Meet LimbTape — Lymphedema limb & volume log

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LimbTape

Lymphedema limb & volume log

What LimbTape does

Every lymphedema therapist gives the same advice: keep an eye on your limb between appointments, because small changes matter most when they are caught early. The method they use in clinic is simple and standard — a tape measure, circumference readings at fixed landmarks every 4 centimeters, and a volume calculation that turns those numbers into one figure you can compare over time. Yet at home, most people are left with a paper notebook, a column of centimeters, and no way to tell whether 1.5 cm more at the elbow actually means anything.

LimbTape is the measurement notebook that finally does the math. Set up a limb once — arm or leg, left or right — and the app walks you through a guided measuring session at the same landmarks your therapist uses. Enter each circumference and LimbTape instantly computes limb volume with the standard truncated-cone formula — the same published arithmetic clinics use.

Measure both sides and LimbTape shows the affected-versus-unaffected difference as a clear percentage. Record a baseline on a good day, and every future session is compared against it automatically. You choose a personal change threshold — many people use the figure their own therapist suggests — and the app quietly flags any session that crosses the line you set, so you can decide whether it is time to call your clinic. LimbTape never diagnoses anything; it keeps your numbers honest so the conversation with your care team is grounded in data instead of guesswork.

Because living with lymphedema is more than centimeters, LimbTape also logs the daily context: compression garment wear, garment age and replacement dates, and how your limb feels — heaviness, tightness, aching — on a simple scale. When your next appointment arrives, generate a clean PDF report of sessions, volumes, and trends to hand to your therapist in seconds.

Everything lives on your device. No account, no pump vendor, no clinic portal, no server. Your body, your tape measure, your records.

• Guided measuring sessions at standard 4 cm landmarks, arms and legs • Automatic limb-volume calculation using the truncated-cone formula • Side-to-side percentage difference and baseline comparison on every session • A personal change threshold you set yourself, with clear session flags • Compression garment wear log with replacement-date reminders • Symptom notes for heaviness, tightness, and skin changes • One-tap PDF report for your therapist or clinic • Fully offline, private, no account required

A look inside

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What's inside

• Guided Measuring Session — Walks you through circumference entry at the standard fixed landmarks every 4 cm from wrist to axilla (or ankle to groin), with a visual limb diagram showing which landmark you are on, large numeric entry, and your previous session's value shown inline for sanity-checking.
• Volume & Trends — Converts each session's circumferences into limb volume via the truncated-cone formula and plots volume, side-to-side percentage difference, and per-landmark circumference over time so a slow change is visible long before a sleeve feels tight.
• Baseline & Threshold Flags — Record any session as your baseline, set a personal percentage-change threshold (many use the figure their therapist suggests), and LimbTape flags any future session that crosses your line — framed strictly as your own configured alert, never a diagnosis.
• Limb Profiles — Track multiple limbs — affected and unaffected arm or leg, left and right — each with its own landmark spacing, measurement history, and baseline, so bilateral lipedema and lower-limb patients are first-class users, not an afterthought.
• Garment & Symptom Log — Log compression garment wear, garment purchase dates with replacement reminders (garments lose compression over months), and daily symptom notes — heaviness, tightness, aching, skin changes — alongside the numbers.
• Therapist Report — Builds a clean, printable PDF of measuring sessions, volumes, percentage differences, and symptom notes over a chosen date range — hand it to your certified lymphedema therapist at the next appointment.

Why we built it

Patients are told to watch for limb swelling between therapy appointments because early detection of a 5-10% volume change is the difference between a compression sleeve and irreversible progression — but the clinical tape-measure protocol (circumferences every 4 cm converted to volume via the truncated-cone formula,…

What makes it different

LymphaTrack (Lympha Press) only stores two measurement points with no volume math — a live App Store review from a lipedema patient calls it 'not useful'. Kylee (Tactile Medical) is a pump-vendor marketing app whose users say the data handling is 'horrible'. LymVol is a paid clinician-only one-shot calculator with no…

Who it's for

Anyone who wants honest tracking without a coach, a subscription, or a streak guilting them at 11pm.

In one line: Lymphedema limb & volume log

Try it

See the Lymphedema limb & volume log for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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