Comparison

ErgoMinder vs Bowel Mover Pro

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

Head to head
About

ErgoMinder

This app provides timely reminders to perform short micro-exercises at your desk to prevent discomfort and injuries from prolonged sitting. It helps improve focus, energy, and productivity by encouraging regular movement throughout the workday.

Highlights
  • Background notifications
  • Customizable reminder times
  • Random or hourly reminders
  • Variety of reminder sounds
  • Short micro-exercises (10-30 seconds)
  • 7 exercise categories
  • Enable/disable reminder categories
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Ergonomics Reminder - stay healthy at the Office: ErgoMinder reminds you to perform micro-exercises at your office desk. If you are spending too much time at the office desk, you need reminders to stretch and exercise. ErgoMinder app helps to you to protect your wrists, eyes, neck, back and other parts of your body. ====================== WHY ERGOMINDER? ====================== Researches shows that up to 50% of employees experience some discomfort at the work place. And it grows over time. We don't exercise because we forget to. ====================== BENEFITS ====================== * increased productivity * overcome body pains * prevent injuries * reduce stress * increased energy * increased focus ====================== HOW IT WORKS? ====================== ErgoMinder reminds you to perform micro-exercises via built-in reminder feature. During the work hours the messages will pop-up on your phone screen and will prompt you to do a small exercises in less than 30 seconds. ====================== ERGOMINDER FEATURES: ====================== * Background notifications * Start and End time for daily reminders * Random or hourly reminders * A good selection of reminder Sounds * Micro exercises (10-30 seconds) * 7 Categories (eyes, hands, neck, ...) * Turn on/off reminder categories It costs less than a cup of coffee and it will help you to take care of your body. Just set it up once and let it work for you.

About

Bowel Mover Pro

Track your digestive health and identify patterns in your bowel movements and other habits. Understand what influences your symptoms to gain better control over your digestive well-being. Features include a visual calendar, customizable tracking, and detailed statistics.

Highlights
  • Track bowel movements and digestion
  • Identify symptom patterns
  • Bristol Stool Chart integration
  • Customizable health habit tracking
  • Visual calendar with notes
  • Multi-item graph comparisons
  • Data sharing via email/Dropbox
Features
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Award by Healthline: The Best Crohn's Disease Apps. Featured by Physicians Practice Journal. Also seen on Dr Oz and in Esquire Magazine. Track your digestion and health habits, look for patterns of what gets your bowels moving. Take control of your digestive health by tracking and better understanding what works. The app now features the Bristol Stool Chart for new users. If you want to keep using your current set up, you can add that scale manually. Patricia Salber, MD, MBA on The Doctor Weighs In blog "It can be helpful in trying to make correlations between bad symptom days and other stuff going on in your life – diet, stress, coffee intake, and so forth. ... This type of information, often pooh-poohed (pun intended) by traditional medicine in the past, could lead to a deeper understanding of disorders only incompletely understood at the present time." Several items are already set up. You can relabel those within limitations to make them fit your needs: Bowel Movements - Water Intake - Stress - Gluten Free Day - BM Note - BM Texture - Bristol Stool Chart Compare several items to each other in multi item graphs. Scroll back in time looking for patterns. One-tap cycling through statistics makes understanding the graphs simple. Share your results with your team via email. Share entire backups via email or Dropbox. Built in statistics, tap on graphed items to cycle through ∅ Averages ∆ Max ∇ Min ∑ Totals ⊥ Last The visual calendar shows all values and notes at a glance. Easy entry for past dates, just double tap a date. Take screenshots of your graphs and share via email. Password Protection DROP US A NOTE Email us, let us know how to make this app better. We LOVE to hear from you. Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ClickPod

Screenshots

ErgoMinder4 screens
Bowel Mover Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ErgoMinder at Free against Bowel Mover Pro's $2.99. ErgoMinder also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (83% vs 70%). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

ErgoMinder is free to download; Bowel Mover Pro costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ErgoMinder holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of ErgoMinder's written reviews are positive against 70% of Bowel Mover Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ErgoMinder versus Bowel Mover Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterErgoMinderBowel Mover Pro
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.2 (5 ratings) — better3.7 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better70.5% of reviews
Number of ratings511 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better10.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB29 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAniMathTrack & Share Apps, LLC

Customer experience

ErgoMinder

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Bowel Mover Pro

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral9.1%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive70.5%
Neutral6.6%
Negative23.0%

Bugs and requests

ErgoMinder

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Bowel Mover Pro

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App not working
  • Icons keep changing after submission
  • Warning when contacting via help guide
  • Entries disappear after saving
  • Not optimized for larger iPhones (UI blown up and pixelated)
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  • Latest update asks for passcode but no keypad
  • No way to add additional people
  • Cannot delete past inputs
  • Cannot edit entries

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add food diary section
  • Change water intake from glasses to ounces
  • Support larger iPhones
  • Incorporate Bristol poop scale
  • Ability to edit entries
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  • More customizable categories
  • More icon pictures
  • Add medication intake tracking
  • Add food intake and symptom tracking
  • Different icon for app (e.g., digestive track)
  • Rename app (e.g., GI Diary)
  • Ability to delete past entries
  • More texture categories
  • Add more people/profiles

In-app purchases

None

ErgoMinder

No in-app purchases

None

Bowel Mover Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ErgoMinder free?
ErgoMinder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bowel Mover Pro free?
Bowel Mover Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ErgoMinder or Bowel Mover Pro?
ErgoMinder is rated higher. ErgoMinder averages 4.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Bowel Mover Pro averages 3.7 from 11 ratings.
Do ErgoMinder or Bowel Mover Pro have ads?
Neither ErgoMinder nor Bowel Mover Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ErgoMinder or Bowel Mover Pro?
ErgoMinder ships an update every 8 months, and Bowel Mover Pro every 8 months. Most recently, ErgoMinder was updated on October 15, 2026 and Bowel Mover Pro on October 19, 2026.

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