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Wave Health: Symptom Tracker app

The Wave Health Symptom Tracker app is designed for anyone who wishes to track their health data regularly.

Wave Health: Symptom Tracker app	By Treatment Technologies & Insights
	Features Diary/Journal: Allowing the user to add a note on a particular day, as well as the option to attach a photo. Tracking: The essence of the app, it allows the user to choose from a large variety of pre-chosen fields, or to utilise the custom option to track a custom field. Reminders: (eg, setting a reminder at 11am each day to take medication) Graphs and Reports: The reports are part of the paid function of the app. A sample report showing example data is displayed below (see app screenshots). Get the app: (external link) (external link) (external link)
Country of origin	Unclear, expected to be USA
Clinical review	Read a clinical review of this app.
Security and privacy	Does the app: collect medical information? Yes require a login? Yes can be password protected Yes have a privacy policy? Yes require internet access? Yes Read more safety tips around health apps.
Cost	Free There is a free version of the app, which provides most of the features. This does not include the advanced report tracking aspects. At the time of review, the app was running a 6-month free promotion for the full version. It is understood that the cost of the full version varies between $18.99 and $89.99, depending on the exact features.
Advertisements	This app contains no ads.

What does the app do?

The Wave Health app is essentially an app to track all elements of a user’s health. The scope of this could be small (eg, just tracking your sleep quality) or you could utilise the extensive number of fields available.

The user can track their progress across the areas of health that are important to them, and be able to see trends, and how their progress changes over time.

The app is worded to focus on a particular health condition, so it's likely to benefit someone who has a particular health condition or injury (rather than someone in perfect health).

Because of the ability to choose which fields you want to provide data for, this is likely to have a wide range of use, from people who may be in generally good health who wish to track mood, sleep and diet, through to those individuals who need to track pain scores, medication use and other symptoms.

A screen shot of the potential fields that can be recorded is below.

For the complete app description, go to the app website(external link), Google Play(external link), App Store(external link) or, for a more detailed review, see Reviews.

PROS	CONS
✔ Effective tracking The app uses a large range of fields and it's very easy to track multiple data points. ✔ Calendar/reminder function: Helps users to remember to take medication if needed. ✔ Data presentation: Data is presented well, which is helpful for seeing a snapshot of health, or for tracking progress over time. Tracking over time would be especially helpful for a condition that has slow improvements, and a user may otherwise feel their symptoms are not changing.	✘ The use of medicine names seems specific to a US/ overseas market. ✘ There is the opportunity to measure steps – however it seems the only way to do this is to link with Google Fit. This would allow the app to track steps automatically. ✘ When trying to enter steps manually, these didn’t seem to display. ✘ I was previously unaware of Google Fit, and it is expected that other step tracking devices, including Garmin, or Fitbit may have some more widespread use.

PROS

CONS

✔ Effective tracking
The app uses a large range of fields and it's very easy to track multiple data points.

✔ Calendar/reminder function:
Helps users to remember to take medication if needed.

✔ Data presentation:
Data is presented well, which is helpful for seeing a snapshot of health, or for tracking progress over time. Tracking over time would be especially helpful for a condition that has slow improvements, and a user may otherwise feel their symptoms are not changing.

✘ The use of medicine names seems specific to a US/ overseas market.

✘ There is the opportunity to measure steps – however it seems the only way to do this is to link with Google Fit. This would allow the app to track steps automatically.

✘ When trying to enter steps manually, these didn’t seem to display.

✘ I was previously unaware of Google Fit, and it is expected that other step tracking devices, including Garmin, or Fitbit may have some more widespread use.