Yarn gives you space to talk about your health in your own words, without forms, checkboxes or time pressure. Over time, your entries give you a record to reflect on and track your progress. You can bring that record to appointments so your doctor understands what you've been going through.
Yarn is built specifically for health. Conversations focus on you and your condition, with your history remembered across sessions. It records your experience without reframing or interpreting it.
Yarn reads your conversations for significant details, changes and recurring themes, without you having to flag them yourself. It uses the context of what you say and links related details across conversations to build a record of your health over time.
No. Yarn records what you share without interpreting it or making a diagnosis. It gives medical professionals an account of your experience to inform their decisions. Clinical judgement stays with your doctor.
Well, in our experience. We've built Yarn with patients and clinicians to make the summaries useful during a consultation. Doctors we've worked with have found it helps them get up to speed faster and discuss their patients' experiences in more detail.
Daily is ideal, but whenever feels right. Users who get the most out of Yarn tend to check in regularly, even briefly. That builds a record over time, so there is less to remember before an appointment.
No, anyone can use Yarn. It's designed for people managing chronic or long-term conditions, who tend to find it most useful.
Yes. A carer can help set up Yarn and provide context about the person they care for. That context helps Yarn understand their needs from the start. Day to day, it works best when the person being cared for makes their own entries, with their carer involved as needed.
Not yet. We're working on bringing data from wearables and health tracking devices into Yarn, so those measurements can sit alongside what you record.
Only if you choose to share them. You can upload existing records or grant Yarn access — but it works just as well starting from scratch.
Yes. Yarn currently supports voice input for those who find typing difficult, with more features on the way — including a colour accessibility toggle and audio output. If there's something specific that would help you, let us know at hello@yarn.health.
Securely, in an encrypted cloud database. Only you can access your information.
Your data is yours. Right now it's used only to power your experience on Yarn. Looking ahead, we're exploring partnerships with leading research bodies — including NIHR, HDR UK, and the NHS Health Research Authority — to help connect users to relevant clinical trials. You will always be asked before anything changes.
Nothing changes. Your health history stays intact, and you can return and pick up where you left off whenever you're ready. No pressure, no penalties.
Yarn has a free plan. Paid plans cover the cost of running and updating the AI models that process your conversations and prepare summaries. They give you a longer history and more detailed summaries, so you can look back over months of entries and get more from what you record.
Still have questions? Reach us at hello@yarn.health