Comparison

Bowelle vs Bearable

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bowelle

Easily track your food, mood, and symptoms to identify patterns and potential triggers. Visualize your health data with beautiful charts and export it to share with healthcare professionals.

Highlights
  • Food and symptom tracking
  • Mood and water intake logging
  • Stress level monitoring
  • Bowel movement diary
  • Customizable fields
  • Visual trend charts
  • Data export for doctors
Features
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Bowelle is designed to be the quickest, most easy-to-use food & symptom diary on the App Store. Beautiful visual representations make it easier to discover patterns and determine how you feel over longer periods of time. You can track how you feel, what you eat, water intake, stress levels, bowel movements, notes and custom fields you define. By keeping a diary, you may learn significantly more about your patterns and possible triggers. Bowelle offers: A record of: • How you feel • What you eat • Water intake • Stress levels • Bowel movements • Notes • Custom fields Charts • Visual representations allow you determine trends and overlap different data types. Daily average • The daily averages are easily accessible from the side menu. • They are also configurable and can be based on the past 14, 30 or 60 days. Alternatively, you can base it on all existing data. History • Use the detailed history to see all data. • Filter it by what you are interested in to narrow down the scope. • Export your data via email and share it with your doctor, nutritionist or dietitian. Apple Health • Sleep, step count, water and weight Download Bowelle now and start keeping a journal today! --- A word from the developer "It is stunning to read studies indicating that as many as 10-20% of the world’s population have IBS. The symptoms can vary so considerably from individual to individual that one may wonder if it is even the same condition. I created Bowelle because there is a need for a fresh and modern approach in the marketplace. If you are reading this, chances are that your symptoms are affecting your life more than you like. By keeping a record every day, my hope is that you will identify some of the triggers causing your symptoms. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to drop me a note at feedback@bowelle.com. I will listen to everything coming my way." - Robert Gummesson --- Terms of Use: https://bowelle.com/terms-of-use/

About

Bearable

This app helps you understand and manage your health by tracking symptoms, triggers, and treatments. It allows you to identify patterns and correlations to gain better control over chronic illnesses, pain, mood, and more. Securely store and analyze your health data to share with your doctor.

Highlights
  • Symptom tracking
  • Trigger identification
  • Medication and treatment logging
  • Habit and activity tracking
  • Health data correlation analysis
  • Medical appointment preparation
  • Data export and sync
Features
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Feeling overwhelmed by your health? Bearable is the symptom tracker that helps you work out what makes your symptoms, pain, migraine and mental health better or worse, so you can feel more in control. Join over 2M patients & doctors using Bearable to manage symptoms, pain, migraine, mood, medication and mental health. FIND YOUR TRIGGERS Most people arrive with one question: what is making my symptoms worse? Log how you feel in a few taps a day, and Bearable shows the correlations between your symptoms and your sleep, food, weather, stress, medication and habits, so you know which triggers to avoid. NOT SURE WHERE TO START? No diagnosis or plan needed. Rate how you feel, add a symptom or two, and Bearable suggests what to log next as your symptom diary grows. PAIN, MIGRAINE AND HEADACHE TRACKER Record pain levels, where the pain is and how long it lasts. Log migraine frequency and severity, spot the warning signs before a migraine attack, see which migraine treatments help, and learn which triggers reliably set off your headaches. The pain tracker is used every day by people managing chronic pain, migraine, arthritis, fibromyalgia, endometriosis, joint pain and back pain. MENTAL HEALTH AND MOOD TRACKER See whether your mental health is changing over time, not just how today feels. Log mood, energy, stress, sleep and anxiety alongside what is going on in your life, and see how work, exercise, social plans and the weather shape your mental health. The mental health tracker is used by people living with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD and OCD, and by anyone wanting a clearer picture of their mental health. CHRONIC ILLNESS, FATIGUE AND FLARE-UPS Log flare-ups, pain, crashes and good days to see what leads to each. Work out which activities drain you or give you energy, and give your doctor a clear record of how your chronic illness has changed. Built with people living with PoTS, EDS, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS and long covid. GUT, HORMONES AND CYCLE Log digestive symptoms, food and bathroom habits to find out which foods are behind your IBS or GERD flare-ups. See how your symptoms, pain, migraine and mood change across each phase of your cycle, useful for PCOS, PMDD, endometriosis and menstrual migraine. MEDICATION AND TREATMENTS Log medication, supplements and treatments, then see whether they are working for your pain, migraine or mental health and whether they cause side effects. The medication tracker also sets reminders so you never miss a dose or a diary entry. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Symptoms, pain, migraine, mood, medication, exercise and diet in one health tracker, so you can find useful patterns instead of switching between apps. - Fully customisable: record exactly what matters to you - Insights that show what correlates with your symptoms - Reports that turn months of symptom, pain and mental health logs into actionable insights - Sync steps, sleep and heart rate from Apple Health and Fitbit - Reminders, secure export, restore across devices, dark mode PRIVATE AND SECURE Your health data is encrypted. Export or delete it from within the app at any time. We will never sell your data. MADE BY PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND Created by people who live with health issues themselves, shaped by thousands of members of the chronic illness community. Our aim is to make symptom tracking simple, even on days when fatigue, pain, migraine or brain fog make everything harder. WAYS PEOPLE USE BEARABLE Symptom tracker & health diary Migraine & headache tracker Chronic Pain tracker Mental health & mood tracker Chronic illness & flare diary IBS & IBD symptom tracker PCOS, PMDD & cycle tracker PoTS & EDS tracker Medication tracker & reminders GET IN TOUCH Questions or feedback support@bearable.app Website https://bearable.app Terms https://bearable.app/terms-and-conditions Privacy https://bearable.app/privacy-policy Insights from Bearable are not medical advice. Always consult your doctor before making medical decisions.

