Comparison

Trace Health vs Tended

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 simplest, most private symptom tracker for iPhone. Log any symptom in one tap, see how it evolves over days, weeks and months, and share a clear PDF report with your doctor. Your health data stays private. No account, 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. Find your triggers and relievers. Log daily habits (food, sleep, stress, exercise, medications, weather) alongside your symptoms, and Trace Health shows you what makes them better or worse. WHY TRACE? Most health apps are cluttered, slow, and data-hungry. Trace Health is different. Tracking your health should be simple, fast, and private. KEY FEATURES • Track 90+ symptoms across 12 categories (Neurology, Gut Health, Sleep, and more). • Choose from 29 conditions—including Long COVID, ME/CFS, POTS, migraine, fibromyalgia, MCAS, asthma, IBS, endometriosis, PCOS, PMDD, and more—to automatically add relevant symptoms and activities to track on your homepage. • Track daily habits (activity, meds, drinks, mood, etc.) to understand how your lifestyle impacts your health. • Create and track your own custom symptoms. • Log symptoms instantly with one tap. • Add notes and photos to capture context. • Discover heatmaps, trends, and insights to understand what triggers or relieves your symptoms. • Review your history with clear, interactive charts. • Set reminders for your medication and other important daily routines. • Track multiple profiles (yourself, kids, partner, and others). • Generate professional PDF reports for your doctor. • Sync 40+ symptoms and activities with Apple Health. • Log instantly with iOS widgets. • Smart reminders keep your symptom history accurate. • Download your data as CSV. PRIVACY FIRST Your health data is sensitive. Trace Health is built Local-First. • No servers, your data stays on your iPhone. • No accounts, no sign-up required. • No tracking, your health data is never collected or sold. Activate the optional private iCloud Backup to securely restore your data if you change phones or reinstall the app. EARLY ACCESS Trace Health is currently free. Enjoy unlimited doctor reports, full history access, and Apple Health sync while we grow our community. Download Trace Health today and take control of your health, privately.

About

Tended

This health journal helps you track chronic illness symptoms, pain, and daily well-being. Log entries quickly, even on difficult days, and identify potential patterns to better prepare for doctor appointments. It's designed for fluctuating conditions and prioritizes your privacy.

Highlights
  • Log symptoms, pain, energy, mood, and more
  • Identify patterns and potential triggers
  • Prepare for doctor appointments with reports
  • Condition-specific starter sets
  • On-device AI for descriptions
  • Privacy-focused with no data collection
Features
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Track chronic illness without turning your health into homework. Tended is a privacy-first health journal and symptom tracker for people living with long-term symptoms, pain, fatigue, flares, and appointments that never quite fit into ten minutes. Log in seconds, notice possible patterns, and prepare for doctor appointments without streaks, guilt, accounts, analytics, data collection, or external servers. LOG IN SECONDS, EVEN ON HARD DAYS When thinking is hard, Tended keeps logging light. Record a day rating, symptoms, pain, medications, energy, sleep, mood, bowel changes, food, triggers, activities, periods, photos, and notes at your own pace. Use Apple Watch, widgets, Siri, the Lock Screen, or the full app when opening your phone feels like too much. Duplicate yesterday, edit only what changed, or describe your day in your own words with optional on-device AI. BUILT FOR CHRONIC ILLNESS Tended is made for fluctuating conditions where a normal habit tracker does not fit. Use it as a chronic illness journal, symptom tracker, pain tracker, medication tracker, flare tracker, energy tracking tool, sleep tracking companion, and body map. Condition starter sets help you begin with relevant symptoms and triggers for fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, lupus, endometriosis, PMOS / PCOS, POTS, EDS, migraine, MS, IBD, PMDD, and many more. SEE PATTERNS IN YOUR OWN DATA Your journal can become more useful over time. Tended may help you notice possible links between symptoms, medications, food, sleep, activity, weather, Apple Health averages, menstrual cycle phases, flares, and better days. Insights are based on what you log yourself. They are self-reported observations, not clinical findings, so you stay in charge of what feels useful. PREPARE FOR APPOINTMENTS When brain fog arrives before your appointment, Tended helps you bring the important parts with you. Use Doctor Mode, appointment notes, body map history, medication adherence, symptom trends, focused visual reports, and PDF health reports to explain what has been happening. Tended+ unlocks longer history, deeper pattern insights, trigger experiments, appointment-ready PDF health reports, focused evidence and care PDFs, and CSV export for people who want to go deeper. STAY CONNECTED, WITHOUT OVERSHARING If you choose, Tended can help you share small practical updates with someone you trust through Supported, the carer companion app. Send a quiet check-in, a quick need, or a regular summary without exposing your whole private journal. FREE FOREVER. NO GUILT. Every tracking feature is free and unlimited. There are no streaks, no shame, and no "you missed a day" messages. Tended+ is for people who want longer-term insight and appointment-ready reports. The free journal stays useful on its own. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No analytics. No data collection. No external server. Your journal lives on your device or in your personal iCloud. Apple Health data is read only when you allow it. Optional on-device AI features run on your device where available; your journal is not sent to Cocoacorn servers. Use Tended gently, at your own pace. Bring what helps. Leave the rest. MEDICAL DISCLAIMER Tended is a personal health journal, not a medical device or clinical tool. It is not a substitute for medical advice or emergency support. Content is based on what you log yourself and may be incomplete or inaccurate. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional for medical decisions. Tended does not monitor journal entries for distress. If you are in crisis, contact local emergency or crisis support. Terms of Use: https://www.cocoacorn.com/tended/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.cocoacorn.com/tended/privacy

Screenshots

Trace Health4 screens
Tended4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trace Health at none against Tended's 1. Trace Health also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2). Tended's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Tended sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Trace Health asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Trace Health holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Trace Health's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tended's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trace Health ships an update every 3 days, Tended every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Trace Health versus Tended: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrace HealthTended
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (14 ratings) — better4.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon Berger-PerrinGeoff Davis

Customer experience

Trace Health

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Tended

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Trace Health

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tended

One-time1
  • Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Trace Health free?
Trace Health is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tended free?
Tended is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Trace Health or Tended?
Trace Health is rated higher. Trace Health averages 4.6 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Tended averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Trace Health or Tended have ads?
Neither Trace Health nor Tended shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Trace Health or Tended?
Trace Health ships an update every 3 days, and Tended every 4 days. Most recently, Trace Health was updated on September 10, 2026 and Tended on September 15, 2026.

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