Bristol Stool Chart vs Ploply
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bristol Stool Chart
Monitor your digestive health with this tool that helps you rate and record stool quality over time. Visualize your progress with easy-to-interpret graphs and access information about different stool types. Optionally track blood in your stools and share data with your healthcare provider.
- High-resolution images of stool types
- Quick stool quality rating
- Record stool information over time
- Optional notes and blood tracking
- Interpretable stool quality graph
- Information on stool types
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The Bristol Stool Chart app brings new high-resolution images based on the original chart to your device. It allows you to quickly and easily rate your stool quality and record the information over time. You can also optionally add notes and enable a feature to track blood in your stools. Stool quality is displayed as an easy to interpret graph which can be shared with your health professional. The app also presents you with information about each type of stool along with links to more information online. Free and easy to use, this tool makes it easy to monitor your digestive health.
Ploply
Monitor your digestive health with a private tracker for bowel movements, symptoms, food, and hydration. Identify patterns and make informed decisions about your gut health. Secure your data with PIN protection.
- Log bowel movements with detailed parameters
- Track food and hydration intake
- Record medications and set reminders
- Monitor mood and digestive symptoms
- Identify patterns between diet and symptoms
- Secure data with PIN protection
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Understand your digestive health with clarity. Ploply is a structured and private digestive health tracker designed to help you monitor bowel movements, symptoms, food intake, hydration, and medications. Whether you're managing IBS, tracking irregularity, or monitoring your overall gut health, Ploply gives you organized, reliable records — all in one place. Comprehensive Tracking • Log bowel movements with detailed parameters • Track food and hydration • Record medications and reminders • Monitor mood and digestive symptoms Identify Patterns Understand correlations between food, hydration, symptoms, and bowel activity. Make informed decisions based on your own data. Privacy by Design Your health data stays yours. Ploply does not sell personal information and is built with privacy as a priority. Enable PIN to secure the access to Ploply. Designed for Consistency Clean interface. Fast entry logging. Structured records you can rely on. Take control of your digestive health today. Ploply is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition, and it does not replace professional medical advice.If you have any health concerns, please consult a qualified healthcare professional before using this App.Ploply is intended for personal tracking and informational purposes only. It has not been certified as a medical device by the FDA or any other regulatory authority.Use of this App is at your own risk. The creators are not responsible for any direct or indirect damages resulting from its use. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms and privacy: https://www.pata.dev/ploply-terms-and-condition https://www.pata.dev/ploply-privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ploply at 100% against Bristol Stool Chart's 40%. Ploply also leads on rating (3.7 vs 2.1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Bristol Stool Chart's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Ploply sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Bristol Stool Chart asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ploply holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Bristol Stool Chart's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ploply's.
Bristol Stool Chart ships an update every 2 months, Ploply every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and July 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bristol Stool Chart | Ploply |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (8 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Web Garden Limited | Carlo Palumbo |
Customer experience
Bristol Stool Chart
Ploply
In-app purchases
Bristol Stool Chart
No in-app purchases
Ploply
- Ploply Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Ploply Pro Annual$19.991 Year
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