"Today, at 67, I am fitter than I have been in 30 years. That didn't happen by accident — it happened because I finally had the right data." — The Developer
My Health Journey
For 15 years, I lived in a constant fog of exhaustion. I had no idea that what I was experiencing wasn't simply tiredness — it was my body silently suffocating, night after night, from severe Sleep Apnea.
The lack of energy felt normal. It crept up so gradually that I had nothing to compare it against. It wasn't until the condition began to damage my heart — eventually manifesting as a first-degree heart block — that the alarm bells finally rang.
What followed was a frightening and frustrating chapter. I started collapsing without warning. I would wake in the night, fighting for breath, heart pounding. Despite multiple emergency trips to A&E, my dangerously low oxygen levels and breathing struggles were repeatedly misdiagnosed as asthma and sent home.
The Turning Point
The truth only emerged during a hospital stay, where an overnight Holter monitor event left me blue-lipped and the nursing staff visibly shaken. What had been dismissed for years was suddenly impossible to ignore.
15 years of misdiagnosis
Severe Sleep Apnea repeatedly dismissed as fatigue and asthma.
Collapse & A&E visits
Repeated emergency admissions. Low oxygen, breathing crises — still no answer.
Holter monitor event in hospital
An overnight episode finally captured on record. The truth was undeniable.
Pacemaker fitted
One week after the hospital event, a pacemaker was implanted.
CPAP therapy begins
Six months later, a sleep clinic identified Sleep Apnea as the root cause. CPAP changed everything.
Today
At 67, fitter than I have been in 30 years — and determined to help others find answers sooner.
Where IT Meets Healthcare
Having spent my career in IT development, I have always been drawn to the intersection of data and real-world problems. Following my diagnosis, I threw myself into learning everything I could about heart health, rhythm anomalies, and the ectopic beats I still experience every single day.
When the app I had relied on to monitor these events was discontinued, I faced a choice: accept the gap, or build something better. I chose the latter. My background meant I could see an opportunity others might miss — the immense potential of AI and machine learning applied to high-fidelity cardiac data.
The Polar H10 captures ECG at 130Hz — hospital-grade resolution in a chest strap costing less than a GP appointment. By pairing that hardware with on-device neural networks, I could build a tool far more powerful than a simple event counter: a comprehensive cardiac companion that analyses, learns, and reports — entirely on your own device, with no data ever leaving your hands.
But this is not just a monitor for catching ectopics. The same platform can support workout analysis, HRV trending, overnight sleep cardiac monitoring, breathing rate estimation, and much more. The scope is as broad as the data is rich.
A Note on Pricing & Motivation
I know first-hand what undiagnosed Sleep Apnea can do. It nearly killed me. Not dramatically, not all at once — but quietly, over 15 years, stealing energy, damaging my heart, and stealing time I can never get back.
That is why the Android monitor app is free. No catch. If better monitoring helps even one person get a diagnosis sooner, every hour spent building this was worth it.
The web Studio — which provides the deeper analysis layer — is offered on a "cup of coffee" contribution basis. Not a subscription. Not a paywall. A one-time thank-you, if you find it useful, to cover development costs and — frankly — to buy my wife a gift for all the time she has spent with me locked away building this.
I feel incredibly lucky that my story didn't end ten years ago. This app is my way of making sure that luck counts for something.
Buy Me a Coffee
If this app has been useful to you, a one-time contribution helps cover development costs and keeps the project alive. No subscription. No pressure. Just gratitude, if you feel it.
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Two people deserve a particular mention — one who inspired this project, and one who helped me make sense of my own heart.
For years I relied on Cardio Capture — a beautifully simple Polar monitor app — to track my ectopic beats. It did exactly what it needed to do, without fuss. When my phone ran into trouble and I went looking for it again, it was gone. That gap is the direct reason this project exists. Thank you, Tiberius, for building something so good that losing it was worth replacing.
When ectopic beats would strike and panic set in, this man's videos were a lifeline. Clear, calm, authoritative — and free. He has an extraordinary gift for explaining complex cardiology in plain language, and his content on ectopics genuinely helped me understand that they are far more common than most people realise, and they do not mean you are about to die. If you experience ectopics and feel frightened by them, I cannot recommend his channel highly enough.
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