Bearable - Symptom Tracker Reviews

by Apostate_Mage

Bearable 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 Bearable 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 Bearable 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.

by Booberrox392

Bearable is a great way to keep track of my moods. It’s a person who struggles with ADHD, depression and anxiety, I often have mood fluctuations and have no idea how to gain perspective on the issue. Bearable allows me to stay in touch with the bigger picture which helps me feel grounded.
I really love how many different points of data that you are able to add to Bearable. It is so convenient and satisfying to sync my sleep tracking app with Bearable so I can see how my sleep relates to my mood. Seeing how seamless this integration is makes me really really want to have more of my Apple health data sync with Bearable. I have an Apple Watch and constantly am curious of how things like my steps and exercise minutes factor into my mood. I feel that this integration would be so simple to include and would make Bearable a lot more robust.

I also want to encourage the developers of Bearable to make an Apple Watch version so I can quickly input my mood on my watch. I have wanted to do this on countless different occasions because it would be such an easy way to input the data, but have to wait until I can pull my phone out instead.

Overall, excellent app that simply tracks so many different things, but it’s only limited by the number of automatically synced integrations. If Bearable could sync with my Apple health data with more detail, I would give this five stars.

by Janet Straper (from The US)

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 Bearable grow. With the small team, I suspect that updates may lag but Bearable is fully functional now. The privacy policy is good—great would be a complete local (server or other backup optional) like Daylio.

by Clinketty

I have been struggling to keep track of my complicated and evolving health issues for over a year. Then I found this app and my tracking headaches have been eliminated completely!

Bearable is very detailed, which helps me because my health issues can sometimes be very subtle. They also have been evolving over time, and this app is able to keep up with all of that. It also allows for customization, which helps me make Bearable fit *me,* as opposed to me having to fit Bearable .

The free version of Bearable offers A LOT, as well. Very generous of them. I’m glad I finally upgraded to Premium, but if you are unsure or on a tight budget, you can still track a ton of things with the free version.

I am not a tech-minded person, so I appreciate how well thought out the design of Bearable is. I was able to get going quickly. Everything is very user-friendly. Also, I recently hit a glitch that turned out to stem from Apple, but when I first reached out to this app, they answered quickly.

Bearable is simply fabulous.

by Coolliz21

this app was the sixth health tracking app I tried, and it was simple enough to utilize effectively from the very start. I really like how customizable everything is, and that I’ll be able to use the data I input later to find correlations between how I feel and what could be affecting me. After 9 days of extensive use, Bearable hasn’t crashed once! I will DEFINITELY be upgrading to premium soon, as it is extremely affordable for a year (at least with the early subscriber discount), but there are plenty of features available for free that easily make this a worthwhile app.

by Il'ragazza

I had been looking for a simple app to track several things, including health symptoms and factor, mood changes, and variations of mental health symptoms on a daily basis. This was the simplest one I found that didn’t complicate anything AND it’s free. I want to try the premium but haven’t done so yet. It even gives you a place to write a journal entry or comments on each thing and the entire thing is highly customizable for your own personal preferences. Highly beneficial for self-awareness practices and those that have chronic illnesses or in need of sharing information with doctors and healthcare teams.

by Rowanrooks

Bearable is great because it is so customizable. It did require some setup time to go through each widget and create factors to track my specific health concerns, but the initial time investment was well worth it. I have the ability to remove stuff that doesn’t matter to me, and create some oddly specific categories that I doubt I could find anywhere else.

It also helps to have everything in one place. I have memory problems, but I need to track a few different symptoms, medications taken, medication side effects, sleep logging, digestive health, and a food journal. It is hard to keep up with all of that, but Bearable has widgets to log all of these things and more.

There are sections to track daily factors, stress, energy levels, mood, mental health, weather, menstruation, extra notes, and more. It can be as simple or as detailed as you want to make it. this app is also synced with my iOS health app, so it automatically logs sleep, heart rate, and step count measurements from my Apple watch.

Most importantly, I can see that the developers are listening to user feedback and constantly working on improving Bearable. I have suggested and voted on others’ suggestions for new features that I would like to see implemented. It is awesome that they are really involved with the community, and I’m interested to see what they come up with next.

by Howmuchmorethen

I have been using Bearable since 2020 and I feel that it has helped me to become more self-aware about my feelings and symptoms. I track my depression symptoms and I can also note the weather, my monthly cycle, nutrition factors, and anything else that may be relevant. I looked at other tracker apps and this one is definitely the complete package as far as being able to do track a wide range of different symptoms.

