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Guava Health App Alternatives: Chronic Illness Trackers Compared
Looking for Guava Health app alternatives? A fair comparison of the Guava Health app, Bearable, Visible, Bevel and Rox, by how you log, what they cover and what your clinician gets. Checked October 2026.
Shivay Madan, Co-Founder & CMO at Rox
Updated
There's a difference between having your records and having your story, and the Guava Health app is built for the first one. Most people searching for Guava Health app alternatives have already worked out that it doesn't do much for the second. Your labs, your discharge letters, your imaging reports, the Guava Health app pulls those in from your patient portals and puts them somewhere you can find them. What Tuesday felt like at 3pm, in your words, while it was happening, is a different job.
Reviewed against each company's own website, help centre and App Store listing, checked 29 October 2026.
By Shivay, CMO at Rox. I spend my days talking to people managing two, three or four overlapping conditions, and reading what every app in this category actually ships.
The Guava Health app is a multi-condition health records and tracking app, from the company Guava Health, that imports medical records from patient portals, syncs wearable data, and lets you log symptoms, medications, cycles and food. It runs on iOS, Android and the web, which makes it the only app in this comparison with a real web version. If you want the opposite approach, where you say how you feel in a sentence and the app logs it, you can try Rox free, with the AI chat as a paid upgrade.
What the Guava Health app actually includes for free
Worth clearing this up, because a lot of comparison pages get it wrong. Per the Guava Health app's own `/plans` page as of 29 October 2026, the free tier includes medical record sync, device sync, symptom, medication, cycle and food tracking, summaries and correlations, sharing with your doctors, document upload, and support for 20+ languages. Plenty of apps charge for less than that.
Guava Health app Premium, at $78 a year or $8 a month, adds an Emergency Card, automatic insights, unlimited profile managers, lab auto-import, Photo AI, and an AI assistant that can, in their words, "enter data for you." No free trial was mentioned on their plans page when I checked.
The one thing to notice in that split: conversational, assisted entry in the Guava Health app sits behind Premium. Structured fields are the free way in.
Guava Health app alternatives, compared on how you log
There's no price column here on purpose. Most of these apps publish no usable figure (Visible publishes none at all, and App Store purchase lists show unlabeled SKUs with no term attached), so the column couldn't be filled honestly. The Guava Health app's $78/yr or $8/mo and Rox's own pricing are in the text instead.
App | How you log | What it covers | What it needs from you | What your clinician gets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rox (free; AI chat is a paid upgrade) | Text it how you feel in your own words and it logs symptoms from the conversation. A dedicated symptom logging page and text entries are there when you'd rather fill something in | Complex, overlapping chronic illness | A sentence when you have one. Anything in Apple Health flows through. iOS only | Your own logged history and notes to bring to an appointment. No clinician dashboard |
Guava Health app | Records import from patient portals, photo and PDF upload with extraction, passive wearable sync, manual fields. AI assisted entry is Premium | Multi-condition, plus people still searching for a diagnosis | Connecting your portals once, then structured fields. iOS, Android and web | Printable visit summary, and doctor sharing is in the free tier |
Bearable | Manual tap entry, fully user-definable, plus passive wearable import. Their own site says quick-entry features are "in development" | 40+ conditions including lupus and POTS | Tapping through your symptom set daily. History past 30 days is Premium. iOS, Android | 30+ reports and CSV export, no direct sharing mechanism |
Visible | Phone-camera HRV at a Morning Check-in, fixed morning and evening check-ins, continuous passive sensing with the paid band | Long Covid, ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS, EDS | Check-ins at set times. The band needs a membership and is US and UK only | Live Clinician Dashboard you can share, plus a Health Report PDF, both free |
Bevel | Mostly passive import from Apple Health and Apple Watch, food logging, manual BP, journal entries. "Bevel Intelligence" does proactive check-ins | General wellness, performance, longevity | An iPhone and the sensors feeding it. iOS only | None documented |
Checked 29 October 2026 against each company's own primary sources. Features and prices move.
Where the Guava Health app is the better choice
If your actual problem is that your medical records are scattered across four providers and you can never find the lab result you need, the Guava Health app is the better tool, and I'd rather tell you that than win an argument. Nothing else in this set pulls clinical records in from patient portals the way it does, and the web version means you can sort a decade of documents on a laptop instead of a phone screen. Add free doctor sharing and the printable visit summary and it's a strong filing system for a complicated medical history.
That's a filing-cabinet job, and a real one. Describing what your body is doing today is a separate one.
Where the other three fit
Bearable is the closest app to the Guava Health app on positioning rather than mechanism, covering 40+ conditions with a symptom set you define yourself. It's the right pick if you want fine-grained control over which symptoms you track and you're happy to tap. Their own site lists quick entry as still in development, and history beyond the last 30 days sits in Premium, worth knowing before you commit a year of data to it. There's more on how it compares in our breakdown of Bearable alternatives for multi-condition tracking. We have also rounded up apps built for chronic illness more broadly.
