Comparison

Bowel Mover Pro vs IBS Diary 3

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

Head to head
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

About

IBS Diary 3

Features
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Are you like one of the millions of people who have IBS? How can IBS Diary help? IBS Diary was designed to track information about your IBS with a few screen taps. Using this information, the application will allow you to use triggers, like your stress, sleep and weather patterns, day of week, and diet, to predict and manage your IBS Pain and Symptoms. IBS has a new “Trending and Forecasting” module that shows you which factors and triggers contribute to your pain and symptoms. This will help you feel better and will allow you to take control of your IBS. IBS Diary makes it easy to perform tasks like tracking your treatment progress, graphing your patterns, emailing reports, including graphical attachments to your doctor and advisors. IBS Diary will also allow you to export your data to a spread sheet all with just a few screen taps. Do you want all of your IBS health records and information at your fingertips so that you can start feeling better. IBS Diary can help. - Enter, document, and track as much or as little information as you want with a few screen taps. - Document and Track your IBS pain and symptoms. - Track your triggers, including food, stress, location, activity, weather patterns, and sleep patterns. - Keep Track of which treatments really help and those that do not with the treatment Management analysis report. - Keep track of your health records including hospital or doctor visits, surgeries and procedures, laboratory tests and results, procedures, vital statistics, and the mental and physical symptoms you are experiencing. - Record your thoughts and notes. - Keep track of your appointments, doctor visits, your test results, surgeries and procedures. - Record all your therapy details, including medications and side-effects - Track multiple doctors and laboratories - Graph your patterns of experiences, email reports, including graphical attachments to your doctor so that they can help you adjust - Customize many features; export your data to a spread sheet for offline backup and all with just a few screen taps - Find out which factors and triggers contribute to your symptoms. Please don’t give up until you can manage your IBS better. Keep all your IBS medical records and information at your fingertips with this easy-to-use journal. Makes it easy to feel better, be happy, organized and stress-free!

Screenshots

Bowel Mover Pro4 screens
IBS Diary 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bowel Mover Pro at $2.99 against IBS Diary 3's $4.99. On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Bowel Mover Pro costs $2.99 and IBS Diary 3 $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Bowel Mover Pro versus IBS Diary 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBowel Mover ProIBS Diary 3
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating3.7 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB12 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTrack & Share Apps, LLCcellHigh

Bugs and 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)
Show 4 more
  • 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

IBS Diary 3

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Bowel Mover Pro

No in-app purchases

None

IBS Diary 3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bowel Mover Pro free?
Bowel Mover Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is IBS Diary 3 free?
IBS Diary 3 costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bowel Mover Pro or IBS Diary 3 have ads?
Neither Bowel Mover Pro nor IBS Diary 3 shows ads.

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