Comparison

QALO vs MyGutMap

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

Head to head
About

QALO

This smart ring tracks your fitness, wellness, and health journey with advanced nanotechnology. It offers an easy and fun way to make progress at your own pace, designed for everyday use without complexity or high cost.

Highlights
  • Fitness tracking
  • Wellness monitoring
  • Health journey support
  • Advanced nanotechnology
  • User-friendly interface
  • Progress tracking
Features
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The Everyday Smart Ring The QALO Smart Ring is a fitness-tracking ring designed with everyday people in mind. No matter where you are in your fitness, wellness, or health journey, it can help you be a little bit better tomorrow. Built with advanced nanotechnology, the QALO Smart Ring is equipped with tiny tech—but the positive impact it can have on your life is anything but tiny. It’s the everyday Smart Ring for everybody, no matter where you are in your fitness, wellness, or health journey. Feeling better doesn’t need to be complicated, intimidating, or expensive. With QALO, it’s fun and easy to make progress at your perfect pace. The QALO Smart Ring is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent medical conditions or illnesses. It is designed for general fitness and wellness purposes only. Always consult your doctor or a qualified medical professional before making any changes to your medication, daily routines, nutrition, sleep schedule, or workout regimen.

About

MyGutMap

Track your food intake and bowel movements with detailed insights. Visualize correlations between meals and digestive health, and generate reports for medical professionals. Integrates with Apple Health for a comprehensive wellness overview.

Highlights
  • Log meals and bowel movements easily
  • Bristol scale logging with symptoms
  • Food-Stool Map visualization
  • Bowel habit charting
  • Integration with Apple Health data
  • PDF and JSON export for doctors
  • Siri and Action Button integration
Features
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MyGutMap is a diary for what you eat and what your body does about it. Log a meal in a few seconds — write it the way you would say it, and the app picks out the foods. Log a bowel movement on the Bristol scale in one tap, adding colour and any symptoms if you like. Add a photo to either — and on iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, a meal photo can suggest the dishes and foods in it for you to tap. Then watch what lines up. WHAT IT SHOWS YOU • Food–Stool Map — for each food you have eaten often enough, the Bristol types that followed it, drawn on the same 1–7 scale every time so foods can be compared at a glance. Or as a chart, each food set against your own average. • Bowel habit as one chart — a fortnight, a month, six months or the whole diary — with the stretches you logged nothing left visibly empty rather than quietly skipped. Or the same entries as one ring, split by Bristol type. • What you keep coming back to, at the top of the meal list, and every meal any one food turned up in — tap a food, or search the diary for one. • What you ate in the day or two before any bowel movement, each food marked with what the map says about it so far. • A calendar of your history, each day coloured by its worst reading. • Steps, exercise minutes, sleep and weight from the Health app, alongside the rest, if you allow it. • Widgets: tap 1–7, or a drink you log often, right on the Home Screen. • In English or Korean. WHAT YOUR DIARY LOOKS LIKE IN WORDS On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, MyGutMap can read the diary back to you in plain language — what appears before the bad days, what does not, and what to try next. Your last 30 entries are read on the device itself. On iOS 27 you can also ask about the last six months, read by Apple's Private Cloud Compute after the app asks you first. You choose when to run it. It is a second reading of the same entries the rest of the app counts, not a verdict, and it is not a diagnosis. TAKE IT TO A DOCTOR Generate a PDF for any period. It opens with the figures a clinician reads first — how often, how loose, what symptoms — and then gives the whole diary in order, oldest first, with bowel movements sitting between the meals that came before them. Photos come along. So does a plain JSON export if you would rather keep the raw data. HANDS FREE "Log a meal in MyGutMap." "Log a bathroom visit in MyGutMap." Siri asks for the details and writes the entry without you opening the app. There is a shortcut for the camera too, for the times you would rather photograph lunch now and describe it later — put it on the Action Button and one press opens it. YOUR DIARY STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-in. No servers of mine, no ads and no analytics. Your diary is stored only on your iPhone. A few optional features send something to Apple, each off until you turn it on and each telling you what it sends: Record where you ate sends a meal's coordinates once to Apple's mapping service for the place name; Read photos with Private Cloud Compute sends the one photo being read; the six-month AI reading sends a summary the app works out plus your last 14 days of entries — never photos, places or Health data. Nothing is collected and nothing is sold. Delete everything from Settings whenever you like. MyGutMap counts what you recorded and shows patterns in timing. Timing is not cause, and this is a diary, not a diagnosis. If something about your health worries you, see a doctor.

