FLARE is a pacing companion for people with chronic pain and chronic illness. Tell it how you wake up. It turns that into a spoon budget and plans your day around it. When the day goes wrong, the plan gets smaller — on purpose, without guilt.

Built on spoon theory. FLARE is built on Christine Miserandino's “spoon theory”. Your day starts with a spoon budget — each spoon is a unit of physical or mental energy. You spend them on what matters, and when they're gone, they're gone.

• Say it, don't type it. "Pain three, sleep seven, energy six" is all the input it needs. Hands-free friendly, screen-optional.
• A budget, not a to-do list. Every anchor costs spoons. The plan fits inside your budget — and shrinks first when you need it to.
• Deterministic core. No AI decides what your day looks like. The same numbers always produce the same plan, and you can see why.
• Nothing to keep up with. Streaks don't exist here. Miss a day and nothing breaks. Rest is a feature, not a failure.
• Take the evidence with you. A one-tap PDF of your check-in history for appointments — your own verbatim log, nothing added, nothing invented.

Guaranteed privacy: your data is yours. It's never sold, and it's never used in any way outside your control — it leaves your account only when you choose to share it, provider by provider, passphrase-confirmed and logged.

FLARE never suggests pushing through pain. That's not a setting; it's the design.

Checking in is a choice, not a chore. There are no push notifications nudging you to open the app, no streaks to protect, no guilt for a skipped day — check in when it helps, skip it when it doesn't, and use the app as your energy allows. It's here for you, never the other way round.