Can I use Polar sport watches and activity trackers with the Group Fitness application?

Polar has released sport watches and wrist based fitness trackers with built-in optical heart rate monitors.

These units are able to broadcast heart rate data and our Group Fitness applications support them.

If you have a Polar A360, A370 or a Polar M200, or any other Polar sport watch with optical heart rate monitor you can use it with our applications.

To enable the connection with the app, make sure you select an indoor Group Exercise activity profile in the device.

If you use Polar heart rate monitors with Android make sure you:

  1. enable Bluetooth on the Android device
  2. give the location permission to the app
  3. enable GPS in the Android device
  4. your Android OS version is 6 or higher

Do your support the Apple Watch?

Yes, all our Group Fitness applications support the Apple Watch.

To use the Apple Watch, you need to install the Sloops application from the Apple App store.

For more info, please contact us.

Android and Polar HRMs

Polar Bluetooth heart rate monitors, Polar watches and Polar activity trackers with optical heart rate sensors are supported by our Group Fitness application on Android devices.

In order to have it working with Polar devices you need:

Android 6 or higher
Grant the location permission for the app
The location/GPS must be enabled in the device
Bluetooth must be enabled in the device