Home Cuff: Blood Pressure Log
A plain log for the readings your home arm-cuff monitor gives. Type the two numbers and the pulse on a big number pad, or say the numbers and check what the app heard. Every reading is kept exactly as the monitor showed it, and the week your doctor asks for comes out as a PDF laid out like the home monitoring sheet.
Putting a reading in
- Type Reading opens three boxes: the top number (SYS), the bottom number (DIA) and the pulse. Type them on the pad; the cursor moves to the next box by itself. Save keeps the reading with the date and time, and the boxes clear for the next one.
- The pulse is optional. The two pressures are enough to save.
- To enter a reading taken earlier, tap the time chip above the boxes and choose the date and time. Before midday counts as the morning, from midday on as the evening.
- Speak Reading asks for the top number, then the bottom number, then the pulse, on the screen and aloud, and listens after each. Say each one as the monitor shows it ("one twenty nine", or "129 over 79" for both pressures at once). Each number appears as it is heard. Then it asks "Are these values correct?": say yes and the reading is kept, say no and it starts again. Finished, at the top right, closes without saving. Nothing you say is recorded or sent anywhere.
The week
- When your doctor asks for a week of home readings, take two in the morning and two in the evening, every day for seven days.
- The Week page lays those seven days out the way the home monitoring sheet does, and works out the average. In the United Kingdom and most of the world the first day is left out of the average, as NICE asks; in the United States every reading is counted, as the American Heart Association asks.
- The week starts by itself where your latest run of readings began. Tap the Week starting box to move it.
- Send makes a PDF of the week: the seven-day table, the average, and every reading. It goes by Messages, Mail, WhatsApp, or to Files and Print. The Trend page has its own Send for the last two weeks, month, three months or year.
- A name for the top of the PDF can be typed once in Settings. Leave it empty for a line to write on.
What the app does not do
Home Cuff does not measure blood pressure, does not connect to a monitor, and does not say whether a reading is high or low. It records what your monitor showed and gives no medical advice. What the numbers mean is a matter for your doctor.
The free run and the unlock
- Your first ten readings are free, with everything working: the number pad, speaking, the week sheet, the PDF, the trend and the backup.
- An eleventh reading needs the unlock: one purchase, no subscription, Family Sharing included. Nothing you have already recorded is ever locked.
- Bought it before, or on a family member's phone? Settings, Restore purchase.
Backup
- The app backs up automatically to your own iCloud, free, as each reading is saved. It is a backup, not a sync, and it never comes to us.
- On a new phone, or after the app is put back, it offers your readings back as soon as it finds the copy. Backup, Restore does the same at any time.
- The Backup page shows when the last copy was made. You can switch the backup off there.
Contact
Questions, problems or ideas: conor@conorhannah.com. Please say which iPhone and iOS version you have.