WatchME vs CFS Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WatchME
This app assists individuals diagnosed with ME/CFS in managing their energy levels by monitoring daily heart rate, stand time, steps, and distance. It integrates with HealthKit to track various health metrics and allows users to set personalized thresholds for alerts on their phone and watch.
- Pacing within capacity envelope
- Heart rate monitoring
- Stand time tracking
- Step and distance tracking
- HealthKit integration
- Customizable alert thresholds
- Watch face complications for alerts
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For people diagnosed with ME/CFS. This app helps you to pace and stay within your capacity envelope. Use your watch and phone to monitor your daily heart rate, stand time, steps and distance. Integrated with HealthKit. This app uses the Health app to monitor resting, average and maximum heart rates, heart rate variability, stand time, step count, walking distance and active energy. Set your individual thresholds for nominal, caution, warning and critical levels. Keep an eye on your status on your phone and watch. Add complications to your watch face to alert you when you cross thresholds. Please note: at least one complication is required on the active watch face for background alerts. Alerts on the watch are not instantaneous - background checking occurs at intervals during the day. USE THIS APP ONLY WITH THE ADVICE AND SUPPORT OF YOUR PHYSICIAN.
CFS Tracker
This app helps individuals manage energy-limiting chronic illnesses by tracking symptoms, pacing, medications, and daily activities. It provides insights into patterns and trends to better understand health and communicate with healthcare providers.
- Log diverse symptoms including fatigue and brain fog
- Track medications, supplements, and treatments
- Record activity, rest, sleep, and nutrition
- Customize tracking for personal health patterns
- Set reminders for health routines
- Monitor post-exertional malaise (PEM) and crashes
- Review symptom trends with charts and summaries
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Feeling overwhelmed by chronic fatigue, brain fog, low energy, and unpredictable symptoms? Cifora is a dedicated CFS/ME tracker and chronic fatigue journal built for energy-limiting conditions. Track symptoms, pacing, PEM patterns, medications, supplements, sleep, mood, pain, activity, and rest, alongside Apple Health data, in one simple place. Living with an invisible illness often means balancing activity, rest, routines, treatments, appointments, and daily responsibilities. Cifora helps you organize your health notes and review your own patterns over time, so you can keep clearer records of difficult days, flares, PEM, and crashes. Built for people tracking ME/CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis, long COVID, post-viral fatigue, fibromyalgia, POTS, dysautonomia, migraines, MCAS, IBD, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and other complex multisystem, energy-limiting conditions. Key features: 1. Log symptoms including fatigue, brain fog, muscle pain, joint pain, headaches, dizziness, nausea, palpitations, insomnia, sleep issues, post-activity symptoms, and other invisible symptoms 2. Track medications, supplements, treatments, care routines, appointments, and personal health notes 3. Record activity, rest breaks, sleep quality, hydration, nutrition, mood, pain, social activity, and daily energy levels 4. Customize your symptom tracker around your own health, pacing, fatigue, and energy patterns 5. Set reminders for medications, supplements, symptom check-ins, hydration, sleep, rest, and routine tracking 6. Keep a record of post-exertional malaise (PEM) patterns, energy dips, symptom flares, and energy crashes over time 7. Review charts and summaries of symptom trends across mild, moderate, severe, crash, and recovery days 8. Keep a connected health record Everything is designed for low cognitive load. Quick entries, customizable fields, reminders, charts, summaries, and reports help you stay consistent without feeling overwhelmed, even during high fatigue or brain fog. Use Cifora to keep clearer records, prepare for appointments, organize invisible symptoms, understand your own history, and communicate more clearly with your healthcare providers. Whether you are tracking mild, moderate, or severe days, Cifora gives you a flexible structure for daily chronic fatigue and ME/CFS tracking across energy, symptoms, sleep, pain, activity, rest, medications, supplements, nutrition, hydration, mood, and appointments. Your data stays private, encrypted, and under your control. You can export your records or delete your account at any time. We do not sell your health information to third parties. Disclaimer: Cifora is for tracking, journaling, educational, and informational purposes only. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, or monitor any disease or medical condition. Always seek a doctor's advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions, including before changing medications, supplements, treatments, activity levels, or care routines. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WatchME at 4.4 against CFS Tracker's 3.0. WatchME also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 16) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 8 months). CFS Tracker's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). 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. CFS Tracker sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $4.95 per month. WatchME asks for nothing beyond the download.
WatchME holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WatchME has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
WatchME ships an update every 6 weeks, CFS Tracker every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WatchME | CFS Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (13 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 219 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | +4 |
| Developer | David Davies-Payne | Digital Therapeutics |
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WatchME
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WatchME
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