The HeartMath App

Steady your nervous system — anywhere.

The app is where your Inner Balance Coherence Plus sensor comes to life. Clip on the sensor, watch your heart rhythm in realtime, and follow short guided sessions that help you shift out of stress and back into balance — a calm you can actually see.

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Sensor + App

Built to work with your sensor.

The app reads the rhythm of your heartbeat — your heart rate variability, or HRV — and turns it into a live picture of how your body is handling stress. The Inner Balance Coherence Plus sensor is what makes that reading precise.

Precision
Research-grade HRV, from your ear.

Clip the sensor to your ear and the app shows your heart rhythm beat by beat, with the accuracy the HeartMath method was studied on. You see the shift as it happens — not a score after the fact. See the sensor →

Included
Lifetime app access, no annual fee.

Your sensor unlocks a free lifetime subscription to the app — the full session and course library, coherence training, and progress tracking, with nothing further to pay.

What's inside

Everything you need to practice.

Live feedback while you practice, and the tools to build the skill over time.

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Real-time feedback

 Watch your heart rhythm and coherence change moment to moment as you breathe and settle — so you can feel what balance actually feels like. 

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Coherence training & games

Choose a straight coherence session, or play the Constellations game — revealing a constellation as your rhythm steadies. A few minutes a day is enough.

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A library that keeps going

Eight guided techniques, six multi-day programs,seven courses, 22 heart-based living practices, and two full audiobooks — all expert-led.

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See your progress

Track your sessions, minutes, and coherence asthey add up, with trends for stress, energy, andmood over time — and a four-stage journey,Ease to Grow, that shows how far your practice has come.

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Camera measurement too

Left your sensor at home? The app can also read your pulse through your phone's camera — handy as a backup, though the sensor is what gives you precision.

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Apple Health sync

The app syncs your Mindful Minutes and heartrate to Apple Health, so your practice lives alongside the rest of your wellbeing data.

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Inside the App

Hours of coherence training.

The app is much more than a coherence measurement. Expert-led techniques, programs, courses,
and audiobooks help you build the skill — and keep building it, long after the first session.

Guided Techniques
  • Heart-Focused Breathing™
  • Heart Lock-In®
  • Compassionate Latitude
  • Inner-Ease™
  • Quick Coherence®
  • Attitude Breathing™
  • Cut-Thru®
  • Manifestation Meditation
Multi-Day 
  • 7 Days to Greater Coherence
  • 5 Days to Less Stress
  • 5 Days to Adding Heart to Meditation and Mindfulness
  • 7 Steps to Greater Brain Fitness
  • 4 Days to Better Sleep
  • 5 Days to Enhancing Meditation and Mindfulness
Courses
  • The HeartMath Experience — 9 modules
  • What Do You Do When — 4 videos
  • Understanding Coherence Series
  • Science of HeartMath — 7 videos
  • Transforming Stress — 2 parts
  • Ask the Scientist — 7- video
  • Add Heart Facilitator — 5 modules
Heart-Based Living Practices
12 Tools
  • Attitude: Shifting Our Perspective
  • Ease: Creating More Balance & Flow
  • Stillness: Managing Our Energy
  • Science of HeartMath — 7 videos
  • Transforming Stress — 2 parts
  • Ask the Scientist — 7- video
  • Add Heart Facilitator — 5 modules
10 Practices
  • Attitude: Shifting Our Perspective
  • Ease: Creating More Balance & Flow
  • Stillness: Managing Our Energy
  • Science of HeartMath — 7 videos
  • Transforming Stress — 2 parts
  • Ask the Scientist — 7- video
  • Add Heart Facilitator — 5 modules
Full-Length Audiobooks
  • Heart Intelligence — 14 chapters
  • The HeartMath Solution — 13 chapters
Why It Helps

What a steadier rhythm does for you.

When your heart rhythm is smooth and steady — a state called coherence — your nervous system settles out of fight-or-flight. Practice it regularly and the benefits show up in how you feel and function.

Calmer under stress

Regulate your stress response and take the edge off anxiety in the moment. 

Sharper focus & decision

A coherent state is linked to clearer thinking, focus, and better decision-making. 

More resilience

Build the capacity to bounce back from pressure instead of staying wound up. 

Steadier emotions

More effective emotional self-management and lower day-to-day reactivity.  

Better physical wellbeing

Ease the wear of chronic stress on the body over time. 

A sense of balance

Many people describe more inner calm and a greater sense of being in control. 

Getting Started

The sensor and the app, together.

Buy the Inner Balance Coherence Plus once and the HeartMath App is yours for life — no annual subscription, nothing further to pay.

Sensor + App
$249 one-time

The Inner Balance Coherence Plus sensor with a free lifetime subscription to the HeartMath App — a $79/year saving, every year.

  • Inner Balance Coherence Plus ear sensor
  • Free lifetime app subscription — no annual fee
  • Research-grade HRV accuracy and real-time feedback
  • The full library — techniques, programs, courses, audiobooks
  • Free US shipping · HSA/FSA eligible · 60-day money-back guarantee
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Want to try the app first? Your first five practice sessions are free, and Getting Started plus the HeartMath Experience and Science of HeartMath video series are always free. Pricing may change; the app isn't available in all countries. The HeartMath App is for stress education and resilience training — it is not a medical device.

The Science Behind It

Built on decades of heart-brain research.

The HeartMath method draws on research from the HeartMath Institute — an independent nonprofit that has pioneered heart-rate-variability and heart-brain research since 1991. HeartMath translates those peer-reviewed findings into the practical tools inside the app.

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Research Since

35+

Years of Study

80+

Peer-Reviewed Studies
Start Today

 Your calm is a few minutes away.

 Download the HeartMath App and start practicing free — your first five sessions are on us.