Screenshots

QALO4 screens
MyGutMap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: QALO at none against MyGutMap's 3. QALO also leads on ratings volume (2.4K vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). MyGutMap's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. MyGutMap sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. QALO asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MyGutMap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: QALO has 2.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QALO ships an update weekly, MyGutMap every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
QALO versus MyGutMap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQALOMyGutMap
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.4K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.4K — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB6 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperQALOSINGULAR SOFTWARE, L.L.C.

Customer experience

QALO

All ratings2,377 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews121 reviews
Positive57.9%
Neutral22.3%
Negative19.8%

MyGutMap

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

QALO

Reported bugs

34 issues
  • Ring stopped tracking sleep
  • Ring stopped working entirely
  • Sync issues after app update
  • Ring fails to sync (stops at 75%)
  • App disconnects from device frequently
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  • Ring not tracking steps or activity
  • Latest update screwing up sync and workouts
  • Ring not connecting after latest update
  • Ring not scanning HRV and stress level
  • Update causing issues with stress/HRV scanning
  • Ring stopped connecting after newest update
  • App crashes constantly
  • App freezes phone
  • App logs out user, requires re-pairing
  • App doesn't stay open
  • Add device dialogue box too big on iPad
  • Cycle tracking tab is awful (can't edit/delete)
  • App doesn't show up-to-date data
  • Vitality score not populating
  • Ring not tracking vitality score
  • App crashes when trying to start activity, sync, or calculate Q score
  • App misses activity tracking entirely
  • Newest update ruined temperature reading feature
  • App lost all data after recreating account
  • Cycle tracking feature gone after update
  • Ring not charging
  • Session expired during workout saving
  • App not working without service/Wi-Fi
  • Ring unpaired, needs repair
  • Ring not connecting to phone
  • Charger is finicky
  • Sleep latency calculation issues
  • Sleep stages jumping back and forth
  • Streak lost due to glitch

Requested features

40 requests
  • Seamless, automatic background syncing
  • Activity auto-detection improvements
  • Editable sleep data
  • More sport/activity options (kayaking, paddle boarding)
  • Sync with Suunto or Garmin watches
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  • Tips on sleep recovery
  • Illness tracking/biometrics
  • Notifications for low battery, QScore, or HR abnormalities
  • Alerts for menstrual cycle start
  • Customizable app interface
  • Food tracking integration
  • Apple Watch app integration
  • Friends/social features
  • Read data from Apple Health
  • Widgets
  • Apple Watch app for starting/ending workouts
  • Push notifications for metrics
  • Ability to edit/delete periods in cycle tracking
  • Manual add/edit activity option
  • Background refresh option
  • More thorough Apple Health integration
  • Log symptoms outside of current day in cycle tracking
  • HR available without starting an activity
  • Exact body temperature readings
  • Edit sleep segments (sleep latency)
  • Improved workout tracker usability
  • Ability to log night shift work
  • More interactive app
  • Sync with other health apps
  • Edit/add workout timing
  • Edit sleep times
  • iOS widget functionality
  • More push notifications
  • Ability to access app through Apple Watch
  • Sync on data (not just Wi-Fi)
  • More detailed cycle tracking (ovulation prediction)
  • Improved vitality score calculation
  • Sync with Apple Watch for workouts
  • More detailed sleep stage analysis
  • More advanced women's health features

MyGutMap

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

QALO

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

MyGutMap

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99

Questions

Is QALO free?
QALO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MyGutMap free?
MyGutMap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, QALO or MyGutMap?
MyGutMap is rated higher. QALO averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.4K ratings, while MyGutMap averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do QALO or MyGutMap have ads?
Neither QALO nor MyGutMap shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QALO or MyGutMap?
QALO ships an update weekly, and MyGutMap every 4 days. Most recently, QALO was updated on November 14, 2026 and MyGutMap on November 13, 2026.

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