Connect Polar Flow Data Securely with Thryve API

Access advanced health and training data from Polar smartwatches and fitness trackers via Thryve’s unified, secure API. Enhance your product with continuous, science-backed insights.

Seamlessly Integrate Polar Flow Data

Thryve enables smooth integration with Polar Flow—Polar’s central platform for syncing biometric, fitness, and training data from all Polar devices. Through our API, you can retrieve normalized and harmonized metrics like heart rate, VO₂ max, sleep stages, training load, and energy usage to enrich your digital health, fitness, or clinical research application.

Empower Personalized, Data-Driven Health Products

Sports & Fitness Apps: Tap into detailed performance data including training intensity, recovery, and aerobic/anaerobic load to offer goal-based coaching and insights.

Remote Patient Monitoring: Track long-term trends in heart rate variability, sleep, and daily activity for stress, recovery, and cardiovascular support.

Women’s Health & Lifestyle Programs: Use sleep patterns and calorie burn estimates to drive tailored lifestyle and hormonal health advice.

Decentralized Trials & Research: Polar Flow enables real-world, continuous measurement of physical activity and recovery, ideal for behavior-driven study models.

Privacy-First, Compliant Integration

Thryve’s Polar integration is fully GDPR- and HIPAA-compliant, supporting secure and consent-based access to sensitive health data. All integrations use de-identified tokens and user-driven authorization flows, ensuring full transparency and user trust.

Built for Scale and Reliability

Thryve’s developer platform streamlines Polar integration with:

  • A developer-ready SDK and single API endpoint
  • Normalized data models for simplified analysis
  • Support for both Gen 2 and Gen 3 Polar device ecosystems
  • Ongoing updates to reflect changes in the Polar ecosystem
  • Interoperability with 500+ other wearables and health apps
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions:
Connection Essentials

  • How can I get data from Polar devices into my app?
    • Polar offers an OAuth-based data connection through the Polar AccessLink API. Thryve manages this integration, enabling users to securely authorize data sharing, while our platform handles harmonization and normalization.
  • What is Polar Flow?
    • Polar Flow is the cloud-based platform that stores all workout, sleep, recovery, and biometric data from Polar smartwatches and wearables like the Polar Vantage, Ignite, and Grit X series.
  • What kind of data can I retrieve with Thryve’s Polar integration?
    • Thryve’s API offers:
      • Resting and continuous heart rate
      • VO₂ max, aerobic/anaerobic training load
      • Sleep duration and stages
      • Steps, calories, and activity tracking
      • Training recovery insights and zones
  • Why integrate via Thryve instead of directly with Polar?
    • Thryve enables you to access Polar along with 500+ other health data sources through one API. This dramatically reduces development time, ensures data consistency, and helps you stay compliant with data privacy regulations.