Comparison

CFS Tracker vs Autonom

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

Autonom

Features
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The autonom-e app can be configured by clinical teams as part of a clinical service, by Universities for research, or used independently through our public-facing applications. Our clinical version of the app is intended for patients registered at a clinical service which has invited them to download the app to manage their condition remotely, complete assessments, and access support resources to improve their health and wellbeing, according to the individual service’s purpose. The app may also be used for research studies who register participants onto the app to take part in projects. If you are using the app as part of a service or project, a member of staff will provide users with their login details or instructions on how to sign up for the app. Please contact a member of staff at your service or project team for support if you get stuck. We have two public facing apps as of 2025: 1 Autonom-e+ in collaboration with University of Leeds. This is free to register and comes with an optional subscription service. 2 The ME Clinical Assessment Toolkit in collaboration with ME Association. This is free to register and comes with an optional subscription service. Auto-renewable subscription options for our public apps: 1 month (£2.99) duration 1 year (£19.99) duration Your subscription will be charged to your Apple App Store account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period Current subscriptions may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your App Store Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://autonom-e.com/legal/privacy-policy/ End User Licence Agreement: https://autonom-e.com/legal/end-user-licence-agreement/

Screenshots

CFS Tracker4 screens
Autonom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Autonom at weekly against CFS Tracker's every 8 months. 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. CFS Tracker sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $4.95 per month and Autonom sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CFS Tracker ships an update every 8 months, Autonom weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
CFS Tracker versus Autonom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCFS TrackerAutonom
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size219 MB33 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperClarity Digital Therapeutics IncElaros

In-app purchases

16 purchases

CFS Tracker

Subscriptions13
  • flex pass$4.951 Month
  • easy pass$5.997 Days
  • flex pass$8.991 Month
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  • carey ai max$19.991 Month
  • yearly access$19.991 Year
  • smart pass$24.991 Year
  • carey ai ultra$29.991 Month
  • plus$29.991 Year
  • limited discount$29.991 Year
  • Premium Yearly$34.991 Year
  • yearly access3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Extended Trial3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time3
  • store credit$1.99
  • carey ai credits$8.99
  • lifetime upgrade$99.99
5 purchases

Autonom

Subscriptions5
  • Autonom-e Self Reporting$2.991 Month
  • Self-Reporting Subscription$2.991 Year
  • MEA-CAT Self Reporting$2.991 Month
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  • Autonom-e Self Reporting$19.991 Year
  • MEA-CAT Self Reporting$19.991 Year

Questions

Is CFS Tracker free?
CFS Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Autonom free?
Autonom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CFS Tracker or Autonom have ads?
Neither CFS Tracker nor Autonom shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CFS Tracker or Autonom?
CFS Tracker ships an update every 8 months, and Autonom weekly. Most recently, CFS Tracker was updated on September 9, 2026 and Autonom on September 10, 2026.

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