Apps for managing dizziness
Managing your dizziness symptoms alone can be very hard. It is important to create a support network, like family, friends, support groups, caregivers, and clinicians. You can also use your phone as a tool to help you with your dizziness symptoms. There are many different apps that cater to various dizziness conditions or more general medical issues.
The list below has been researched and compiled to help you with your health journey. We have not tested any of these apps, but we recommend trying any that you think could help you. If you know of any other apps that are not listed but that you have found helpful, please contact our support team.
Dizziness-Specific Apps
Symptom Tracking Apps
Balance: Vestibular Diary
This app is designed for people with inner ear conditions such as vestibular migraine or Ménière’s disease. It helps users to track dizziness episodes, symptoms, and potential or known triggers. The app also automatically records barometric pressure and weather before, during, and after all episodes. It creates charts that can show users how their episodes may relate to pressure changes or specific triggers. Users can also export their data as a CSV or one-page PDF summary to send to their clinician or bring with them to appointments.
Vertige
Vertige is a tracking app designed to help users log dizziness episodes and search for possible triggers. Users can track episode length and severity, as well as habits such as food, stress, screen time, movement, and factors like weather, medications, and menstrual cycle. The app creates weekly and month-at-a-glance reports that users can download and share with their clinicians. While this app is currently only on iOS, they are testing the Android version and it should be released soon.
Steady Path: Vertigo Tracker
Steady Path is a tracking app designed to help users log vertigo episodes, symptoms, and possible triggers over time. The app also allows users to set reminders to track their symptoms. The app tracks weather and barometric pressure changes as well to help users notice any symptoms related to those.
Track Vertigo Attacks – Verti
This app was designed to help its users log vertigo, Ménière’s, or balance-related episodes. It provides options to track episode severity and duration, as well as symptoms, lifestyle factors, medications, and weather patterns. The app can send medication reminders to keep you on top of your schedule. It also creates a calendar heatmap to help you spot patterns. In terms of privacy, no account is ever needed and the data stays on your device.
Exercise-Focused Apps
Vertigo Coach
The Vertigo Coach app is meant to help care-seekers who have already been diagnosed with a vestibular condition. It adds additional support for care-seekers beyond their relationship with their clinician. The app provides educational articles about vertigo, exercise routines that can help manage symptoms, and alerts or notifications to remind users to take any medications or do any exercise routines.
Vision Therapy: Dizziness/Eye Rehab
This free app provides 10-15 minute guided vision therapy and vestibular exercises as a supplement to the support you should be getting from a clinician. The app is designed to help you reduce dizziness, improve balance, and regain stable vision. You can log your symptoms before and after doing the exercises. The app analyzes your symptoms over time and adjusts your daily exercises accordingly. The app also has an option to share your progress with your healthcare provider via an invite code.
Vertigenius
This vestibular rehabilitation app is designed to be used alongside a clinician who will evaluate the care-seeker and then assign personalized exercises on the app. These exercises often target balance and dizziness and are guided on the app. Besides following their prescribed exercise program, users can track their symptoms and progress over time.
iMAV
This app provides vestibular therapy exercises for people with Migraine Associated Vertigo (MAV). This app should only be used after consulting with a healthcare provider. It includes guided exercises that can be done while sitting, standing, or walking. Users can rate their balance after each activity and track changes over time.
Ménière’s-Specific Apps
Ménière’s Biometrics
This app is designed to help people with Ménière’s disease track hearing changes and other related symptoms over time. With the app, users can perform headphone-based hearing checks, create audiograms, log vertigo episodes and related symptoms or habits, and compare episodes with weather factors. This app should not be used to perform formal hearing exams and should always be used in conjunction with a clinician. The app includes an export tool to help users share the information with their healthcare provider.
Ménière’s – Vertigo & Hearing
This app is a symptom tracking app for people with Ménière’s disease who suspect they get weather-related symptom flare-ups. Users can track a variety of symptoms as well as lifestyle actions like hydration, sleep, stress, and exercise. The app can alert users of pressure drops and weather, send hydration reminders, and showcase reports to help care-seekers spot patterns to share with their clinician.
Menierly: Ménière’s Toolkit
This app is specifically for people living with and managing Ménière’s disease. Users can calculate sodium per serving, set a daily sodium target, track daily symptoms, log any attacks, record possible triggers, and export data to share with their clinician. The app provides a summary of the users attack history and trends.
Ménière’s Symptom Tracker
This app is designed for people with Ménière’s disease to help them track attacks and look for possible symptom patterns over time. Users can log their daily symptoms, track any habits or triggers, and use automatic barometric pressure tracking to see whether weather changes relate to flare-ups. The app can sync with Apple Health, which allows for certain data to autofill to make the users life simpler. If the user wants, the app will send daily reminders for medications. There is also an option to export a CSV or PDF report to share with a clinician.
BPPV-Specific Apps
BPPV Relief
BPPV Relief is an educational app for learning about common BPPV tests and treatment maneuvers. It uses animations and voice-over instructions to show tests like Dix-Hallpike, Roll Test, and side-lying testing, as well as maneuvers like Epley, BBQ Roll, Gufoni, and quick head turns. This may be helpful for learning what BPPV testing and treatment can look like, but it should not replace care from a trained healthcare provider.
