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Grateful for Cara
The day I downloaded this app was the day after I had an emergency appendectomy. It’s been an easy way for me to pay attention and focus into my gut health as well as how my workouts, stress, etc could affect my digestion. I also love how it’s not a calorie counter. Yeah putting the food in is a little tedious but it’s important if you’re trying to pay attention to how your body feel after eating and doing certain things. I’m 2 weeks post op and 14-days strong using this app. My body feels better each and every day and I know as I utilize this app more and more it’ll do well I’m showing what my tummy likes and dislikes more effectively. It keeps me mindful.Show lessrinniferd
Incredible!!
I recently wanted to start tracking my symptoms, since I have IBS and migraines, and then I stumbled upon this app. It free, which is AWESOME! I would have paid money for it because it’s so easy and simple to track symptoms, meals, headaches, mood, medications, sleep, and essentially it is everything I wanted in an app. There are NO ads which is incredible and it helps me figure out and link different foods to my symptoms and headaches, which is exactly what I wanted. The only drawback is that I wish there was one more tap where you could rate your symptoms for the day. The app automatically deduces either easy, mild, moderate, etc symptoms, but I feel like sometimes I have a different perception of yesterday I had worse symptoms than today. Overall it is incredible and super happy I downloaded it.Show lessNicole310
If you need help tracking symptoms from a chronic illness, look no further!
Cara is my #1 recommendation to any friends or family that need help tracking symptoms due to a chronic illness. You can track anything from what you eat, your bowel movements, stomach pain to headaches and menstruation. For a little over 3 years now I have been extremely ill. Sicker than I’ve ever been in my life. I’m 26, but I feel like I’m 80. In 2016, I began anemic, B-12 deficient, gained more than 50 lbs rapidly, along with an increase in symptoms from an already present GI condition. I’ve been to 2 gastroenterologists, a hematologist, rheumatologist, gynecologist, etc. and we are still unsure what is completely causing my body to remain ill. This app has been a GOD SEND for me because it tracks the number of BMs I have each day, how I feeling physically and mentally, along with what I’m eating and the medications I’m taking. Cara also makes mini graphs so I can see how things are changing week to week and month to month. I recommend this app 110%. - Rachel E.Show lessRachelElliott
Best free BM and Food diary
As someone who has had to track food and BMs since I was a kid, this app has proved to be super convenient! My favorite thing about it is that it doesn’t ask for amounts of foods that your eating, because calorie counting is not something I need to start doing again.
I love that it can connect to the health app on my iPhone so steps can be counted in the in-app data, and I love that you can track mood and stress. Plus the goal oriented layout keeps me motivated to continue logging!
I’ve talked to my therapist about this app and she said she wants to start recommending it to all of her clients!Show lesssidneycw_
Awesome
Cara is a really neat app if you’re looking for a food and symptom tracker! It gives you the foods you ate on your best three days and your worst three days, which is pretty neat as well. It’s also good to track stress levels, hours of sleep, headaches, workouts, and water intake. A lot of that stuff requires manual input, but it’s nice to look back on the day and see I didn’t drink a lot of water, which might be why I have a headache in the evening.
Regarding suggestions: I’d love to see some more in-depth and interactive graphs/data/feedback with all the data we input. There is a way to correlate data, but the graph output is super basic. More information on foods that consistently cause issues and foods that don’t as opposed to only three days would be helpful - like data over time...for example 90% of days you drank milk, you also reported an upset stomach. Just a thought! Being able to alphabetize favorite meals would be nice, too!
Overall, this is a great app! Just hoping to be able to use the data more than what the app currently allows.Show lessavakwalker
Unreliable Tracking after a month
Today I opened the app to find it claiming that Curry and Lactose are ingredients from my best days. Only, I specifically entered those ingredients on my worst days. I am clinically diagnosed with Lactose intolerance and it makes me sick every time. I also just spent a whole weekend with diarrhea following a curry. I entered both of those ingredients into Cara to remind myself never to eat them again.
