See a heavy day coming.
Humidity, barometric pressure and wind alongside your joints.
Many people with osteoarthritis notice that the weather plays a part. Artrio records how your joints are doing each day and puts the weather next to it automatically. After a few weeks you can see whether that holds for you, and whether it is about humidity, pressure, wind, or none of the three.
Why this app
Ten seconds a day
One check-in. Pain and morning stiffness for each joint you choose. Movement, sleep and medication can come along, but are not required.
Your joints
Knee, hip, hand, shoulder, back, ankle or something else. You track only what matters to you.
The weather comes along
Humidity, barometric pressure, wind and temperature for your location, saved automatically with every day. Not just the phone barometer, because humidity weighs more heavily than pressure.
A heads-up
If the next 24 to 48 hours turn humid and windy with falling pressure, the app says so. That lets you move heavy jobs to a kinder day.
Honest outcomes
The app will also say "not enough data yet" or "no link found" when that is the case. Better nothing than a link that is not there.
Large and calm
Big buttons, large type, no swiping and enough contrast. That is a design choice, not an extra.
How it looks
What the research says
In the study Cloudy with a Chance of Pain, the University of Manchester followed more than 13,000 people for fifteen months using their phones. On humid, windy days with low barometric pressure, the chance of more pain was about 20 percent higher. Humidity weighed the most, then low pressure, then wind. The link held up after correcting for mood and activity.
The effect is modest. The researchers put it as a shift from 5 to 6 painful days in 100. That is not a forecast of your day; it is a chance that sits a little higher.
Read what the research really saysYour data stays yours.
Everything lives in a database on your own phone. No account, no server, no ads, no trackers. The only thing the app fetches is the weather for your area, without sending any health data along.
Artrio is a diary, not a medical device. It makes no diagnosis, gives no treatment advice and does not replace a doctor. For questions about your symptoms or your medication, see your GP, physiotherapist or rheumatologist. What you record can go with you to that conversation as a PDF, with the course per joint and the weather beside it.