Visible wins on pacing, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. PacePoints, exertion alerts and the mechanics built around avoiding post-exertional malaise are best-in-class, and nothing else here attempts them. If your condition is energy-limiting and pacing is what you need help with, Visible is where to look, keeping in mind the band is sold only with a membership and only in the US and UK. Rox does not do HRV-based pacing, energy forecasting or flare prediction, and it isn't a substitute for a sensor-based pacing product.
Bevel is Apple Health native, reads and writes, and assembles a picture from your sensor streams. It's iOS only, built around general wellness and longevity rather than illness, and no clinician export was documented anywhere I looked, which is notable for an app that ingests lab records. Its Apple privacy label declares identifiers used to track you, with developer advertising among the stated purposes.
Who Rox is right for
Rox is for the half of the problem the Guava Health app leaves alone: the lived experience of a complex chronic illness, captured as it happens, in the words you'd actually use.
Records are a product of the system. Someone else wrote them, in clinical language, about the twenty minutes you spent in a room. Your experience is the part only you have, and it fades fast. Reconstructing Thursday on Sunday night through a form with dropdowns loses the detail that turns out to matter: that the headache came on after you stood up, that you'd had two bad nights before it, that it felt like the one from August.
With Rox you type what's going on. "Woke up dizzy again, legs heavy, took my midodrine late." Rox logs the symptoms out of that, with no category to pick and no severity slider to set. When you do want a form, there's a dedicated symptom logging page and you can add entries by text, so conventional logging is still there. Every other app on this page makes logging the work. Rox lets you choose, and talking is enough.
Rox is built for people with two or more overlapping conditions, which is most people reading a page like this. Managing a complex chronic illness is a full-time job, and Rox is the friend who knows your whole story. Whatever flows into Apple Health reaches Rox, so your step count, sleep and heart data sit alongside what you've told it. Rox has no native device integrations and reads nothing off your watch directly. It doesn't predict flares or score your risk either.
Rox is iOS only. Rox is free to download and use, and the AI chat is a paid upgrade. The reason to try it is the thing none of them do.
Plenty of people end up running two: the Guava Health app for records, Rox for the day to day. If you're still working out what kind of tool you need, our guide to the best symptom tracker apps for chronic illness walks through the categories.
FAQs
Is this about the Guava Health app or the fruit?
This page is about the Guava Health app, a medical records and symptom tracking app from the company Guava Health, for iOS, Android and web. It has nothing to do with the fruit of the same name.
What is the best alternative to the Guava Health app?
It depends which half of the problem you have. For pulling clinical records in from patient portals, nothing in this comparison beats the Guava Health app itself. For day-to-day symptom tracking in your own words, Rox lets you text how you feel and logs symptoms from the conversation, and it is free to use, with the AI chat as a paid upgrade. For pacing with energy-limiting conditions, Visible. For fine-grained manual tracking across 40+ conditions, Bearable.
Is the Guava Health app free?
The Guava Health app has a genuinely useful free tier. Per its own plans page on 29 October 2026, free includes medical record sync, device sync, symptom, medication, cycle and food tracking, summaries and correlations, document upload and sharing with your doctors. Premium costs $78 a year or $8 a month and adds an Emergency Card, automatic insights, lab auto-import, Photo AI and an AI assistant that can enter data for you.
Guava Health app vs Bearable: which should I use?
The Guava Health app is a records system first, importing labs and clinical documents from patient portals, and it runs on iOS, Android and the web. Bearable is a manual tracker first, covering 40+ conditions with symptoms you define yourself, on iOS and Android only. Pick Bearable if you want granular control over your own symptom list and don't mind tapping it in daily.
Does the Guava Health app have a web version?
Yes. The Guava Health app runs on iOS, Android and the web, and it's the only app in this comparison with a confirmed web version, checked 29 October 2026. Rox, Bevel and Visible are app-based, and Rox is iOS only. For how it compares on logging and clinician output, see our guide to apps like Bevel.
Can any of these apps predict a flare?
No app here should be relied on for that, and Rox makes no prediction, flare-warning or risk-score claims. Visible is the only one with pacing mechanics designed around avoiding post-exertional malaise, built on HRV and exertion data, and its own materials note results vary. Treatment decisions belong with your clinician.
Can I use the Guava Health app and Rox together?
Yes, and a lot of people do. The Guava Health app holds your clinical records and gives your doctor a printable summary. Rox holds your own account of how you've actually been, logged from your messages as things happen. If you want to test that split, Rox is free to download and use; the AI chat is a paid upgrade.
Try Rox free
If your records are the problem, use the Guava Health app. If nobody has the full picture of how you've actually been, that's what Rox is for. Rox is free to download and use; the AI chat is a paid upgrade. You can also start with our free symptom tracker tool if you'd rather see the shape of it first.
This article is general information, not medical advice. Rox is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor or prevent any condition. None of the apps described here replace professional medical care, and nothing here should inform treatment or clinical decisions. Talk to a qualified clinician about your symptoms, your medications and any changes to how you manage your condition.