Yet, somehow it’s “tracking” decided those two ingredients were “best days.” Perhaps it thinks 12 watery bowel movements in a day is good? I tried switching settings to register the previous day and then back to the “day of.” This seemed to make no difference. I have been tracking all foods, bowel movements, and stomach pain for an entire month. I was extremely disappointed to see how poorly it is interpreting the data I entered. I think I’ll have to go back to tracking on my own with a good journal. Very disappointed in how unreliable the dashboard results of this app are.Show lessB-Rad2020
Developer Response
Hello, thank you very much for your feedback. We can really understand your frustration with this tools as it didn't seem to function that well. Luckily, we have updated it and offer a new version. Please reach out to our customer support via the chat in the app or at hello@cara.care. We will be happy to support you!Sincerely the best app
There are no ads in this free app, and if it weren’t free I would gladly pay for it. I have IBS and GERD, and tracking all of my symptoms can be difficult. I usually use MyFitnessPal for food intake but because I don’t have premium, I can’t see the times I ate so I couldn’t correlate foods with symptoms. But this app, Cara, tracks the minute you enter something. You can retroactively add something as well, but only in 15-minute increments. My phone is basically always on me anyway so that’s not a bother. My only complaint is that it doesn’t count “today” as “today” until after 4 am. Sometimes my symptoms cause me to wake at 3 in the morning and it will track it as if it’s the day before. Honestly this would’ve been perfect when I worked swing shift.... oh well.
I like that you can add your own meds, foods, create favorite meals so if you eat the same food every day you just select it. No worries about calorie/nutrient info either like in MFP, so you just type what you ate and add it. You can add your own tags in the symptoms, plus there is a journal tab too so you can take notes in the same entry as your food/symptoms. Really, can’t ask for better. This is an ideal app for any symptoms for any ailment.
I have been using this for a while and for those who are having crashing issues... I suggest updating your iOS. I haven’t had a single functioning issue with this app yet.Show lessKTGriffug36
Calculating good and bad days
Good potential but I want to use this app to figure out what is contributing to my babies eczema but it seems that even though the app allows you to record many different categories of things it only uses a few of them to calculate the good and bad days. I think it would be nice if the app allowed you to choose the categories that you want analyzed and then perhaps had you give a rating to that category for the day. (Such as 1-5 on the condition of your skin...or even a better than, worse than, same as the day before or something. It would also be great if the app noticed a correlation of foods from the day of to two days before as I know that the effects of the foods can be some time after eating them...particularly with breastfed babies. Also, I definitely like the idea of a barcode reader for those convince foods with long ingredients lists.Show lessMadMommaG
Super easy and helpful but...
I have some requests for the developers! 1) The ability to take a photo of an ingredient list (like a Oreos or something) and have cara populate them into the food part of the app. Example: adding tomato sauce triggered fructose as a bad ingredient within the sauce but the tomato sauce I picked didn’t have any additives, only real whole ingredients 2) allow certain categories to be hidden once filled out for that day ie: exercise or sleep 3) allow the ability to hide some of the prepopulated symptoms so the list isn’t as long ie: skin symptoms has a super long list 4) ability to select a specific date range to view trend or historic data 5) also allow the user to identify which ingredients are considered bad ie: known food allergies, food additives (guar gum), preservativesShow lessZxcvb0923
Only one thing is missing
This app has a bit of learning curve, but it does what it does very well. The one change I'd like to see is the ability to add user specified trackers. There are several other things I have to track, (medications, symptoms for non-bowel issues) that I have to track, and having to switch back and forth with other trackers is a HUGE PITA, but the Notes section just isn't enough. That, and the fact that there seems to be no easy way to contact developers to make a suggestion, are the only things that dinged a star off. It would also be nice to have the ability to tell the app to disregard sick days in figuring bad days, as I keep being told that my worst days were ones I was sick (I know that!) and the foods I eat when I'm sick are assumed to be the cause. They aren't. But it's a solid app overall, and I'm still using it.Show lessPhoenixFiresky
