All from your iPhone, no extra head unit.
One 60-second reading. Pulse compares it to your 30-day baseline and tells you: go hard, go easy, or take the day.
Two-way sync writes Pulse readings into Apple Health and pulls your workouts back. No silos.
Power tells you what you produced; HRV tells you what it cost. Reading the two together is what explains why some high-power days feel easy and others flatten you.
Power measures external output; HRV measures internal cost. Reading your morning HRV next to yesterday’s training load shows whether a big power day was absorbed or is digging a fatigue hole.
Yes. Pulse tallies your weekly TRIMP load and charts it against recovery, giving you a fatigue picture that complements your on-bike power numbers.
Not for the resting and recovery readings. Pulse measures HRV and resting heart rate from the iPhone camera, so your daily check needs no strap; a strap is still handy for live in-ride heart rate.
Pulse writes HRV and resting heart rate into Apple Health, so they sit with the workouts and metrics your other cycling apps already share there.
At a matched perceived effort, cycling heart rate typically runs 5–10 bpm below running because you support less of your body weight and use a smaller active muscle mass. This is exactly why cyclists should set their heart-rate zones from a cycling test rather than reusing running zones — and why logging camera readings right after rides, when you can hold still, gives a cleaner recovery signal than mid-ride.
Pulse is free. Forever. No wearable, no card, no catch.