Flowtime: Biosensing Meditation Headband with Heart Rate and Brainwave Sensors to Achieve Mindfulness Easier and Better for Advanced and New Meditator

I highly recommend you buy this product!!!This handy wearable device has brainwave and heart rate sensors to track your brainwaves, heart rate, HRV, attention span, relaxation level, stress levels and more, all in real-time.The Flowtime Headband is easy to wear, and lightweight, you can’t even tell you are wearing it, and it tracks essential data to help you understand your patterns and how well mediation works.

The head band itself has a good range of sensors with both heart rate sensor & brain wave sensors. It is very light and comfortable to wear, with a low profile. It connects easily and quickly to my Huawei p30.The device could have great potential and I was looking to use it for more than just meditation as I have been doing that for a while, and thought that I could use it for more biofeedback. I am disappointed!What lets this product down is the app you have no choice but to use with the device and it is extremely limited. You get 3 months free and then need to pay a (very high for what you get) monthly fee for a very basic and nothing special meditation app. I'm not interested in the meditation, so assume I will have a useless headband if I do not sign up for the app at the end of the 3 month's trial. With so many good app's, video, web sites out there to help you mediate, if they hope this app is going to keep their user base and attract new customers, then they are in trouble!The app itself offers a couple of guided mediations that are not very impressive, 4 basic sounds to meditate to or just a mediate timer. Yes, it gathers some data from heart and brain while you use it to meditate (they think you will only use it to meditate so it seems). Although the data it gathers is not helpful because of the app and because you are tied in to the app and cannot export the data or information on the data.You can export the data after a session, but only in a .png format (picture) so it is completely useless, you can't do anything with just a picture! There is no real trending of the data (app tracks 7 days, but extremely basic), you can't do anything yourself with the data, it can't be exported to any other apps that you could then use, it is pointless.For each of the datasets the app gathers it gives you a very brief (a couple of lines at most) and not very helpful summary of what it has collected and if you click on more info, it then opens a web page with hardly any more information that isn't very helpful.There is no information on how this data can help you in any way, no clue on how to help you improve your meditation or anything else. It goes in to no depth at all on what it is gathering, why gather it, what you need to improve or how to even start to improve it.In summary, great headband, which seems to gather great data that you cannot access and give no direction on how to benefit from this potential knowledge. It comes tied in to a poor app that requires a hefty monthly fee for no real benefit.

I was using the muse earlier and this with a simple band attachment firstly makes it very comfortable to wear.Secondly the data is extensiveLots of meditations and flow states to work through and more are being added. Huge fan

Generally this product is very good and I would recommend it. The realtime feedback is really useful.The app is well laid out and the meditations are well done. It’s helping my meditation and is a great motivator.Only knocking off 1 star as it occasionally looses contact and looses data, hopefully this can be addressed soon.

Really nice product, will order again.

My first headband arrived without a charger. It wasn't shrink wrapped so I suspect it was a return. I sent that one back and not giving up ordered another one. That one arrived shrink wrapped and with a charging cable. So far so good. The first use of the headband looked promising, I got data back in the flowtime app. It's difficult to know how accurate the information is as I didn't get many opportunities to try it out. In subsequent uses the app would only display data in about 1 in 5 attempts. This isn't really useable as a meditation aid as it actually starts to make to feel stressed trying to get it to work! The support did reply and suggested I try downloading a beta version of the software off their website. I wasn't going to install an app no issued in Google Play. Having spent to long trying to get it to work I gave up and returned it. It is worked every time I would have probably kept it, it was just too unreliable.