Describe your day
From the app’s English Help & Guide · Reference release 1.0.33
How it works
Type or dictate a free-form description of your day, and Tended extracts structured data from it automatically. It matches your words against your tracked items, understands different word forms (like “bloated” matching “Bloating”), and handles unpunctuated voice input. Tended shows you a summary of what it found, so you can review before filling the entry form. Everything runs on-device — no internet connection needed.
Voice entry
Tap the microphone button to describe your day by voice. Tended transcribes as you speak, with live text appearing in the editor. If you pause for 30 seconds, recording stops automatically to save battery — a countdown appears in the last 5 seconds. Tap the X button to clear and start fresh if you want to re-record. You can also use the microphone on your keyboard for shorter notes.
What gets extracted
Tended proposes symptoms and severity, medications, triggers, food and drink, relief methods, body locations, activities, moods, energy, sleep, bowel movements, period context, PEM/crash and reactions from your text. You choose which results to use. A suggested Day Rating is an optional overall assessment of the selected date, separate from symptoms and their severity.
Example
“Rough day. Woke up with a bad headache and stiff neck, maybe a 7. Took 500mg paracetamol and had some toast. My left knee is really bad today, feels like grinding. Stress at work didn’t help. Had pasta for dinner. Managed to go for a walk.”
From this, Tended would extract headache and neck stiffness as symptoms, paracetamol as a medication, toast and pasta as food, stress as a trigger, drop pins on the neck and left knee, and recognise the walk as an activity. You can then review the summary and adjust before saving.
Review before saving
After parsing, choose the observations to use. Day Rating is unselected by default. Suggested connections are also unselected: select only those that match what you meant, with both source items included. Tap Use selected results to fill the draft, review it, then save. Nothing is connected or rated automatically.
Lite and full modes
Describe your day works for all users. Lite mode matches your text with tracked items, proposes a rating from keywords and uses your text as the reflection. With Tended+ and available Apple Intelligence, optional enhancements can propose a rating from sentiment, summarise your reflection and classify ambiguous items. Both modes require your review. Processing stays on your device.
Availability on iOS 18 and later
On iOS 18–25, or when Apple Intelligence is unavailable, disabled, or still downloading, Tended uses lite mode and does not show the AI enhancements setting. Describe your day and private on-device voice entry still work. On a compatible device with iOS 26 or later, Apple Intelligence, and Tended+, the AI enhancements setting appears under More › Preferences.