Chronic Insights vs Brain Smart
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
Brain Smart
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Welcome to the Brain Smart® App! Your brain shapes your behaviour and how you experience the world. Brain Smart® is a practical, educational app designed to help you understand how your brain works. Through short lessons and simple exercises, you learn to notice reactions, respond smarter and support better wellbeing. Brain Smart® is not a therapy. It is practical knowledge for everyday life. For urgent mental health support dial 999. Notice your reactions, respond smarter, live better!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brain Smart at none against Chronic Insights's 4. Chronic Insights's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Brain Smart asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chronic Insights ships an update every 8 days, Brain Smart every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chronic Insights | Brain Smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (63 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 210 MB | 207 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chronic Insights Ltd | Jamma International |
In-app purchases
Chronic Insights
- Monthly subscription7 Days trial$2.491 Month
- Monthly subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Annual subscription14 Days trial$14.991 Year
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- Annual subscription14 Days trial$30.991 Year
Brain Smart
No in-app purchases
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