Track the casts, the brace hours, and what the surgeon actually said

The casting series. Which cast you are on, when it went on, when it comes off, and what changed. Ponseti casting is a numbered sequence and by cast four most people have stopped counting reliably. This counts.

Brace hours, with a timer. The boots and bar phase is where families struggle, and the thing everyone is asked at the next appointment is how many hours a day. Guessing that number under pressure helps nobody. The timer runs, the log fills, and you can answer the question with a figure instead of a shrug.

Appointment notes. Somewhere to write the exact plan, the brace settings, the next date and who to call. The clinic room is where good questions go to die and where good answers get forgotten on the drive home.

A Ponseti knowledge base that opens offline. The same explanations as this site, readable with no signal.

What it is not: a diagnostic tool, a device, or anything that tells you whether treatment is going well. It counts and it records. Your child’s orthopedic team interprets.

Stays on your device. The profile, the cast entries, the brace logs, the appointment notes and any photos you add. They are stored locally and are not transmitted in the background. There is no account, no sign-in and no sync, which also means that if you delete the app the records go with it. Export anything you want to keep.

Leaves your device. A device identifier, shared with the advertising network that funds the app. That is disclosed on the App Store privacy label and in the privacy policy, and it is stated here too rather than buried, because you are entitled to weigh it before installing.

If you would rather share nothing at all, that is a reasonable position and it costs you very little. The same material is on this website, free, with no install. The app adds the timer and the record-keeping, not the knowledge.

No paid tier. No locked features. No trial that expires. No account. Every part of it works on the day you install it and keeps working.

It carries advertising, and there are two optional support purchases inside it at $3.99 and $29.99. Neither unlocks anything, because there is nothing locked. They exist for people who want to fund the work, in the same way the support page does, and ignoring them costs you nothing.

That funding mix — advertising, voluntary support, guides and affiliate commissions — is the mechanism by which this site declines money from the companies whose products it writes about. The editorial policy sets out the whole arrangement.

The Android build is finished and pending release on Google Play. Until it clears, the website covers the same ground on any device. The bracing schedule guide is the nearest thing to the timer, and the appointment checklist is a printable version of the notes section that works on any phone, any platform, and no signal at all.

The Ponseti parent guide is the full treatment walkthrough. Brace schedules covers the hours question in detail. The appointment checklist is free and printable. About Heath explains who built all of it and why.