CoughPro

I started to use this back last year, I liked it I found it worked quite well, but I did hit a few snags which I emailed the developer and told them about it. They have definitely improved when aspect gave me problems, where is that I wear beats headphones (in ear) all night to listen to radio four. The problem that I had was the lowest volume. It was far too loud altogether. So I was unable to use it overnight which was a shame. However, that has now been improved and I have no trouble with the sound any longer. There is one improvement I would still like, and that is that my Apple Watch could also monitor my phone and iPad. Why? Being female I do not carry my phone at all times, but I always have my watch on my arm, that would be signed into my account so it wouldn’t miss a lot of my coughs. Here’s hoping that improvement gets added next time. If so, I will do another review. As I think this app for me is very good, and thanks to the developers

This was better before the update. I used to be able to listen to the recorded ‘coughs’ to check if they were actually coughs. I can no longer do this. I work with dogs & the app regularly picks up barking as a ‘cough’, so when I was able to check the recorded ‘coughs’ I could remove these & ensure I had an accurate record of my coughs. I now have no idea what the recorded ‘coughs’ are and therefore the record of coughs is probably completely inaccurate. The app also picks up things like keys jangling, laughter, etc. as coughs & now all of these are being included as ‘coughs’ and skewing my data. I was relying on this app to keep a cough diary for my doctor & now it’s completely skewed and inaccurate and I’m going to need to start over again with another app. So thanks for that 😡

Although this only records small ‘sound bites’ of my cough it works extremely well BUT I’ve had to clear the app as it automatically turns down the volume on my iPhone 13. I couldn’t stop this happening so reluctantly I cannot re install it?

On initial set up asked me to record first cough, but apparently my cough didn’t sound like a cough. 🤷‍♂️ tried three times, gave up

As an endurance athlete and, more recently, a person with lung disease, I have always tracked every possible health biometric I possibly can in order to determine my fitness and recovery. I recently found this CoughPro app and it is one of the best health related apps I’ve ever used. I downloaded the CoughPro app a week ago, and I have been very excited about the amount of information it has provided me. The reports are amazing and provide such clear insight. The app works on an iPhone, or an android device, and as long as the app is on it tracks anytime you cough as long as your phone is in the same room. The really excellent thing is it gives you a continuous graph throughout the day of the number of coughs you’ve had by the hour so that you know what times of day you cough most. What have I learned so far? I’ve learned that between 7 and 8 AM every morning , I have more coughs than any other time of day. And the time immediately after exercise, I have a significant number of coughs. It has made me more conscious of how and when I cough so that I don’t just “absentmindedly” hack away coughing—sort of oblivious to it, almost out of habit. I can look at the graph and see the results real time. This is actually giving me a good “bio-feedback loop”, so that I am much more conscious of the times I cough and as a result I’ve minimized and reduced my coughs as a result the awareness of being able to see the data. If any of you with have a lung or bronchial condition and live with someone who doesn’t have a lung disease, they probably get tired of hearing you cough all the time and likely worry about you. This app is a way for you to better manage that symptom, and there are no side effects. The wise old saying comes to mind: if you can’t measure it you can’t manage it. I highly recommend this app for you to try out, it’s one of the best I’ve found.

Really helpful app

Impressed with how well it detected my coughs, even very slight ones.

I’m sitting here with the app open, looking right at it and coughing yet it doesn’t register the coughs. I thought maybe i had to recalibrate it to better recognize my coughing sound but there seems to be no way to do that. So it basically does nothing.

Worked for a day then stopped completely. No way to reset. I turned off turned on force closed app rebooted phone. Nothing would get it to start tracking again. No way to go back to the start and record cough sample either. Further it kept turning in bedtime when I had turned it off.

Great concept but execution is poor! No user instructions. Unable to playback coughs with sound.