First impression
My goal is to track benefits of changing medication. I think Flare will do the job.
Response from developer
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback! I’m glad to hear Flare’s reports are proving useful. I’d love to learn more about what you’re looking for - I’d like to see if we can make Flare work better for your needs, without having to rely on a separate spreadsheet. If you’re open to sharing your thoughts, please reach out through Settings → Support in the app. Flare has been shaped by feedback from users like you, and I’d love to hear more about how we can improve it. Thanks again for giving Flare a try!
Entering older data
This app makes sense
Response from developer
Thank you. Calm and clear was the goal, so this means a lot.
So much potential, but…
The developer is impressive with his timely response concerning both fixing the crashing issue and responding to my review. Thank you for being open to suggestions. I am a lifetime member and look forward to the future enhancements! (As a side note, thank you for not operating on a subscription model. Those of us mindful about purchasing appreciate a product one actually owns.)
ORIGINAL:
I’m excited about this app and especially appreciate the creator’s personal story. I’m grateful that he took his own experience with pain and created something that could benefit others. I’m hoping Flare will help me identify correlations and patterns in my pain over time.
I’ve only entered about two days of data so far, which may be related, but the app crashes whenever I try to generate a report.
My biggest difficulty is that I have several different types/locations of pain and therefore too many things to log. I would love the ability to create multiple broad pain categories—such as back pain, neck pain, migraines, and leg pain—and then select descriptors within them, such as nerve pain, throbbing, pressure, stabbing, etc. Creating separate entries for every possible combination becomes overwhelming very quickly. A category → descriptor structure would make a huge difference for people with multiple chronic pain issues.
I’d also love an option to archive medications. Right now, hiding a medication seems to remove it from the available options altogether. It would be helpful to hide medications I’m not currently taking while still being able to easily restore them later.
More color customization would also be useful. Activities can have different colors, but medications cannot. I’d also like to choose my own colors for pain levels. The current mild-to-severe colors are fairly similar, and since I generally don’t log times when I have no or minimal pain, more distinct colors would make my pain patterns much easier to see at a glance.
Overall, I really like the concept and am excited to keep using Flare. My main challenge is simply having so many different things to track. More organization and customization for those of us managing multiple types of pain would make an already promising app much easier to use consistently.
Response from developer
Thank you for such thoughtful, detailed feedback, and for your kind words about my story. Helping others living with pain is exactly why I built Flare. The report crashes have been fixed in the latest update. I’m sorry you ran into that. Your suggestions around pain categories and descriptors, restoring medications, and more distinct colors are incredibly helpful. Hearing how overwhelming tracking can become with multiple types of pain gives us a clearer picture of what needs to improve. We’re building something exciting for Flare, and feedback like yours is helping shape what comes next. Thank you for trying it and sharing what would make it more useful for you.
Easy to use
Also can customize categories to record
Response from developer
Thank you. Backdating was built in on purpose, since nobody logs on the hard days.
Fabulous
Response from developer
Thank you - this made my day! Customization was the whole point. Everyone’s pain looks different, so the app should bend to you and not the other way around. Take your time with the free version - I’ve got some new features coming out soon that will make it even better! If you hit anything that feels missing, tell me and I’ll happily look at it.
Simple and easy to use!
Response from developer
Thank you. Core tracking, reminders and the timeline stay free for good. Trends is the one paid part because it is what keeps Flare running without ads or accounts. Your data never leaves your phone either way.
Couldn’t even start using
Response from developer
First, please allow me to personally apologize that my app made you feel unseen. I live with chronic pain too, and that feeling is one I know all too well. It’s the last thing I would ever want someone using my app to experience. Secondly, I truly appreciate you taking the time to share this feedback. I’ve just released an update (version 1.8.6) that specifically focuses on larger text and improved accessibility features. Thank you again for speaking up. Your feedback genuinely helps make the app better, and I hope you’ll be willing to give us a second chance.
User Friendly App
Response from developer
Thank you. Glad your chiropractor was open to the data. That is exactly the conversation it is meant to support.
Helping me
Response from developer
Thank you. This means a lot. I built Flare because I live with chronic pain too. For me, logging felt like doing something positive for myself, even if it was a small thing. You’re exactly who I made it for. If anything ever feels off, or there’s something you wish it did, use the feedback button in the app. I read and reply to every one.
Helps me a lot
Response from developer
That is the whole reason Flare exists. Thank you for telling me. If anything in the PDF could be clearer for a visit, the feedback button in Settings reaches me directly.
Wish I had sooner
Response from developer
Thank you. Since 1.2 you can log at any time rather than three fixed slots, so an 8am entry and a 9pm entry both keep their own time. Hope it is still holding up for you.
