What's new
Kampa is on the App Store and changes most weeks. Each release gets a closer look on LinkedIn.
The Watch was the one thing Kampa asked you to own, and most people with Parkinson's don't. Review now has an iPhone-only mode: walking speed, steps and steadiness from the phone, sleep and heart-rate variability from Apple Health, and the six movement checks. Log your doses and they line up against all of it.
The all-day tremor and dyskinesia record still needs a Watch, so without one it is not shown. Add a Watch later and it joins the same timeline.
Give a medication its times and Kampa reminds you, and you can log the dose from the notification without opening the app. There is also a daily check-in at 6 pm, a morning brief, and a nudge for movement checks. Each has its own switch in Settings.
A medication reminder only fires for a medication you have given times, and it repeats what you entered. Kampa never suggests a time.
The day view now says how long tremor was on, how long each dose held against your own usual range, and how long before your next dose the tremor came back. It flags walking speed outside your usual, and a scheduled dose with nothing logged. Your logged events sit in a row of chips underneath.
Tap the speaker, or ask Siri "How was my day in Kampa," and it reads the day back to you. A dose taken soon after a workout is no longer dropped from the day.
Each check is now labeled by where it fell in your own dose cycle - soon after a dose or long after one - using the midpoint between your doses. It is a label, not a claim that you were ON or OFF, and Kampa never asks you which. With enough checks on both sides of a dose, Kampa can compare them. This works without a Watch, from the doses you log.
A hand too still to read is now marked Steady and plotted, rather than dropped. Every check starts on the right.
The card that turned months of tapping or rotation results into a trend verdict is gone. Repeating a test tends to make people faster for a while, whatever their medication does, and Kampa has no way yet to separate that from real change - so a verdict could read practice as improvement.
Insights used to start from the day you installed Kampa. It now reads everything in Apple Health, so older workouts, sleep and mindfulness count and you may see new cards - sleep against next-day symptoms, or a workout type against your walking.
A coffee or a walk taken while a dose was working is now compared with other times a dose was working, instead of being set aside, and the charts show one line per dose state. Therapy sessions get a "during" comparison: walking or tremor while the session ran, against comparable times without it. A question Kampa cannot answer yet says what it is waiting for. Insights also opens faster.
Add a workout - a walk, a hike, tai chi, yoga and more - from Kampa. It is saved to Apple Health, where every other app can see it, and Kampa uses it as a lever in Insights.
Tapping and Rotation are now joined by leg agility, postural tremor, rest tremor and a drawn spiral. Each is matched to a movement a neurologist checks for by hand, so a result means the same thing your clinic visit is looking at.
The two tremor checks are the reason this matters. A watch is worn on one wrist and gives back a single number, so it cannot tell tremor at rest from the kind that only appears when you hold a position against gravity. Those are different signs. Now you can measure them apart, because you choose the posture.
Every movement check history used to make you pick a hand, then remember what the other one looked like. Parkinson's is usually asymmetric, so the gap between your two hands is often the most informative thing on the screen - and asking you to hold it in your head was hiding the comparison the screen exists for.
The picker is gone. Both hands are plotted together, one point per sitting, so a visit reads as a single moment rather than two you have to pair up by eye. Capture now asks for both hands or neither, because a lone reading cannot answer the question the chart is drawn to answer.
The symptom list grew from four to seventeen - dizziness, body ache, memory lapses, loss of smell, sweating, drooling, swallowing, speech and more, alongside the constipation, fatigue, low mood and urinary symptoms that were already there.
Each now takes None, Mild, Moderate or Severe. That first step is the one that changed things. Without a way to record a good day, a symptom's history is built from bad days alone, which makes the app structurally blind to the thing you most want to see: a symptom stopping.
Eight are written to Apple Health, which has a matching type for them. The other nine have no Health equivalent, so Kampa keeps them itself - on your device and in your own private iCloud, exactly like your tremor record. Nothing about logging them differs, and both kinds feed the same insights.
The Review screen gained a symptom card that opens into your own history, and the record gained a radar - all seventeen symptoms in one figure, so a change in the overall shape is visible without reading seventeen charts.
