About Feltide · Research & sources
Why we built Feltide.
Feltide started as a personal health journal. You can record symptoms, food, medicine and anything else you want to keep track of. Every field is optional, and you do not need a diagnosis.
Sources reviewed 20 public sources
A personal journal by Runeworks
Use only what helps.
Start with a few trackers, one symptom or a note. Check in when it helps and leave the rest blank. Feltide has no streaks or completion scores.
All health tracking and Patterns are free, including every same-day and following-day comparison. Feltide Pro is a $4.99 lifetime purchase for themes, icons, custom widgets and removal of support cards.
Your journal stays in encrypted storage on your iPhone. You choose when to export or create a backup. RevenueCat receives information needed to manage Pro purchases, but Feltide does not send it journal content or health-derived attributes. Read the privacy details.
Design choices
Why Feltide works this way.
These public sources shaped specific product decisions. They do not endorse or clinically validate Feltide.
Daily life matters alongside symptoms.
The World Health Organization’s ICF framework describes health and functioning in context. Its WHODAS assessment covers areas such as cognition, mobility and participation. Feltide uses an optional usual-activities tracker, but it does not administer WHODAS or calculate an ICF or WHODAS score.
WHO — International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health · WHO — WHODAS 2.0
Rest belongs in the record.
CDC guidance describes delayed symptom worsening after physical or mental activity in ME/CFS and similar experiences in Long COVID. Feltide therefore uses neutral activity language and offers optional physical-effort, mental-effort and worse-after-activity trackers.
Following-day comparisons can show timing in your own entries. They cannot establish cause, diagnose a condition or recommend activity or treatment.
CDC — Strategies to Prevent Worsening of ME/CFS Symptoms · CDC — Long COVID Signs and Symptoms
Medicine records should say what happened.
FDA guidance recommends keeping an up-to-date medicine list with instructions. In Feltide, you enter your daily schedule and mark each dose taken or skipped. A dose you do not mark stays unrecorded. Its timestamp shows when you saved the record, not when you took the medicine.
Feltide does not choose medicines, recommend doses or turn missing records into an adherence score.
Food and weight are optional, without judgment.
The American Heart Association discusses weight records in heart-failure monitoring. NICE advises against relying on single measures such as BMI alone when assessing eating disorders. Feltide keeps body weight off by default and has no BMI, ideal weight or calorie goals.
If you turn it on, you can use kg or lb without changing the saved measurement. Food entries compare quantity with what is usual for you and avoid good-or-bad labels.
American Heart Association — Managing Heart Failure Symptoms · NICE — Eating Disorders: Recognition and Treatment
Recording a day should take less effort.
W3C guidance calls for simple words, short sentences and unambiguous content. Apple’s declaration criteria cover features such as larger text, reduced motion and alternatives to color. We used both when reviewing Feltide’s wording and interface.
W3C — Clear and Understandable Content · Apple — Configuring Accessibility Declarations
References
All 20 sources.
These are the 20 health and accessibility sources reviewed on September 9, 2026. Each link goes to the original publisher.
Daily life and accessibility
Sources on daily function, cognitive accessibility and accessible iPhone experiences.
Energy, fatigue and overlapping health needs
Sources on fluctuating capacity, delayed symptom worsening and overlapping health experiences.
Symptom tracking
Condition-specific sources used to review the optional symptom catalog. The catalog is not a diagnostic checklist.
- NINDS — Migraine
- NHS — Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
- NIAMS — Rheumatoid Arthritis
- NIDDK — Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- CDC — Monitoring Blood Sugar
- CDC — About Asthma
- American Heart Association — Managing Heart Failure Symptoms
- NINDS — Parkinson's Disease
- NICHD — Endometriosis Symptoms
- ACOG — Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Medicine records, food and weight
Sources used to keep personal records separate from targets or treatment recommendations.
Track what matters to you.
No symptom catalog can describe everyone. Add custom trackers or notes, and leave any field blank.