The Honest Truth About Bearable
Bearable is genuinely impressive for health tracking. If you're managing chronic illness, mysterious symptoms, or trying to understand what affects your health, Bearable's correlation analysis is remarkably useful. You can track symptoms, factors (sleep, food, weather, activities), and medications, then see what actually helps or hurts.
But here's the key distinction: Bearable is a health diary, not a life planner.
It helps you understand your body. It doesn't help you plan your day, balance your life, or motivate you to take action. These are complementary but different needs.
What Bearable Does Better
Bearable excels in health tracking:
- Symptom tracking: Log virtually any symptom with severity levels
- Factor tracking: Sleep, food, weather, activities, and custom factors
- Correlation analysis: See statistical relationships between factors and symptoms
- Medication tracking: Log medications and see their effects
- Export for doctors: Generate reports for medical appointments
If you're dealing with health conditions and want data-driven insights, Bearable is exceptional.
The Health Tracking vs Life Planning Distinction
These apps serve fundamentally different purposes:
Bearable asks: "What affects your health? What correlates with your symptoms?"
Funtasking asks: "How can you plan a balanced day across all life areas?"
One observes and analyzes. One plans and motivates. Both valuable, different purposes.
Where Funtasking Takes a Different Path
The Purpose Wheel: Instead of health metrics, you see 8 life areas - Body, Mind, Connection, Work, Learning, Impact, Play, Space. You plan tasks across these to build a balanced life, not just track what happened.
Forward-Looking Planning: Bearable captures what happened. Funtasking helps you decide what should happen. Schedule tasks, block time, see your whole day planned out.
Gamification: Bearable is purely observational. Funtasking rewards balanced living with coins you can spend on treats you define. There's motivation built in.
Can You Use Both?
Absolutely. They complement each other well:
- Bearable: Track symptoms and understand what affects your health
- Funtasking: Plan balanced days that include what Bearable tells you helps
If Bearable shows that "outdoor walks correlate with better mood," Funtasking helps you actually schedule those walks.
Who Should Choose Bearable?
- You're managing chronic illness or health conditions
- You want to understand what affects your symptoms
- You need data for medical appointments
- Medication tracking is important to you
- You want statistical correlation analysis
- Health optimization is your primary goal
Who Should Choose Funtasking?
- You want to plan balanced days, not just track health
- You need a full daily planner with task scheduling
- You like gamification and earning rewards
- Calendar integration matters to you
- You want to balance all 8 life areas
- Burnout prevention is your primary concern
The Pricing Comparison
Bearable: Free with limitations, Premium $49.99-$64.99/year
Funtasking: Free with full features, Pro $2.99/month ($35.88/year)
Both have solid free tiers. Funtasking Pro is more affordable for those who need premium features.