A health journey companion
One record for each person you look after — and one for yourself — shared with everyone who helps.
You talk. I write it down, count it, and turn it into something a doctor can read in the eleven minutes they have.
Free to use. No subscription, no ads, and nothing about your record is ever sold.
You don't have to wait for either. Gerry works on your phone, tablet or laptop right now — and if you add it to your home screen, it gets its own icon and opens like an app.
Nobody does this alone
Care gets split across a family, and so does the record. Everyone writing into the same one is the difference between a history and an argument about what happened last week.
Your mother, your son, yourself. Separate records, separate medications, separate doctors. Switch between them; nothing gets mixed up.
Your sister, your dad, the aide who comes Tuesdays. They write into the same record, and every entry shows who wrote it.
For the person who needs to stay informed without adding to it. They can read everything and change nothing.
You choose which it is when you invite them, you can change it later, and you can take access away at any time.
Why this exists
I built this three times without meaning to. First for my own perimenopause — I told doctors the night sweats were occasional, then wrote them down and found out they were most weeks and getting worse. Then for my son's ADHD, where every new dose asks whether it is working and the answer only shows up over six weeks. Then for my mother and my aunt, who share everything that comes with caring for an aging parent and needed one record instead of two memories.
Gerry is named for my grandmother, Geraldine Blanche.
How it works
Talking is the easy part. What happens after it is the point.
Talk, then check what I heard
Four rambling minutes is what this is built for. A day can be mostly good with one bad hour, and both survive. Type it instead, or upload the notes you already keep. Then I show you every observation I pulled out, grouped by time of day — nothing is saved until you say so.
Blank squares are days nobody wrote anything. They stay visible.
I count it — I never estimate it
How often, on how many days, and how it compares to the stretch before. Every number comes from entries you confirmed. Nothing is guessed and nothing is rounded up. Then the thing you cannot see from inside it: eight months on one screen, so “is this getting worse?” stops being a matter of memory.
I show you the line. I don't tell you what it means — that part belongs to your doctor.
Then your doctor gets a document
Five questions for the next appointment, in your words, each showing the dates behind it. Edit them, add your own, check them off in the room. Then one summary to hand over — what was observed and how often, the medications, and how many days you actually logged, so a doctor knows how much to trust it. Each doctor gets their own: the neurologist sees cognition, mood, sleep and mobility; the primary care doctor sees what belongs to her.
Tap Summary on any doctor — it opens right there and scrolls.
Tap a summary to read it
And the things that help, gathered up
Helplines, respite programs, clinics that take your insurance, and people worth watching — chosen by the condition you told me you were tracking, never by reading what you wrote.
Anyone paying to be listed says so on the card. Gerry lists; it never recommends.
For what you told me you were tracking — Ruth's dementia, and your own.
Chosen by condition — never by reading your entries
Choose what I listen for
“Not sure yet” is a real answer. I track what a person observes, not what a device measures — no monitors, no wearables, no step counts.
What I never do
- Never diagnose, predict, or tell you how urgent something is.
- Never calculate a dose.
- I report what you observed. I don't say what it means.
- In an emergency, call 911 rather than opening this app.
Your record is yours
- Free to use. No subscription, and no version of this that costs money to unlock.
- No ads. Not now, not later.
- Nobody outside is watching how you use this.
- The counts and trends are yours. I work them out from your entries and show them to you — they go nowhere else.
- Nothing you record trains anything.
- You can print, text or email the record to your clinicians.
- Take all of it, or delete all of it, whenever you like.
Some listings in Resources are paid for by the organizations in them, and every one of those says so on the card. That is what keeps this free, and it is the whole of the arrangement.
The privacy page says exactly what is stored and where it goes.