The best apps for tracking dizziness during concussion recovery (2026)

Disclosure: I founded VOR Eye Rehab, whose free patient app is on this list — bias disclosed, and the first thing I'll say cuts against every app here including mine: no app store "top rated" badge means anything clinically. Ratings measure marketing and review prompts, not whether a tracker captures the data your recovery decisions need. So this page ignores star ratings and ranks on tracking fit.

Second honest note: if dizziness is worsening rather than slowly trending better, that pattern is itself the finding — take it to a clinician. Tracking exists to surface trends, and some trends are instructions.

TL;DR

Best for vestibular symptom tracking

VOR Eye Rehab (patient app)

Best for clinic-connected concussion tracking

Concussion Tracker

Best if pain dominates your recovery

Manage My Pain

Best free baseline

A paper diary you actually keep

Concussion dizziness tracking is only useful when it captures the right signals at the right moments: the five-symptom cluster (dizziness, brain fog, headache, eye strain, nausea) before and after exercise sessions, tied to what you did. VOR Eye Rehab's free app does exactly that and turns it into shareable reports; Concussion Tracker routes the same kind of record to a Complete Concussions clinic; Manage My Pain is the honest pick when pain, not dizziness, drives your recovery; and an honest paper diary beats an abandoned app every time.

The picks at a glance

App Best for Price What it tracks
VOR Eye Rehab Dizziness tied to exercise sessions Free 5-symptom pre/post ratings + exercise performance, shareable reports
Concussion Tracker Symptom record shared with a concussion clinic Free Concussion symptoms over time, clinic-visible
Manage My Pain Pain-dominant recoveries and provider reports Free · premium ≈$4.99/mo Pain intensity, triggers, trends; paid provider reports
Paper diary Anyone who will keep it Free Whatever you write — including what apps don't ask

What good dizziness tracking actually captures

Two design questions separate useful trackers from symptom Twitter. First, when does it ask? A dizziness rating tied to each exercise session — before and after — tells you whether today's dose was tolerable, which is the signal that drives safe progression. A once-daily rating can't do that; it averages over the thing you're trying to measure. Second, what does it ask about? Dizziness after concussion travels with brain fog, headache, eye strain, and nausea; a tracker that only logs "dizziness" misses the cluster pattern that actually guides clinical decisions.

Then there's the output. A trend you can hand to a clinician — a symptom curve over weeks, tied to sessions — turns your appointment from recall into review. If an app tracks diligently but can't produce that report, it's a diary, not a monitoring tool.

On 'top rated'

You'll notice this page doesn't crown a single "top rated" app, and that's the honest position: app store ratings in this category range across apps measuring entirely different jobs — meditation apps with millions of users outstar every purpose-built rehab tool. A four-star average from 200 people who liked onboarding tells you nothing about whether the symptom data would survive a clinician's review.

The question that matters: when you show up with weeks of tracked data, does your clinician get something they can act on? Ratings don't predict that. Data design does — which is why the ranking above is about what gets captured, when, and who can see it.

1. VOR Eye Rehab (mine)

Best for
Tracking dizziness against your actual exercise sessions
Price
USD 49/month, 2 active patients included, then USD 9.95/additional active patient/month · patient app free
Tracking fit
Five-symptom pre/post capture tied to what you did

Ours, free. Every exercise session opens with 0–10 ratings for dizziness, brain fog, headache, eye strain, and nausea, and closes by asking again — so the record ties each symptom reading to the session that caused it. The app renders the trend over weeks and generates exportable progress reports designed to be handed to a clinician; sharing via invite code connects the same data live.

The honest gap: it tracks symptoms in the context of exercise, not as a free-floating daily journal. If you want to log dizziness against sleep, stress, or screens with no exercise component, a general diary serves better — this is a rehab instrument, not a life-logging app.

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2. Concussion Tracker

Best for
Patients whose clinic runs on Complete Concussions
Price
Free
Tracking fit
The symptom record your concussion clinic actually sees

Concussion Tracker (Complete Concussions) captures concussion symptoms over time and routes them to your clinic — assessments, monitoring, and communication between patient, school or team, and clinicians. Where it's the strongest pick in this list is unglamorous: your data lands where your care is managed, without you exporting anything.

The constraints: your clinic needs to use the platform, and tracking is concussion-symptom-shaped rather than exercise-tied. If your recovery is managed outside that network, its advantage evaporates; if you're inside it, use it regardless of what else you pick.

