LifeTracker by My Lived Experience
Not a wellness app. Not a mood tracker. Not a score.
A journal of your actual life, day by day — so that when you sit
in that room and the words disappear, you already have them.
Free to use · No credit card · South Africa
I kept sitting in my psychiatrist's office not being able to remember how the past few weeks had actually felt. The good days blurred into the bad ones. The appointment would end with a prescription and a date three weeks away. And nothing had really been communicated.
— Founder, My Lived Experience
You answer a few questions about how you actually feel — not on a scale of one to ten, but in words that fit. How flat or full. How stuck or flowing. The kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix.
Over time, patterns emerge that you couldn't see while you were living them. That's the thing you bring into the room with you.
Evening check-in
How were you today?
Tell us who you are, in your own words
Before your first check-in, you build a self-portrait — your diagnosis story, how you feel about your label, and which experiences feel familiar to you. Not a form. An invitation. You can do it over days, a little at a time.
Name what you've always felt but couldn't say
The Experience Map is a vocabulary for things you've lived with for years — "starting tasks feels much harder than it should", "I'm exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix", "I feel flat — not sad exactly, just empty." You choose what fits. The clinical term is a quiet footnote, not the headline.
Check in, morning and evening
Two minutes. Sliders with words, not numbers. The app responds — not with a score, but with an acknowledgement. Partial counts. Missed days are met with grace, not guilt. You are not building a streak. You are building a record of your actual life.
Go deeper when you're ready
The self-knowledge toolkit includes validated assessments — for depression, anxiety, ADHD, fatigue, sleep, and more — presented in plain language and framed as understanding, not diagnosis. You take them when it feels right. The results are yours.
Arrive at your appointment already known
Before your next session, generate a pre-appointment summary — weeks of check-in data, your own questions written in advance, and your experience in your own words. You walk in prepared. The appointment can finally be a real conversation.
You are not broken. You are not behind. You are not too much or too little.
You've spent a long time trying to explain yourself — to doctors, to family, to yourself. You've learned to say "I'm fine" in waiting rooms. You've tried to describe the kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix, and watched the words fall short. What looks like failure is often just friction. LifeTracker helps you see the difference.
It is not a tool that watches you or judges you. It is the wind beneath your wings — the thing that holds your experience so you don't have to carry it alone in your head until the next appointment.
Knowing Myself
The journey has five stages
The levels aren't numbers. They're named for where you are: Just Starting → Finding My Feet → Building Steadily → Growing Stronger → Knowing Myself. Every check-in moves you forward. Partial counts.
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Days to your first pattern
Most people begin to see something meaningful within the first month — a recurring low point, a correlation with sleep, a week that was harder than you realised. Things you couldn't see while you were living them.
You notice things in the person you love that they can't always see in themselves.
You watch the shift in their energy before they name it. You lie awake wondering whether today was harder than yesterday. Sometimes you say the wrong thing — not because you don't care, but because you don't have the language either. You feel helpless. You want to help. You don't know how.
Your observations are not an intrusion. They are a contribution. The companion app gives what you've noticed a place to live — separate from their data, with their consent, visible to their clinician when they choose. You do not need the right words. You just need to notice.
"You do not have to carry this alone — and neither do they. The companion app is an act of love made legible."
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The first half of most appointments is spent catching up. LifeTracker gives you the whole appointment back.
Your patient tells you it's been "okay, I think." Not because nothing happened — but because memory is unreliable, words are hard to find under pressure, and the three weeks between appointments contain more than anyone can hold. You are making complex decisions based on a very small window.
Your patient arrives already known. You walk in already knowing. The two minutes before each appointment become the most useful two minutes of your day.
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Minutes. The most useful two minutes of your day.
The pre-appointment briefing is designed to be read in two minutes. It surfaces what matters right now — not everything, just the things that changed, the questions the patient has been saving, and whether the companion noticed something you should know.
"So every patient feels like the only patient. Not because you have more time — because you walk in already knowing what matters today."
