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Bucket in a paragraph

Bucket is an iPhone symptom and trigger diary for people living with MCAS, POTS, EDS/HSD and migraine. Everything a person logs — food, fragrance, a late night, a long shift — adds to a “bucket” that drains over the following days, so they can see the load building over the days. Over time, Bucket looks for what tends to come before their symptoms, up to about three and a half days earlier, and writes a plain summary to take to appointments. The diary stays on the person’s phone and their own iCloud; its maker has no copy.

In one line

Bucket is an iPhone diary for MCAS, POTS, EDS/HSD and migraine that shows how small things add up and finds reactions that come days later.

Why it exists

Bucket is made by Chris, who has a connective tissue disorder and hypermobility. After Covid, Chris’s allergy symptoms worsened and migraines began to follow strong fragrance — often a day or two later, so the two were never connected. It took more than a year to connect the two; Chris is still working towards an MCAS diagnosis through the NHS.

Chris built Bucket to find the patterns and delayed reactions that were impossible to see alone, and to walk into appointments with a record instead of a memory. Chris’s note on the home page.

The facts

What

A symptom and trigger diary for iPhone, with an Apple Watch app

For

People with MCAS, POTS, EDS/HSD and migraine, and conditions that travel with them, such as ME/CFS and long COVID

What makes it different

A bucket that shows how small things add up, and pattern-finding that looks up to about three and a half days back for delayed reactions

Privacy

The diary stays on the person’s iPhone and their own iCloud. The maker holds no copy. No adverts, no trackers, no data sold or shared

Not

A medical device. It never diagnoses or treats

Planned price

30-day free trial, then £12.99 a month or £89.99 a year. No free version

Status

Being finished now; waitlist open at mybucketlog.com

Made by

Chris Tomlinson, trading as SoleGrit, UK

Contact

[email protected]

For charities and support groups

If you run a charity or a support group and would like to tell your members about Bucket, you’re welcome to use anything on this page. The free tools — a stand test, an appointment sheet and a paper symptom diary — are free to link to, print and share, with or without the app.

We’d love to hear what your members need. Write to [email protected].