Comparison

Chronic Insights vs Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis

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

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.

Highlights
  • Record pain areas visually
  • Track medication intake
  • Log lab results
  • Calendar overview of health history
  • Symptom and medicine logging
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Chronic Insights4 screens
Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Chronic Insights versus Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChronic InsightsRapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (64 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings64 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size210 MB5 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperChronic Insights LtdSeung Hyun Lee

Customer experience

Chronic Insights

All ratings51 ratings
Positive86.3%
Neutral7.8%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive83.8%
Neutral10.8%
Negative5.4%

Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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)
Show 9 more
  • 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

2 purchases

Chronic Insights

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Annual subscription14 Days trial$30.991 Year
None

Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chronic Insights free?
Chronic Insights is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis free?
Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chronic Insights or Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis have ads?
Neither Chronic Insights nor Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chronic Insights or Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis?
Chronic Insights ships an update every 8 days, and Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis every 6 weeks. Most recently, Chronic Insights was updated on November 7, 2026 and Rapha, Ankylosing Spondylitis on October 30, 2026.

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