Comparison

Chronic Insights vs Shift | Empowering Change

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Chronic Insights

This app allows users with chronic health conditions to meticulously track symptoms, vital signs, medications, and potential triggers. Visualize your health data with customizable charts and export it for your healthcare providers. Premium features offer advanced pain visualization and environmental data integration.

Highlights
  • Track unlimited symptoms and vitals
  • Integrate Apple Health data
  • Visualize data with custom charts
  • Track medications and triggers
  • Export data to PDF and spreadsheets
  • 3D pain visualization (premium)
  • Weather and air quality tracking (premium)
Features
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The privacy-first, ad-free, premium symptom diary that people with chronic health conditions deserve, made by a disabled entrepreneur who lives with a painful autoimmune condition called axial spondyloarthritis. Free features include: - track unlimited symptoms and customise them to your needs - bring in heart rate, activity and sleep data from Apple Health - track unlimited vital measurements (eg blood pressure, blood glucose, menstrual flow and many more) - track unlimited medications - track unlimited factors (things which might trigger or help your symptoms) - view everything as beautiful, informative and customisable charts - track mood - track body measurements - track your condition with health impact questionnaires such as the BASDAI and BASFI for axial spondyloarthritis - record blood test results and urine test results - configure items as line charts or bar charts to fit your needs - tag, sort, filter and archive items - create your own custom analysis charts to compare items and spot trends - export to PDF - mindfulness breathing exercises - backup to your own private Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive account - no ads, no personally identifiable data collected or sold Support my work by subscribing to these optional premium features: - make your pain visible by "painting" the location of your chronic pain onto interactive 3D models which you can rotate and zoom - paint onto joints and bone to record rheumatic pain - view your pain as a 3D "heatmap" and animated timeline - quick-record symptoms using your Apple Watch (Apple Watch app does not function standalone and requires a linked iPhone running the Chronic Insights mobile app) - view up to 1 year of weather data including temperature, pressure, humidity and precipitation to see if they affect your symptoms - get a 3 day weather and air quality forecast - export all data to a spreadsheet

About

Shift | Empowering Change

Features
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SHIFT is an inclusive health & fitness HGV driver community, designed to drive change and encourage a healthier lifestyle. Promoting better habits for YOU to make better choices. * App access requires paid coaching plan Terms of use: https://kahunas.io/terms-conditions Privacy policy: https://kahunas.io/privacy

Screenshots

Chronic Insights4 screens
Shift | Empowering Change3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chronic Insights at every 8 days against Shift | Empowering Change's every 6 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chronic Insights sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Shift | Empowering Change sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $199.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chronic Insights ships an update every 8 days, Shift | Empowering Change every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Chronic Insights versus Shift | Empowering Change: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChronic InsightsShift | Empowering Change
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (64 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings64 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size210 MB51 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperChronic Insights LtdWe Are Shift Limited

Bugs and requests

Chronic Insights

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Heat map crashes the app
  • Charts show dots instead of bars after update
  • 3D modeling not functional during trial
  • App crashes randomly
  • Export feature not loading data
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  • Export feature crashes app
  • Music pauses when using 3D model
  • App randomly pauses music outside of 3D model

Requested features

14 requests
  • iCloud backup option
  • Apple Cloud backup integration
  • Track menstrual cycle and peri/menopause symptoms
  • Guidance notes on feature usage
  • Apple Watch integration (for Fitbit users)
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  • Ability to track time of medicine intake
  • More options for disorders
  • Device sharing functionality
  • Overall heatmap/timeline with all symptoms
  • Option to erase color in 3D model
  • Option to move text boxes in 3D model
  • Start and stop time entry for durations
  • Menstruation/ovulation under factors
  • Export feature refinement

Shift | Empowering Change

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Chronic Insights

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Annual subscription14 Days trial$30.991 Year
1 purchases

Shift | Empowering Change

Subscriptions1
  • Shift 66$199.001 Month

Questions

Is Chronic Insights free?
Chronic Insights is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shift | Empowering Change free?
Shift | Empowering Change is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chronic Insights or Shift | Empowering Change have ads?
Neither Chronic Insights nor Shift | Empowering Change shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chronic Insights or Shift | Empowering Change?
Chronic Insights ships an update every 8 days, and Shift | Empowering Change every 6 weeks. Most recently, Chronic Insights was updated on November 7, 2026 and Shift | Empowering Change on October 27, 2026.

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