Dance together.
Keep an eye on each other's heart.
DanceHR is a Garmin watch app for people who dance together: at home, at a class, at a festival.
Your heart rate on your wrist, and on your partner's. Receive alerts when your heart rate goes too high, reminders to hydrate and to take a break.
With DanceHR+, the direction and distance to your partner and your friends in the crowd.
The story behind the app
My best friend loves to dance and go to music festivals. Then she discovered a cardiovascular problem, and now she must keep her heart rate in check while she dances.
I made DanceHR so she can watch and track her heart rate while dancing, get an alert when it goes too high, and be reminded to hydrate and to take a break. I can watch her heart rate from my own watch, and she can watch mine. Both of us can log our water and our vitamins as the night goes on.
DanceHR is about you and your partner having a safe, good time dancing, at home or at a festival. Use it with or without a partner's pulse; use it with or without sharing your location. You can share your location with your partner or with your group.
DanceHR, on every watch
Your heart, in check
Heart rate and zones on screens made for the dance floor, a rest meter that says when to take a break, and the alerts you choose: high heart rate, zone, hydrate, break, time to go home.Your partner's heart
Both watches run DanceHR and exchange heart rates directly over Garmin's ANT+ radio while you are near each other. No phone, no internet. Their pulse next to yours, their alerts on your wrist.Water and vitamins tracking
Mark the dances you count as vitamins, log every drink of water, and see it all on the heart-rate graph. Every dance is saved to Garmin Connect and to a history on the watch.DanceHR+ free
DanceHR+ exchanges heart rate and GPS location over the internet with your partner, or with a group of friends you are at a festival or an outdoor event with. On the watch you see the direction and the approximate distance to each of them.
Partner+ HR
Your partner's heart rate when they are out of ANT+ range: across the whole festival ground, through your phones.Partner+ Location
Your partner's GPS position as an arrow on a compass ring, with the distance and how accurate it is. Big arrow when close, smaller when far.Group+ Location
Your friends' positions, each an arrow in their own colour. Everyone sets the same two-word group name and unique group key. No accounts, no setup, up to 15 people in a group.DanceHR+ is free: press Activate DanceHR+ on the watch and enable the sharing you need.
The watches talk to each other through cloud infrastructure we pay for; if DanceHR+ makes your nights better, buy me a coffee and help keep it awake. How it works →
Watches
We test and release DanceHR for more and more Garmin watches. The Connect IQ store lists the supported devices.
Location needs a clear view of the sky (the watch's own GPS) and a phone with the Garmin Connect app nearby.