The two of us, and why Flare exists
Built at the kitchen table
Flare started as a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet started with a realization: Andre's pain had a shape — his symptoms, his rhythm, his triggers — and no tracker on the App Store would take it. Every app asked him to squeeze it into their template: their symptom checklist, their 0–10 scale, their daily cadence. The spreadsheet was the only tool that fit the pain's actual shape. Months of logging later, it had become something worth building properly.
Mary Carol's side of the story is twofold. As a physician trained in population health, she thinks about health data for a living — what makes self-reported symptoms meaningful, measurable, worth acting on. And she had the other seat at the kitchen table: watching someone she loves in pain, month after month, trying to get a spreadsheet to hold it.
Flare is what happened when those two vantage points met: a designer's log of his own pain, shaped by someone who knows what makes health data worth trusting.
Who we are
Andre Minoli
Designer — user-centric design, usability, and med-tech. Formerly Google. Designed and built Flare, and logged in it every day before anyone else could.
Mary Carol Jennings, MD, MPH, FACPM
Johns Hopkins–trained physician and population health specialist. Shapes what Flare measures and how it reports — so months of entries add up to something worth acting on.
What we believe
- Pain has a shape, and yours is yours. Your symptoms, your rhythm, your triggers — no two people's pain looks alike. Most trackers ask your pain to fit their template. Flare is built the other way around: customizable enough to fit any shape, so you track what you experience, in your own terms.
- Your data is yours. No account, no ads, nothing leaves your device. We can't see your log, and we like it that way.
- Named levels beat numbers. None, bearable, mild, moderate, severe — because "was it a 5?" is not a question anyone can answer consistently for months.
- The log serves the appointment. The point of six months of two-minute entries is fifteen useful minutes with your care team.
Flare is made by Fig Studio LLC, our small independent studio. If you want to talk to us: [email protected] — we read everything.
Download Flare - Chronic Pain Tracker on the App Store
Flare - Chronic Pain Tracker is a symptom-tracking tool, not a medical device. Nothing on this site is medical advice.