Patient-Owned Home Exercise Program Tracker For People Doing Physical Therapy Whose Clinic Never Put Them On An App

mobile app real project •• multiple requests

The polished home-exercise-program apps (Physitrack's PhysiApp, MedBridge GO) are all therapist-gated: a clinician has to build your program and send an access code, and if your clinic doesn't subscribe you get nothing. Patients doing PT on their own, or in the gap between clinics, end up tracking a prescribed routine in a generic to-do app or on paper. The opportunity is a patient-first HEP tracker where the patient builds and logs their own routine with sets, reps, hold-times, and pain notes.

builder note

Don't try to out-feature Physitrack; the wedge is exactly the people Physitrack can't reach. Ship a great exercise-builder plus adherence log, and resist adding a 'share with your therapist' portal that drags you back into the gated clinical market.

landscape (3 existing solutions)

Every well-built HEP app assumes a paying therapist sits at the other end. The patient with a printed exercise sheet and a clinic that doesn't use an app is completely unserved.

Physitrack / PhysiApp The patient app requires an access code from a subscribing clinician; it is useless without a therapist already on the platform.

MedBridge GO Free for patients, but the provider must first build the program inside MedBridge's paid suite; it is not a standalone patient tool.

Generic to-do / habit / gym-log apps No concept of hold-time or per-exercise pain logging, and gym apps assume big-muscle workouts rather than small-muscle rehab work.

sources (2)

other https://ask.metafilter.com/330447/Recommend-an-app-to-track-... "Recommend an app to track my physical therapy exercises" 2026-05-23

other https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9516363/ "Patients find generic apps tedious; PT targets small muscle groups gym apps ignore" 2022-09-01

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