The clubfoot app that keeps going after the brace comes off

My pediatric file closed a few weeks before I turned eighteen. For the next twenty-three years there was nothing to track, nowhere to put it, and nobody asking. When I finally went looking for my own history, the records from my teens came back from a hospital and the notes from my infant surgery came out of a folder my mother had kept. I wanted one place on my phone that would have held all of it, and would hold what my feet do now. That is this side of the app.

Choose the teen or adult experience when you set it up and the whole app changes around you. Your home becomes a dashboard, the Journey tab becomes History, and the parent tools get out of the way.

Tap how you are today, 1 for no pain and 10 for the worst. Then, if you want, where it is and when you noticed it. That is a whole check-in, and it is short on purpose, because a record you keep for a week is worth less than a record you keep for a year.

After your second check-in you get a pain line you can actually read. Look back over the last week, month, quarter, six months, year or all of it. The History tab breaks it into symptoms, function, activity, movement and body areas, and it sets the amount of activity you logged against the symptoms you recorded, so a long day on your feet and a bad next morning can sit side by side.

Once a month the app asks seven short questions, the same each time: walking, standing, stairs, uneven ground, sport, pain and overall. After you save, each answer shows whether it was easier, the same or harder than last month.

Patterns only appear once there are enough comparable records to support them, and when one does, it shows its evidence as how many times out of how many. Until then it says there is not enough information yet. The screen puts it plainly: this is your record, not an assessment of it.

Strength, mobility, cardio, balance and recovery work, from calf raises and supported squats to pool walking and a rowing machine. The filters are the part I care about, because a generic exercise app has no idea your ankle does not bend the way the video assumes.

Some movements have a demonstration video. Most are written out step by step, which is deliberate: a clear description beats a video of someone whose feet are nothing like yours.

If you had surgery as a child, you probably know it the way I did: roughly, from memory, with the dates wrong. The records section is built for exactly that.

If you only see someone about your feet every few years, that appointment is easy to waste. Build your question list before the visit, keep it open while you are in the room and mark what got answered, then record what was actually said before the drive home erases it.

Share with Doctor turns what you have logged into a readable PDF: your check-ins, symptoms and function, appointments, notes and questions. It labels what you recorded yourself separately from what the app calculated, so nobody mistakes a trend line for a finding.

Appointments work the same way they do for adults, with a question list, a record of what was said, an optional reminder the evening before, and a provider summary PDF built from casting history, brace hours and observations. The PDF is always built in English, whatever language the app is in. On Android there is also a home screen widget that shows whether the brace is on and today’s hours, with a toggle that logs a session without opening the app.

There is a separate path for families who have been told at a scan and have not started treatment yet: the questions to take to a first appointment, the knowledge base, and a way to find Ponseti providers, without a casting tracker you do not need yet.

Stays on your device. Your profile, pain check-ins, activity and movement logs, medical records, documents, photos, cast entries, brace logs and appointment notes. 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 without a backup, the records go with it.

Leaves your device. A device identifier, shared with the advertising network that funds the app. That is disclosed on the App Store privacy label, in the Google Play data safety section 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 knowledge is on this website, free, with no install. The app adds 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, on iPhone and on Android.

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.

Clubfoot as an adult is where the adult side of this site starts. What a treated clubfoot looks like at forty-one is my own feet, photographed. For parents, the Ponseti parent guide is the full treatment walkthrough and the appointment checklist is free and printable. About Heath explains who built all of it and why.