Flaredown

What Flaredown does

Flaredown is a cross-platform symptom tracking application designed for patients with chronic illnesses. The product is offered as native iOS and Android mobile apps and a responsive web application, sharing a common backend, and is positioned for individuals managing conditions such as Crohn's disease, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Endometriosis, POTS, and Lyme disease. Core functionality includes customizable symptom logging, a 200,000+ item food database, medication and supplement tracking with dosage and side-effect capture, mental health and activity logging, automatic weather correlation, daily check-in prompts, and a community chat for peer support. Users can generate and export a visual health history to share with healthcare providers, and aggregated anonymized data is published on Kaggle for external research use.

The platform is built on standard cross-platform mobile/web architecture with an external weather API integration for environmental tracking; no proprietary AI/ML models, predictive analytics, or decision-support features are disclosed. Technologically, the differentiators are domain-specific content scale (the food and condition libraries) and automatic environmental data capture rather than algorithmic intelligence.

Flaredown operates as a free, non-revenue service. The company was initially funded through a crowdfunding campaign and is now sustained personally by its creator, Logan Merriam, with a stated headcount of 1-10. There are no paid tiers, subscriptions, advertising, or B2B offerings. Distribution is entirely self-serve through the Apple App Store, Google Play, and the web signup flow, with growth driven by organic social proof and word-of-mouth within chronic illness communities. The entity is privately held with no disclosed venture capital backing, institutional investors, partnerships, or M&A activity.

Name

Flaredown

Legal name

Flaredown

Website

https://flaredown.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Flaredown is a free, cross-platform symptom tracking app for patients with chronic illnesses, offering food, medication, weather, and mental health logging plus community features, and is operated without revenue by creator Logan Merriam.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Chronic Illness Symptom Tracking

akta.pro primary industry

Behavioral Health & Substance Use Remote Monitoring (HLACAFAD)

Keywords

• Symptom tracking app
• Chronic illness management
• Health monitoring software
• Patient health tracking
• Digital health platform

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Free Consumer Product (No Revenue): Flaredown is completely free for users. Initially funded through a crowdfunding campaign, the platform is now sustained by creator Logan Merriam. The company does not currently generate revenue and operates as a mission-driven, non-profit endeavor focused on helping chronic illness patients rather than commercial profitability.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Flaredown is a cross-platform symptom tracking application that helps patients with chronic illnesses log and correlate symptoms, foods, medications, natural treatments, mental health, weather, and activity data. The product is offered free forever, was built by patients for patients, and is available as native iOS and Android apps plus a responsive web application. Anonymized user data is shared with researchers to advance understanding of chronic illness triggers.

Product overview

Flaredown is a unified symptom tracking platform designed for patients with chronic illness. The product portfolio consists of three front-end applications sharing a common backend: an iOS mobile app, an Android mobile app, and a web application. All three variants provide the same core capabilities including symptom logging, food tracking (200,000+ foods), medication and supplement tracking, mental health monitoring, weather auto-tracking, activity logging, custom symptom creation, daily check-in prompts, and health history sharing. Users can also access a community chat feature. The platform is free to use and was initially funded via crowdfunding.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Flaredown iOS App A native iOS mobile application that enables chronic illness patients to track symptoms, medications, food, natural treatments, mental health, weather, and activity to identify triggers and treatment effectiveness. Available free via the Apple App Store.
• Flaredown Android App A native Android mobile application providing the same comprehensive symptom, food, medication, mental health, weather, and activity tracking functionality as the iOS version. Available free via the Google Play Store.
• Flaredown Web Application A browser-based platform accessible at app.flaredown.com that provides the same symptom tracking, daily check-ins, health history sharing, and community features as the mobile apps. Free to sign up and use.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Apple Health: Platform-level health and symptom tracking built into iOS. Sets the default for many chronic patients and represents the broad-incumbent threat that any independent symptom tracker must differentiate against.
• Samsung Health: Cross-platform consumer health tracking bundled with Samsung devices. Comparable on activity, sleep, and wellness tracking and relevant as a free platform competitor on Android.

Emerging players

• Cara Care: Digestive-health tracker with food, symptom, and bowel logging plus a pathway to dietitian consultations. Comparable to Flaredown's food/symptom module but narrower (GI-focused) and with a clinical monetization layer.
• Glow: Consumer health-tracking app family (period, fertility, pregnancy). Adjacent chronic-condition tracking with a more commercial, premium-subscription model — relevant comparator for Flaredown's potential monetization path.
• Visible: Long-Covid and chronic-illness tracking app with pacing, symptom, and activity logging plus a research component. Targets a similar patient population to Flaredown and competes for the same advocacy-community attention.
• Human Health: Long-Covid and chronic-condition tracking app with symptom, medication, and trigger logging plus research sharing. Direct overlap with Flaredown's autoimmune/chronic-illness user base.

Direct peers

• Bearable: Consumer symptom, mood, medication, and activity tracker available on iOS, Android, and web. Directly comparable to Flaredown as a free-to-use, patient-led chronic-illness journal with similar multi-modal tracking categories.
• Symple Symptom Tracker: iOS symptom journaling app for tracking factors that correlate with how users feel. Same core use case as Flaredown — chronic-illness self-tracking across symptoms, meds, and activities.
• MySymptoms: Food, symptom, and bowel-movement diary focused on identifying dietary and environmental triggers. Closely matches Flaredown's diet-trigger-tracking value proposition for chronic conditions.

Others

• 23andMe: Consumer health-data platform that monetizes through research partnerships. Not a symptom tracker, but a useful comparator for how patient-contributed health data can be productized into a research-driven business.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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