Comparison

IBS Healing Study vs IBS Comfort

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

Head to head
About

IBS Healing Study

This app helps manage Irritable Bowel Syndrome symptoms by guiding users through self-care techniques like meditation and mindful breathing. It uses clinical research on placebos to train the brain's healing response and identify food and stress triggers through daily journaling.

Highlights
  • Guided meditation and breathing exercises
  • Placebo-based brain training
  • Daily journaling for triggers
  • Sleep quality tracking
  • Stress level monitoring
  • Food intake logging
  • Flare-up tracking
Features
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WELCOME TO THE IBS HEALING STUDY Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be painful and frustrating. IBS symptoms can last for months or even years. Most research shows that IBS begins in your gut where 100 million nerve cells line your gastrointestinal tract from your esophagus to your rectum. Your gut, influenced by the microbiome living in your intestinal tract, continuously sends and receives signals to and from your brain. And your brain, drawing on memories of past experiences with food and nutrients, can either calm those signals or amplify them. Clinical studies have shown your brain’s natural healing response can effectively calm IBS symptoms, by utilizing non-medicinal treatments like hypnosis, meditation, mindful breathing, and blank pills known as placebos. Over time, newly acquired calming signals can form permanent neural pathways that replace the dysfunctional pathways that helped trigger your IBS symptoms. HOW THE IBS HEALING STUDY WORKS Although IBS feels different for every sufferer, the common goal is to be able to consume the foods you enjoy, without experiencing IBS symptoms. The IBS Healing Study is a behavioral tool that helps you learn to calm the motor neurons and secretion cells that trigger IBS symptoms. This app uses successful clinical research that helped nearly 7 out of 10 IBS sufferers enrolled in placebo pill treatments calm their IBS symptoms. Placebos have proven to be effective healing triggers, even when you know you are using a blank pill to trigger your brain’s healing response and calm your IBS symptoms. Think of placebo pills as brain training tools to calm your gut-brain connection. Over several weeks of using the app every day, you will be guided to study your sleep quality, stress levels, water intake, food intake, IBS flare-ups, urgent bowel movements, diarrhea, and constipation. The app will use your journal recordings to help you gain insight into your food and stress triggers. The IBS Healing Study is a self-care app. It does not replace your physician. Instead, you will be able to investigate every aspect of your IBS and review your healing progress over time. If you are ready to try something new to feel better and take control of your symptoms, we encourage you to download the IBS Clinical Study app and begin your 4-week investigation of your IBS influencers, triggers, and your potential permanent recovery from IBS.

About

IBS Comfort

This app offers hypnotherapy sessions designed to help manage Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) symptoms and reduce pain. It provides a self-management tool for users seeking relief.

Highlights
  • Hypnotherapy sessions
  • IBS symptom management
  • Pain reduction techniques
  • Self-management tool
  • Terms and conditions available
Features
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IBS Comfort is a self-management IBS app to help you reduce your pain using hypnotherapy. See the term and conditions at http://ibscomfort.org/terms

Screenshots

IBS Healing Study4 screens
IBS Comfort4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: IBS Healing Study at none against IBS Comfort's 1. IBS Healing Study also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). IBS Comfort's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 months). 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. IBS Comfort sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $199.00 per year. IBS Healing Study asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for IBS Healing Study against 5.0 for IBS Comfort. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IBS Healing Study ships an update every 4 months, IBS Comfort every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
IBS Healing Study versus IBS Comfort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIBS Healing StudyIBS Comfort
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB36 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperVolo AcademyConsul, Inc.

Customer experience

IBS Healing Study

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

IBS Comfort

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

IBS Healing Study

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

IBS Comfort

Subscriptions1
  • Premium3 Days trial$199.001 Year

Questions

Is IBS Healing Study free?
IBS Healing Study is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IBS Comfort free?
IBS Comfort is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, IBS Healing Study or IBS Comfort?
IBS Healing Study and IBS Comfort are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do IBS Healing Study or IBS Comfort have ads?
Neither IBS Healing Study nor IBS Comfort shows ads.
Which is updated more often, IBS Healing Study or IBS Comfort?
IBS Healing Study ships an update every 4 months, and IBS Comfort every 3 days. Most recently, IBS Healing Study was updated on November 3, 2026 and IBS Comfort on October 30, 2026.

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