Table 2.

Summary of commercial apps.

Developera	App name	Element of palliative care	Target users	Description
ADVault Inc	My Directives	Decision support	Patients	Patients can fill out simple medical wishes to auto-populate an advance directive that can be shared with convoy via email, text, or scanner. Allows patient to select a proxy from phone contacts and confirms understanding and willingness of proxy via email.
Ben Delaporte	ChronicPainDiary	Symptom management	Patients	Patients are offered to enter a daily pain score scaled 1-10 daily. A color-coded line graph shows scores over 1 week to 1 month to monitor changes over time.
Boston Scientific, Inc	MyPainScale	Symptom management	Both patients and convoy	Allows patient to track symptoms and share reports with convoy via text.
Center for Advancing Health	AfterShock	Patient/family education	Patient	Provides education for patients after receiving a terminal diagnosis. Ability to share information with convoy members included.
Erin Cole	LifeChest	Psychosocial support	Patient	Stores personal information about the patient (insurance, health, financial, life wishes, etc), including pictures of important documents, which can be shared with convoy members via email.
Final Thoughts LLC	Final Thoughts	Psychosocial support	Both patients and convoy	Offers exchange of legacy projects (multiple media options) at present or scheduled for the future between the patient and convoy. The patient can select who among phone contacts and app users receives legacy information.
Goodgrief Works, LLC	goodgrief	Bereavement or grief	Convoy	Grief social media app connecting people who share similar types of loss. Offers chat wall and personal instant messaging.
Infinite Monkeys LLC	Grief Support Network	Bereavement or grief	Convoy	Offers resources for grief and links to outside sources, connects to radio and YouTube, and provides social network function.
Jeremy Gonzalas	Farewell	Psychosocial support	Both patients and convoy	Provides avenue for exchange of legacy projects to specific convoy groups categorized by family, friends, work, spiritual, and financial. The patient provides passcode to convoy members to access patient-created content.
Nous Foundation	ACPDecisions	Decision support	Patient	Provide ACP tools including definitions for ACP and palliative care, steps for ACP, advance directive forms, and videos about sharing ACP preferences. The app is available in 9 languages.
Prognosis and Therapeutic Harmonization (PATH) Limited	The Fragility App	Quality of life assessment and symptom management	Convoy	Assessment of patient symptoms and function and convoy member stress and access to support completed by convoy member. Ability to send report via SMS to other convoy members or provider phone number.
SCET	Lets Think Ahead-My ACP	Decision support	Both patients and convoy	Allows the patient to enter and share end-of-life medical care decisions with family via email. Also provides assessment of conditions, experience of having a serious illness.
Scott La Counte	iGrief	Bereavement or grief	Convoy	Offers readings and quotes categorized by specific emotions.
Selesti	ButterflyProject	Bereavement or grief	Convoy	Offers resources, mindfulness activities, music, inspirational quotes, and a memory box.
Selesti	SmilesandTears	Bereavement or grief	Convoy (bereaved children)	Features include memory jar, balloon release, virtual gift giving, and diary.
Self Care Catalysts Inc	HealthStoryLines	Symptom management	Both patients and convoy	Facilitates exchange of health information, specifically symptom and mood tracking between the patient and patient-selected convoy members. Also includes appointment and medication features and syncs to sensor technologies.
SILECI Apps	Simple Symptom Tracker	Symptom management	Patients	Allows for unlimited symptoms to be tracked and notation option to describe factors that might influence the symptom. Offers graphs for reviewing symptoms over time.
Smooth Mobile, LLC	Symptom Tracker	Symptom management	Both patients and convoy	Offers symptom tracking and reports, which can be shared with convoy via Excel, Cloud, or printable PDF.
VJ Periyakoil	AdvanceDirectives Stanford University	Decision support	Patients	Stores patient medical and emergency information, organ donation, and end-of-life medical care decisions, which can be shared with convoy via email. Includes ability to add pictures or video.
Universal Projects and Tools, SL	mPalliative Care App	Symptom management	Both patients and convoy	Patients can track symptoms and share reports with convoy via text.
University of Zurich	Catch My Pain	Symptom management	Both patients and convoy	Patients can track symptoms and share reports with convoy via text.
William Palin	PaperHealth	Decision support	Both patients and convoy	Allows patients to enter and share designated health proxy and end-of-life care preferences with convoy via email or text.

^aCommercial apps were not directly connected to health care providers or clinical electronic medical record. All apps provided at least one export function for data that could be shared with providers via the patient or caregiver.