# Wanes — Symptom duration timer

> Symptom duration timer (iPhone/iPad app by Janik Dostert.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wanes/id6811679904 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Janik Dostert](https://appshunter.io/developer/1779781031)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Medical
- Price: $4.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 9 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-21
- Data updated: 2026-09-27
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wanes/id6811679904/reviews.md

## What is Wanes?

Wanes times how long a symptom lasts, then saves it to the Apple Health app. Start a timer the moment something begins wherever on your phone you are.  Stop it when it passes and that's it.

WHY DURATION

A lot of data your phone collects passively finds its way into Apple Health automatically. Wanes steps in for those moments where you don't want to spend time searching for a symptom, then looking at the time, while also trying to remember to enter an end time.

TRACK WITHOUT OPENING THE APP

A running timer lives on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Stop it with one tap, or adjust how bad it is without ever opening Wanes.

Home Screen widgets start a symptom at the severity you choose, in one tap. Lock Screen widgets show what is running and for how long. A Control Center control starts tracking without unlocking your phone. Or use Siri: "Track mild headache in Wanes."

SEVERITY, IF YOU WANT IT

Mild, moderate, or severe, or simply that it was there. Severity can change mid-episode, and Wanes records each stretch separately, so a headache that worsened is stored as what it actually was.

38 SYMPTOMS

Every duration-based symptom the Apple Health app supports, across nine parts of the body: head and nervous system, smell and taste, breathing and throat, heart and chest, digestion, muscles and joints, skin and hair, reproductive and urinary, and whole body.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

No account. No server. No analytics. No tracking. Wanes has no network code at all, so nothing can leave your device. Wanes only writes to Apple Health and never reads from it: it cannot see your symptoms, your activity, or anything else in your health data. Your history lives in the Apple Health app, where only you control it.

If you would rather not have symptom names on your Lock Screen, turn on Hide symptom names and Wanes shows the part of the body instead.

HONEST DATA

Wanes will not write a duration you did not confirm. Forget to stop a timer and you can discard the episode instead of guessing, because a made-up number in your health record is worse than no number.

Wanes is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, or give medical advice. Talk to a doctor about any symptom that concerns you.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://www.jdostert.com/wanes/privacy


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-21

No release notes.

## More apps by Janik Dostert

- [Days of Life - Milestones](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/days-of-life-milestones/id6738207784)
- [Sunsit Berlin](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sunsit-berlin/id6742383285)

All apps by Janik Dostert: https://appshunter.io/developer/1779781031

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