CoughPro

Hyfe Inc.

About this app

Cough is one of the most common symptoms that leads people to visit a healthcare provider. Yet most people do not notice when they begin to experience cough or when their cough gets worse (or, for that matter, better).

By using artificial intelligence, CoughPro, powered by Hyfe, monitors cough frequency and helps you identify cough trends.

Here's how it works: CoughPro identifies the explosive sounds that might be coughs. Then these sounds are analyzed and, once confirmed as coughs, they are recorded on your own dashboard. You can see how many times you cough and when your cough is occurring. When the app is running, every time there is a cough-like sound the app records a very short sample - a half a second or so. This is too short to contain any contextual information but enough to determine if you have coughed.

CoughPro has a Notes function to enable you to identify behaviors and stimuli that are linked to your cough. This can lead to insights that help you live better with cough.

The accuracy of the data collected and presented through CoughPro has not been evaluated by the US FDA or other regulatory agencies and is not intended to be used in any medical decision-making capacity, including presenting CoughPro-gathered cough information to a healthcare professional for management of a patient's cough-related symptoms or conditions.

Ratings and reviews

Like the concept, which is of course why I installed it, however the accuracy was only about 70% correct. Definitely did not capture coughs that I was aware of, and then would capture several "coughs" when I was moving chairs, opening doors, etc. For the most part, the counts were of enough value that i kept this installed for a day. What caused me to uninstall it was that though the app ran just fine for the first 24 hours, as soon as it went to running in the background it drained my phone battery in about 3 hours, using over 60% of the battery life just for this app. This makes the app completely unusable unless you would be using it with the phone plugged in next to a stationary person. If that is the case, it may be better to design an app for an Amazon Echo or Google Home as those objects are already designed to be listening all the time and are used plugged in.

Good app although difficult to delete some sounds seriously recorded as coughs

A very straightforward and helpful app, however after the first day of use, it seems to be detecting coughs a lot less. It also picked up background noise from a guy talking in a YT video as coughing. Maybe letting users recalibrate the app would help.