Symptoma is a digital health assistant and symptom checker that works like a search engine for diseases. Users describe their symptoms in free text to its chatbot, add basic details such as age and biological sex, and answer a short series of follow-up questions. Symptoma’s AI then returns a list of the most probable causes — ranked by probability — with links to further information about each condition, in a process that typically takes one to two minutes.
Unlike symptom checkers that force users through fixed multiple-choice trees, Symptoma accepts symptoms described in the user’s own words, which gives it flexibility in understanding unusual or imprecisely described complaints. The follow-up questions are adaptive: they are chosen based on the symptoms already entered, which can surface additional symptoms the user had not considered relevant and help rule out more common conditions. The underlying system draws on a large medical knowledge base built from millions of medical publications, and it is designed to surface rare diseases alongside common ones — a frequent blind spot of simpler checkers. Symptoma works in more than 36 languages, and the company says the platform is based on many years of research and development and has won more than 40 international awards, including recognition from the Dutch and German ministries of health and the European Commission. Symptoma is an information tool: it explicitly is not a substitute for a doctor’s advice or diagnosis and should not be used in emergencies.
Symptoma is Free to use for assessing possible causes of symptoms.
Symptoma is for people who feel unwell and want to understand what might be causing their symptoms before deciding on next steps, and for clinicians whose patients arrive with self-researched possibilities. It supports — but never replaces — professional medical assessment.