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Notes on building Health Flare in the open: why it is free software, why it stays offline, and why it exists at all.
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October 23, 2026
Built for the days you have no spoons
Health Flare is a symptom tracker that asks for as little as possible on a bad day, and never counts a missed day as a good one.
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October 15, 2026
Changing the ground under people: how Health Flare 1.10.0 moved the bottom bar
Health Flare 1.10.0 moves screens people use every day. Why we did it anyway, what we cut to make it easier to take, and the rules we built so a change like this never gets between you and logging.
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October 4, 2026
What's new in Health Flare 1.9.1
Quick Log got smarter about what you type, and more careful about what it saves. Plus flares, fluids, peak flow, body locations, and opt-in cycle and bowel tracking.
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September 21, 2026
The code was the easy part: what building Health Flare taught us about the quiet battles around us
On discovering that the real difficulty in building a health app was never the code, but reckoning with how much invisible labor chronic illness demands from the people living it every day.
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September 11, 2026
Health Flare is live on the App Store and Google Play
Health Flare is now available for iPhone and Android: a free, open source, privacy-first health journal for chronic illness, built so no data ever has to leave your device.
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September 9, 2026
Why Health Flare is free, offline, and not for sale
Why this project is free and open source software, why it stays offline and private by default, why we're using AI to build it, and why it will never track you.