Comparison

mySymptoms Food Diary vs Track Change Thrive

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

Head to head
About

mySymptoms Food Diary

Track your meals, symptoms, and other health factors to uncover patterns and associations with your diet. This app helps you understand how food affects your well-being and provides detailed reports to share with healthcare professionals.

Highlights
  • Food and health tracking
  • Extensive food database with barcode scanning
  • Symptom intensity and duration logging
  • Correlation analysis for trigger identification
  • Detailed reports with charts and trends
  • Secure sharing with clinicians
  • Customizable food and symptom entries
Features
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Explore the connection between your diet and health with mySymptoms. Easily track your meals, symptoms, and share detailed journals with your clinicians. Our sophisticated analysis highlights patterns and associations between your dietary habits and symptoms, empowering you with the insights needed to support your digestive health journey. Try mySymptoms free for 7 days. The app is subscription-based and includes food and symptom tracking, plus analysis to uncover patterns that support your health journey. Featured in ‘The Best Gut Health Apps’ by Healthline. Join over 1 Million people who use mySymptoms for their IBS, IBD, low FODMAP diet, migraines, eczema, and more. “This app is simply the best in terms of keeping track of your foods and symptoms. In addition to medication and exercise. It is helping me a lot to keep a journal to track my SIBO and IBS.” [mySymptoms customer] DIARY / JOURNAL • Food & health tracking: Log all aspects of your health, including food, drink, medication, stress, exercise, and environmental factors. • Food database: Search or scan barcodes to access our extensive database of foods. • Symptom tracking: Log symptom intensity, duration, and additional notes. • Wellness Metrics: Log your energy, sleep quality, and bowel movements (using Bristol scale) • Customization: Add your own drinks, foods, meals, medications, exercises, and symptoms. INSIGHTS & ANALYSIS • Correlation analysis: Explore how different foods affect your symptoms, helping you identify potential triggers and patterns. • Detailed reports: Featuring specific metrics, histograms, and trend charts that visually illustrate trends over time. • Event review: A detailed list of instances where specific foods or symptoms occurred. SHARING & REPORTS • Share with your clinician: Securely share your diary with your clinician through our dedicated Clinic web app. • Family access: Share access on multiple devices using the same account. • Data export: Export your food diary for review or sharing with health professionals in PDF or CSV formats. PRIVACY & SECURITY • Privacy first: Your account starts with an anonymous username ensuring confidentiality. Your name and email are only required if you choose to share your diary with a clinician. • Robust security: Your data is fully encrypted both during transmission and while stored in the cloud. • Control your data: We never share or sell your personal data. You may choose to participate in optional studies that help advance health research. • HIPAA & GDPR compliant: Share your diary with clinicians confidently, knowing our app meets HIPAA & GDPR (Health Data) standards for protecting sensitive patient information. mySymptoms is used by individuals managing conditions such as: • IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) • IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) • Food intolerance and sensitivities such as dairy, gluten, lactose • Acid reflux • Crohn’s disease • Celiac disease • SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) • Ulcerative colitis • Migraines & cluster headaches • Eczema • Bloating, heartburn, and many other digestive conditions Try mySymptoms and start your journey to improved digestive health and well-being today! SUBSCRIPTION INFO mySymptoms provides a subscription service with a free trial. Cancel anytime during the trial without fees. After the trial, you’re billed monthly, semi-annually, or annually based on your plan. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime through your App Store subscriptions. Ensure changes are made 24 hours before renewal to prevent charges. TERMS & CONDITIONS Terms of Use: https://www.mysymptoms.net/terms Privacy policy: https://www.mysymptoms.net/privacy MEDICAL DISCLAIMER mySymptoms, a wellness tool, tracks diet and health patterns to support, not replace, healthcare relationships; not for medical diagnosis.

About

Track Change Thrive

Identify potential food and nutrient triggers for symptoms like headaches, bloating, and fatigue. This app analyzes your logged meals and symptoms to reveal correlations, helping you understand how what you eat affects how you feel. It offers science-informed insights and allergen alerts without ads or data selling.

