Comparison

Trace Health vs MedSideEffectTracker

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

Head to head
About

Trace Health

Effortlessly monitor your well-being and chronic conditions with a fast, private health journal. Log symptoms, habits, and lifestyle factors with one tap to uncover trends and generate reports for your doctor.

Highlights
  • Track 60+ symptoms across 12 categories
  • Log daily habits and lifestyle factors
  • Create custom symptoms
  • Instant one-tap logging
  • Discover trends and triggers
  • Generate PDF reports for doctors
  • Sync with Apple Health
Features
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Trace Health is the easiest, most private symptom and mood tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch, made for people living with chronic conditions. Log any symptom, your daily mood or your period in one tap, see how they evolve over days, weeks and months, find what triggers or relieves them, and share a clear PDF report with your doctor. Tracking your symptoms is free. Track your symptoms privately, without an account. No sign-up, no personal info ever requested. Your data stays on your iPhone by default, with optional private iCloud backup. Trace Health never collects, shares, or sells your health data. Easy, even on bad days. No forms, no typing, no setup: choose your conditions and tap. Log straight from a Home Screen widget, the Lock Screen or your Apple Watch, without opening the app. NEW: Cycle insights. Log your period and see which symptoms your cycle makes worse, like headaches the week before your period, and what to expect in the days ahead. Find your triggers and relievers. Log daily habits (food, sleep, stress, exercise, medications, weather) alongside your symptoms, and Trace Health shows you what makes your symptoms and your mood better or worse. KEY FEATURES • Track 100+ symptoms across 12 categories, or create your own. • Choose from 34 conditions, including migraine, Long COVID, ME/CFS, POTS, fibromyalgia, MCAS, IBS, endometriosis, PCOS, PMDD, perimenopause, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, PTSD, axial spondyloarthritis, FND and herpes (HSV), to set up the right symptoms and activities automatically. • Log your mood once a day, add a private note, and fill in the days you missed. • See what lifts or weighs on your mood, how it changes when a symptom flares, and compare any symptom or activity with your mood. • Follow your cycle: cycle and period length, estimated next period, fertile window and a cycle calendar. • Log symptoms in one tap, with the exact time, severity changes, duration, notes and photos. • Discover your Year in Pixels, trends, and insights in clear, interactive charts. • Generate doctor-ready PDF reports, mood included, to share with your doctor. • Symptom and mood tracker for Apple Watch: tap a symptom to set its severity, tap an activity to count it, swipe to set today's mood, check the last 7 days, and add Trace complications to your watch face. • Log symptoms and mood from Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets without opening the app, and see how many symptoms are still active at a glance. • Keep a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island: every active symptom in one card, tap to change severity or mark it gone. • Two-way Apple Health sync: send your symptoms, activities and daily mood, and import your workouts, sleep, moods and periods to see how they affect your symptoms. • Set reminders for your medication and daily routines, and smart reminders that keep your symptom history accurate. • Track multiple profiles (yourself, kids, partner, and others). • Build your own Shortcuts automations for symptoms and activities. • Download your data as CSV. FREE TO TRACK YOUR SYMPTOMS For most people, Trace Health is a free app to track symptoms: 100+ symptoms and 34 conditions, one-tap logging, your daily mood and cycle, trends, insights and doctor reports for the last 30 days. Premium is for people who need more: your own symptoms and activities, deeper insights, the Apple Watch app, Apple Health sync, Home Screen widgets, family profiles and unlimited history. Download Trace Health today and take control of your health, privately.

About

MedSideEffectTracker

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MedSideEffectTracker helps you understand which medication is linked to which side effect — privately, on your device. Log medications and symptoms in seconds, see pattern signals over time, and export a doctor‑ready PDF with one tap. Why it helps Track meds and symptoms side‑by‑side See correlation signals without AI or cloud processing Record severity, timing, and duration Keep everything 100% on‑device Export a clean PDF report for your clinician Built for privacy No accounts, no trackers, no cloud sync. Your data stays local. Export only when you choose. Perfect for Managing multiple medications Preparing for doctor appointments Identifying possible side‑effect patterns Keeping a clean medical timeline Free trial included Full access for 7 days, then unlock with a yearly plan or one time purchase. Medical note MedSideEffectTracker is not a medical device. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/macapps/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Trace Health4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trace Health at none against MedSideEffectTracker's 2. Trace Health also leads on device support. On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MedSideEffectTracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Trace Health asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Trace Health versus MedSideEffectTracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrace HealthMedSideEffectTracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — better—
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon Berger-PerrinBarkah Nyadar

In-app purchases

None

Trace Health

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

MedSideEffectTracker

Subscriptions1
  • Annual Access7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Complete Access$19.99

Questions

Is Trace Health free?
Trace Health is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MedSideEffectTracker free?
MedSideEffectTracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

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