Unlike the Apple Watch, for instance, you need to start a workout in a supported third-party app such as Nike Run Club or Peloton, and the earphones will then share your heart rate so that it can be saved away; Apple doesn’t make its own app, so there is no way, for instance, to feed your pulse and heart rate straight into the Fitness app, like with the Watch.
The tracking is impressively accurate: it found our heart rate impressively quickly, kept it, and that measuring lined up perfectly with other sensors, such as heart rate straps and watches.
The way that the Powerbeats Pro integrate their pulse tracking also means that you don’t get the advantage of the constant tracking that is offered by something like the Apple Watch.
Are there many people who are willing to spend this amount of money on high-end earphones for working out with, that don’t have a devoted way of tracking their heart rate already?
One of the surprising and unusual features of the Powerbeats Pro is that they have built-in heart rate tracking.
