How tracking works
A gentle symptom tracker for chronic and invisible illness: check in with a few taps, journal in your own words, and prepare a clear doctor summary.
Most symptom trackers are built for someone with energy. They want numbers every day, scores out of ten, a streak to protect — and on the week you most need a record, they are the first thing to go.
taluvu is built the other way round. A check-in is a few taps and it is finished. There is nothing to lose by missing a day, nothing to catch up on, and no chart demanding to be fed. What you write is yours, in your own words, and it stays on your phone.
A check-in, start to finish
Choose how the day went, tap the symptoms that showed up, and add a line if you have one in you. On a bad day, one tap is a complete check-in.
The journal is a blank page, not a form. taluvu never asks you to rate your pain out of ten or explain yourself to a dropdown menu.
Your week is described in a sentence before it is ever drawn as a chart, and the colour scale is the same everywhere in the app so nothing contradicts itself.
The Doctor Summary turns your own notes into something you can read out, print or hand over — and it counts the days you did not record anything, rather than quietly pretending they went well.
What you can track
Choose your conditions and taluvu starts you with a palette of the things people living with them most often watch for. Remove what you do not need, add your own, and change it whenever you like.
See what that looks like for fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Long COVID, endometriosis, migraine, POTS or any of the others.
Built for low-energy days
Missing three weeks costs you nothing. There is no run to protect and no guilt waiting when you come back.
Or none at all. Nothing appears on your lock screen unless you asked for it.
Your summary says how many days went unrecorded. A record with holes in it is still true; a record that hides them is not.
taluvu shows what is worth noticing. It never grades your week, and it never claims one thing caused another.
What it adds up to
Weeks of small check-ins become a Doctor Summary written from your own notes: what happened, how often, and what you said about it at the time. Not a diagnosis, and not a medical record — a clearer way to describe what you have been living with.
Your record stays yours
Your check-ins, journal and notes are kept on your own phone, not on our servers. You can export a copy or delete everything from inside the app. When you message Asha, your words are sent securely so she can reply, with some context from your device — the Privacy Policy sets out exactly what, and nothing is sold or passed to advertisers.
Getting taluvu
taluvu is an iPhone app. A membership comes with a free trial, and the price and terms are shown in full before you are ever asked to pay.
Coming to the App Store for iPhone — it is with Apple for review now.
taluvu is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Nothing on this page is a substitute for advice from your own doctor or care team. taluvu helps you organise and describe your own experience — see the Medical & AI Disclaimer.
If you are in crisis or need urgent help, contact your local emergency services or a crisis line. In the UK, call 999 in an emergency, NHS 111 for urgent advice, or Samaritans free on 116 123.
