I’ve been using Bearable for about a month (after trying out some other trackers). I felt compelled to leave a review as I typically fall off the wagon with these kinds of things, but I’m consistently using this app after a month. I I can’t speak to what Bearable does or doesn’t do in comparison with others, because I never made it past the initial steps with the other apps and got frustrated with too many options and the general inflexibility (made me feel like I had to figure out exactly what I wanted to track right then and there when life just isn’t like that). Bearable has a ton of ways to customize that can seem overwhelming, but you can also initially hide those categories and track the most important stuff first and add in other factors and symptoms as time goes on.I really like that it integrates with apple health and I really love that the developer is very open to feedback and sharing about features that are in the works. Integration with Fitbit would be great, but for now syncing my Fitbit info to apple health with FitSync is working absolutely fine. Bearable automatically grabs the info.The trial period was SO helpful. Other apps have trial periods as well, but I cancelled them only days in after I’d had enough. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop but it’s yet to happen with this. Highly recommended.

To start off with, this is the first app review that I have ever written - and I stopped using Bearable consistently probably a year ago, but occasionally it weighs on my heart to let others know my success story with Bearable. I had struggled with severe major depression, generalized anxiety, PTSD, and OCD (and still do, to a lesser extent) for close to a decade. I decided to invest in Bearable because anxiety had begun leaving me completely unable to function every single day — like literally spent a week in bed just incessantly panicking. Cue setting up Bearable, painstakingly inputting every detail I could think of. I found after several months of use that many of the things that I thought were “right” were actually leaving me in absolute wreckage, while my partner and his family were consistently bring my mood up SUBSTANTIALLY. Seeing the numbers laid out encouraged me to make the difficult decision of leaving what I now identify was a cult. It helped me cut ties with abusive situations that had trapped my family for generations. It helped me learn what joy was after years of hospital visits, SH episodes, panic attacks, and starvation. I am now living my best life and will look to Bearable again occasionally for answers to menial health concerns. This app changed my life and I would almost definitely not be here without it.

I take a whole laundry list of meds that change frequently, and I just found out I'm autistic, and I have been battling major depression, PTSD, and anxiety for years. I also have chronic migraines from a severe head injury. Because of my autism, it's been difficult to communicate how I'm doing to my therapists and psychiatrists and doctors, and often I was not believed about the severity of my symptoms, or accused of not taking my medication, or told that my sleep or energy is better than I think it is. Now I have EMPIRICAL DATA all gathered in one place that provides an accurate assessment of my moods, symptoms both mental and physical, everything all in one place. My only complaint is that I wish you could time stamp EVERYTHING, not just medication times and mood and energy but also factors and symptoms instead of being limited to 4 time ranges because I'd like to see if a short-term intervention works and right now I can only see that I listen to relaxing music when I get anxious, but not whether I feel less anxious after listening to relaxing music. But this is the best app out there right now.

I have been using this app every day for 4 months now. It has been ok for keeping track of things (although I’d like to track my symptom onset time with more specificity than 6 hour blocks), but not great for insights. First of all, their correlations grid does not give correlation values, and while that probably doesn’t bother most people, the results and conclusions can be misleading. Also, the 6 hour blocks in which things are tracked make it impossible to discover / distinguish for example migraine symptoms vs. migraine warning signs vs. migraine triggers because I don’t know in what order they happened, just that they all happened in “MID”. The data will still be good for analyzing other larger daily patterns though, like whether my migraines are related to allergies. ~~ I finally downloaded all my data to analyze it myself, and discovered there’s no way to get *all* of your data because it doesn’t export when you marked a symptom as “none” (even they know that unmeasured is not the same as 0, which is why their “Insights” analysis page encourages you to mark symptoms as none when they’re not active instead of leaving them blank). I tried to ask about how to get all of my data using the “Ask support” button under FAQs, but the button doesn’t work. I tried to report this as a bug, but it turns out the “Report a bug” button doesn’t work either 🤣

I have been looking for an app like this for AGES and imagine my surprise when an Instagram add pointed me towards one that actually works. This is what data should be for. It takes away so much stress for me that I don’t have to be the one trying to unpack what is leading to chronic pain flare ups, I can just be diligent about logging everything in and it would give me metrics. This is such a helpful app I’d like to hope that maybe the creators would take some suggestions from people who have benefited from using it and add two features: a food log and the ability to enter periods of disrupted sleep. I’d like to see if there’s an association between WHAT I eat and how I feel and it would be really useful to be able to keep that in the same app. I’d also like to be able to indicate in the app if I was awake between 4am-5am, rather than only be able to list the total time from when I initially went to sleep to when I started my day, as I think that makes a huge difference in how I feel the next day. Thank you for making an app that people with chronic pain actually need, for making it integrated with apple health, and for not forgetting about us menstruating folk out there.

