Harmony Pulse
Get in touchHarmony Pulse reads a heart-rate strap on your horse and one on you. It speaks short cues while you ride and writes up the session afterwards. All of it runs on your phone, with no wifi or cell service.
Long exhale — then ask.
Works with Apple Watch
Drawn to tempo. A horse at rest beats about half as fast as the person standing beside him.
Why it exists
Kirstin rides two horses, Bowie and Denali. She has a lesson or two a week and rides alone the rest of the time, with only her memory of how each ride felt.
She wanted those rides to have a voice while they happen and a record once they are over. Her son started building one.
The aid that finally worked in the lesson is hard to recall by the next ride.
Nobody is at the rail to say what they saw.
The next lesson begins with catching up on the rides in between.
How a session goes
One chest strap on his girth, one on you. Choose Schooling, Trail, Groundwork or Liberty, and say what you are working on.
The phone stays in your pocket and the coach speaks through your headphones. It speaks when something is worth saying and stays quiet the rest of the time.
Count it: one-two, one-two.
Long exhale — then ask.
Good. Keep that breath.
Every session ends with a report card, a heart-rate chart, a map of where it happened and a short debrief.
Quests are short guided sessions, from six minutes of slow breathing to walk and trot on cue. A daily tip keeps the habit going.
The app screens on this page are the real app, running a development build.
No service
No signal needed
Ranches and barns are some of the worst places for wifi and cell service. Harmony Pulse was built for that. Everything it does during a ride and after it happens on the phone in your pocket.
They talk straight to the phone over Bluetooth.
The rules and every recorded line live inside the app.
GPS comes from satellites, so the route is traced with no service.
Graded and written on the phone as soon as you finish.
Saved as one file, ready to send when you are back in range.
There is nothing to sign up for and no password to lose.
Your rides stay on your phone unless you choose to send one.
Every sensor reading is kept as it arrived, so each improvement to the app re-reads the rides you already have.
What it listens for
Both straps are off-the-shelf Polar H10 heart monitors. The one on the girth also carries a motion sensor, and that is how the app knows what his feet are doing.
The coach
Every line the coach can say was written by hand and recorded in two voices. Fixed rules decide when a line is spoken. No AI model runs while you ride, so the coach cannot make something up.
Tempo's creeping — steady it.
Calm, four-beat walk.
Breathe.
Drop your shoulders, slow your breath.
Ease off a moment — let him catch his breath.
He's still blowing — stay in walk a while longer.
Nice, same rhythm through the transition.
Lovely, even breathing — stay with it.
6 spoken, 22 held back
In the sample ride below, the coach noticed 28 moments and spoke about six of them.
After the ride
The whole session comes out as one file you can send. Your trainer opens it in any browser and arrives at the next lesson already knowing what happened.
Calm, breathing, rhythm and transitions each get a score. The app never scores you while you ride.
His and yours, over the gaits, with a mark wherever the coach spoke.
The route on a map, with the moments worth a look numbered on it.
The notes you write after a session are printed on the report.
Where it stands
Recording, live coaching, debrief and trainer report all run on an iPhone, with an Apple Watch app for marks and voice notes.
Kirstin rides with each one, and her notes shape the next.
Schooling, trail, groundwork, liberty and solo practice, with Bowie and Denali.
From the first line of code to a coach that talks took about five weeks.
Where it is goingNot built yet
This part is Kirstin's idea. A lesson or a clinic costs real money, and most of what was taught is gone by the next ride. She wants the app to keep it and turn it into something she can ride from.
Record a voice memo at the rail, add video if you have it, and say how the ride felt.
Get the takeaways back in plain language, with a short riding plan for the week.
Answer with a question, a correction, or what the horse actually did.
The next session picks up where the last one stopped, so the same horse and the same habit stay in view.
None of this replaces a trainer. It carries the lesson into the rides in between.
Who is behind it
Rider and first tester
Design and engineering
What happens next
There is no launch date and no price yet. The plan is to finish it properly for Kirstin and her horses, then decide where it goes. If you ride or train and want to follow along, say hello.
KonradWright@Protonmail.com