RheumCompanion keeps the daily record — symptoms, flares, medications, labs — so your next appointment starts from data instead of memory. Built by a board-certified rheumatologist who lives with ankylosing spondylitis.
Ninety days, the way the app sees them. quiet day symptoms logged flare
Most tracking apps give you a place to write things down and leave you there. Most reference apps explain your disease without knowing anything about you. RheumCompanion does both, because the question you actually bring to an appointment sits between them: is this normal for my condition, or is this my condition getting worse?
Log pain, fatigue and stiffness in a few taps, on the days you can manage it.
Record a flare as it happens, with severity and duration, while the details are fresh.
See how what you eat lines up with how you feel, over enough days to mean something.
Your regimen and biologic infusion schedule in one place, including what you have stopped.
Keep results together so a trend is visible instead of scattered across portals.
Export a 30-day report to hand your care team at the start of a visit.
Find a symptom, a date or a medication anywhere in your record.
Thirteen conditions explained in plain language, without the hedging.
Seven drug classes, drawn from FDA package insert information.
Ask a question, get a plain-language answer with its sources attached.
Results grouped by severity, each with a clinical explanation of why it matters.
See what is recruiting for your condition.
Rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriatic arthritis, Sjögren's syndrome, ankylosing spondylitis, gout, scleroderma, vasculitis, fibromyalgia — and other autoimmune and inflammatory conditions.
If your diagnosis is on that list, the tracking fields, the encyclopedia entries and the medication reference were written with it in mind. Nothing here is a general wellness template with rheumatology vocabulary pasted over it.
Medication information comes from FDA drug labels. Clinical content is drawn from published research indexed in PubMed. Where the app tells you something, it shows you where that came from, so you can take it to your rheumatologist and they can check it.
That is deliberate. A patient-facing app that speaks confidently without citation is asking you to trust it more than it has earned.
Apple's App Privacy report for RheumCompanion reads Data Not Collected. That is not a marketing line — it is the declaration the developer files with Apple, and it is the one they hold you to.
Free to download. Seven days free, then $6.99 a month. Cancel anytime from your phone's subscription settings. Requires iOS 15 or later, or a recent Android device.
Dr. Wickersham was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis at twenty-two, and has spent his career since on the other side of the exam room. RheumCompanion is the record he wishes every patient walked in with, and the answers he does not have time to give in full during a visit.
It is published by Brewster Wickersham Publications, an independent press making books, workbooks and apps for people living with chronic pain and rheumatic disease.
A match-3 game with every pressure mechanic removed, for days when you have nothing left to give a game.
The book, workbook and app on managing life with chronic pain, written with Louise Locker, LCSW.