Veterans · for veterans preparing a VA disability claim
ClaimLog is a symptom log for veterans preparing a VA disability claim. Each time a symptom shows up, you record how bad it was, what it got in the way of, such as sleep or a shift at work, and a short note in your own words. When you are ready, the entries are set in date order onto an English PDF laid out like VA Form 21-4138, the Statement in Support of Claim, followed by a plain count per symptom and a blank VA Form 21-10210 for a spouse or someone you served with. Nothing leaves the phone unless you share the PDF, and you sign and send it yourself.
Tap Make the form and your entries line up by date, slide onto a page laid out like VA Form 21-4138 and fill in its fields, with a firm haptic tap when the page is done. It is over in a couple of seconds, and one tap skips it. A line like 6 months · 41 entries · 3 symptoms leads into the PDF preview. It works from your very first entry, so you see the finished page long before the months add up.
Pick the symptom, tap how bad it was, and tick what it got in the way of: sleep, work you missed or left early, everyday activity, time with people. The note is optional and the time can be moved back, so last night's flare-up can be logged this morning. How often a symptom happens is never typed in. It is simply the count of your entries.
Before the PDF is made, the whole statement opens in an editor. Each sentence is built only from what you logged: the date, the symptom, how bad it was and what it affected, plus your note. Change any word you like. The file also carries a summary table for each symptom and a blank Lay/Witness Statement with a one-page note for the person who fills it in.
A lay statement asks for something memory handles badly: how often a symptom came, how bad it got and what it kept you from doing, across many months. VA.gov lists statements from you and others among the things VA reviews on a claim, and says anyone can provide lay evidence without special training or education. Often the statement still gets written at the end, from a paper notebook, a notes app or memory alone.
ClaimLog moves the writing to the day it happens. A thirty-second entry on a bad night is a dated record of that night, in your words. When the statement is needed, it is assembled from those records instead of rebuilt from what you can recall in one sitting.
Opening the app goes straight to adding a symptom and logging today. There is no sign-in, and a single card, which you can skip, explains where your records live and what the app does not do. Symptoms are named in your own words, such as lower back pain, trouble sleeping or ringing in my ears. A short list of body areas and everyday phrases helps you start, but nothing asks for a medical name or code. Each symptom can carry an optional start date and a line of context, like hurt during a training exercise in 2019.
An entry is the symptom, how bad it was on one fixed scale, the parts of the day it affected, and an optional note. The time stamps itself and can be changed. Severity alone is enough to save, which matters on the days when typing is the last thing you want to do. Every entry can be corrected or deleted later, and symptoms can be renamed, archived or removed.
The statement follows the layout of VA Form 21-4138: its identification section, the remarks pages and the signature block, with your entries written out in date order as plain sentences. ClaimLog does not polish, strengthen or suggest wording. You read the full text in an editor before anything is generated, and what you leave there is what prints.
Next comes a summary table for each symptom: the number of entries, the date range and how the severity levels were spread, with no comment on what the numbers mean. Last is a blank VA Form 21-10210, the Lay/Witness Statement, with a one-page note asking whoever fills it in to describe what they saw for themselves. You hand that to a spouse, a friend or someone you served with.
Your name, Social Security number and VA file number are typed in when you make the PDF, and keeping them for next time is optional. The signature line prints blank so you can sign by hand. The PDF is in English on US Letter paper, and its footer notes which revision of the form the layout follows. The file is built in the phone's cache and cleared after you share or print it.
The Summary tab shows each symptom over a date range: how many entries, a simple bar for each week or month, the spread of severity and how often each part of daily life was ticked. That is all it shows. There are no words like worse or better, no trend arrows and nothing that turns your numbers into a judgment about your health or your claim.
The PDF summary table is computed by the same function, so the numbers on the phone and the numbers on paper always match.
Symptom records can include mental health, so ClaimLog has no account, no server and no analytics, and it makes no network requests at all. You can lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode, and before a PDF goes to the share sheet the app reminds you that it holds sensitive records.
The daily reminder is off until you turn it on, and its lock-screen text never mentions symptoms, claims or VA. A backup is one file you export and import again on a new phone. Delete all data in Settings removes every symptom, entry, cached PDF, reminder and lock setting in one step.
ClaimLog is a log and a layout. It does not predict outcomes, tell you which symptoms to stress, write or rephrase your sentences, run screening questionnaires or put you in touch with anyone. It does not submit anything to VA or link to a VA account; you send the statement yourself through VA's own channels. There is no e-signature, no photo or document scanning and no claim checklist.
ClaimLog is a record-keeping tool. It does not give medical or legal advice, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Check VA.gov for the current forms and how to submit them. For help with a claim, VA's Office of General Counsel accredits three kinds of representatives: Veterans Service Organization representatives, attorneys and claims agents.
No. ClaimLog builds the PDF and stops there. You print it, sign it by hand and send it through one of the ways VA.gov lists for submitting evidence. The app has no connection to any VA system.
No. It is an independent app. The PDF follows the public layout of the VA forms but carries no VA logo or seal, and its cover and footer say it is a record prepared by you.
No. It counts and arranges what you logged and nothing else. It never predicts a result, suggests stronger wording or picks which symptoms to include. For those questions, talk with a VA-accredited Veterans Service Organization representative, attorney or claims agent.
Only if you share a PDF or someone opens the app on your phone. Records live only on the device, with no account and no cloud copy, and you can require Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode to open the app. The optional reminder never names a symptom on the lock screen.
Export a backup file from Settings and import it on the new phone. Everything comes back: symptoms, entries, notes and times. Because there is no cloud account, that file is the copy you control.
The PDF includes a blank VA Form 21-10210 and a one-page note for them. They fill in the paper form in their own words and sign it themselves. ClaimLog does not collect or store their statement.
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