Log every episode
Start and end times, seizure type, rescue medication, VNS swipes, and sleep state, with optional video clips for your neurologist.
What it does
Everything you need in the moment, and after it.
A calm, single-purpose tool. No accounts to set up, nothing to configure before you can start.
Track your progress
Seizure-free streaks, clustering, intervention reliance, and a sleep-versus-waking breakdown. The trends that are hard to feel day to day.
Ready for the appointment
Frequency, duration trends, and time-of-day patterns, laid out so a conversation with the care team starts from real numbers.
Edit & log
Nothing's set in stone.
Real life is messy. Fix a time, fill in a detail, or log a seizure you missed, whenever you get the chance.
- Edit any entry later. Adjust the start or end time, the rescue-medication time, or VNS swipes on a saved seizure.
- Add clinical detail. Set the seizure type and sleep state, and add notes, whenever you have a moment.
- Attach video after the fact. Add short clips to an entry later, not only during the episode.
- Log from memory. Didn't catch it live? Create a complete entry by hand, after the fact.
Make it yours
Tune it to your situation.
Every family's setup is different, so the settings that matter are yours to adjust. Turn on what you need and leave off what you don't.
- Timer reference time. Set the dial's reference to 2, 3, 5, or 10 minutes to match your own action plan.
- VNS swipe tracking. If there's a VNS implant, turn on magnet-swipe tracking and set the swipe limit you follow.
- Video clips. Optionally record short clips during an episode, kept for a retention window you choose.
- Sleep hours. Set your household's sleep window so reports can tell sleep-time seizures from waking ones.
- Cluster definition. Match your neurologist's own definition of a cluster: how many seizures within how many hours.
- Appearance. Light, dark, or system, plus eight color themes.
Our story
The app we wished existed, so we made it.
Our child has intractable epilepsy. My wife and I needed a reliable way to keep track of it, something that fit the way we actually live. We're two parents, trading off care, trying to stay on the same page about what happened and when.
We tried the apps that were out there, and they all left gaps. So I built ours around what we actually needed. It's fast to use in the moment. It keeps the two of us in sync. And it turns a pile of entries into something we can read at a glance, and bring to our child's care team as real data instead of a best guess.
I think it's genuinely useful as it stands today, but I'm not finished with it. If there's a feature or capability that would make tracking easier for your family, I'd love to hear about it. My next focus is a companion Apple Watch app, so a caregiver can start and control the timer right from their wrist. It's something my wife and I keep wishing for in the moment, when reaching for a phone isn't always easy.
EpiNotes is free. No ads, no subscriptions, nothing to sell. We built it for our family first. Now we're sharing it with yours, and we hope it helps you the way it's helped us.
Bill
Privacy
Private by design.
Your seizure log lives on your device. There are no accounts, no ads, and no tracking of any kind, and the developer never receives your data. The optional iCloud Sync feature stays within your own Apple account and the caregivers you invite, each of whom needs EpiNotes installed to see it.
Download
Get EpiNotes.
Free on the App Store, for iPhone.