The same figure is in the report you take to your neurologist, computed once so the page and the PDF can never disagree.
If you take something for another condition, it does not belong in your Parkinson's picture. Settings → Medications now lists everything Kampa can see - the ones you log here and the ones it reads from Apple Health - and a switch takes any of them out of the analysis.
The dose stays on your timeline and in your record. It just stops being treated as something that might explain your tremor.
Take a pill and open Kampa twenty minutes later, and the day panel used to say it had lost the reading. It had not - the window simply had not finished yet. It now says it is still watching, which is the honest version.
Rice, bread, potatoes and pasta now carry a starch tag, alongside protein, fat, fiber, sugar and caffeine. Carbohydrate on its own is on almost everything and cannot separate a bowl of rice from an apple; starch can.
Where the underlying nutrition data does not record enough to work it out, Kampa marks it unknown rather than guessing zero - a food nobody measured is not a food with none of it.
A food that Kampa recognized but which carries nothing it tracks, and a food it did not recognize at all, used to look identical on screen - both simply blank. They now say which one happened, so you can tell "there is nothing here to correlate" from "tell me this another way."
The matching also got better at plain ingredients: typing "almond" used to find almond milk, which carries none of what an almond does.
At the biggest accessibility text settings, rows that place a label beside a value now stack instead of squeezing into a column two words wide. Fourteen screens were reworked.
Kampa keeps its own medication record now, instead of sending you to Apple Health to write one. Tap the medications you took - tapping selects rather than writes - then tap Done to record them together. Nothing is saved until you confirm, so a mis-tap costs you nothing.
It is a union, not a switch: Kampa still reads the doses in Apple Health, so anything logged there stays on your timeline, including medications Kampa knows nothing about. Your existing dose history was copied across once, so nothing you had already recorded was left behind.
One button reads the day back to you - what you took, how your tremor moved around it, how you slept - in the same words the cards use. For the days when reading a screen is the hard part.
The voice matches the card, down to the minute - if the card says 5h 26m, so does the voice. Card shorthand is expanded for the ear rather than read literally, so "9m" of daylight is nine minutes and not nine in the morning. It speaks a sentence at a time, a little slower than the system default, because this is information being listened to rather than prose.
The day view had been crediting a medication for tremor that fell while you were asleep. Tremor falls overnight whatever you took, so a bedtime dose could look like it was working when all it had done was precede the night.
The cross-day engine had refused that claim for weeks - it was one tap away on the same screen, disagreeing. Now the day view holds the same line: if a dose's response window overlaps sleep at all, there is no card. Any overlap, not a fraction, because there is no honest cut-off between mostly awake and mostly asleep. And no sleep record means unknown rather than awake, so nothing regresses for someone who doesn't track sleep.
After ten weeks of private testing, Kampa is publicly available - free, no account, no subscription. Download it on the App Store. It needs an iPhone on iOS 26 and an Apple Watch; wear the Watch and your record starts building the same day, with nothing to fill in.
Passive tracking runs all day, but it cannot take the same measurement twice under the same conditions. Two short trials behind the + button now can: finger tapping, and hand rotation - pronation/supination, turning your forearm palm-up, palm-down. Rotation is there because it is the stronger test: in the one study that put 16 smartphone tests in front of the same blinded raters, rotation matched its clinical sub-score 74.6% of the time against finger tapping's 53.2%.
A check reports raw quantities - taps, rotations, the gap between your two hands - against your own usual range. Never a score, never a grade, never a clinical verdict.
Physiotherapy, PEMF, ozone, TPS, acupuncture, bodywork - log any therapy as a timed session and it sits on the same timeline as your doses, sleep, meals and movement. Therapies are a list you manage, so renaming one renames its whole history, and logging is a pick rather than typing.
Kampa shows you what its data holds around each session and stops there. It will not tell you whether the therapy worked: you do these a handful of times a month, and separating their effect from your medication cycle, your sleep and the time of day needs far more than that. Saying so is the feature.
