The best vertigo exercise apps for patients (2026) — from someone who built one

Disclosure: I founded VOR Eye Rehab, whose patient app is on this list and free. I'm also going to start with the advice that costs me downloads: if your vertigo is new, severe, or comes with any red-flag symptoms (sudden hearing loss, double vision, slurred speech, inability to stand, worst-ever headache), you need a clinician today, not an app. Apps are for the rehab phase, after someone qualified has figured out what's wrong.

Second honest note: the best vertigo "app" is almost always the one your clinician prescribes through. Standalone apps can guide exercises; they can't diagnose BPPV, rule out central causes, or reposition canaliths. This list ranks apps within that truth.

TL;DR

Best free app with clinician oversight

VOR Eye Rehab (patient app)

Best if your clinic uses sensors

Vertigenius patient app

Best if your PT uses MedBridge

MedBridge GO

Best no-app option

Printed protocols + a metronome

For diagnosed vestibular conditions in the rehab phase, the winner is whichever app your clinician prescribes through — adherence and correct dose matter more than brand. If you're choosing for yourself: VOR Eye Rehab's app is free, guides VOR exercises with real head-speed feedback and voice coaching in English/Spanish/French, and connects you to a clinician; the others below serve clinics already invested in their ecosystems.

The picks at a glance

App	Best for	Price	Clinician connection
VOR Eye Rehab	Guided VOR/habituation exercises with real feedback	Free	Optional but designed for it — programs, messaging, symptom reports
Vertigenius	Clinics using the wearable sensor	Free app; sensor via clinic	Required — clinician-prescribed programs
MedBridge GO	Patients whose PT uses MedBridge	Free with clinician code	Required — delivers your clinician's program
PhysiApp	Patients whose PT uses Physitrack	Free	Required — delivers your clinician's program
Printed protocols + metronome	No smartphone, no budget	Free	Whatever you build yourself

The diagnosis problem no app solves

Vertigo has a dozen causes, and the exercises that help one can aggravate another. Classic BPPV wants canalith repositioning (Epley and cousins) performed by someone trained to identify which canal is affected; unilateral hypofunction wants gaze stabilization at progressively harder doses; vestibular migraine wants a completely different management pathway; and central causes want a physician, immediately. No consumer app can sort these — and the ones that claim to are being marketed beyond their competence.

So the ranking logic for this list is boring and correct: apps connected to a clinician beat standalone apps, because the clinician has already done the sorting. Among standalone options, prefer apps that measure something (head speed, symptoms) over apps that just play videos — the feedback is what keeps a program therapeutic instead of theatrical.

What good looks like in the rehab phase

A vestibular home program works when three things are true every day: the exercises happen (habituation and adaptation are frequency-dependent), they happen at the right intensity (head speed in the therapeutic zone — too slow trains nothing), and symptoms are tracked so difficulty can rise as tolerance builds. An app earns its place on your phone by making those three things easier than paper does.

Practical test for any app you try this month: does it know how fast your head moved? Does it ask how you felt before and after? Does next week's program change because of it? Two yeses is good. Three is the standard. Zero means you're holding a video player, and your grandmother's printed Brandt-Daroff sheet does the same job for free.

1. VOR Eye Rehab (mine)

Best for: Patients with diagnosed vestibular hypofunction, post-concussion dizziness, or visual vertigo
Price: USD 49/month, 2 active patients included, then USD 9.95/additional active patient/month · patient app free
Clinician connection: Measures your head speed and tracks symptoms — not just videos

Ours, free on iOS and Android. VOR x1/x2 exercises guide you with real-time head-speed feedback from the phone's motion sensor and voice coaching in English, Spanish, or French, with metronome pacing so the tempo is right. You log dizziness, brain fog, headache, eye strain, and nausea before and after each session, and your program adapts as you improve.

The honest positioning: it's built to run with a clinician on the other side — programs, messaging, progress reports — but works standalone for self-directed exercisers who already have a diagnosis. What it won't do: diagnose you, or reposition canaliths for BPPV — that's a clinician's hands-on job, and any app claiming otherwise is guessing.

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2. Vertigenius

Best for: Patients whose clinic prescribes through Vertigenius
Price: Pricing on request (demo required)
Clinician connection: Wearable sensor feedback on your head movement

If your clinic uses Vertigenius, use their app — it's the delivery end of a genuinely strong system: programs prescribed in the clinician portal, exercises with a small wearable sensor giving real-time feedback on your head movement speed and accuracy, and progress flowing back to your care team. For clinics and patients inside that ecosystem, adherence support is excellent.

It requires the clinic relationship — you can't self-serve into it, and it's only as useful as the program your clinician writes. If you're not already connected to a Vertigenius clinic, this isn't independently downloadable value; it's the other half of a clinical relationship.

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3. MedBridge — GO patient app

Best for: Patients whose PT prescribes through MedBridge
Price: ≈$329/yr per seat (HEP) · CE plans from ≈$299/yr
Clinician connection: Your clinician's program, cleanly delivered

MedBridge GO is the patient end of the most common HEP platform in US rehab: your clinician's program arrives as videos with schedules and reminders, the app is polished, and marking exercises done feeds back to your care team. If your PT uses MedBridge, this is your app — ecosystem consistency beats cross-app improvisation.