Healing Vertigo App
Healing Vertigo is an interactive BPPV resource with step-by-step videos for common BPPV tests and treatment maneuvers. The app helps users learn about Dix-Hallpike testing, Head Roll testing, and maneuvers such as Epley, BBQ Roll, Gufoni, Semont, and Casani. It may be most useful for people already diagnosed with BPPV who want extra support, but it should not replace evaluation or treatment from a qualified healthcare provider.
Other Apps
General Symptom Tracking Apps
Bearable
Bearable is a general health tracking app that helps users log symptoms, mood, pain, fatigue, medications, habits, self-care, and menstrual cycle changes all in one place. While this app is not specifically for dizziness, it can be useful for dizzy care-seekers who want to look for patterns between symptoms and possible triggers, like sleep, stress, medication, and more. The app includes graphs, weekly reports, and the option to securely export data, which can be shared with your clinician.
Apo – Health Companion
Apo is a symptom tracking app designed to help its users track various health issues like migraine and vertigo attacks. Users can review trends in their symptoms, add notes, and safely send a report of the data to their clinician. The app also includes a section with educational content on a variety of topics.
WeatherX Forecast
This app is designed to help people track changes in barometric pressure that may trigger migraines, headaches, or other pressure-related symptoms. Users can view pressure forecasts, receive alerts before pressure shifts, adjust their pressure sensitivity settings, and use the app with WeatherX earplugs. It also includes migraine logging and insights to help users look for patterns over time.
Anxiety-Specific Apps
Anxiety Tracker – Mood Journal
This app is designed to help users track anxiety, mood changes, stress, triggers, and medications over time. It includes anxiety check-ins, a panic attack log, a positivity journal, and an analysis tool that helps users better understand patterns in their mental health. For users with dizziness, it may be useful for tracking how anxiety, stress, or medication changes overlap with dizzy episodes.
MindShift CBT – Anxiety Relief
This app is a free support program that uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) tools to help users manage anxiety, stress, panic, worry, phobias, and fear. It includes daily check-ins, thought journals, fear ladders, guided meditations, mindfulness tools, educational materials, and progress tracking. For people with dizziness, it may be helpful for tracking and managing the anxiety or panic symptoms that can sometimes happen with, before, or after dizzy episodes.
UCLA Mindful
This free app was created using scientific research to help users practice mindfulness meditation. It includes guided meditations, informational videos, talks on mindfulness-related topics, and a timer to meditate on your own. For people with dizziness, it may be useful for managing stress, anxiety, and symptom flares that can happen alongside ongoing dizziness or migraine symptoms.
Headspace
Headspace is a meditation and mindfulness app that helps users build habits for stress management, sleep, relaxation, and focus. It includes guided meditations, breathing exercises, sleep stories, focus music, and short courses for everyday mental well-being. This may be helpful when dizziness feels worse with stress, poor sleep, anxiety, or times when symptoms feel harder to manage.
Condition-Specific Apps
Migraine Buddy
This app is designed to help people track migraine and headache patterns over time. Users can log migraine attacks, symptoms, pain location, possible triggers, medications, relief methods, sleep, and other health patterns. The app also includes reports that may help care-seekers prepare for doctors visits. For people with dizziness, it may be useful when tracking whether dizziness or balance symptoms happen around migraine episodes or possible migraine triggers.
MigraClarity
MigraClarity helps users record migraine attacks, symptoms, possible triggers, medications, sleep, hydration, and other health patterns. It can automatically track barometric pressure and provides a seven-day pressure forecast. Users can also track menstrual cycle changes to see whether certain cycle phases may relate to their attacks. The app creates reports that users can share with their clinician. For people with dizziness, it may be useful for tracking whether dizziness or balance symptoms happen with migraine attacks, weather changes, poor sleep, or other possible triggers.
Blood Pressure Diary
This app is designed to help users log and track blood pressure and pulse readings over time. Users can record blood pressure, pulse, body position, and other notes as well as review trends with graphs and charts. There is an export option if users want to share the data with a clinician. For people with dizziness, it may be useful when tracking whether lightheadedness, faintness, or other symptoms happen around blood pressure or heart rate changes.
Stroke Sisters
Stroke Sisters is both an app and a supportive digital community designed specifically for women recovering from stroke. The app includes recovery articles and videos, medication and therapy tracking, appointment reminders, an emergency information card, guided breathing and meditation, gratitude journaling, caregiver tools, and general progress tracking. It provides another tool, besides professional medical care, for users to feel more supported during recovery.
POTSie
This app is designed to help people with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) track their daily symptoms and manage their habits. Users can log blood pressure, pulse, dizziness, fatigue, heart rate, hydration, sodium intake, exercise, triggers, and symptom severity. The app also includes data comparison tools, progress tracking, export options for doctors visits, and a CHOP-style exercise tracker with cardio and strength activities.
MS Buddy
This app is designed to help people with Multiple Sclerosis track their symptoms, manage reminders, and prepare for doctors visits. Users can log when symptoms start and stop, look for patterns over time, set reminders for infusions/vaccines/other important dates, import health or wearable data, and create wellness reports for their clinician.