Gut diary vs WellRings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gut diary
Track your daily physical, psychological, and social activities to understand their impact on your gut health. Record bowel habits, diet, sleep, exercise, and even moments of happiness. Sync with health data to identify patterns and contributing factors to abdominal comfort.
- Bowel habit tracking
- Diet logging
- Sleep cycle monitoring
- Exercise recording
- Social activity logging
- Heart rate synchronization
- Abdominal pain and stool shape entry
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The stress or sleeping disturbance are closely associated with the changes in heart rate and result in affecting abdominal comfort, or bowel habits. “Gut diary” will help you lead healthier and happier life by tracking your physical, psychological, and social activities. You can record the daily bowel habits, diet, sleeping cycle, exercise and other social activity details on the app and synchronize with iPhone Health Kit or other wearable devices to obtain the heart rate data. By tracking your total daily activity, you maybe able to discover the certain pattern of abdominal conditions and identify the influence factor. You can also record a “little happiness” you have experienced during the day which can be a positive factor to your bowel activity. You have an easy access to the screen and can record several data at the same time. You can enter the abdominal pain and stool shape easily from Apple Watch. Please note that it is not possible to diagnose or treat someone with this application.
WellRings
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WellRing helps you understand your daily activities and body status, optimize lifestyle habits, and scientifically manage your healthy life. WellRing is an intelligent management application that relies on smart ring hardware to realize heart rate, sleep and activity monitoring. It tracks the user's core indicators such as step count, movement pattern, heart rate and sleep quality 24 hours a day, and generates an energy score to help users quantify their physical state, optimize the pace of life, and achieve scientific healthy life management. Features 24/7 health monitoring 1. Exercise tracking: record daily steps, exercise distance and calorie consumption, support a variety of exercise patterns (such as walking, running, climbing, cycling, yoga, dancing, fitness, etc.), and automatically generate statistical analysis of exercise data. 2. Heart rate monitoring: all day heart rate detection, know the fluctuations of heart rate;. 3. Sleep analysis: analysis of sleep stages (deep sleep/light sleep /REM), evaluation of sleep duration and sleep quality, and improvement suggestions. Data visualization and statistics 1. Time dimension: View the historical data trend chart by day, week, and month to compare performance in different periods. 2. Healthy life: Based on data such as activity amount, sleep time and recovery state, which directly reflect the degree of physical recovery and guide users to reasonably plan exercise and rest. Personalized healthy life management 1. Goal setting: Customize daily steps, sleep duration and other goals, and the App dynamically tracks the completion progress. 2. Scientific advice: Provide actionable recommendations based on data trends. Note: WellRing is not a medical device, and the data monitored cannot be used to diagnose medical conditions. If the user has any physical health problems, please consult the doctor in time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Gut diary at every 3 weeks against WellRings's every 2 months. Gut diary also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Gut diary ships an update every 3 weeks, WellRings every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 28, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gut diary | WellRings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Keietsu Yasuhara | Shenzhen Mingyang Industrial Development Co., Ltd. |
In-app purchases
Gut diary
No in-app purchases
WellRings
No in-app purchases