Bearable is totally customizable and I recommend it for anyone that has a mental health issue or complex physical health issue that they need to manage.

Thank you!

by Fajahtaha

Convenient, easy to use. I used to track all of this stuff on a bunch of separate apps, but now I can do it all in one place! I use it to track medication, water intake, and mood. It’s very flexible and customizable, so I also use it as a checklist for my chores, self-care, and habits I’m trying to establish. There’s even more that it’s built to help with though! I intend to incorporate the food diary and sleep tracking in as I get back in control of my life. Bearable makes it so simple and enjoyable to see how I’m doing and how I can improve. It is a literal lifesaver and I can not recommend it enough. Thank you for creating Bearable!

by Lady Sher Bear

I VERY seldom pay for upgrades on apps or write reviews. Bearable is amazing for me. I am able to track everything I need to in one app. It is so customizable free that it’s not necessary for simple tracking. When the tracking becomes cumbersome I get overwhelmed and stop. Now that I’ve been using Bearable for 2 days I AM paying for the annual premium upgrade because tracking with details is SO easy that I am looking forward to doing it. I believe I have found that golden nugget; a supportive and empowering tool to manage the chronic pain and mental health challenges I am experiencing. Thank you, thank you for Bearable!

by DomesticGoddess27

The customization of Bearable is exactly what I wanted. I can track weight loss, medication, my period, and chronic health problems all together. Took a while to set up how I like. Then as I used it a tweaked it here and there.

Being able to use the insights graph to see how all the different things I track affect each other has been better insight than I thought. I was able to see that days I fold laundry my tennis elbow was more painful. Switch a chore with hubby and way less elbow pain for me.

The free trial gave me a good test drive and I decided to keep Bearable . The price is good considering there is a subreddit that the developer is active on.

by Ohheycelia

As someone who struggles with mental illness, Bearable helps me to be self aware of what i’m feeling and why I might be feeling it. I can use this in therapy so easily which is incredibly helpful and productive for me. I used to journal to keep track of some of this stuff, but having all of it right here on my phone and so clearly laid out is a lifesaver.

The premium features are really intuitive and it’s interesting to be able to look at the trends so that I can actively make lifestyle changes when necessary.

I’d highly recommend this to anyone who is looking for a customizable app for tracking physical and mental health symptoms!

by A Young Chesterton Fan

I am trying to track a variety of symptoms for a couple health issues, including some very idiosyncratic symptoms you don’t find on apps tailored for specific health issues. Bearable is EXACTLY what I was looking for—customizable, with usable data for my doctors to see. AND you can track severity, time, custom notes (if you get the subscription), mood, medication (seriously, app in one app!) and so much more. I love that it has so much functionality but also seems to be continuing to grow. They just released symptom grouping which is an awesome feature that makes sorting between, say, allergy symptoms and migraine symptoms, even easier to navigate. Great app!

by GrA.V

This is a near-perfect user interface & customizability. They have a few things they can improve but still the best out there.

One trick though if you’re using two devices, which I learned the hard way. If you started on your phone and try switching to an iPad/tablet, you’ll get a warning message to logout on the other device. YOU MUST LOG OUT OF THE OTHER DEVICE WHEN THAT ERROR MESSAGE IS SHOWING. Don’t click OK and logout later; and weirdly, don’t log out EARLY before trying to log in on the new device. Somehow, that error message makes the data sync possible. If you log out of the first device before or after the error screen shows, you’ll lose your work. Great app though!

by Claraj0rdan

I’ve used a lot of different health trackers in an attempt to get a better grip on my complex chronic illness. The problem with most apps and methods is they either lack the ability to customize Bearable to my specific needs or they require way too many spoons to use. this app is not like any other health tracker.

I have 14 doses of meds per day and a litany of symptoms, triggers, and environmental factors that I need to track everyday. this app let’s me do that! Not only can I totally customize what I actually track but it takes less than 5 minutes to record everything I need to.