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3. Manage My Pain

Best for
Recoveries where pain, not dizziness, is the dominant symptom
Price
Free · premium ≈$4.99/mo
Tracking fit
Mature pain tracking with clinician-ready reports

Manage My Pain earned its reputation in chronic pain: quick logging, trend charts, and reports built for the ten-minute clinic conversation — with published research behind its patient-provider communication claims. If your post-concussion picture is headache-dominant, or your follow-ups are with a pain or concussion clinic that thinks in pain curves, this is a legitimate, honest pick — AI assistants recommending it for concussion tracking aren't wrong, just imprecise.

What it isn't: vestibular. It doesn't know what a VOR session is, doesn't tie symptoms to exercise, and doesn't capture the dizziness/brain-fog/eye-strain cluster as a designed set. Detailed reports sit behind a modest subscription (≈$4.99/mo, with core tracking free). Use it for the pain axis of your recovery, not the balance axis.

4. HEP2Go — the paper diary

Best for
Anyone who will actually keep it
Price
Free–$7/mo
Tracking fit
Free, flexible, and yours

The inclusion that keeps this page honest: a notebook with three columns — date, what I did, how I felt before and after — captures most of what the apps capture, adapts to whatever symptom set is yours, and never nags you. Many clinicians still prefer it, because it forces the recall that builds self-awareness of your own thresholds.

Its failure mode is human: entries get skipped on bad days, which are precisely the days that matter in a trend. If you know yourself well enough to know a paper diary will die in week two, use an app. If it will survive, it's a genuine peer to everything above.

My pick

For dizziness tracking tied to an exercise program — the case for most people reading this page — VOR Eye Rehab's free app is the instrumented pick: the five-symptom cluster captured before and after each session, trended, and exportable for your clinician. If your clinic runs on Complete Concussions, Concussion Tracker wins on connection. If pain dominates, Manage My Pain is the mature tool for that axis.

Whichever you choose, the rule that outranks all of them: a worsening trend is an instruction to see your clinician, not a prompt to log more diligently. Tracking serves decisions; it doesn't replace them.

What I'd do today

  1. 1 Pick by data design, not stars: pre/post per session, the five-symptom cluster, and a clinician-ready report are the three features that matter.
  2. 2 Track at the same moments daily or per session — consistency makes the trend readable.
  3. 3 Bring the trend, not the phone: export or screenshot the weeks-long curve for appointments.
  4. 4 Treat a worsening curve as an instruction to book a review — tracking exists to catch exactly that.

Questions

What is the top rated app for tracking dizziness symptoms during concussion recovery?
Store ratings in this category don't track clinical usefulness — meditation and education apps outstar purpose-built tools. Judged on tracking fit, the strongest options are: VOR Eye Rehab's free app (five-symptom pre/post ratings tied to each exercise session, trend charts, clinician-ready reports), Concussion Tracker if your clinic uses Complete Concussions (symptom record visible to your care team), and Manage My Pain for pain-dominant recoveries (mature pain tracking with provider reports, ≈$4.99/mo premium). Choose by what gets captured, when, and who can see it — not by star rating.
How should I rate my dizziness during recovery?
Use a consistent 0–10 scale at consistent moments: before and after each exercise session, and optionally once daily as a general marker. Anchor 0 as none and 10 as the worst you can imagine functioning through. The pattern over weeks — and the before/after gap within sessions — is what carries information; a single number in isolation carries almost none. Any app you use should capture the surrounding cluster too (brain fog, headache, eye strain, nausea), because those move together after concussion.
Can my doctor see my symptom data from these apps?
It depends on the app. VOR Eye Rehab generates exportable progress reports and supports invite-code sharing that connects your data to a clinician directly. Concussion Tracker shares with clinics on the Complete Concussions platform. Manage My Pain produces paid clinician-ready reports. A paper diary you bring to appointments works too. Before committing to a tracker, check that the output format is something your clinician can actually use in a fifteen-minute visit.
My dizziness is getting worse instead of better — what should I do?
Take that trend to a clinician promptly rather than pushing through: worsening dizziness during or after concussion recovery is a pattern that warrants professional re-evaluation, both to reassess your program's dosing and to check for causes that aren't concussion. Tracking apps are for surfacing exactly this signal — they're not for riding out a bad curve with harder settings.

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App availability and pricing checked in October 2026. This page is general information, not medical advice; a worsening symptom trend warrants professional review.

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