Bowelle vs Chat Maigre
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bowelle
Easily track your mood, food intake, water consumption, stress levels, and bowel movements. Discover patterns and potential triggers with visual charts and AI meal recognition. Export your data to share with healthcare professionals.
- Mood tracking
- Food and water intake logging
- Stress level monitoring
- Bowel movement tracking
- AI meal recognition
- Customizable fields
- Data visualization charts
- Data export
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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 AI meal recognition • Snap your meal and Bowelle's AI suggests what it is. • Private by design: the AI runs on your device, so your photo is never uploaded for analysis. Charts • Visual representations allow you to 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 7, 14 or 30 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/
Chat Maigre
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The Progress Protocol. Most protocols measure how much more you did. This one measures what it cost you. THE COUNTS Three times inside the morning hour you put two fingers on your wrist and count. Prima before you move. Media once you have settled. Ultima the moment you stop, and once more a minute later while you keep walking. Each one is three movements. Spiritus, settle the breath. Pulsus, take the count. Census, read what it says. The breath comes first for a reason rather than a mood: your rate climbs as you inhale and falls as you exhale, so counting across a ragged breath measures the breath as much as the heart. You never type a number and you never watch a clock. Press when you start counting and release on the twentieth beat, or let a tone start and stop you and enter what you counted. Either way the app does the arithmetic and hands it back in beats and per cent. Nothing appears on screen while you count. You cannot read and count at the same time, and a number you can watch is a number you start chasing. WHAT THE COUNTS TELL YOU The ultima against the media is your drift: what the same pace cost you by the end. The fall across the minute after you stop is your recovery. Both are read against your own history and never against a table, because a threshold borrowed from a clinical treadmill test would be a claim this app has no business making. No strap. No watch. No account with a company that keeps your heartbeat on a server. The body is the instrument. The sensor is a second opinion. THE METHOD Most training asks you to empty the tank twice a week. This asks for a few short sets spread across the day, every day, and one easy hour on your feet each morning. No set is ever hard. The work still adds up, so lighter weeks are built in and you are expected to take them. Early strength is largely coordination: the nervous system learning to use what you already have. That is built by frequent unhurried repetition, not by exhaustion. So you practise four movements at roughly half of what you could manage, always stopping with reps still in the tank. Pull-ups. Push-ups. Air squats. Hanging leg raises. Nothing else, and nothing you need a gym for beyond a bar. THE MORNING HOUR Every day carries a session rather than a number of minutes: an easy walk, an easy jog, threshold work, hill economy, a long easy hour, or recovery. The programme chooses, from where you stand in your block. Quality never sits beside quality. Lighter weeks and the taper drop the hard work entirely, because that is what they are for. A BLOCK THAT FITS YOU Choose six, eight, twelve or sixteen weeks, or type any length from four weeks to a year. Everything reshapes around it: per-set targets, daily touches, the shape of the week, and where the lighter weeks fall. When a block finishes it rolls into a fresh cycle at the same length. It never expires. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account. No password. No server. No analytics. Your log lives in this app on this device and there is no cloud to sync to, because there is nothing on the other end. Export the lot as a readable file whenever you want. BEFORE YOU START This programme is not for everyone. It is daily, repetitive and loaded. The app opens with a short list of conditions you should be cleared for by a clinician first, including current or recent tendon pain in the elbow, shoulder, wrist or hand, recent shoulder surgery or dislocation, joint hypermobility, low bone density, pregnancy and postpartum, a history of disordered eating, uncontrolled hypertension or cardiac disease, and chronic kidney disease. It is not suitable under 18. Chat Maigre is a training and logging tool, not a medical device. Its guidance is general information, not personalised advice. Speak to a qualified professional before starting a new training or nutrition plan.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chat Maigre at none against Bowelle's 10. Chat Maigre also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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. Bowelle sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Chat Maigre asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Bowelle | Chat Maigre |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bowelle AB | James Smith |
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
Chat Maigre
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bowelle
- 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 trial$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
- Bowelle Premium7 Days trial$17.991 Year
Chat Maigre
No in-app purchases