Now when my doctors or medical practitioners ask about my medication adherence or symptom/trigger management I’m able to answer definitively. It’s also very helpful to be able to add major events and daily notes because brain fog will often make me completely forget when something impactful happened or what weird symptom I wanted to ask my doc about.

Overall, I cannot recommend this app enough. Especially if you have complex chronic illness and/or are disabled. EDS, POTS, MCAS, and etcetera are extremely difficult conditions to manage but this app makes it so much easier.

by Chronicallycraftin

For years I have tried to track various of my chronic health issues using day planners or apps basically developed for healthy people to track exercise and diet, in order to better relay what I was experiencing to my numerous doctors and therapists, but they all fell short in giving a full picture of my daily struggles. Not only is Bearable already so helpful, the developer is still tweaking it and regularly updating it to be even more in depth and able to suit all the various kinds of health conditions! If you happen to use Reddit, you can even join the group he created JUST FOR FEEDBACK FROM USERS! So that you can speak directly to him about ANY issues youre facing and he will personally walk you through any tech support (in his app)

100% recommend to anyone with chronic health concerns

by Nikkay27

I have ADHD, Anxiety, and two different chronic illnesses and this tracker is so helpful in tracking all the different types of symptoms I experience.

My favorite feature is the mood tracker which lets you track your mood throughout the day and then averages it. You also can write a little explanation about your mood - which if you’re like me with not the best memory it’s so nice to be able to go back and see those entries. It also helps me realize that setbacks I face throughout my day (and would ordinarily obsess about) are just little blips. I can see that despite my panic attack the day is still good, it hasn’t been completely ruined. It’s been very helpful for me to have something visualizes that so well.

I definitely recommend Bearable for anyone with chronic pain or any kind of mental illness or mood disorder.

by ScottieBoiJoe

Almost immediately signed up for premium when I got it because of how much I love this tracker (and it was much more affordable then other trackers). I like Bearable because it’s so customizable and gives me solid data about what is effecting my mood the day of, day after, week after, etc. of behaviors. You also might learn how some meds might effect your mood (but sometimes this is coincidental so always check with a doc first!) that you didn’t know even effected you before. Sometimes when I get bored and have nothing to do I go in and do a little mood check in (I try to do it at least twice a day but usually end up doing like five+ a day). Compared to other trackers this one sets the bar super high imo and I would highly recommend it. Bear in mind (pun intended) that insights won’t be as accurate but it’ll even out about a month in.

by Ohitsmandi

I am in love with Bearable. I have tried so many other ones and prior to this was using a handful at once to try and gather all the data I wanted. I have a severe unique case of bipolar disorder and although I am new to Bearable I already know I will be able to gain some useful information and find some patterns so I will better be able to relay them to my doctors.

I am grateful for the interface being so user friendly and easy so that even on my bad days I am still able to track the bare minimum and not be overwhelmed. I feel like Bearable is an answer to my prayers. I know Bearable is on the newer side so I am very excited to see what new features and such are added.

Thank you so so much for providing Bearable and thank you for making it at such an affordable price for the premium. I will definitely be recommending this to everyone at my clinics. 🙏🏼

by Leahenoch1

I’ve been using Bearable for a couple weeks now to try to get a grip on my chronic symptoms and what factors could be causing them. Originally, I was thinking of trying to find an app that could do everything for free, but because of how well this one works I actually am considering paying for a year subscription(which is saying something). It’s very quick to enter all of your data and it covers so many different metrics in a really user-friendly way that doesn’t take up too much of my time or stress me out. It gives you some analysis for free, but it seems reasonable to me considering everything that they track to pay for those extra insights long-term.

by !!!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,,!!.?' C

I just started using Bearable and I’ve found that it has nearly everything I could want. I find the ability to see all the data and compare different factors really cool and helpful when trying to track different things all at once. My only complaint is that in the newest update, I seem to have lost the ability to put in tags about sleep for each night past the first! Other than that small detail, Bearable is really worth getting for anyone looking to track physical or mental health.

by Harper-pitt

I got really sick all at once last month. Like four different kinds of sick, a dozen meds a day sick, sobbing because I’m so overwhelmed sick.

I found this app by luck and I’m so grateful I did. It lets you track so much — meds, food, symptoms, etc. It’s helped me keep track of what I’m taking, experiencing, and feeling, which makes it easier to take care of myself and to share updates with my doctors.

