DrainTally

About this app

What DrainTally does

You came home from surgery with a drain — maybe two, maybe four — and a photocopied paper chart your surgeon's office asked you to fill in two or three times a day and bring to every visit. It's 3am, you're half asleep holding a measuring cup, and you can't remember whether this bulb is left drain one or left drain two. By day three the paper is lost or coffee-stained, and you're adding up totals in the parking lot before your appointment. DrainTally replaces that photocopy. Give each drain a name and a color, and every time you empty a bulb you log the amount in two taps. The app keeps a true rolling 24-hour total for every drain separately — the exact number your care team asks for — plus a day-by-day trend chart so you can see output falling as you heal. Tag each entry with the fluid's color and consistency, so when the nurse asks what it looked like yesterday, you have an answer instead of a shrug. Most surgeons give you a target: a daily output number that, once you stay under it for a set stretch of days, means it's time to call the office. Enter the number and the number of days exactly as your surgeon wrote them, and DrainTally shows you, per drain, how today compares and how many consecutive days you've been under. The app never decides anything about your care — it simply does the arithmetic on the instructions your own surgeon gave you. Gentle reminders keep the routine on track: emptying times you choose, morning and night, per drain or for all of them. And when it's time for your follow-up, one tap produces a clean PDF chart laid out like the office form — per-drain daily totals, colors, and notes — ready to hand to the nurse or send ahead to the practice. A caregiver summary shows a spouse or friend exactly what to do at the next emptying. Everything stays on your phone. No account, no server, nothing shared unless you choose to export it. Built for mastectomy, breast reconstruction, tummy tuck, and lymph node surgery recoveries — and for the people helping them through it. • Log every drain separately with names, colors, and two-tap amounts • True rolling 24-hour totals per drain, not fixed clock windows • Fluid color and consistency tags on every entry • Your surgeon's target number and day streak, tracked per drain • Emptying and care reminders on your schedule • One-tap PDF chart formatted like the office form, plus CSV • Caregiver hand-off summary • Fully offline and private, no account required