Kampa now measures every substance you take on its own terms - how long each one holds, and how many of your own doses that measurement rests on. Sinemet and Mucuna Pruriens get separate cards, because they behave differently and averaging them together hides both.
The rule for whether a card exists is simply whether you take the substance - not whether medicine has decided it works. Traditional and unproven treatments are measured the same way as anything else.
Constipation, fatigue, mood, and urinary symptoms, each with a severity, saved straight to Apple Health and marked on your timeline. Log one when it's present - a normal day needs no entry, so there's no daily checklist to keep up with.
Point the camera at a barcode and Kampa fills in the product and its nutrition. It searches 439,082 products in an 11.8 MB file bundled inside the app - no network call, nothing leaves your phone. Typing and voice still work; scanning is just the fastest door for anything that came in a wrapper.
Sleep and HRV on your daily summary are now doors. Tap one and it opens into its own history, with today marked against your own range so you can tell an unusual day from an ordinary one. Scrubbing the chart moves every panel together.
One number for how you slept, computed one way, from your own baseline rather than a population average. The history behind it also loads roughly instantly now, rather than taking a few seconds every time you open the day.
Kampa runs your wearing-off curve forward from the doses you've logged and draws the likely shape of your day - your probable on and off windows - as a band right under your tremor chart. On a day without an active dose it shows your own typical range instead, and says so. A heads-up for planning the day ahead, never a dosing instruction.
Tap + and say it - "bloated after lunch," "nausea this morning." Kampa saves it to Apple Health and marks it on your timeline, so slow-digestion days sit alongside how your doses landed. Constipation and gut motility are among the most common non-motor patterns in Parkinson's.
Wear an over-the-counter glucose sensor - Abbott Lingo, Dexcom Stelo, no prescription - and Kampa reads it straight from Apple Health and draws your glucose curve in its own panel, time-aligned right under your tremor chart. Touch and hold anywhere and a crosshair sweeps every panel at once, so a dose, a meal, a tremor uptick, and a glucose swing all line up to the same minute. It works fully without a sensor, too.
Kampa is running on real devices in a private TestFlight beta - passive tremor and dyskinesia tracking, dose correlation, and your day-ahead forecast, all on your own data. Access is invite-only for now; get in touch if you'd like to try it.
Speak a meal, a dose, or a mindfulness session and Kampa transcribes it on device, works out what you meant, and files it at the right time - even "last night at 9 PM." Food and mindfulness also work hands-free through Siri. Built for tremor-affected hands: no typing, no forms.
Kampa now reads the full tremor distribution and the raw dyskinesia stream from Apple's Movement Disorder API - and draws both on the same timeline. Two motor signals, one chart, so you can see the whole picture of how a day moved.
The Watch app gets a clean Kampa lockup and a live tremor sparkline - and the iPhone can now wake it to sync in the background, so your tremor data keeps flowing without opening anything.
A new Insights view looks across weeks and months, not just today - surfacing longer-running patterns like medication response, wearing-off timing, and walking trends. Each comes with an honest confidence level and a clear "discuss with your neurologist" note. It only claims a pattern when the data actually supports it.
Behind the Insights view, Kampa analyzes dose-response by time of day, wearing-off windows, long-term gait trends, and food timing - and guards against confounds, so a meal doesn't get credit for what the medication actually did. When the signal isn't there, it stays quiet.
Export a clean, plain-language summary of your patterns as a PDF to bring to any appointment - your data, on your terms, ready to discuss with your care team.
Kampa reaches real devices beyond the builder's own, with a small, invitation-only group of testers.
Your data backs up to your own private iCloud (Apple's CloudKit) and restores on a new device - lose or replace your phone and your history isn't gone. On-device first; you stay in control of what it's ever used for.
A new in-app Backup view shows every record type, count, and date range Kampa holds on your device - plus one-tap CSV export of everything.
The app takes its name and identity: Kāmpa, from Kampavata - the Ayurvedic term for the tremor disorder now called Parkinson's.
Capture meals, mindfulness sessions, and daily events - each timestamped and ready to correlate against continuous tremor data.
Want to try it? Kampa is free on the App Store.