BossBeat
Try 23. Heart 168.
Most game trackers log “played 3 hours.” BossBeat logs the boss you beat on attempt 23 and how hard your heart was going when you did. Wear your Apple Watch, tap Boss Fight! when it starts, and count every death with one tap from your wrist, the Dynamic Island or the Lock Screen.
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Inside BossBeat
The Story
Somewhere Around Death Twenty, Nobody Is Counting
The hard bosses are the ones you remember, and they are exactly the ones where the count gets lost. By the time it finally falls, the number is gone and so is how it felt. Your Apple Watch was measuring that part the whole time. BossBeat keeps both: one tap per death, the heartbeat behind it, and a card at the end with the attempt count and the BPM at the killing blow.
How It Works
Start a Session
Pick the game and start from your iPhone or Apple Watch. The watch starts reading your heart rate. No watch? Timer Mode.
Tap through the fight
Boss Fight! when it starts. Death +1 every time you go down. Victory when it falls, or Not Today to come back for the Rematch.
Reveal the card
End the session and the recap shows the whole curve. Name the bosses, fix anything you missed, then flip each card and share it.
What's Inside
Death +1 Without Letting Go
One big button on your wrist: Boss Fight! while you explore, Death +1 in a fight. Double tap works on watches that support it, and the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island have the same buttons.
Your Heart, the Whole Session
Heart rate from the first minute to the last, every boss fight shaded on the curve. Tension is measured against your own resting heart rate: Calm, Tense or Tilted.
Rematch Keeps Counting
Walk away with Not Today and the boss stays Unbeaten, attempts saved. Come back next week and the count picks up where it stopped, so the final card shows the real total.
Every Kill Is a Card
Attempts, fight time, peak heart rate and the BPM at the killing blow. Rarity goes by how much it hurt, from Common to Legendary, and a calm kill earns Ice Heart.
Did You Miss a Boss?
The Session Recap spots heart rate spikes you never marked and asks. Name bosses, fix start and end times to the second, add a fight you forgot, merge repeat attempts.
Ten Seconds Worth Posting
A vertical heartbeat video of the fight and 9:16 share cards, made from your own numbers. No official boss art, just your curve and your count.
A Game Log That Fills Itself
Every session lands in your library: Playing, Beaten, Wishlist or Shelved, with playtime, boss progress and average tension per game. Game data from RAWG.
A Tap When You Tilt
Stay above your limit (150 BPM by default) and the watch gives your wrist a gentle tap. A reminder to breathe before attempt 31.
No Account, No Ads
Sessions and heart rate stay on your iPhone. Nothing to sign up for, nothing that follows you around. iCloud Sync to your own private iCloud comes with Premium.
Two Things Worth Knowing
BossBeat doesn't read your game. Nothing connects to your console and nothing watches the screen. You tap when a fight starts and each time you go down, which is why it works with any game, and why the watch, the Dynamic Island and the Lock Screen all have the buttons.
And the heartbeat needs an Apple Watch. Without one, Timer Mode keeps the time, the deaths, the cards and the game log, just not the curve. Recording, recaps, cards and sharing are free for everyone. Premium adds the extras on top: Player Type, Year in Beats, Head to Head, haptic replay, video soundtracks and iCloud Sync.
Made for Games
For console players: count the deaths, catch your heartbeat at the boss, keep a log of every game you play.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need an Apple Watch to use BossBeat?
For heart rate, yes: the watch measures it while you play. Without one, Timer Mode runs the same flow on your iPhone. It times the session, counts deaths and marks boss fights, and you still get the recap, the cards and the game log, just without the heartbeat.
Does BossBeat connect to my console or read the game?
No. Nothing connects to your console and nothing watches your screen. You tap Boss Fight! when a fight starts and Death +1 each time you go down, from the watch, the Dynamic Island or the Lock Screen. That is why it works with any game on any platform.
How do I count a death without putting the controller down?
One tap. The watch shows one big button: Boss Fight! while you explore, Death +1 during a fight. On Apple Watch models that support double tap, pinching your fingers presses it. The Live Activity on the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island have Death and Victory buttons too.
Will it mess up my Activity rings?
No. BossBeat reads heart rate and resting heart rate from Health and does not save gaming sessions as workouts unless you turn that on in Settings. It is off by default, so an evening of boss fights does not count as exercise.
What is free, and what does Premium add?
Recording, the Session Recap, cards, the Bestiary, heartbeat videos, share cards, widgets and export are free, with no session limit. Premium adds Player Type, Year in Beats, Head to Head, haptic replay, soundtracks for heartbeat videos and iCloud Sync. It is a weekly, monthly or yearly subscription ($19.99 a year in the US), or a one-time Lifetime unlock ($34.99).
Where does my data live?
On your iPhone. There is no account and no server holding your sessions; with Premium iCloud Sync they go to your own private iCloud. The app downloads a public list of boss names and looks up game titles from RAWG. Your heart rate and sessions are never sent with either.
Which games does it work with?
Any game you can play with a watch on. Pick it from the RAWG game database or add it by hand. For more than 50 popular action games, boss names come from a built-in catalog, in your language where an official translation exists, so you choose instead of type. If your game is missing, you can ask for it from inside the app.
