Bladder Diary & Chart
The app keeps the bladder diary your clinic asked for and prints it on the form they use. Everything stays on your iPhone.
Which form should I choose?
The one you were handed. If you were not given one, take the first: the three-day bladder diary published by NHS trusts and continence services, or, in the United States, the daily bladder diary from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. A frequency volume chart is the plainest option, times and volumes only. Whichever you pick, the app records the same things, so you can change your mind afterwards and print it on another form without altering anything you recorded.
How many days?
Clinics usually ask for three. The published forms all say the same thing about which three: they do not have to be days in a row, as long as they are ordinary days for you. The International Continence Society puts the minimum at two. If you were asked for a week, keep going, and the chart prints whatever range you choose.
How do I measure it?
Any jug marked in millilitres or ounces will do; a plastic kitchen jug from a supermarket is what most clinics suggest. When you could not measure one, turn on "Could not measure it" and the sheet prints a tick, or small, medium or large, exactly as the paper forms allow. An unmeasured one is never counted as nothing in the totals: the total says how many were not measured.
Why does it ask about bed and getting up?
Because that is the only way to count how many times you were up in the night. Tap "Went to bed" when you go, and "Got up" in the morning, and the chart shows the voids in between. Without both marks that box stays empty rather than guessing.
Why is there a void at 3am on yesterday's page?
Because that is how the printed forms run. A diary day starts at six in the morning and runs round to a few minutes before six the next day, so the small hours belong to the day before. You can change the hour a diary day starts under "Name and clinic".
What is the 0 to 4 score?
Two different 0 to 4 scales are printed on NHS bladder diaries, and they do not mean the same thing. One describes what happened, from passing urine with no urge at all through to not reaching the toilet in time. The other describes how long you could have waited, from indefinitely down to under five minutes. The app asks which one your form uses and prints its full wording at the foot of the sheet, so nobody has to guess.
Millilitres or ounces, A4 or Letter
Both. The unit is set per diary under "Name and clinic", and the paper size on the print screen. Amounts are always stored the same way inside the app, so switching units never changes what you recorded.
What is free, and what is not
Recording is free and unlimited, forever: every void, drink, leak and pad, on as many days as you like. The free version prints the first two pages of the chart. One purchase, with no subscription and Family Sharing included, prints every page, sends the whole diary as one file with a spreadsheet, allows more than one diary, makes encrypted backups and puts a passphrase on the PDF.
Backups
There is no cloud behind this app, so a backup file is the only thing that survives a lost phone. It is one encrypted file holding every diary, and the passphrase you choose is not stored anywhere and cannot be recovered by us or by anybody else. Keep it where you keep other important files.
What the app will not do
It records what you write down and prints it. It does not score your symptoms, work anything out about them, compare you with anybody else or tell you what any of it means. Questionnaires such as the OAB-q and the ICIQ produce numbers that belong to the clinician who asked for them. If you have been given one, fill in theirs.
Something wrong, or something missing?
Write to conor@conorhannah.com. If your clinic uses a form that this app does not print, send a photograph or a link to it and it may well go in.