Sharecare on Monday launched AskMD, an iPhone app designed to allow you to collect information about symptoms of your ailment, learn about the common causes and even connect you to local doctors to be treated.

I spoke with Toni Pashley, a vice president at Sharecare, about the release. Built exclusively for iOS 7, Pashley said that AskMD was designed to make finding the causes for common symptoms as easy as possible. The user doesn’t need to know the medical terms for anything—simply answering questions about how you are feeling is enough for the app to come up with possible causes.

AskMD allows you to type or speak your symptoms, and you can even enter symptoms and keep track of information for another person. According to Pashley, this feature was specifically designed for parents and caretakers who are looking after other people.

After you find the possible causes for your symptoms, you can locate a doctor and even email the symptoms to them directly from the app.

The app seemed very user-friendly in the demo that I saw. All aspects of AskMD were clear and concise, which should lead to reliable information about the causes for your illness.

AskMD is free to download from the App Store.