Chronic Insights vs Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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)
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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
Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis
Track your symptoms, medication, and lab results for Ankylosing Spondylitis. Visualize pain areas and review your health history through a calendar overview to better communicate with your doctor.
- Record pain areas visually
- Track medication intake
- Log lab results
- Calendar overview of health history
- Symptom and medicine logging
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Rapha is designed to make it easier for you to remember how you've been doing. Record your symptoms. With Rapha, you can record your pain areas visually, making it easier for you to remember and explain your pain better even after a long time has passed. Record your medicine intake. Add medicines that you take frequently and just check them off when you take them. Record your lab results. Keep track of your lab results in the same app where you record your symptoms and medicines, it makes it a whole lot easier to understand how your body is doing. Understand how you are doing. The calendar helps to give a rough and quick overview of the past months, making it easier for you to see how you’ve been and also easier for you to explain to your doctor at your next checkup. Being on top of your chronic illness doesn't have to be a pain. Make life easier for yourself with Rapha. Credits: Skeleton Image by brgfx on Freepik.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis at none against Chronic Insights's 2. Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Chronic Insights's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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
Both are free to download. Chronic Insights sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chronic Insights ships an update every 8 days, Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chronic Insights | Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (64 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 210 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Chronic Insights Ltd | Seung Hyun Lee |
Customer experience
Chronic Insights
Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis
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
Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chronic Insights
- Monthly subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Annual subscription14 Days trial$30.991 Year
Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis
No in-app purchases
Questions
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