Getting Started
What is Forela?
Forela is a health platform for women living with endometriosis, adenomyosis, and the conditions that come with them. These are systemic inflammatory conditions that continue to be looked at and treated in isolation by the traditional healthcare system. Forela learns your baseline, remembers your history, and tracks how things change, so your health picture builds instead of resetting at every visit. Track your symptoms, follow a plan that adapts to you, and bring your own patterns to your clinician. Built for conditions that have been dismissed for too long, and for how they actually unfold.
Why do I need Forela?
Living with these conditions means doing the work of connecting the dots yourself, many of them, sometimes at once. Tracking what sets off a flare, remembering what you tried and whether it helped, re-explaining your history to each new clinician. Carrying all of it, on the days you have the energy and the days you don't. Forela takes that weight off you. It holds your baseline, your patterns, and what has changed over time, so the full picture is there when it matters instead of living only in your memory. And it works the other way too: your plan bends to the day you are actually having. Less on the hard days, more when you have room. Forela fits your life. You don't have to fit it.
Where is Forela headed?
Today, Forela meets you where you are. Think of it as a health wallet, except it does not just hold what is inside; it makes sense of it. Your symptoms, your history, your patterns, in one place that understands them.
Tomorrow, Forela connects the dots. It brings your health into one continuous view, connects what relates to what, and gives you and your clinical teams the same picture. The gaps close at once: the gaps in your data, in your care, in the information that never travels with you. And because your health changes over time, Forela is built to follow it as it shifts. Endometriosis and adenomyosis often reach into wider inflammatory and autoimmune conditions over the years. Forela follows the whole picture, not one condition at one point in time.
The system should meet you where you are. You should not have to fit yourself to it. Endometriosis takes years to be understood, much of it lost to scattered records and a system that never connects them. The walls between your data, your care, and your clinicians were never built for you. Forela is here to break them down. That is the world we are working toward.
How does Forela compare to other AI health and wellness apps?
Forela is not an AI app. It is a system built for long, complicated conditions, and that difference runs deep.
Most health apps are a single tool wrapped around a general-purpose chatbot. They answer the question in front of them and forget you the moment you close the screen. You tell it something today, and tomorrow it is gone. And even the ones that do remember tend to treat every detail as equal. But remembering everything is not the same as knowing what matters. A record of every symptom you ever logged is not the same as understanding which ones matter for you, right now.
Forela is built the other way around. It holds your history and builds on it, so you are never starting over. It learns your baseline and tracks what changes against it, so what it shows you reflects your life, not a generic average. General AI is trained on data that has long under-represented women's bodies. Forela is built specifically for women living with endometriosis and adenomyosis, on the conditions, the patterns, and the realities that other systems were never designed to see.
The reasoning behind Forela was built with leading specialists who treat these conditions every day. Not a model improvising on its own. That is the difference between a tool that sounds right and one you can rely on.
Do I need a referral from a clinician to use Forela?
No. Forela is yours to use on your own. You do not need a referral, and you do not need to be sent by a clinician. If your clinician is part of Forela, you can be onboarded through their practice, but it is not required.
What conditions does Forela currently support?
Forela is built for women living with endometriosis and adenomyosis, and the conditions that so often come with them: pelvic floor dysfunction, bladder pain and interstitial cystitis, digestive issues including SIBO, and hormonal and histamine-related patterns. These rarely travel alone, and they are rarely treated together. They share inflammatory and nervous-system roots, which is why seeing them as one picture matters. Forela follows them that way.
What do I need to use Forela?
An iPhone running a recent version of iOS (iPhone 14 or newer). You can use Forela on its own, or connect the devices and apps you already use. Android support is something we are working toward.
How Forela Works
How do I use Forela?
Start with your medical intake. This is the foundation: your history, your symptoms, your diagnoses, what has been hard. The more complete it is, the better Forela understands you from day one. But keep in mind you can skip any questions you don't feel like answering.
Next, connect your devices and apps. Wearables, trackers, lab results, whatever you already use. Each one adds signal, so connect as many as you can.
Then keep a journal. Your devices show the numbers, but only you can say how a day actually felt, what set off a flare, what helped. Forela uses both.
From there, Forela builds a Care Plan: a daily set of activities organized across four Pillars, a Focus on what matters most for you right now, and your own Goals. It is yours to shape, and it changes as Forela learns more about you.
Why does Forela ask for so much?
Endometriosis does not stay in the exam room. What you eat changes how your gut behaves. Stress and sleep change how much pain you feel. A flare can build over days from things no single appointment would catch. Most of what drives these conditions happens between visits, not during them.
A doctor sees you for an hour and works from a snapshot. The rest of your life, the part that actually moves your symptoms, is invisible to them. Forela is built to see that part. It tracks what happens day to day and connects it, so the picture is complete instead of a moment frozen in time. That is what a fifteen-minute visit cannot do, and it is why the fuller the picture you give Forela, the more useful it becomes.
How long does it take for Forela to give me a Care Plan?
Your first plan is ready within 24 hours of completing your intake. It is a living document, and it adapts as Forela learns more about you.
What is my Care Plan?
Your Care Plan has three parts.
Focus is where Forela points you first: the areas that matter most for you right now, drawn from your intake and what your data shows. You can pause any of them when something isn't a priority, or add new ones if you think something else needs attention.
