The Good Tracker
The Good Tracker
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EDS tracker

Track EDS symptoms, pain, fatigue, and daily patterns.

The Good Tracker is a free EDS tracker for recording symptoms and daily context. Log how you feel alongside sleep, food, medication, and notes, then review your entries over time. Use the record to prepare questions for appointments. Patterns in your logs do not establish causes or provide medical advice.

For a daily overview, use the chronic illness symptom tracker. Related logging approaches: how to track chronic pain, how to track back pain, how to track fibromyalgia flares.

Free account required · about 45 seconds · your logs sync to your account

9:41
Log
Today
Today
Joint pain4/10
Subluxations7/10
Fatigue8/10
Sleep3/10
Voice note: felt different after lunch, slept poorly, fingers felt inflamed.
How it helps

Feel more in control of what changed.

The Good Tracker is built for the messy middle: when symptoms, food, medicine, sleep, stress, and life all overlap, and you need one place to make sense of it.

Log

Log what happened without building a spreadsheet.

Use simple 0 to 10 scales for things like Joint pain, Subluxations, Fatigue, Sleep, then add the context that matters: voice notes, food photos, medication timing, sleep, and daily notes.

Voice notes when typing is too much
Custom symptoms and 0 to 10 scores
Food, meds, sleep, and context in the same daily record

Say how you feel. Keep symptoms, food and meds together in your daily log.

Connect

Keep symptoms, food, meds, and timing together.

Most trackers split your life into separate boxes. The Good Tracker keeps the pieces connected, so you can see the day as a whole instead of trying to remember what happened later.

Food photos and quick meal notes
Dose, time, and frequency for meds or supplements
Crash, flare, mood, energy, and sleep context
9:41
Food
Photo + note
Today
Blueberry pancakes
Pancakes with blueberries
Photo + voice note added to today's log.
Breakfast
Felt shaky later
Understand

See trends and ask what changed.

Over time, the app turns your logs into a clearer timeline. You can look at charts, compare changes, and ask plain-English questions about whether something seemed different.

Trend charts across days and weeks
Plain-English summaries
Careful language that avoids diagnosis or medication advice
9:41
Trends
What changed?
Today
Pain trend
trending down
Ask what changed before better or worse days.

Built for

People with hypermobile EDS or other EDS subtypes
People tracking joint instability, pain, and fatigue alongside daily life
People who want a record for physio, pain specialists, or geneticist appointments

Track

Joint pain
Subluxations
Fatigue
Sleep
Brain fog
Meds
Food
Activity

What it helps reveal

Track which activities or positions precede joint pain or subluxations
See whether sleep quality and fatigue move together
Keep a record of what helps: compression, positioning, pacing, meds
For appointments and memory

A clearer record when you need to explain the week.

The Good Tracker is for personal pattern tracking. EDS management should be guided by qualified physical therapists and clinicians. Keep daily logs, food photos, medicine timing, and symptom scores together so your history is easier to revisit.

An example

See a symptom next to the day around it.

This chart shows pain alongside humidity. It is an example of a pattern in a log, not a cause, a diagnosis, or a story from a specific person.

About 45 seconds a dayPain and humidityA pattern, not a cause
Symptoms over time chart showing 31 values for Pain compared with Humidity.
Questions people ask

Simple, careful, and personal.

Can I track more than symptoms?
Yes. You can keep symptoms, food, meds, supplements, sleep, mood, crashes, and voice notes together in the same daily timeline.
Does it tell me what is causing symptoms?
No. It helps you notice patterns and changes, but it avoids diagnosis, certainty, and medication advice.
Can I use it when I have low energy?
That is one of the main ideas. You can log quickly with sliders or speak a note and let the app organize it.
Keep reading

Guides to help you track

Short, practical guides for getting the most out of your daily log.

Why the first 90 days matter

Three months of logs builds a record worth having.

A week of data shows what happened. A month shows patterns. Three to six months builds the kind of record that helps you see what is actually shifting, and gives you or your care team something concrete to act on. Biology gives us some useful windows for why that timeframe matters.

3–5 days¹
Gut lining
The fastest-renewing tissue in the body. Three to five days is a useful window for connecting food to gut symptoms.
28–40 days²
Skin cells
Within a month, your skin has fully renewed, a meaningful window for tracking sensitivities and reactions.
~120 days³
Red blood cells
Four months of logs covers a full red blood cell cycle, enough time to see real patterns in energy and inflammation.
200–300 days⁴
Liver cells
Most liver tissue renews over the course of a year, a window worth tracking for medication and diet effects.
In 3–6 months, you'll have a log that covers multiple biological renewal windows. Not to prove anything, but to see what actually correlates, and to have something real to show for the time you're already living through.

That's what tracking is for. Not to count calories or hit goals. To build a record that tells the story of what changed, and when.

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¹ Gehart & Clevers, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology 16, 19–34 (2019)
² Blanpain & Fuchs, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 10, 207–217 (2009)
³ Sender et al., Cell 164(3):337–340 (2016); NHLBI, National Institutes of Health
⁴ Taub R., Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 836–847 (2004)
330 billion cells/day figure: Sender & Milo, Nature Medicine 27, 45–48 (2021)
On keeping hope alive

EDS is a lifetime condition, and learning to live well with it is a real, achievable thing.

EDS can take years to diagnose, and years more to learn to manage. But people with EDS do find ways to live well inside it through pacing, the right physical support, and understanding their own joints and limits. Tracking is not a cure. It is a map. And the people we have seen make the most progress with EDS are usually the ones who track most carefully: what hurts, when, after what, and what helped. We built this to be that map, patient, honest, and genuinely useful on the hard days.

Start with one small check-in.

Open the app, log today, and let the pattern build from there.