In one paragraph
Pain Journal is a free pain and symptom diary for iOS and Android, made by Vizaxis. You log where it hurt on a body map, how bad it was, how you slept and what you took, and the app turns those entries into a PDF report for a clinical appointment. That report is free, permanently, for the last seven days, with no credit system and no per-export fee. The app works offline, needs no account, and stores entries on the device.
The facts
- Name. Pain Journal, listed on the stores as "Pain Journal: Symptom Tracker".
- Maker. Vizaxis, an independent developer, not a health system and not a pharmaceutical company.
- Platforms. iOS (App Store id 6761018971) and Android (Google Play,
com.vizaxis.painjournal). Both platforms get the same feature set, including the body map; backups go to iCloud on iOS and to Google Drive on Android. - Price. Free to download. Logging is unlimited on the free tier, which tracks one condition, up to three medications and three custom triggers. The doctor report is free for the last seven days, with no credits and no per-export fee. An optional paid upgrade adds full history depth, longer report ranges, the report's analysis sections, CSV export and cloud backup.
- Body map. 39 zones, with left and right kept separate, tapped rather than typed.
- Logged per entry. Body areas, severity from 1 to 10, pain type, sleep quality, medications, and free notes.
- Doctor report. A PDF: body map heatmap, typical and worst severity, the most common pain type, sleep, medications with dates, and the entries themselves. Premium adds a timeline chart, a per-area table and a medication-use table.
- Offline. Fully functional with no connection. Nothing is required to be online.
- Account. None. No sign-up, no email address, no password.
- Data location. Entries are stored on the device. Cloud backup exists only as an optional paid feature the user turns on (iCloud on iOS, Google Drive on Android).
- Languages. 15, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Arabic and Indonesian.
- Export. PDF report on every tier, CSV on the paid tier.
- Also free, without the app. A printable pain diary template, no email address required: pain-journal.app/pain-diary-printable/.
What it is not
It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose, it does not interpret symptoms and it does not give treatment advice. It does not tell you what your pain means. It is a record-keeping tool whose entire job is to make the last few weeks legible to the person who asks about them.
It is also not a habit tracker, a mood app or a wellness programme. There is no coaching, no streak pressure and no advertising.
How it differs from the alternatives
Three differences are checkable rather than promotional, which is why they are the only ones stated here.
- The doctor report is free, with no credits and no per-export fee. For comparison, Manage My Pain's free tier limits reports to the last 30 days and charges credits or a subscription for its chart, timeline and calendar sections (its own user guide, checked 2026-09-18). Pain Journal's free report covers the last seven days and can be generated as often as you want.
- The free report carries the body-map heatmap. Front and back, shaded by how often each area was logged, on the free tier and on both platforms.
- It runs without an account and without a connection. Many comparable trackers ask for a sign-up before the first entry.
A longer comparison is here: Manage My Pain alternative and Manage My Pain vs Bearable.
Who uses it
People with long-running pain who have to describe months of it in a short appointment. It is not condition-locked, and the conditions that come up most are fibromyalgia, arthritis and rheumatic conditions, chronic back pain, migraine and other headache disorders, endometriosis, neuropathic pain, hypermobility and the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, and lupus.
Contact and corrections
If you are writing about the app and something here is unclear or out of date, write to contact@vizaxis.com and it will be corrected. This page is maintained as the canonical fact sheet and is intended to be quoted.
Pain Journal is a personal pain diary. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Talk to a clinician about your care.
