The situation
Sam is 38 and has Crohn's disease. Sam also tracks for daughter Lily, 9, who has type 1 diabetes, and for mother Rose, who lives with them and has COPD and lupus. Three people, three sets of medications, three different specialists. Sam's own logging tends to be the first thing that slips.
One profile each
- Create your own profile first, then add the others from the profile switcher with "Track a family member or dependant".
- Give each profile a photo. The avatar in the corner is the fastest way to tell whose record you're in.
- Set trackers per person. They're per-profile switches. Sam turns on bowel tracking for Crohn's. Rose gets weather tracking, to see whether her breathing is worse on certain days. Lily gets neither.
- Add conditions and medications to the right profile. Rose can have both COPD and lupus on one profile.
Knowing whose record you're in
The active person's name is at the top of the dashboard, and every entry screen says "Logging for Rose" (or Lily, or Sam) before you save. Switch profiles first, then tap +.
When you do get it wrong, and you will, open the entry and use "Move to another profile". Nothing needs retyping. This works for symptoms, vitals, sleep, meals, activity, and journal entries. A dose or an appointment logged to the wrong person has to be deleted and re-entered.
Different depth for different people
Lily: quick context. Readings type straight in: "Blood glucose 6.2 mmol/L" or "110 mg/dl" is logged as a vital. Health Flare isn't a diabetes management tool. It doesn't read from a CGM or a pump, and it doesn't calculate doses. Use it for what those don't capture: sick days, symptoms, what happened at school.
Rose: the full picture. "Oxygen sat 94%" or "Blood pressure 128 over 84" logs a vital. Log every dose as taken, skipped, or missed. When she flares, start a flare and attribute it to the condition behind it, so her COPD flares and lupus flares stay separate.
Sam: don't let yours slip. Keep your own logging short. With bowel tracking on, "Bristol type 6 twice" logs two entries. Flag a meal when it's followed by a reaction. Insights lists flagged meals next to any symptoms logged in the 6 hours after.
Before each appointment
Each person has their own appointments, questions, and reports. Write the questions into the appointment, tick them off in the room, and export a report for that person's date range. The report header names the profile and the dates, so Rose's PDF can't be mistaken for Lily's.
Privacy and backup
All three records live on your phone, and in your phone's own iCloud or Google backup if you use one. There's no account and no Health Flare server. One backup covers every profile. Lock it with a password when you export it.
What it doesn't do
Health Flare doesn't send dose reminders, and it doesn't sync between phones. If Rose uses her own phone, her record is separate from yours.