Screenshots

Bowelle4 screens
Bearable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Bearable at #166 against Bowelle's unranked. Bearable also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Bowelle's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 81%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bowelle sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Bearable sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Bowelle against 4.8 for Bearable. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.2K and 6.3K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Bowelle's written reviews are positive against 81% of Bearable's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bowelle ships an update fortnightly, Bearable weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Bowelle versus Bearable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBowelleBearable
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.2K ratings)4.8 (6.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.1% of reviews — better81.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2.2K6.3K — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#166 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB103 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBowelle ABBearable Ltd

Customer experience

Bowelle

All ratings2,245 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral2.2%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews573 reviews
Positive92.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative4.7%

Bearable

All ratings6,313 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral1.9%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews689 reviews
Positive81.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative12.3%

User reviews

Bowelle

From 2.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Customizable
  • 👍 Helpful for tracking symptoms and triggers
  • 👍 Clean and intuitive interface
  • 👍 Useful reports and data visualization

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Issues with editing/deleting past entries
  • 🔒 Concerns about data loss or syncing
  • 💡 Limited customization options in free version
  • 💡 Lack of integration with other health apps
  • 💡 Desire for more detailed symptom tracking

Bearable

From 6.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Highly customizable
  • 🚀 Comprehensive health tracking
  • 💡 Helpful for chronic illness management
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 👍 Integrates with Apple Health

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Privacy concerns around data sharing
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 🔒 Requires account creation
  • 💰 Premium features behind paywall

Bugs and requests

Bowelle

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional crashes or freezes
  • Issues with data display or loading

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to add time stamps for symptoms
  • Option to track exercise, medications, and other health factors
  • More detailed food logging with food database integration
  • Sync across multiple devices
  • Expanded customization options in free version

Bearable

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Logging out and switching devices causes data loss
  • Customization options can be buggy

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved sleep tracking
  • Integration with more health data sources
  • Menstrual cycle tracking
  • iPad app version
  • Easier food/nutrition tracking

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Bowelle

Subscriptions9
  • Bowelle Premium$2.491 Month
  • Bowelle Premium1 Month trial$3.491 Month
  • Bowelle Premium$3.991 Month
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  • Bowelle Premium$4.993 Months
  • Bowelle Premium3 Months trial2 variants$6.993 Months
  • Bowelle Premium$7.993 Months
  • Bowelle Premium$9.991 Year
  • Bowelle Premium1 Year trial$14.991 Year
  • Bowelle Premium$17.991 Year
13 purchases

Bearable

Subscriptions13
  • Bearable premium$4.491 Month
  • Bearable premium$6.991 Month
  • Premium subscription7 Days trial$15.991 Year
Show 10 more
  • Bearable premium7 Days trial$18.991 Year
  • Bearable premium7 Days trial$22.991 Year
  • Bearable Premium7 Days trial$23.991 Year
  • Bearable premium3 Days trial$27.991 Year
  • Bearable premium7 Days trial$27.991 Year
  • Bearable premium14 Days trial$27.991 Year
  • Bearable premium1 Month trial$27.991 Year
  • Bearable premium7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Bearable premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Bearable premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Bowelle free?
Bowelle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bearable free?
Bearable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bowelle or Bearable?
Bearable is rated higher. Bowelle averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.2K ratings, while Bearable averages 4.8 from 6.3K ratings.
Do Bowelle or Bearable have ads?
Neither Bowelle nor Bearable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bowelle or Bearable?
Bowelle ships an update fortnightly, and Bearable weekly. Most recently, Bowelle was updated on September 22, 2026 and Bearable on September 24, 2026.

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