Comparison

ReliefLink vs Bearable

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

Head to head
About

ReliefLink

This app offers confidential mental health support, including personalized profiles, mood tracking, safety planning, and coping exercises. It also features a map locator for mental health facilities and emergency contact options.

Highlights
  • Personalized mental health profile
  • Mood and thought tracking
  • Safety plan creation
  • Coping methods and relaxation exercises
  • Map locator for mental health facilities
  • Emergency contact options
Features
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*ReliefLink is an innovative free app developed specifically for suicide prevention and more generally for improving your mental health that brings confidential and supportive help right to the palm of your hand! ReliefLink enables you to create a personalized profile that includes pertinent information such as your mental health professional’s contact info, insurance coverage, and current medications. Track your mood and thoughts daily, create a safety plan, make a list of reminders (e.g. appointments, take medication, etc.) and check out the unique coping methods such as voice-recorded mindfulness and relaxation exercises or simply enjoy relaxing music! Need to find mental health help near you, especially in a crisis? Use the Map Locator to find the closest hospitals or other mental health treatment facilities. You can also find help through the therapist and support group links. **Use the Emergency button to view options such as Call 911, Helpline, Counselor, and more. And for encouraging messages or up-to-date mental health news from the ReliefLink Team, follow us on Twitter @relieflink! The ReliefLink App was developed for the purpose of entry into the SAMHSA Suicide Prevention: Continuity of Care and Follow-Up Mobile App Challenge in August 2013. The app won 1st place in the contest in September 2013 and was presented at the White House. *This is app is a supplemental tool to help the user manage his/her daily mental health, monitor suicidal feelings and thoughts, and offer options for seeking help. It should not be used in place of professional mental health or medical help. **The ReliefLink team urges anyone having a medical emergency to call 911 immediately.

About

Bearable

Track your symptoms, pain, and mental health to identify triggers and patterns. This app helps you manage chronic conditions, medication, and daily habits for better health control. Gain insights into what improves or worsens your well-being.

Highlights
  • Symptom and pain logging
  • Mental health and mood tracking
  • Medication and treatment monitoring
  • Trigger identification
  • Customizable health diary
  • Integration with Apple Health and Fitbit
  • Actionable health reports
Features
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Feeling overwhelmed by your health? Bearable is the symptom tracker that helps you work out what makes your symptoms, pain, migraine and mental health better or worse, so you can feel more in control. Join over 2M patients & doctors using Bearable to manage symptoms, pain, migraine, mood, medication and mental health. FIND YOUR TRIGGERS Most people arrive with one question: what is making my symptoms worse? Log how you feel in a few taps a day, and Bearable shows the correlations between your symptoms and your sleep, food, weather, stress, medication and habits, so you know which triggers to avoid. NOT SURE WHERE TO START? No diagnosis or plan needed. Rate how you feel, add a symptom or two, and Bearable suggests what to log next as your symptom diary grows. PAIN, MIGRAINE AND HEADACHE TRACKER Record pain levels, where the pain is and how long it lasts. Log migraine frequency and severity, spot the warning signs before a migraine attack, see which migraine treatments help, and learn which triggers reliably set off your headaches. The pain tracker is used every day by people managing chronic pain, migraine, arthritis, fibromyalgia, endometriosis, joint pain and back pain. MENTAL HEALTH AND MOOD TRACKER See whether your mental health is changing over time, not just how today feels. Log mood, energy, stress, sleep and anxiety alongside what is going on in your life, and see how work, exercise, social plans and the weather shape your mental health. The mental health tracker is used by people living with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD and OCD, and by anyone wanting a clearer picture of their mental health. CHRONIC ILLNESS, FATIGUE AND FLARE-UPS Log flare-ups, pain, crashes and good days to see what leads to each. Work out which activities drain you or give you energy, and give your doctor a clear record of how your chronic illness has changed. Built with people living with PoTS, EDS, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS and long covid. GUT, HORMONES AND CYCLE Log digestive symptoms, food and bathroom habits to find out which foods are behind your IBS or GERD flare-ups. See how your symptoms, pain, migraine and mood change across each phase of your cycle, useful for PCOS, PMDD, endometriosis and menstrual migraine. MEDICATION AND TREATMENTS Log medication, supplements and treatments, then see whether they are working for your pain, migraine or mental health and whether they cause side effects. The medication tracker also sets reminders so you never miss a dose or a diary entry. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Symptoms, pain, migraine, mood, medication, exercise and diet in one health tracker, so you can find useful patterns instead of switching between apps. - Fully customisable: record exactly what matters to you - Insights that show what correlates with your symptoms - Reports that turn months of symptom, pain and mental health logs into actionable insights - Sync steps, sleep and heart rate from Apple Health and Fitbit - Reminders, secure export, restore across devices, dark mode PRIVATE AND SECURE Your health data is encrypted. Export or delete it from within the app at any time. We will never sell your data. MADE BY PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND Created by people who live with health issues themselves, shaped by thousands of members of the chronic illness community. Our aim is to make symptom tracking simple, even on days when fatigue, pain, migraine or brain fog make everything harder. WAYS PEOPLE USE BEARABLE Symptom tracker & health diary Migraine & headache tracker Chronic Pain tracker Mental health & mood tracker Chronic illness & flare diary IBS & IBD symptom tracker PCOS, PMDD & cycle tracker PoTS & EDS tracker Medication tracker & reminders GET IN TOUCH Questions or feedback support@bearable.app Website https://bearable.app Terms https://bearable.app/terms-and-conditions Privacy https://bearable.app/privacy-policy Insights from Bearable are not medical advice. Always consult your doctor before making medical decisions.

Screenshots

ReliefLink4 screens
Bearable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bearable at 4.8 against ReliefLink's 3.8. Bearable also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (6.7K vs 9). ReliefLink's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads 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. Bearable sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month. ReliefLink asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bearable holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bearable has 6.7K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of ReliefLink's written reviews are positive against 81% of Bearable's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ReliefLink ships an update every 13 months, Bearable weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
ReliefLink versus Bearable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReliefLinkBearable
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (9 ratings)4.8 (6.7K ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews81.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings96.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank—#169 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB117 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperEmory UniversityBearable Ltd

Customer experience

ReliefLink

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative10.0%

Bearable

All ratings6,675 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.8%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews727 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative12.4%

Bugs and requests

ReliefLink

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Bearable

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Logging out and switching devices causes data loss
  • Customization options can be buggy

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved sleep tracking
  • Integration with more health data sources
  • Menstrual cycle tracking
  • iPad app version
  • Easier food/nutrition tracking

In-app purchases

None

ReliefLink

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Bearable

Subscriptions10
  • Bearable premium$4.491 Month
  • Bearable premium$6.991 Month
  • Premium subscription7 Days trial$15.991 Year
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  • Bearable premium7 Days trial$18.991 Year
  • Bearable Premium7 Days trial$23.991 Year
  • Bearable premium3 Days trial$27.991 Year
  • Bearable premium7 Days trial$27.991 Year
  • Bearable premium7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Bearable premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Bearable premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is ReliefLink free?
ReliefLink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bearable free?
Bearable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ReliefLink or Bearable?
Bearable is rated higher. ReliefLink averages 3.8 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Bearable averages 4.8 from 6.7K ratings.
Do ReliefLink or Bearable have ads?
Neither ReliefLink nor Bearable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReliefLink or Bearable?
ReliefLink ships an update every 13 months, and Bearable weekly. Most recently, ReliefLink was updated on November 6, 2026 and Bearable on November 11, 2026.

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