Highlights
  • Log meals and symptoms quickly
  • Identify food, ingredient, and allergen correlations
  • Reveal science-informed nutrient insights
  • Alerts for allergens and ingredients to avoid
  • Track macros, vitamins, and minerals
  • Fast food logging with barcode scanning
  • Analyze symptom patterns over time
Features
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Are you dealing with headaches, bloating, migraines, fatigue, IBS, skin reactions, or other symptoms — and wondering whether food may be involved? Track Change Thrive helps you see potential connections between what you eat and how you feel — without guesswork, spreadsheets, or juggling multiple apps. Start your free trial. Cancel anytime. No ads. No data selling. TCT was created by a systems engineer for his own family when symptoms continued without clear answers. The goal was simple: build a tool that reveals patterns and potential food-related triggers over time. What Track Change Thrive Does: - Log meals and symptoms in seconds. One entry powers analysis across foods, ingredients, allergens, and nutrients — giving you a clear, unified view. - Identifies four types of potential correlations between what you log and the symptoms you experience: • Foods you ate • Ingredients within those foods • Allergens present in the foods you logged • Nutrients associated with symptoms in established research **This multi-layer approach helps reveal potential patterns that traditional food or symptom trackers may not show. - Reveals science-informed nutrient insights • When you log a symptom, TCT highlights nutrients with known associations to that symptom — covering both potential deficiencies and excesses — giving you additional context to review. - Alerts you to allergens & ingredients you want to avoid • Flag allergens and ingredients you want to avoid. TCT automatically surfaces them during logging so you don’t have to inspect labels manually. Your dashboard also shows how consistently you're avoiding them. - Supports overall health with nutrition tracking • Track macros, secondary macros, vitamins, minerals, caffeine, and water while TCT focuses on identifying symptom-related patterns. - Reveals patterns and trends that naturally develop • Track symptoms over time and view how frequently foods, ingredients, allergens, or nutrients appear before the symptoms you log. Patterns strengthen as your entries grow. - Provides fast, reliable food logging • Search natural and branded foods, scan barcodes, build recipes, save favorites, and log meals quickly using a vetted database with over 1.4M foods. Logging stays fast, not frustrating. Why Track Change Thrive Is Different: - Most apps focus on general nutrition tracking, macros, or general health logging. Track Change Thrive is designed specifically for identifying potential symptom triggers. - TCT brings together: • Multi-layer correlations (foods, ingredients, allergens, nutrients) • Symptom tracking aligned to timing and severity • Fast and accurate food logging • Science-informed nutrient associations • The ability to replace multiple tools — symptom trackers/correlators, allergen/ingredient flaggers, macro/micronutrient apps, and basic food logs — with one system designed for clarity - Built around real struggles — not generic health goals — TCT focuses on helping you understand why symptoms may be occurring, not just recording them. Subscription & Trial - Start with a free trial and explore the app at your own pace. No ads. No selling of your data. Cancel anytime. Disclaimer: Track Change Thrive does not provide medical advice. Insights are informational and not a substitute for professional care. Always consult your healthcare provider regarding symptoms or treatment decisions.

Screenshots

mySymptoms Food Diary4 screens
Track Change Thrive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: mySymptoms Food Diary at 4K against Track Change Thrive's 12. Track Change Thrive's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 75%). On price, rating, update cadence 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. mySymptoms Food Diary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Track Change Thrive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $10.00 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 — 4.6 for mySymptoms Food Diary against 4.7 for Track Change Thrive. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mySymptoms Food Diary has 4K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of mySymptoms Food Diary's written reviews are positive against 86% of Track Change Thrive's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
mySymptoms Food Diary versus Track Change Thrive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermySymptoms Food DiaryTrack Change Thrive
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (4K ratings)4.7 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4K — better12
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB103 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperSkyGazer Labs LtdTrack Change Thrive LLC

Customer experience

mySymptoms Food Diary

All ratings4,039 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral4.6%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews384 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral7.6%
Negative17.4%

Track Change Thrive

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Bugs and requests

mySymptoms Food Diary

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Password reset page not functioning properly
  • Barcode scanner not always accurate
  • Unexpected data loss after app updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Integration with Apple Health or other fitness apps
  • Ability to add photos of meals or symptoms
  • More detailed reporting and graphing options
  • Reminder notifications to log entries
  • Menstrual cycle tracking

Track Change Thrive

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

mySymptoms Food Diary

Subscriptions3
  • Premium subscription 1 month7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Premium subscription 6 months7 Days trial$39.996 Months
  • Premium subscription 12 months7 Days trial$59.991 Year
3 purchases

Track Change Thrive

Subscriptions3
  • Full Subscription7 Days trial$10.001 Month
  • Full Subscription7 Days trial$48.006 Months
  • Full Subscription7 Days trial$72.001 Year

Questions

Is mySymptoms Food Diary free?
mySymptoms Food Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Track Change Thrive free?
Track Change Thrive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, mySymptoms Food Diary or Track Change Thrive?
Track Change Thrive is rated higher. mySymptoms Food Diary averages 4.6 out of 5 from 4K ratings, while Track Change Thrive averages 4.7 from 12 ratings.
Do mySymptoms Food Diary or Track Change Thrive have ads?
Neither mySymptoms Food Diary nor Track Change Thrive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mySymptoms Food Diary or Track Change Thrive?
mySymptoms Food Diary ships an update every 3 weeks, and Track Change Thrive every 3 weeks. Most recently, mySymptoms Food Diary was updated on September 22, 2026 and Track Change Thrive on June 2, 2026.

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