PEERS® vs IBS Symptom Tracker & Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PEERS®
This app offers guidance and practice for improving social cognition and skills to build and maintain friendships. It includes educational text, video examples of social behaviors, and practical assignments for real-life application.
- Social cognition improvement
- Friendship skill development
- Educational textual information
- Video role-play examples
- Practice assignments
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The PEERS® app helps you with making and keeping friends. It provides you with information, video examples and assignments to stimulate your social cognition, skills, and experiences. Textual information is given to educate you about social situations. Video role-play examples are provided to illustrate a) behaviors that are less helpful to make and keep friends, and b) behaviors that are more helpful to make and keep friends. The assignments will help you practice and apply the learned social skills to your daily life.
IBS Symptom Tracker & Diary
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IBS OS is a clinician-built logging app for irritable bowel syndrome. Built by a practicing gastroenterologist, it captures the symptom patterns and clinical anchors that make a gastroenterology visit useful. What you log: • Bristol stool form, bowel frequency, and urgency • Abdominal pain, bloating, and evacuation quality • IBS subtype (IBS-C / IBS-D / mixed) and symptom location What you get: • Today’s note: written from your answers, with a plan you can read line by line and the reason behind each line • An IBS-SSS severity score tracked over time • For your next visit: what you recorded and the questions worth asking your gastroenterologist, on one page • Premium: a one-page visit report for your doctor, symptom trends and CSV export • A library of ACG/AGA-aligned references on low-FODMAP, fiber, and IBS management Privacy by design: • All data stays on your device. No accounts. No cloud sync. • No analytics. No ads. No data sale. About the developer: IBS OS is built by a board-certified gastroenterologist. The app is decision-support — it does not diagnose, treat, or replace clinical care. Bring your data to your gastroenterologist. Premium: 14-day free trial, then a monthly or yearly subscription; the price for your country is shown before you subscribe. Premium can be shared with your family through Family Sharing. Subscriptions auto-renew; cancel anytime in App Store settings. Restore Purchases is available in the app and in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PEERS® at none against IBS Symptom Tracker & Diary's 2. IBS Symptom Tracker & Diary's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 11 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. IBS Symptom Tracker & Diary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. PEERS® asks for nothing beyond the download.
PEERS® ships an update every 11 months, IBS Symptom Tracker & Diary every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | PEERS® | IBS Symptom Tracker & Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (58 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Elizabeth Laugeson | Muddusir Ayaz |
In-app purchases
PEERS®
No in-app purchases
IBS Symptom Tracker & Diary
- IBS OS Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
- IBS OS Annual14 Days trial$59.991 Year