For a mood tracker I really like this app. It hard to get a habit out of it but that’s a me thing lol!! I like that it tracks your mood out of 1 - 10 scale because for me it’s easier to be honest with myself by picking a number than saying good or okay or bad (cause we are all normalized to saying “hi I’m good” even if your not) I like that it tracks medication and when you take it I would use this but instead I text myself that I took my meds because that’s more automatic to me. Also the symptoms are a big thing!!! I enjoy that you can add different things to track, though I wish I gave you ideas because sometimes I want to track things similar to energy for example but I don’t know what I could put. They put an update it recently and I like it!! I looks more new and modern. The one thing I wish they had a better grip on is the design because I know I would be more encouraged to use it, it feels kinda bland if that makes sense :) that’s not a big deal whatsoever just a suggestion to make it even better! This is the best app I found for mood tracking the is compatible with how my brain works!!

I have been using this app on and off for about a year, but with the worsening of my symptoms, I am back on the wagon and I’m not coming off. I forgot how incredibly helpful it is.To give a bit of a background, I am a college student with classical EDS (diagnosed when I was very little, so it’s not new to me) and POTS, amongst other issues. I focus on my productivity and achievements so much that I neglect my health sometimes, and I want to fix that. My favorite thing about this app is logging my symptoms every day as well as what I eat and other factors such as sleep and weather, and every week it will show a report of correlations and I can adjust accordingly. It is nice to be able to have this data to show my doctors as well. I also love that on their subreddit they always ask how new features would work and they listen so well to their app users.Please give this app a try, the developers clearly work so hard and put out a great tool for us. Thank you so much!! ✨

What you are looking for in a tracker of any kind is for it to be as effortless as possible, meaning taking data from various sources and making sense of it without you having to add data manually. That’s what we like about the Apple Watch for instance it is capturing so much data just being on your wrist. The problem is when applications capture the same set of data, do it manually, and don’t collaborate. So as an IOS user I have updated my mood status (sporadically, because there are things happening in your life distracting you from updating an app) and now this application is asking me to do the same, on different metrics… why can’t bearable use Apple health data or the other way around. Given this is one of the core value of the app, correlating events to moods you end up having scattered data which is not exploited. I also have an app Welltory that captures biometrically my energy level but I have to enter it manually here. So not a problem of the app per say but just lack of data integration. All these apps should work together to better collaborate!

This app works really good and I wanted to love it especially with having paid for premium, but unfortunately a large amount of the symptoms I face are related to food. While I can customize the app for things like ‘high sugar’ etc, in my case this doesn’t help because I can’t discern any pattern in the foods that make me ill and being able to look at all the ingredients as patterns is essential. There just isn’t an easy way to do this and manually entering each ingredient is too time consuming to realistically do every meal. This is a huge factor and if I need to use another app like lifesum or myfitnesspal to track food it largely defeats the purpose of this app since I have to manually compare anyways-I’ll for now just stick to sticky notes :/ Which is a bummer because I really really want an app that is all in one for symptoms or food-all the apps I’ve found seem to be only one or the other. For now I’ve stopped using it for those reasons. Overall though I can say I’d recommend it to anyone who is struggling with health issues unrelated to food. It works amazing for that.

I’m only a few days into this tracker but I have used others in the past. This tracker lets you get super granular—important if you are trying to sort out nebulous symptoms a variety of maladies. The interface was overwhelming at first, but once it was set up it is very intuitive. Other apps have been hard to get in the habit of using but capturing my day in these bite sized chunks has become a *fun* thing. Plus I’m motivated to log so my data doesn’t look junky! I love that I can add notes to basically every input and that the search feature calls up all the instances of that word. After appointments I write a few words to recap/reflect and I foresee this being an exceptionally useful feature for follow up appointment. The team seems to have a lot of features coming down the pipeline and I would love to see this app grow. With the small team, I suspect that updates may lag but the app is fully functional now. The privacy policy is good—great would be a complete local (server or other backup optional) like Daylio.