Huge recommend. When you’re sick, a little bit of control can make a huge difference. Bearable gives me more control.

by Spleeez

I have been looking for an app to manage both mental and physical illness symptoms, along with medications, sleep, food, and my moods— Bearable does it all. I came across Bearable by chance, and after using it, I’ve subsequently deleted at least three other apps off of my phone.

I can manage everything I need in this one great app. It gives amazing insights into the relationships between activities, moods, and symptoms. I now know that Tuesdays are hard for me and rainy days help my mood.

I can even see the impact that meaningful events have on my mood 30- and 60-days out. It’s all these little gems that I love about Bearable .

It even integrates with certain Apple Health modules.

There are a few things that I’d like to see in the future, such as passcode protection and more Apple Health integration, but ultimately, it’s a fantastic app.

by Wyodog

Have rarely reviewed apps, but because I received exceptionally prompt service from the developer and my overall satisfaction with Bearable lead me to write one.

I’ve tried a bunch mood trackers but deleted all of them. This is only one that works for me. I really enjoy the layout and the level of customization. The key thing is the customization allows you to see via graphs any patterns (“insights” in app). It’s easy to track as much or as little as you want.

That’s the most important thing is to enter things quickly and efficiently in order to make it a daily habit. Bearable really works for me and you can sync across iOS devices.

James, the developer, answered my email promptly and help me sort out an issue due completely to my forgetfulness and was professional and helpful.

by CeceChristine

I HAVE to submit a review for Bearable because it is stellar! Input and design are very slick and easy to understand. Bearable is customizable so I can use it for all kinds of different tracking needs. Between chronic pain, anxiety, BFRB and lactose intolerance, I am able to track all of them in one place and customize my factors and symptoms to fit exactly what I need to track. I am still using the Clue app for period tracking due to the period-specific diagrams, but everything else is going to Bearable! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

by Marystim

Like most people who stumble onto this app, I’ve tried all sorts of different apps for mental health and chronic illness tracking. This is hands down the best option.

The survey interface is clean, quick, and thorough, and the metrics assessments are unbeatably intuitive. By valuing lots of user feedback, the creator has managed to make a simple yet robust user experience that is beyond prize-worthy.

Bearable has changed my ability to communicate and assess my “internal state,” and I’m so thankful! If you’re looking for a mental/physical health tracker, look no further!

by Chemgal12

I’ve tried so many symptom tracking/medicine tracking apps trying to find a way to manage multiple autoimmune diseases. This is the first app I’ve stuck with for more than a few hours. It strikes a nice balance between being able to put in lots of data and making the data entry quick and easy. I also appreciate the mood and gratitude tracking as mental health has been the hardest for me to manage but is so critical for everything else.

I’m so excited to see new features, as the developer clearly has put a lot of thought and care into Bearable to this point.

by Witchyeitch

It’s very seamless and the best part is that it lets me edit everything, write-in your specific symptoms so there’s no limit. It lets me type in little notes for specific symptoms and it just feels very organized and not overbearing. Thank you I’ve been looking for this exact thing in all the health apps and could never find it. Great job to the developers, this will help me track my health better and I love it even after only using it for a few hours. The only thing is I don’t know how to change the times to a 12hr clock, everything else is perfect.

by Kdpeanut

i've tried all the mood/symptom trackers on Bearable store, but keep coming back to this one. this is the only of its kind- it tracks EVERYTHING. mood, symptoms, pain, meds, food, sleep, factors, important events, everything.... it also does all the hard work for you of calculating correlations and patterns in your life.

it's incredibly customizable (more than any other app i've tried) and it's SUCH a steal at its current price of $0. but truth be told, i would pay a lot to keep using this, it really is the most comprehensive tracking app i've ever seen.

total lifesaver for people with amnesia and chronic pain, i usually can't remember how i've been doing when i report back to my doctor weekly but this has changed everything!

by Gloaming1974

Finally—a symptom tracker that is helpful! I have severe ME/CFS and fibromyalgia. Because these are (so far) little-studied illnesses, there aren’t any treatments/cures. Most of what is helpful is holistic. Bearable lets me look at things like massage and the corresponding effects. I’ve been using this app for 2 weeks, and even though it doesn’t show a ton of insights yet, it’s already incredibly useful just for looking at my symptoms over time. Thank you so much for making Bearable.