Its limits are the platform's: vestibular exercises arrive as videos without head-speed feedback, and "how did it feel?" is generic rather than tracking the dizziness/nausea cluster specifically. Better than paper, clearly; less instrumented than the two apps above.

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4. Physitrack — PhysiApp

Best for: Patients whose clinician uses Physitrack
Price: $19/mo per practitioner
Clinician connection: Probably the smoothest pure delivery experience

PhysiApp is the patient companion to Physitrack, used by thousands of clinics worldwide, and as a piece of delivery software it's arguably the most polished: clean interface, offline access, messaging, and your clinician's program exactly as prescribed. Free, no ads, works on anything.

Same story, different ecosystem: if your clinician is on Physitrack, use it happily. If you're choosing yourself, know that vestibular exercises in PhysiApp are videos — nothing measures your head movement, and symptom logging isn't built around the vestibular cluster.

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5. HEP2Go — or honestly, paper

Best for: Anyone without a smartphone ecosystem or clinic platform
Price: Free–$7/mo
Clinician connection: Free, universal, zero learning curve

The inclusion that keeps this list honest: printed vestibular protocols — Brandt-Daroff, Cawthorne-Cooksey, structured VOR progressions — have decades of clinical use, cost nothing, and never crash. Pair the sheet with any free metronome app and a symptom diary (paper or notes app), and you have a legitimate program. HEP2Go's free tier adds video guidance on top for those who want it.

What paper can't do: pace you in real time, notice your head speed, remember your symptoms, or tell your clinician anything. It's the floor, not the ceiling — but it's a real floor, and it's the one every app on this list has to beat to justify existing.

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My pick

First, the advice that matters more than any app: get a diagnosis from a clinician who treats dizziness — the exercises that fix one condition can worsen another, and some vertigo causes are urgent. Once you're in the rehab phase with a diagnosis, use whatever app your clinician prescribes through; the connection is worth more than the brand.

Choosing for yourself among apps: VOR Eye Rehab's patient app is free, measures your actual head speed during VOR exercises, tracks the right symptoms in three languages, and was built by someone who had concussion dizziness himself. If you want an app doing more than playing videos, start there. And if your situation is BPPV specifically: stop reading apps, go get repositioned — it's often a one-visit fix.

What I'd do today

1 If your vertigo is new, sudden, severe, or paired with hearing loss, vision changes, speech problems, or inability to stand: urgent care today, apps later.
2 Get a diagnosis before choosing exercises — BPPV, hypofunction, migraine, and PPPD want different programs.
3 Ask your clinician which platform they prescribe through; using their app beats any standalone choice.
4 Test any app on the three questions: does it measure head speed, track symptoms per session, and adapt the program? Keep the ones answering at least two.

Questions

Can an app cure vertigo by itself?

No — and be suspicious of any that claims to. Some vertigo (notably BPPV) is often resolved by a clinician-performed repositioning maneuver in one or two visits, not exercises. For conditions that do respond to vestibular rehabilitation (unilateral hypofunction, post-concussion dizziness), apps structure and verify the exercises, but the treatment is the exercise program itself done consistently at the right intensity — ideally under professional supervision.

What's the difference between BPPV exercises and VOR exercises?

BPPV is caused by displaced crystals in the inner ear canals; it's treated with repositioning maneuvers (Epley, Semont, Brandt-Daroff as a home variant) that mechanically move the crystals back. VOR exercises treat an underresponsive balance system after nerve damage (vestibular neuritis, etc.) by challenging gaze stability during head movement — progressively faster, more complex practice. Different problems, different exercises: another reason diagnosis precedes app choice.

Are vertigo exercise apps free?

The clinically connected ones mostly are: VOR Eye Rehab's patient app, MedBridge GO, PhysiApp, and Vertigenius's patient app are all free downloads — the business model sits on the clinician side. Consumer subscription apps exist and some are credible, but before paying, check whether your clinician's platform already gives you a free path.

How long until vestibular exercises work?

For uncomplicated unilateral hypofunction, meaningful improvement typically shows over 4–8 weeks of consistent daily practice, with research supporting structured home programs delivered alongside clinical check-ins. Post-concussion courses are more variable. Consistency and correct intensity matter more than intensity spikes — which is the argument for apps that verify dose instead of trusting checkmarks.

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Purpose-built VOR and oculomotor training, five-metric symptom tracking, AI progression, projector mode, and an RTM billing dashboard. Professional: USD 49/month, 2 active patients included, then USD 9.95/additional active patient/month. Patient app free. 30-day founder-guided pilot.

Promotional platform fee before December 31, 2026; standard fee: USD 89/month. The patient app is free.

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App availability and pricing checked in October 2026. This page is general information, not medical advice — new or severe vertigo warrants professional evaluation before any exercise program.