Bearable

What Bearable Is

Bearable is a self-guided symptom tracking app available on iOS and Android that helps people monitor physical and mental health conditions. The app lets you log daily mood, symptoms, habits, medications, sleep, and nearly any health metric you want to track. With a 4.7 rating on the App Store and 4.6 on Google Play, the service has attracted over 900,000 users managing everything from depression and anxiety to chronic pain, migraines, ADHD, and rare diseases. The company was founded by someone with chronic migraines and describes itself as made by patients for patients.

How It Works

Bearable's core feature is symptom tracking with unlimited customization. You record your mood, emotions, sleep, symptoms, and energy levels daily, each taking just a few taps. The app lets you create unlimited custom health metrics to track whatever matters to your health, using your own preferred terms and even emojis. This customization is designed to match how you actually experience your health rather than forcing your experience into predefined categories.

The app generates over 30 automated reports to help you see patterns in your data. You get mood charts over time, mood distribution histograms, calendar heat maps showing your mood at a glance, and trend analysis for weekly and monthly periods. The service then identifies correlations between your health metrics and your habits, treatments, and lifestyle choices, helping you discover what improves or worsens your symptoms.

Tracking happens offline on your device. The app syncs with Google Fit, Apple Health, and FitBit directly, importing health data like heart rate, resting heart rate, blood pressure, heart rate variability, body temperature, step count, and weight without requiring you to log these manually. You can also export data from the app itself to share with your doctor or therapist, including PDF reports and CSV files, or use the timeline and calendar features during medical appointments to jog your memory about what you experienced.

The app includes reminder features to help you build a tracking habit, letting you set daily, weekly, or custom reminders for logging. If you live with conditions that affect concentration, memory, or energy, the app is designed to be simple enough to use consistently even with these challenges. Users report that among all the health apps they have tried, Bearable is the one they were finally able to maintain as a habit despite brain fog, memory loss, and fatigue.

What the Company States About Pricing and Features

Bearable has a free tier and a paid subscription. The free version includes unlimited custom symptoms, moods, and other health metrics, plus weekly reports and a customizable graph to identify correlations. There are no gatekeepers or hidden features preventing you from meaningful tracking at no cost.

The optional subscription is $34.99 per year, roughly $0.10 per day according to the company. This subscription is "often discounted by up to 76%," which the company notes it offers because it wants to make the app accessible to as many people as possible. The subscription includes a seven-day free trial, and if you cancel before the trial ends you are not charged.

The paid tier adds unlimited goals, custom experiments, correlation reports, and unrestricted access to all your historic data beyond the last 30 days. The free version caps access to data beyond 30 days, so the paid tier removes that limit. The company explains it maintains a subscription for certain features because it needs revenue to maintain and improve the app. It specifically states that its approach differs from other free apps that make money by showing ads or working with third-party companies to sell services, which it says it does not do.

The app supports 11 languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Norwegian, Danish, and Chinese. Bearable runs on both iOS and Android devices.

What Bearable Does Not Tell You

The captured pages do not mention insurance coverage or employer benefits, so Bearable appears to operate on a direct-pay model without insurance reimbursement. Pricing is listed in dollars, the $34.99 annual subscription, and the company does not publish regional pricing or currency options.

There is no clinical outcome research published on the captured pages. The company states that clinicians at Cedar Sinai have reviewed Bearable as one of the best mobile health applications to track patient outcomes, and the app is recommended by named physicians and therapists. However, the pages do not provide study data, published research, or claims about the effectiveness of the tracking approach itself.

The pages also do not address the scope of the exported PDF reports you can share with your doctor, such as whether the reports include your personal notes, graphs, or raw data, or what formatting and detail you can customize. The company does not publish what happens to data if you delete your account or how long data is retained after deletion.

Who It Fits and Who It Does Not

Bearable is designed for anyone with a chronic physical or mental health condition who wants to understand their own patterns and communicate more clearly with their healthcare providers. The service explicitly names conditions including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, migraines, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, long COVID, IBS, Crohn's disease, ME/CFS, endometriosis, fibromyalgia, ADHD, autism, eating disorders, OCD, seasonal affective disorder, borderline personality disorder, and various rare and hard-to-diagnose illnesses. Many users report managing multiple chronic conditions at once.

The free tier is particularly valuable if you are cost-conscious or want to evaluate the app before paying. At $34.99 per year, even the paid subscription is inexpensive compared to copays or therapy visits, and the company's frequent discounts bring the price lower still. This makes it accessible to people with limited income, which the company explicitly acknowledges as important for its user base.

You do not need a therapist or doctor to use Bearable, although the app is designed to complement professional care. Users report using it to prepare for medical appointments or therapy sessions by tracking what they have experienced since their last visit.

Bearable is not suitable if you need live clinical intervention, crisis support, or real-time interaction with a healthcare provider. The app is self-guided and does not connect you with a therapist, coach, or physician. It also does not work as a replacement for emergency mental health services. The company explicitly states the app is not a replacement for medical treatment and comes with no warranty; it is intended for informational purposes only.