Log the exposure
Tap what you were just in, or just had — sun, heat, alcohol, hot drink, stress — from the usual list, or type your own. Detail is your call, never forced.
<15s per exposureA trigger diary for one face at a time
Which one
set you off today?
The sun on the walk. The warm room. The glass of red at dinner. By evening your cheeks are burning and every one of them looks guilty. Flarewatch keeps the list, so the ones that keep turning up stop blending in.
Lives on your phone. No account, no cloud, nobody watching.
01 — the problem
Nothing sets your face off on its own. It had four accomplices that day.
Rosacea triggers are ordinary things you were going to do anyway — weather, a warm room, a drink, a hard afternoon — and they stack. On any given day you can name four suspects and rule out none of them, which is about as useful as naming none.
Cutting everything is not a plan, and cutting one thing for a week tells you nothing if the week was cloudy. What untangles it is a boring, honest log — every exposure, every flare, on the same timeline, kept long enough for the repeat offenders to stand out.
02 — the loop
Three small habits.
That's the whole app.
The rule that decided every design call: if logging an exposure takes more than 15 seconds, or logging a flare takes more than two taps, the app has failed. So it doesn't ask for much.
Log the flare
When your skin goes, tap how bad — mild, moderate, or severe — and when it started, so a flare you noticed in the mirror at midnight doesn't get filed at midnight. Which kind it was — a flush, bumps, stinging, dryness — is there if you want it. Two taps and back to your evening.
2 taps, then awayLet it connect the dots
For every flare, the app rewinds through the previous twelve hours and notes what you'd been exposed to. Do that for a few weeks and the same few triggers keep turning up in the window.
Patterns, not charts
−12h · lookback · now
08:20
hot drink
hot drink
11:05
sun · heat
sun · heat
13:30
spicy food
spicy food
18:40
alcohol
alcohol
20:05
moderate flare
moderate flare
03 — the payoff
A short list of
usual suspects.
No dashboards. No line graphs pretending to be science. Just a ranked list of the triggers that keep sitting in the window before your worst days — sorted by how often, and how badly, they show up.
It surfaces associations, not verdicts, and it treats nothing. The app can point at a suspect; what you test, avoid, or take to a dermatologist is yours to decide.
Suspect
Shows up before
01
Alcohol red wine · beer
02
Sun midday · no shade
03
Hot drinks coffee · tea
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Exercise cleared, for now
04 — the promise
A record of your face on a bad day never leaves your phone.
No account, ever
Nothing to sign up for, no email, no password to forget. Open the app and start logging.
No cloud, no sync
Every entry is stored locally on your device. There is no server to breach because there is no server.
Yours to take out
One tap exports the lot as a backup file or a spreadsheet — for a new phone, or to bring to an appointment. No analytics, no ads, nothing sold.
05 — what it costs
Free for thirty days. Then one payment, forever.
Thirty days, everything
Nothing held back during the trial. Dermatologists ask for two weeks or more of trigger diary before anything becomes visible, so a shorter trial would expire before you had seen the thing you'd be paying for.
One payment, no subscription
Pay once and the app is yours, including every future update. No monthly fee, no ads, ever.
Your log is never hostage
If you don't pay, the app still opens, still shows every day you ever logged, and still exports the lot. You lose new entries and the Patterns view — never your history.
The honest pitch
It won't calm your skin.
It'll just stop the culprit
hiding in the crowd.
Flarewatch is a small, stubborn notebook that remembers what you can't: every exposure, every flare, on one honest timeline — until the pattern is impossible to ignore.
On iPhone soon · lives entirely on your device