Pain Diary CatchMyPain app review: record and monitor your pain

Introduction

Pain Diary CatchMyPain by Sanovation AG is a medical app that is meant to help you treat your pain by keeping track of it. It uses a modern approach by having you monitor and visual your pain through drawings and other information. This diary can then be taken with you to doctor's appointments to help you discuss your pain. The app was released on July 9, 2013 and is available in English, French, German, and Spanish.

User Experience

This app has been made to be user-friendly so that you can quickly and easily record and track your pain. Simply click on New Pain Entry to add in pain, details, and drawings. If you want to look at your past entries click on All Entries for a look.

The app will remember and keep track for you so that when it comes time for your doctor appointment you don’t end up forgetting important details and information about your pain.

Features

You'll be able to create a color pain drawing that shows the location and intensity of your pain. You can add details such as the time the pain occurred, the quality of your pain, and other comments. You can also track your overall happiness.

What's great is that you don't need an Internet connection to use the app so you can record data any time and any place. If you'd rather, you can register an account so that your entries will be synced to the cloud, making the information available to you on any device.

It should be noted that the iPad and Mac versions of this app feature additional features, but the iPhone app is quickly catching up.

There are a number of features coming up in future updates of the app including being able to enter diagnosis and false diagnosis, track your therapy and medications, share your pain diary directly with your doctor, a graph of pain drawings, and the ability to discuss best practices with other patients suffering from similar pain. The developer is trying to introduce new features each month so this app continues to evolve and expand.

In-App Purchases

There are no in-app purchases.

Update Info

Because this is a new release there are no updates available at this time.

Customer Ratings and Feedback Comments

This app currently has 11 customer ratings with an average rating of five out of five stars. Customers really appreciate the usefulness of this app so that they don't have to try to remember where, when, and what kind of pain they felt each day.

Personal Comments by Reviewer

Anyone who suffers from ongoing pain and is currently working with a doctor can benefit from this app. The pressure is taken off of you to try to remember the details of the pain; instead, you can keep everything organized and at-hand for whenever you need to discuss or look over your information.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Record your pain through drawings and adding details
• The app works without an Internet connection
• If you register you can sync the app to the cloud
• Review the information you record at your doctor’s appointments

Cons

• Feels a bit incomplete but with all the planned updates this should change

For: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 5.0 or later. Pain Diary CatchMyPain is optimized for iPhone 5.