FOR PEOPLE MANAGING CHRONIC ILLNESS
Your health.
Your team.
Your voice.
Tend is a coordination and advocacy app for people managing multiple chronic conditions—built for the days you have five minutes, not fifty.
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You probably know this feeling.
You see four specialists, and none of their portals talk to each other. You're the one passing messages between them. You repeat your medical history at every appointment, and you're the one who has to remember what the rheumatologist said the endocrinologist needs to know.You track symptoms in a notes app, on Post-its, on the back of an appointment card. You walk into doctor's offices and forget half of what you meant to ask. You walk out wondering whether the answers you got were the right ones, or just the ones that fit into fifteen minutes.And somewhere along the way, you've been told it's anxiety. Or stress. Or that you should try yoga.You've been managing this for years. You're tired.
The apps you've tried weren't built for you.
Most chronic illness apps want more data. More logs. More streaks. More tracking. They were built for healthy people optimizing performance, then quietly repackaged for people surviving Tuesday.Tracking everything doesn't help when you're already exhausted. It adds another job to a life that's already full of them.Tend takes the opposite approach.
What Tend does.
Coordination
Keep your medications, providers, and appointments in one place. See which of your portals share systems and which don't. Stop being the message-passer.
Preparation
Walk into every appointment with your top concerns, your medication list, and your recent symptom history pulled together. In five minutes. Even if it's been six months since you last opened the app.
Advocacy
A library of scripts for the conversations that don't go the way you want them to. The exact words to use when you're being dismissed, when you need a test, when you're asking for a second opinion.
On your terms
No streaks. No daily logging requirements. No notifications guilting you for missing a day. Tend is here when you need it. It waits when you don't.
Why I'm building this.
I've spent 20 years navigating chronic illness across specialists who don't talk to each other. I've kept my own medical history in a mental spreadsheet for over a decade. I've prepared for appointments on the back of grocery receipts. I've been told my pain was anxiety more times than I can count.I'm building Tend because I need it, and because every other app I've tried is either useless or more work than I have time for. The version I'm making is the one I wished existed when I was thirty, and twenty-five, and twenty-two—figuring all of this out alone.I hope it helps you carry less.— Allison, Founder
What Tend won't do.
Some of the most important features of Tend are the ones we've left out:
Tend won't gamify your pain. No streaks, no badges, no "you're on fire!" notifications. Pain isn't a habit to optimize.
Tend won't ask you to track 47 variables a day. The track-everything approach was built for healthy people. It doesn't work for the rest of us.
Tend won't share your data. Your medical history is yours. Tend stores what you ask it to store, and exports everything if you ever want to leave.
Tend won't replace your doctor. Tend isn't medical advice. It's a tool to help you organize information and prepare for conversations with the people who provide your care.
Be there when Tend launches.
I'm building Tend in public. The waitlist is the best place to follow along — early access when we launch, behind-the-scenes updates as the app comes together, and the occasional long-form essay on living with chronic illness and building something for it.No spam. No frequency that overwhelms. Two emails a month at most.If this is for you, I'd love to have you here.