I kept sitting in my psychiatrist's office not being able to remember how the past few weeks had actually felt. The good days blurred into the bad ones. Was the medication working? Was the anxiety getting worse? Was last week harder than usual, or was it always like this?
The appointment would end with a prescription and a date three weeks away. And nothing had really been communicated — not the 2am moments, not the three days of unusual energy, not the afternoon that felt almost normal for the first time in months.
LifeTracker is the tool that should have existed. A journal that holds the texture of your days so that when you cannot speak for yourself, you already have the words. The app speaks for you when you cannot.
What we call neurodivergence — ADHD, depression, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, sensory sensitivity — is not a deviation from a norm. It is the leading edge of a more honest understanding of how human minds actually work.
The problem is not the brain. The problem is the mismatch between how these minds work and the systems — educational, occupational, clinical — that were designed for a narrower range of human experience.
LifeTracker offers a recalibration. Adjusting the lens through which you see yourself, so that what looked like a deficit starts to look like a difference that the world has not yet learned to accommodate. You are not broken. You are particular. That is not the same thing.
Most mental health tools borrow their language from clinical assessment. They ask you to rate your mood on a scale of one to ten. They present your experience back to you as a number to be optimised.
LifeTracker inverts this. The primary language is human — "I feel flat, not sad exactly, just empty", "starting tasks feels much harder than it should", "I'm exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix." Clinical terms appear only as quiet footnotes for those who want them.
Your data is not a score. It is a record of your actual life — with all its texture, variation, and contradiction. The goal is not to improve your number. It is to understand yourself more honestly, and to be understood by the people trying to help you.
LifeTracker is the beginning of something larger. A companion app where loved ones can contribute what they notice. A clinician dashboard where consented data can inform treatment decisions. A founding community where the people who use this tool are not users — they are co-creators. Built with them, not for them.
The mental health system in South Africa is under-resourced. Waiting lists are long. Appointments are short. The gap between what people are experiencing and what clinicians are able to see in a 45-minute session is wide. LifeTracker is one way to narrow that gap — not by replacing clinical care, but by making it more informed, more human, and more continuous.
The tool is free. It runs in any browser. It does not require a smartphone upgrade or a subscription. Because the people who need it most often cannot afford to pay for it — and that matters more than the business model.
You don't have to use your name. You just have to be willing to say the thing. The founding community is just beginning — these are the first voices.
Patient · Cape Town
"For the first time I had actual evidence. I could show my psychiatrist that the three weeks before my period were consistently the hardest. She believed me immediately. We adjusted my medication."
Living with ADHD and depression
Patient · Johannesburg
"I used to say 'I don't know, it's been fine I think' at every single appointment. Now I arrive with a page. It changed the whole conversation."
Living with anxiety and burnout
Your story could live here. You don't have to use your name. You just have to be willing to say the thing that might help someone else feel less alone.
Share your story →Not "fix yourself." Not "optimise your mental health." Just: adjust the lens through which you see yourself, so that what looked like a deficit starts to look like a difference the world has not yet learned to accommodate. That's what LifeTracker is for.
Yes. Completely free — no credit card, no subscription, no hidden costs. It runs in any web browser and can be added to your phone's home screen like an app. It's free because the people who need it most often cannot afford to pay for it.
No. LifeTracker is a journal of lived experience — not a medical device, not a diagnostic tool. It helps you understand your own patterns and put them into words for your clinician. It does not provide clinical advice, and it does not replace professional care.
No. Many people using LifeTracker are in the process of figuring out what's going on. You don't need a label. You just need to feel like something is off and want a way to understand it better.
Yes. LifeTracker does not share your data with anyone without your explicit consent. Not with clinicians, not with researchers. Sharing is always a deliberate act — you generate the report, you decide who receives it. There is no advertising model. Your data is not the product.
No. Partial counts. Missed days are met with grace, not guilt. You are not building a streak — you are building a record of your actual life. Even an incomplete record is more than you had before.
Yes. Your clinician doesn't need to use any app. You generate a pre-appointment summary — a one-page PDF in plain language — and bring it or email it to them before your session. They read it, not a dashboard. The work is yours. The benefit is shared.