Pillars are the four areas your daily activities are organized under: Meals, Move, Mental, and Sleep. Together, they cover how you eat, how you move, how you steady your mind, and how you rest.
Goals are what you want to work toward. You set these in your intake, and Forela carries them into your plan. They are always yours to change.
The three work together: your Focus and Goals shape what shows up across your Pillars, day to day.
Can I swap out activities in my daily care plan if they don't work for me?
Yes. Every activity card can be swapped for an alternative. Forela learns from what you keep and what you skip, and uses that to shape what it suggests next. The more you use it, the more your plan fits your life.
What if I eat out, cook something different, or forget to log a meal?
That is completely fine. Forela is not asking you to eat a certain way or report every bite. If you already use a food app, you can connect it and that information comes in on its own. If you don't, you can tell your companion or jot it in your journal, whenever you remember. It does not need to be exact, and it is okay to miss days. This is here to support you, not to grade you. It should never be one more thing to stress about.
How Forela Learns You
How long until Forela feels personal?
From your first entries, Forela is already building your picture, and it gets richer the more you add. Most people notice their plan starting to reflect them within the first few weeks. There is no fixed point, regular logging just keeps sharpening the fit.
What happens if I miss days or stop logging?
Nothing is lost. Forela does not penalize gaps. When you come back, it picks up from where you left off, and your history is all still there.
Managing Your Care Plan
What if the care plan is too much for me?
Forela starts each day by asking how much time you have, and your plan for that day fits the answer you give us. A few minutes on a hard day is enough.
Beyond that, the plan is yours to adjust. You can edit your Pillars, swap activities, or change your Focus to reflect what is realistic right now. What you do, including what you skip, helps Forela adjust.
What if the care plan doesn't meet my needs?
If something has changed, a new symptom, a flare, a shift in how you are feeling, update your intake and Forela will rework your plan. You can also edit your Goals and Pillars directly, anytime.
Can I pause or take a break from my care plan?
You don't need to formally pause. Just step away and come back when you are ready. Your plan and your full health record will be waiting exactly as you left them.
Symptom Tracking & Data
What kinds of symptoms can I track in Forela?
Pain, fatigue, brain fog, mood, sleep quality, menstrual patterns, flares, and more. Forela captures not just what you feel, but when and how often, so patterns can emerge across your days and, if you have one, your cycle.
How does Forela identify patterns in my symptoms over time?
Forela tracks everything against your own baseline, not a generic scale. It looks at how often something shows up, how consistently, and how recently, so patterns across your days and conditions become visible to you.
What is a flare, and how does Forela detect one?
A flare is when your symptoms rise meaningfully above your usual level. Forela learns what is normal for you, so when things shift, you can see it clearly and set against your own baseline. What you do next is yours: rest, adjust your day, or bring it to your clinician. And if your clinician works with Forela, they share this view, so what you are seeing is part of your care, not something you have to carry alone until your next visit.
Does Forela connect with wearables or other health apps?
Yes. Forela connects with Apple Health, Apple Watch, Garmin, Whoop, Fitbit, Oura, and Samsung smart rings, with Withings, Strava, Peloton, and MyFitnessPal being added. The more you connect, the fuller your picture, and you can always log anything manually as well.
I don't see a device or app I want to connect.
We are continuously working on growing the list, so it is worth checking back. You can also email your requests to info@forela.health, and knowing what you want to connect helps us prioritize what comes next.
If a device can't be connected yet, you can still bring its information in. Anything you can see, a reading, a result, a number, you can add by hand or note in your journal. A missing integration means a little more manual entry, not a gap in your picture.
Privacy, Security & Your Clinician
Is my information safe with Forela?
Yes. Your data is encrypted, access is strictly role-based, and you control what is shared and with whom. You can revoke consent or request deletion at any time.
Who can see my health data inside Forela?
You, and your care team if you are connected to a practice through Forela. Clinicians can only see patients within their own practice and with patient approval. Forela staff do not have routine access to your records.
Can I revoke access to my data at any time?
Yes, from your account settings, anytime.
Does Forela share my information with third parties?
Forela does not sell your data. Any sharing, such as with your clinical practice, requires your explicit consent. If de-identified data is ever used to improve Forela, that is covered by a separate opt-in in your user terms.
How does my information get to my clinician?
Through a clear summary called a Health Read: a plain-language view of what your data shows, drawn from your own record. Your clinician can add secure notes that feed back in.
What happens to my data if I delete my account?
Your personal health records are removed. If you are connected to a practice, your care team is notified that your account has closed.
The Companion
What should I expect from the companion?
Your companion is always there inside the app, to help you reflect, log symptoms, make sense of your plan, and feel less alone between appointments. It is not a replacement for clinical care, but it is there whenever you need it.
How does journaling work?
Forela offers both guided prompts and open-ended journaling. Your entries help Forela understand how you are feeling beyond the numbers, the stress, the mood, the things data alone misses. It all feeds your picture.
Is the companion available at any time?
Yes. No set hours, no scheduling. It is there on the hard days, not just the planned ones.
What if I'm having a really hard time?
Your companion is there, day or night, and you never have to face a hard moment alone. But it is not a crisis service, and it is not a replacement for one. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, please reach out to a crisis line or emergency services right away. In the US, you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, anytime. If it's a medical emergency, please dial 911.