Guide
Can I track Parkinson's with just my iPhone, no Apple Watch?
Yes. On iPhone alone, Kampa shows your walking speed, steps and steadiness, runs six short movement checks, uses the doses you log to show how your movement changes around a dose, and reads sleep and heart-rate variability from Apple Health. What you will not have is the all-day tremor and dyskinesia record - that comes only from an Apple Watch.
What you get on iPhone alone
- Walking - speed, steps and steadiness, recorded by the iPhone in your pocket and read from Apple Health, including the history you already have.
- Six movement checks - finger tapping, hand rotation, leg agility, postural tremor, rest tremor and a drawn spiral, most taking ten seconds per hand. Each is matched to a movement a neurologist checks by hand.
- Dose timing from the doses you log, comparing checks taken soon after a dose with checks taken long after one.
- Sleep and heart-rate variability from Apple Health when another device records them.
- Everything you log - medication, meals, symptoms, therapies - on one timeline.
The Review screen says iPhone-only, so you always know which mode you are in.
What a watch adds
Passive, all-day tremor and dyskinesia sensing from Apple's Movement Disorder API. Any Apple Watch from Series 4 on watchOS 10 works, including a Series 5 or a first-generation SE. If you add one later, it joins the same timeline - nothing starts over.
Checks are not a daily chore
There is no schedule and nothing to fall behind on. A handful of checks spread over time is worth more than one taken carefully, and Kampa asks for the check and the moment your record has least of.
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Try it on your own record
Kampa is free on the App Store, with no subscription and no account to create. Questions? info@kampa.health reaches the people who build it.
Kampa is a personal tracking tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or give medical advice, and it never suggests a change to your medication.