Comparison

FlareTrack vs Ember

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

Head to head
About

FlareTrack

Track your health, symptoms, and daily patterns to understand chronic conditions. Visualize your health with a heatmap and gain AI-powered insights to identify triggers and causes. Prepare for doctor visits with detailed health summaries and store your medical history securely.

Highlights
  • Symptom and flare logging
  • Pattern identification with AI insights
  • Personal health heatmap
  • Doctor Visit Mode summaries
  • Health Vault for medical history
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Living with a chronic condition means constantly trying to explain how you feel — to doctors, to family, to yourself. FlareTrack gives you the tools to track, understand, and communicate your health like never before. Log flares, good days, symptoms, triggers, sleep, energy, pain levels, and mood so you can finally see the patterns driving your condition. Your personal health heatmap shows exactly when your worst days happen and why, while AI-powered insights find connections you might miss. Never struggle to explain your symptoms again — Doctor Visit Mode generates a detailed health summary before every appointment so you walk in with confidence and proof. Store your diagnoses, medications, and medical history in your Health Vault, and connect Apple Health to automatically sync your activity, heart rate, and sleep for a complete picture of your wellbeing. Built for people living with autoimmune conditions, fibromyalgia, Crohn's disease, lupus, chronic fatigue, and any condition that affects daily life — because you deserve answers, and FlareTrack helps you find them. Our terms and conditions are at myflaretrack.com/#terms Medical Disclaimer: FlareTrack is a personal symptom-tracking journal and is not a medical device. It does not provide medical diagnoses, treatment, or professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions about a medical condition, and before making any medical decisions. Never disregard professional medical advice because of something you read in this app.

About

Ember

Features
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Check yourself against WPI and SSS, the ACR fibromyalgia criteria rheumatologists use, free and in about a minute. Ember is a pain, fatigue and fog tracker built for fibromyalgia. It turns your daily reality into evidence your doctor can use. THE CHECKLISTS CLINICIANS USE, FREE • WPI (Widespread Pain Index) and SSS (Symptom Severity Scale) from the ACR 2016 criteria, two taps from opening the app • FIQR monthly, to track how much fibro affects your week • GAD-7 and PHQ-8 for anxiety and low mood, the ones your doctor will ask about • Scores and trends over time, explained in plain English and ready to bring to a visit LOG IN SECONDS, EVEN ON FLARE DAYS • Tap colour bands for pain, fatigue, fog and sleep. No forms, no typing • Bad day? Two taps logs the minimum, or one press of the Action button • Shortcuts for pain, fatigue and bad days, so you can log without opening Ember • Missed days? Catch up in one go. Body map with 11 regions, morning and evening kept apart SEE WHAT IS BEHIND YOUR FLARES • Five days of barometric pressure ahead, with the roughest day named, free • Plain-language patterns such as "Pain +31% after nights under 5 hours" • Every flare written up: how long it ran, what the three days before it looked like, and what helped • Each medication gets its own page and its own schedule: several times a day, certain days, every few days, or only when needed. The reminder names the drug, and you log the dose from the notification • Stopped a medication? It stays, with its history, ready to restart • Body signal: HRV, resting heart rate and steps from Apple Health against your own 30-day usual • Ask Ember: questions answered from your own logs, on your device, with no chatbot and no invented numbers WITH EMBER PRO • Flare Radar reads your own patterns and tells you at 8pm whether tomorrow is one to keep light • Pacing warnings during the day, while a crash can still be avoided • Every pattern, the cycle overlay and your complete history, not just the last 30 days • Appointment mode drafts your questions, shows your numbers in large type, and records what changed • Share your last 30 days as a one-page PDF made on your device, no AI and no internet • One AI Visit Brief a month that turns your logs into a page your clinician can read in under a minute • Experiments: drop one factor for two weeks and compare, sample size included ALSO • Apple Watch app for two-tap logging, plus Home and Lock Screen widgets • Goals where a day too unwell to log does not break the streak • Your own measurements beside your pain: water, weight, blood pressure PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your logs live on your device and in your private iCloud • Your logs reach our server only when you generate an AI brief. They are processed in memory, never stored, never sold • Ember also sends anonymous usage events, such as which screens you reach, to work out what to improve. Never what you logged, and you can switch it off in Settings • Erase everything you have logged from Settings at any time Ember Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly with a 7-day free trial, or yearly. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. Ember is a wellness tool for self-assessment, not a medical device. It does not diagnose or treat any condition. Always work with your clinician. Privacy Policy: https://www.velorahealth.io/ember/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.velorahealth.io/ember/terms

Screenshots

FlareTrack4 screens
Ember4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FlareTrack at every 6 days against Ember's every 2 weeks. FlareTrack also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. FlareTrack sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Ember sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FlareTrack ships an update every 6 days, Ember every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
FlareTrack versus Ember: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlareTrackEmber
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB7 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperSohail SaleemNgo Pham Huy

In-app purchases

2 purchases

FlareTrack

Subscriptions2
  • FlareTrack Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • FlareTrack Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
2 purchases

Ember

Subscriptions2
  • Ember Pro Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Ember Pro Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is FlareTrack free?
FlareTrack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ember free?
Ember is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FlareTrack or Ember have ads?
Neither FlareTrack nor Ember shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FlareTrack or Ember?
FlareTrack ships an update every 6 days, and Ember every 2 weeks. Most recently, FlareTrack was updated on October 31, 2026 and Ember on October 30, 2026.

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