GoutMe runs in the background and never lectures. Sleep, skin temperature, heart rate, water, weather and your medicine timing are collected for you, then tested against your flare days and clear days with real statistics. At 3 a.m. it asks for one tap, keeps what helps you one tap away, and turns it all into a report for your GP or rheumatologist.
Log itOne tap, even at 3 a.m. Details later, or never
CollectedSleep, skin temperature, heart rate, water, weather and your medicines come in on their own, in the background
ComparedYour flare days, next to your clear ones
Tests, not rulesNothing to give up. You see what matters for you
Bring it alongA report of what was found, for your GP or rheumatologist
In 724 people with gout followed online for a year, 1,433 flares were logged: the risk of a flare starting between midnight and 8 a.m. was 2.4 times the daytime risk.
Choi et al., Arthritis Rheumatol 2015
Seven or more drinks over two days went with a 2.5 times higher chance of a flare, and the effect was clearest within the following 24 hours, in 197 people with gout.
Zhang et al., Am J Med 2006
Of 550 people with gout asked what set off their flares, only 37.5% could name a trigger at all: alcohol for 14%, red meat or seafood for 6%, dehydration, injury and weather for about 5% each.
Abhishek et al., PLoS One 2017
Among 15,879 people with sleep apnoea and 63,296 without, 4.9% versus 2.6% went on to develop gout, a 42% higher risk after adjustment.
Blagojevic-Bucknall et al., Arthritis Rheumatol 2019
Across ten studies of weight loss in people with gout, 3 to 34 kg lost, six of the eight that measured it reported fewer flares.
Nielsen et al., Ann Rheum Dis 2017
In 632 people with gout, hot days went with about 40% more flares, and hot plus dry air doubled the odds compared with moderate weather.
Neogi et al., Am J Epidemiol 2014
In 633 people with gout, the highest two-day purine intake went with 4.8 times the flare risk of the lowest, and animal sources mattered more than plant ones.
Zhang et al., Ann Rheum Dis 2012
In 724 people with gout, one to two drinks in the prior day went with a 36% higher flare risk and two to four with 51%, for beer, wine and spirits alike.
Neogi et al., Am J Med 2014
Across 24 studies, only 46% of people with gout took their urate-lowering medicine at least 80% of the time.
Scheepers et al., Semin Arthritis Rheum 2018Ask GoutMe reads your own sleep, skin temperature, heart rate, water, weather, flares and medicines and answers in plain words. Insights then takes what is already showing up in your data and turns each pattern into one thing worth testing for a week.
In the UK in 2012, 2.5% of adults had gout, up 64% since 1997, yet only 18.6% of newly diagnosed people started urate-lowering treatment within six months.
Kuo et al., Ann Rheum Dis 2015
In 633 people with gout, cherries in the prior two days went with 35% fewer flares, and cherries plus allopurinol with 75% fewer.
Zhang et al., Arthritis Rheum 2012
Of 517 people with gout, 95% of those given nurse-led education and engagement reached the urate target at two years, against 30% with usual care.
Doherty et al., Lancet 2018
An app for iPhone and Android for people who get gout flares. You log a flare when it hits, one tap. GoutMe collects sleep, skin temperature, heart rate, water, weather and your medicine timing on its own, compares your flare days with your clear ones, and turns what it finds into a report for your GP or rheumatologist.
An app cannot lower your uric acid, and GoutMe does not claim to. What it can do is answer “what goes with my flares?” from your own data instead of the leaflet, keep the things that help you one tap away, show you the weeks you kept to your medicine and the weeks you did not, and put the pattern on paper for your GP or rheumatologist.
No. Risk today is a sum of what you logged and what was collected over the last seven days, faded by age. It describes the week you have had. The app never says a flare is coming.
Logging flares, early signs, triggers, medicines and reliefs, the background collection, the Journal, Risk today, the community and the nearby list are free. Premium adds Insights, Ask GoutMe, the tests worth running, Active triggers, the 7-day outlook, the mid-flare view, the Full Report and PDF, the Treatments page, practitioner sharing and food logging: £7.99 a month or £54.99 a year. New accounts get 14 days of Premium free.
No. There is no rule that fits everyone. GoutMe tests each factor against your own flare days and clear days and tells you whether it matters for you. If it does, it suggests a week worth testing, never a rule. Diet and medicines stay between you and your doctor.
No. The app does not calculate purines and has no lab log yet. Red meat, shellfish and the rest are one-tap entries, and the comparison runs on the days you tapped against the days you did not. Setup asks for your last urate level once, as a range.
No. Weather comes from your location, your phone can read screen time and sleep timing on Android, and the foods, drinks and medicines are one tap. A wearable, Apple Health or Health Connect adds sleep stages, skin temperature, heart rate, HRV and stress. Garmin, Oura, Polar and WHOOP connect directly; Apple Watch comes in through Apple Health.
Yes. We don't sell your data and we don't share it with advertisers. All health data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and you can delete your account and your data at any time. A practitioner sees your data only where you accepted their request, and a trusted person only what you invited them to.
No. It shows patterns in your own data to help you and your clinician; it does not diagnose or treat anything and cannot tell gout from an infected joint. A hot, swollen joint with a fever, feeling very unwell, or a recently injected or operated joint needs urgent care today.
We don't sell your data. We don't share it with advertisers. All health data is encrypted at rest and in transit. GoutMe is fully GDPR compliant. Your flares and your symptoms stay in your account, and a practitioner sees nothing until you accept.
Want to leave? Delete your account and every byte goes with you. No questions, no retention, no dark patterns.
