Comparison

Soothe Note vs Chemo Smart Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Soothe Note

This app helps cancer patients and their caregivers track daily health, symptoms, mood, and medications. It provides insights into patterns, helps organize appointments, and facilitates sharing clear health information with the care team. It also offers tools for encouragement and grounding during treatment.

Highlights
  • Track daily health logs
  • Understand health patterns
  • Organize appointments and medications
  • Share health summaries with care team
  • Patient and Caregiver modes
  • Breathing tools and encouragement
Features
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Soothe Note is a free, privacy-first cancer tracker for patients, survivors, caregivers, and families managing treatment, recovery, and life between appointments. Built by two high school students, one with caregiving experience and one a two-time cancer survivor, Soothe Note helps organize the details that are easy to forget on low-energy days. DAILY CHECK-INS • Track mood and energy • Log symptoms and intensity • Mark affected areas on a body chart • Add tags and small wins • Use voice input • Review past check-ins SYMPTOM TRACKING Track symptoms, pain, side effects, intensity, and body location over time. Edit or delete entries anytime and review patterns before appointments. MEDICATION TRACKING • Add medication names, doses, and schedules • Record doses taken, skipped, or taken as needed • Track missed-dose reasons and side effects • Monitor supply and refills • Review adherence and streaks • Set reminders and export your medication list TRUSTED HEALTH INFORMATION Look up plain-language information from public U.S. health sources. • Learn about a symptom with articles from MedlinePlus • Look up a medication and see its active ingredient, including for brand names • Find official FDA labels on DailyMed • See current FDA drug shortages and recalls Only the word you look up is sent, never your name or records. Sources are always shown. APPOINTMENT PLANNING • Save dates, times, providers, and locations • Prepare questions and pre-visit notes • Add private post-visit notes • Export appointments to your calendar • Review symptoms and medications before a visit HEALTH INSIGHTS & REPORTS • See mood, energy, symptom, and medication trends • Review symptom intensity and adherence • View your health history in one place • Create, print, email, or download doctor-ready reports • See what has changed since your last visit, including new or worsening symptoms, missed medications, upcoming appointments, and other updates PRIVATE JOURNAL Write reflections, track mood, and save important thoughts. Journal entries are end-to-end encrypted before they sync. PATIENT & CAREGIVER CONNECTION Patients can choose to share updates with trusted caregivers using a secure sharing code. Caregiver access is read-only by default. Caregivers can: • Link multiple patients • See recent check-ins and updates • Review symptoms, medications, and appointments • See plain-language alerts for important changes • Share care handoff notes • Send gentle support pings • Prepare information for doctor visits • Complete caregiver wellness check-ins BUILT FOR PRIVACY • No ads • No social feed • No third-party tracking • End-to-end encrypted journal entries • Health lookups never include your personal information • Secure accounts and offline-first storage • Data export tools • Full account and data deletion anytime DESIGNED FOR LOW-ENERGY DAYS Cancer care is already complicated. Soothe Note uses clear navigation, quick actions, voice input, and simple workflows so important information can be recorded without adding more stress. WHO IT'S FOR • Cancer patients and survivors • Parents, family members, and caregivers • People managing medications and side effects • Patients preparing for doctor visits Soothe Note is free to use. MEDICAL DISCLAIMER Soothe Note is an organizational and informational tool. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, emergency monitoring, or treatment. Health reference information comes from MedlinePlus, RxNorm, DailyMed, and openFDA. Soothe Note is not affiliated with or endorsed by these agencies. Always contact your doctor or care team with medical questions, and do not stop or change a medication without talking to them. Contact emergency services during a medical emergency.

About

Chemo Smart Tracker

This app helps cancer patients and caregivers manage treatment by tracking cycles, logging symptoms, and organizing medications. It offers AI-powered insights into side effects and provides a calm, user-friendly interface for navigating chemo life.

Highlights
  • Track treatment cycles
  • Log daily symptoms
  • Manage medications
  • AI-powered insights
  • Guided exercises
  • Drug catalog with info
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Chemo Smart Tracker helps cancer patients and caregivers navigate treatment with clarity and calm. Track your treatment cycles, log daily symptoms, manage medications, and understand patterns in how you're feeling — all in one place, designed for the realities of chemo life. Just say it Speak your day — "terrible nausea last night, took my anti-nausea pill three hours ago" — and the app turns it into entries you review and confirm before anything is saved. Speech recognition runs entirely on your device. Your day, on one page Today is a living record: simple cards showing what matters right now, and every entry in one clean, readable document below. Log with a tap, correct anything from any day, and trust that what you delete stays deleted. Your treatment, organized Build your full plan — chemo, immunotherapy, radiation, surgery — with cycle timelines, drug details, and appointment tracking. Tap any drug name to see what it is and what to expect. Medications, with doses where you need them Every medication shows its dose right where you log it — tap to adjust when today was different, or set it in a tap if it's missing. Built-in drug reference, duplicate detection, and easy correction of times and doses without deleting and starting over. Track what matters to you The symptom library covers 20+ common chemo side effects with clear severity scales. Don't see what you need? Create custom symptoms in seconds — track exactly what your body is doing. Connect Apple Health Bring in your activity and sleep so your symptom trends and doctor reports have fuller context. It's read-only — you choose exactly what's shared, and you can disconnect any time. Even a three-minute walk counts. Insights without the overwhelm Three simple groups — how you're feeling, body & activity, and your care team's reports. Open what you need, dive deeper when you want to, and leave the rest closed. Ready for every appointment A plain-words visit summary to talk through in the room, and a clinical PDF of your patient-reported outcomes your oncologist can file — plus suggested questions before each visit, so your time with your care team counts. For the person beside you Share access with a caregiver and they get their own care view: how you're doing at a glance, your medications with when each was last given, and your care team's number one tap away. They see only what you share. Built for patients, not paperwork No clinical jargon. No overwhelming dashboards. Just a warm, quiet space to stay on top of your treatment and feel a little more in control.

Screenshots

Soothe Note4 screens
Chemo Smart Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chemo Smart Tracker at 5.0 against Soothe Note's 4.7. Soothe Note's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chemo Smart Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Soothe Note has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Soothe Note ships an update every 5 days, Chemo Smart Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and August 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Soothe Note versus Chemo Smart Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSoothe NoteChemo Smart Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (21 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings21 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB23 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperTeddy AaronTouch Grass AB

Customer experience

Soothe Note

All ratings21 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral9.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Chemo Smart Tracker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Soothe Note

No in-app purchases

None

Chemo Smart Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Soothe Note free?
Soothe Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chemo Smart Tracker free?
Chemo Smart Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Soothe Note or Chemo Smart Tracker?
Chemo Smart Tracker is rated higher. Soothe Note averages 4.7 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Chemo Smart Tracker averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Soothe Note or Chemo Smart Tracker have ads?
Neither Soothe Note nor Chemo Smart Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Soothe Note or Chemo Smart Tracker?
Soothe Note ships an update every 5 days, and Chemo Smart Tracker weekly. Most recently, Soothe Note was updated on September 17, 2026 and Chemo Smart Tracker on August 5, 2026.

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