Press kit
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In one sentence
Flare is a chronic pain and symptom diary for iPhone that turns daily check-ins into patterns you can understand and a history you can bring to your care team, with no account and nothing stored off your phone.
In one paragraph
Flare - Chronic Pain Tracker is a symptom diary for people living with chronic pain and long-term conditions such as fibromyalgia, migraine, endometriosis, arthritis, back pain, and pelvic pain. Entries take seconds: symptoms are rated on five named levels from None to Severe, alongside medications, activities, and notes. Over weeks the app shows patterns across time of day, activities, medication courses, weather, and sleep, and states plainly when there is not yet enough data to say. Before an appointment it produces a PDF report formatted for a clinician. There is no account and no server: symptom data stays on the phone, and the person chooses what to back up or export. Flare is made by Fig Studio LLC, a two-person studio, and grew out of a spreadsheet its designer kept for six months while trying to get his own pain taken seriously.
Facts
- Name
- Flare - Chronic Pain Tracker. "Flare" in running text.
- Platform
- iPhone, iOS 18.5 or later. An Android version is planned.
- Price
- Tracking is free with no trial clock. Flare Pro, which adds trend analysis, weather and sleep insights, course impact, visit snapshots, and PDF and CSV export, is a monthly or annual subscription with a free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Current prices are on the App Store listing.
- Accounts
- None. Nothing to sign up for.
- Data
- Symptom logs, notes, medications, and visits stay on the device. Optional features the person turns on themselves: a backup file to their own iCloud Drive, PDF and CSV export, weather insights using an approximate location, and sleep insights read from Apple Health. Details in the privacy policy.
- Maker
- Fig Studio LLC, Austin, Texas. Two people.
- Medical review
- What Flare measures and how it reports is shaped by Mary Carol Jennings, MD, MPH, a Johns Hopkins-trained physician. Flare is a tracking tool, not a medical device, and gives no medical advice.
- Website
- flarelog.app
Who makes it
Andre Minoli is a designer, formerly at Google, and the person who builds Flare. He tracked his own post-vasectomy pain three times a day in a spreadsheet for six months before a specialist took it seriously; Flare is that spreadsheet, rebuilt for everyone who has been told it is all in their head. He has written about it in his own words.
Mary Carol Jennings, MD, MPH, FACPM is a physician and population-health specialist trained at Johns Hopkins. She shapes what Flare measures and how it reports, so that a log turns into something a clinician can act on in a short appointment.
Images
Screenshots show the app on iPhone. Use them as they are; please do not composite the interface into other devices.
What people say
"Brought the PDF from Flare to my appointment and my doctor stopped and said she wished more of her patients tracked like this."
App Store review
"Chronic pain can make you feel so alone. Writing it down makes me feel like my experience is real and it matters."
App Store review
First-person accounts from people who track, collected for Pain Awareness Month, are on the stories page. Each was published with the writer's consent; please credit them as they chose to be named.
Please don't
- Call Flare a medical device, or say it diagnoses, predicts, or treats anything. It records and reports.
- Say Flare uses AI. It does not.
- Say data "never leaves the phone" without the qualifier: the person can choose to back up, export, or turn on weather and sleep insights.
Flare - Chronic Pain Tracker is a symptom-tracking tool, not a medical device. Nothing on this site is medical advice.