Meet Relief Map — Pressure relief, on schedule

Health And Fitness

Relief Map

Pressure relief, on schedule

What Relief Map does

You are told to shift your weight every fifteen to thirty minutes, all day, for the rest of your life — and to check your skin head to toe every morning and night. For a wheelchair user with limited sensation it is the routine that keeps you out of the hospital, and it is nearly impossible to keep on willpower alone. Relief Map is the private coach that carries it for you.

Set the schedule your therapist or seating clinic gave you and Relief Map runs a calm countdown through your active hours. When it is time, a reminder names the technique — forward lean, side lean, tilt, or wheelchair push-up — and one tap logs the relief. You decide how loud the app may be: full reminders, a gentle chime, or a silent on-screen ring for days when fifty notifications would make anyone delete an app. Miss a shift and the day view shows it honestly, because a record you can trust matters more than a perfect streak.

Skin checks finally get a real tool. Instead of five generic body spots, Relief Map gives you a full-body map, front and back. Tap the sacrum, an ischial spot, a heel, an elbow — anywhere — and log what you see with notes and photos that stay out of your camera roll. Every spot keeps its own history, so you can put today's photo beside last week's and see whether that redness is fading or spreading while acting early still counts. Plain-language notes drawn from published Model Systems clinical factsheets describe what each stage generally looks like — education only, never a diagnosis; your care team always makes the call.

Cushions and mattresses wear out silently, so Relief Map keeps an equipment log with its own check intervals. And when the wound clinic or seating specialist asks how the routine is going, a clean PDF report shows your relief record, skin checks, and equipment checks over any date range.

No sensors to buy. No account to create. Nothing leaves your phone.

• Relief countdown tuned to your prescribed interval and technique • Quiet mode: chime-only or silent ring instead of notification floods • Full-body tap map for skin checks, front and back • Per-spot photo history with side-by-side comparison • Cushion and equipment check log with due intervals • Clinic-ready PDF report of reliefs, skin checks, and equipment • Caregiver summary for shared routines • Fully offline, no account, no sensors

A look inside

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What's inside

• Relief Interval Coach — A countdown ring tuned to the prescribed interval (10-60 min) inside a daily active-hours window. Each prompt names a technique (forward lean, side lean, tilt, push-up) and one tap logs it; missed intervals are recorded honestly. Reminder loudness is a first-class setting: notifications, chime-only, or silent in-app ring.
• Body-Map Skin Checks — Front and back full-body silhouettes with tappable pressure-point regions (sacrum, ischia, heels, elbows, shoulder blades, and more). Tap a spot to log a check with status, notes, and photos kept out of the camera roll. Educational stage descriptions sourced from Model Systems factsheets, clearly labeled as education, not diagnosis.
• Photo Comparison — Every body spot keeps a dated photo timeline; a side-by-side comparison view puts any two photos of the same spot next to each other so change over days is visible at a glance.
• Equipment & Cushion Log — Track cushions, mattresses, backrests, and shower chairs with per-item check intervals (air level, wear, bottoming out). Overdue checks surface on the Today screen.
• Clinic Report — Generates a dated PDF over any range: relief compliance by day, skin-check log with per-spot notes, and equipment checks — the artifact wound clinics and seating specialists ask for.
• Schedules & Caregiver Mode — Multiple named schedules for different contexts (chair weekday, bed turns at night, new-cushion trial) plus a caregiver summary screen showing today's reliefs, open skin concerns, and due equipment checks in one glance.

Why we built it

Loss of sensation means a pressure sore can develop unfelt in hours and end in months of bed rest or surgery. Clinicians prescribe weight shifts every 15-30 minutes plus twice-daily skin inspection, but compliance collapses without prompts — a controlled trial showed reminders significantly improve relief frequency an…

What makes it different

The only direct App Store competitor is the Reeve-funded Pressure Ulcer Prevention (PUP) app from ~2015 — five body areas, 3.0 stars, crashes on timer adjustment, effectively abandoned; wsTimer is a bare 2012-era timer. Sensomative and MisterGaspard require purchased seat-sensor hardware sold outside the US, and Permo…

Who it's for

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

In one line: Pressure relief, on schedule

Try it

See the Pressure relief, on schedule for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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