Tend
A quiet place to look after your health over the years, in your own words, on your own phone.
Everything at a glance. In Tend, one slider does this to every screen.
iPhone · Stays on your phone · Free to download · No account
Readings on a paper slip, a letter in a drawer, a list of tablets in Notes, a question you meant to ask. Tend holds what you choose to write and brings it back when someone asks "when did that start?" or "what are you on?"
Blood pressure, resting heart rate, waist, cardio fitness, HbA1c, and LDL, in your units. Written in from a check-up or a lab report, or brought in from Apple Health with Tend Complete. Nothing is ever overwritten, so a correction stays visible.
If a number has run differently from your own earlier readings, Tend says so once, plainly, and reads nothing into it. Whether it is worth mentioning is yours to decide.
A visit in Tend has two halves. Before: the questions you want to ask, what to take with you, and, if you want them, an alarm on the day and an entry on your own calendar that follows the date if it moves. After: what was said, what to watch for, and the papers that came home, scanned in on the spot.
A question you never got to ask carries on to the next visit.
What you are taking now, the dose, and the reason, in your words. When one ends, it moves to what you no longer take and keeps its dates, so the history is there when a new doctor asks.
What you noticed and when. A journal, a head-to-toe pass over your body, and what you have learned about your own health. Type it, or say it out loud and it becomes words on the phone.
Most health apps want a number from you every day and give you a grade back. Tend wants nothing from you. It records and reminds. It never recommends.
Tend shows you what you wrote and when, and leaves the meaning to you. A month at a glance, a stretch of it written out in sentences with Tend Complete, and one index that names every part of the app rather than badging it.
The slider at the top of this page is the idea, borrowed. In Tend it moves type, spacing, and tap targets together, and the whole app follows your iPhone's text size too.
Tend does not sync. Your readings, records, and notes stay on the iPhone you wrote them on, and the only other copies are your iPhone's own backups and the ones you make on purpose. The whole policy is short enough to read, and it is on this site and in the app.
Your record should outlive any app, including this one. A spreadsheet of your readings, and the whole of Tend as one file a new phone can read back in: both free, always. With Tend Complete, a handoff pack gathers the essentials in your own words as a PDF for whoever helps you. Each is made on the phone and goes wherever you send it.
Tend is free to download, and everything you write in it stays free to read, edit, search and export, whether or not you ever pay. Tend Complete is optional: it adds the things made from your record, and new lines in four of the seven private diaries.
Free
Your numbers, medicines, visits, records, journal, body, checks, habits, plans, people, the calendar, and every way out: the spreadsheet and the whole archive. No account.
$4.99 a month · $29.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial · $49.99 once
Prices are in US dollars; the App Store shows them in your own currency. Tend Complete is bought through Apple. The monthly and yearly plans renew until you cancel them in your Apple Account settings; the one-time purchase never renews. If a plan ends, nothing you wrote is locked away. Purchases are covered by Apple's standard licence agreement.
Tend is an independent app from the people who make HourLife. It is not one of the mini apps and it shares nothing with them: no purchase, no account, no data.
Tend is for adults looking after their own health, at their own pace. It will never tell you what your numbers mean, and it will never tell you off for a week you did not open it.
Version 1.0 · Coming to the App Store
Plans, goals, habits, and a journal for everything that is not a doctor's business, in a private Life OS that syncs through your own iCloud account.
We would like to use Google Analytics to see which pages are worth keeping. It is off until you say yes, and the site works exactly the same either way. How we handle your data.
Google Analytics is currently on. We use it to see which pages are worth keeping, and nothing else. You can change that whenever you like — the site works exactly the same either way. How we handle your data.