Comparison

Tarn. vs Kinteba

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

Head to head
About

Tarn.

Features
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A private health journal that puts your privacy first. YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE Everything you log stays on your phone. No accounts. No cloud. No servers. Your health data is encrypted with a PIN only you know. SIMPLE TRACKING • Log daily entries with minimal effort • Track patterns over time • View predictions based on your history • Add notes and custom symptoms BUILT FOR PRIVACY • All data encrypted on your device • No internet connection required • No analytics or tracking • Open source - verify our claims yourself SECURE BY DESIGN • PIN protection with automatic data protection • Optional safety PIN for emergencies • Choose your app icon for discretion Whether you're tracking for health awareness, planning purposes, or personal records, Tarn gives you a simple, private way to understand your patterns without compromising your data. No subscriptions. No ads. No data collection. Just a journal that respects your privacy.

About

Kinteba

Features
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Kinteba is a daily logbook for people living with long-lasting symptoms. You log your day in about thirty seconds, on a five-level scale: none, a little, moderate, a lot, maximum. No text to write, no forms. A day when everything is as usual takes a single tap. YOU DON’T START FROM A BLANK PAGE The first time you open the app, you pick your starter kit from twenty-four: fibromyalgia, migraine, endometriosis, ME/CFS, long COVID, Crohn’s, Hashimoto’s, lupus, osteoarthritis… or you go with the free-form kit. The trackers that go with it are already in place, and you change them as you like. Six are shared by all kits: fatigue, difficult night, sleep duration, low mood, nervous tension, brain fog. WHAT YOU CAN LOG • How you feel today, and the trackers you add yourself • Pain pinpointed on a body map, front and back • Your treatments, at set times or as needed, and the doses you actually took • Meals and context: coffee, gluten, alcohol, night away from home, major event… • Your menstrual cycle, if you turn it on • Your sports or other activities • The day’s weather and pollen, recorded automatically WHAT KINTEBA SHOWS YOU From 14 logged days on, the app looks for coincidences between what you log and how you feel. It only shows a pattern if it holds for 2 weeks in a row, and tells you simply: “The level of ‘Fatigue’ is noticeably higher on days with ‘Coffee’. Compared over 23 days with and 20 without.” These are patterns in your own entries. Not causes, not advice, never a diagnosis. THE DOCTOR SHEET In one tap, Kinteba prepares a page to put on your doctor’s desk: the period, what keeps coming back, the doses, your questions. It’s all made on your phone, and you choose what goes out. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU No account. No server. No ads. Your entries are stored on your phone, and nowhere else. You can export all your data as CSV at any time, and take your journal to another phone in a file encrypted with a passphrase only you know. FREE, AND PAID Free: unlimited logging, full history, the body map, treatments, charts and CSV export. Kinteba Plus unlocks automatic patterns across all your factors, experiments, weather and pollen, the PDF doctor sheet, appointment preparation and advanced trends. A one-week free trial, then a monthly or yearly subscription, or a lifetime purchase. Kinteba is not a medical device. It records and displays what you log. It doesn’t replace your doctor. Terms of Use (EULA): https://goursau.com/kinteba/conditions.html Privacy Policy: https://goursau.com/kinteba/confidentialite.html

Screenshots

Tarn.4 screens
Kinteba4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tarn. at none against Kinteba's 2. Tarn. also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Kinteba sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Tarn. asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Tarn. versus Kinteba: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTarn.Kinteba
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersuite 110 llcJérôme Goursau

In-app purchases

None

Tarn.

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Kinteba

Subscriptions1
  • Kinteba Plus — monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Kinteba Plus — lifetime$69.99

Questions

Is Tarn. free?
Tarn. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kinteba free?
Kinteba is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tarn. or Kinteba have ads?
Neither Tarn. nor Kinteba shows ads.

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