Heart rate in your AirPods
live BPM · zones · alerts
AirPods Pro 3 have a heart-rate sensor. Apple ties it to a workout you didn't take, then writes phantom calories into your Activity rings. Earbeats reads the same sensor without finishing a workout — no fake calories, no taps, no watch. Just BPM, the moment the buds touch your ears.
To see BPM on AirPods Pro 3, Apple makes you start a Workout. Sit at your desk for an hour and Health will tell you that you burned 84 active calories. You didn't. The rings are wrong. The data is wrong.
Earbeats wakes the same sensor without ever finishing a workout. No HKWorkout is written. No phantom calories land in Health. Your rings stay honest.
Tracking begins the moment your AirPods Pro 3 connect — no "start workout" prompt, no menu dive. A single bud is enough; whichever side has skin contact does the work.
Readiness, heart-rate variability, and resting heart rate — built up passively from the seconds your AirPods spend in your ears. The longer you wear them, the sharper your baseline gets.
Day, week, month, year. Tap any session for its chart, zone split, and tag. Tag a session and the right audio profile shows up next time — an office check-in isn't a tempo run.
Use the standard 50/60/70/85% splits, or switch to Karvonen Reserve to factor in your real resting HR. Drag any threshold by hand. Each zone gets its own voice cadence.
Set each zone's cadence independently. Get a quiet voice in your ear when you cross the line — or a chime when you hit your peak — without ever pulling out your phone.
Tracking never stops just because you took a call or hit Do Not Disturb. The spoken cues do — because they should.
Heart-rate capture keeps running for the whole call. Spoken cues mute the second CallKit reports an active call — and unmute the moment you hang up.
In a meeting Focus, Sleep Focus, Driving Focus — cues fall silent. Toggle Smart Silence on and Earbeats requests the permission for you (no Settings detour).
Earbeats mixes with other audio — your podcast, your album, your video call — so nothing pauses or ducks. The session records right through whatever is already playing.
Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, Home Screen widgets, Shortcuts, Siri. First-party Apple frameworks only — no third-party SDKs, no Bluetooth black boxes.
Live BPM, a one-minute sparkline, and Pause / Resume / Stop — right on your Lock Screen. The app can stay closed for the whole session.
Three layouts — Stats, Minimal, Graph. Pick one in Settings; tap the island for a long-press preview with the same controls.
Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large on Home Screen (iPad too). Circular, Rectangular, Inline on the Lock Screen. Seven families total.
"Hey Siri, what's my heart rate?" · "What's my readiness?" · Start / Stop tracking. Wire any of it into a Shortcut, automation, or Apple Watch complication.
Whitelist or blacklist places. Block the office. Only allow the gym. Map-pin the spots and Earbeats respects them every time you connect.
Got a borrowed pair, a guest pair, the office demo unit? Earbeats only triggers for the AirPods you've explicitly added. Lend with confidence.
Earbeats sees the route change and wakes the sensor on its own. No "start workout", no "start session", no menu dive.
Glance from your Lock Screen, the Dynamic Island, or a Home Screen widget. Pause / Resume / Stop without unlocking your phone.
The session closes itself, the zone split saves, and nothing — nothing — lands in your Activity rings unless you flipped the Health switch.
Exactly that. AirPods Pro 3 only stream BPM when a workout session is active, and ending a workout writes phantom calories into your Activity rings. Earbeats starts an HKWorkoutSession to wake the sensor, reads samples in real time, and never finishes a workout. No active-energy sample, no workout entry, ever.
No. The heart-rate sensor is specific to AirPods Pro 3. The app itself runs on any iPhone or iPad with iOS / iPadOS 26, but live capture needs the Pro 3 hardware. One bud in your ear is enough — whichever side has skin contact does the work.
Earbeats coexists. If another app is already running a workout session, Earbeats rides along on the same signal — no fight, no double session. Heart rate keeps flowing into both surfaces and your rings stay whatever the other app makes them.
Tracking never stops. The spoken cues, however, behave: phone calls mute cues automatically (CallKit), Focus modes silence them (turn on Smart Silence and the app requests the permission for you), and music or video keeps playing — Earbeats mixes with other audio instead of interrupting it.
It lives on your device. Optional sync runs through iCloud (your iCloud, Apple's CloudKit, end-to-end) so it follows your iPhone and iPad. There is no Earbeats server, no sign-up, no telemetry. CSV + JSON export is one tap.
No. The whole point is that you don't. Watch-free is the default; Health write-back is one toggle if you ever want to share heart-rate samples with Strava, Athlytic, or whatever dashboard you already have.
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Earbeats shows your heart rate from AirPods Pro 3 on your Lock Screen, in a widget and in the Dynamic Island, without saving a workout. It is for AirPods Pro 3 owners who want everyday heart-rate awareness. Put your AirPods in and tracking starts. It is a wellness tool, not a medical device.
See your AirPods Pro 3 heart rate without starting a workout · Free heart-rate zone calculator
3-day free trial, then a one-time Lifetime unlock or an optional subscription. Requires iOS / iPadOS 26 and AirPods Pro 3.