Curabrein
You buy it once, and then it is yours.
No subscription, no advertising, no account, and no second payment for the part you actually needed.
once, and the app is yours
Bought through Google Play, so their refund terms apply.
What you are getting
- Your energy, and what it cost youFive levels and one tap on a bad day. Points and a budget if you count that way.
- Crashes, with your own delayNot twelve to forty-eight hours from a study. The number your own weeks work out to.
- Months of your days on one gridThe thing you can hand to somebody and say: look, this is what it has been like.
- Twenty exercises that never push youFiltered by your conditions, so nothing unsafe for you can turn up.
- Eighty-four conditions for a bad dayShort paragraphs, plain words, and the app reads them aloud if that is easier.
- Your overview to take with youPrint it, mail it, or simply hand over your phone.
What comes in goes back in. The more people buy it, the more conditions can be written and the more exercises get added. None of it goes to servers, because there are none.
Because then you would be the product.
An advertising network inside a health app means somebody is being told which conditions you looked up and how bad your week was. That is the one thing this app promises never happens.
It would also be impossible to keep. Curabrein has no internet permission at all, and adverts have to be fetched from somewhere. The moment you add advertising, the promise is gone. So there is no advertising.
A bill every month is the wrong shape for this.
A subscription of a few euro a month keeps running for as long as you use the app, and often puts the parts you actually need behind the higher plan: the export, the reports, the full history.
The people this app is for are often living on less because of their illness. Being ill is already expensive. Appointments, medication, the hours you cannot work. A bill that arrives every month for the rest of your life is not a small thing when your income is the thing your illness took first.
And an app that holds your own health record hostage until you pay again is worse than one that never existed. You wrote those months down yourself. They are yours.
What has come in so far
All of it goes back in: more conditions, more exercises, and the time to keep it working.
You pay once. After that the app cannot ask you for anything again, and nobody can put your own record behind a payment. Not me either.
It has to pay for itself.
This app was not built to make a profit. It was built because it ought to exist. But it does have to pay for itself, because an app that earns nothing stops being maintained one day, and then it goes quiet on the phone of somebody who was counting on it.
New conditions, and keeping the ones there current
Eighty-four pages were researched, written and checked one at a time. More are coming, and what is already there has to stay current, because guidance changes. That is the slowest and least visible part of this app, and the part that has to be right.
New exercises, and the app itself
Physiotherapy movements with real pictures, more kinds of exercise, and the things that are still missing. The app is not finished and it is not supposed to be: it gets worked on for as long as people use it.
Keeping it running
Android changes underneath it, and then somebody has to keep it working. That is the least exciting work there is, and it decides whether the app is still here in two years.
What comes in goes back in. The more people buy it, the more conditions can be written and the more exercises get added. That is the whole plan: keep it alive and make it better.
Once, and then it is yours.
No subscription, no advertising, no account, and no internet permission.