← Pain Journal
For clinicians

Your patients forget.
Pain Journal remembers.

A free pain diary you can recommend in one sentence. Your patients log in 10 seconds between visits and arrive with a clear PDF history instead of "it's been bad lately."

The recall problem

You already know this gap

Between appointments, patients lose the detail. By the time they sit down with you, weeks of pain have collapsed into a vague impression shaped by how they feel that morning. Recall bias is well documented, and reconstructing a history live burns consult minutes you do not have.

Pain Journal closes that gap on the patient's side, for free, without adding anything to your workflow.

What the patient brings you

A clean, structured PDF the patient generates themselves and can email or hand to you. It summarises:

Why it is safe to recommend

No obligation on the practice

Free for patients

The doctor report is free. No credit system, no per-report charge, no paywall on the basics. Patients are never up-sold to get a usable history.

The practice is not a data processor

No account, no sign-up. Entries stay on the patient's own device. Optional backup goes only to the patient's private cloud folder. You recommend an app; you take on no data-handling obligation.

Not a medical device

Pain Journal does not diagnose, score, or give medical advice. It is structured patient-reported history, nothing more. The clinical interpretation stays entirely with you.

No ads, no data selling

No advertising, no third-party trackers for ads, no selling of patient data. Privacy-first is the product, not a marketing line.

How to recommend it

Pick whatever fits your visit. No portal, no setup, no login on your side.

Say the name

"Try Pain Journal between now and your next visit, then bring me the PDF." It is on the App Store and Google Play under that name.

Show the code

Let the patient scan the QR code below with their phone camera. It opens the right store automatically.

Print the referral cards

Print the cut-out cards below for your reception desk or to hand out. Each card carries the code and a one-line explanation for the patient.

Printable referral cards

Hit print and you get a full A4 sheet of cut-out cards like this one, ready for the waiting room. Nothing else from this page prints.

QR code linking to the Pain Journal app
Pain Journal Track your pain between visits. Bring your doctor a clear picture instead of a guess. pain-journal.app

Tip: in the print dialog, set margins to "Default" and enable "Background graphics" for the cleanest result.