Comparison

Clove vs Pebble

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

Head to head
About

Clove

A private and customizable app for tracking chronic illness, pain, symptoms, and mood. It helps users identify patterns and gain a sense of control over their health with a clean, distraction-free design. All data is stored locally on the device for maximum privacy.

Highlights
  • Track pain, mood, symptoms, meals, activities
  • Customize symptoms to monitor
  • Visual calendar and trend insights
  • Optional logging and medication reminders
  • Distraction-free design for fatigue and ADHD
  • Open-source and local data storage
Features
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Clove is a gentle, private app for tracking chronic illness, pain, symptoms, and mood on your terms. Customize what you track, keeping it as simple or detailed as you would like. Whether you’re managing daily pain, fatigue, or mental health, Clove helps you spot patterns and feel more in control. No accounts. No ads. All data stays on your device. FEATURES Track pain, mood, symptoms, meals, activities, and more Customize your own symptoms to monitor Visual calendar and insights to spot trends Reminders (optional) to log or take meds Clean, distraction-free design for chronic fatigue and ADHD Your privacy matters. Clove is open-source and stores everything locally on your phone - never uploaded or shared.

About

Pebble

This app offers a simple, offline health diary for tracking daily symptoms like pain, mood, and energy. It generates a concise, one-page summary for doctor appointments, focusing on clarity over complexity. Designed for individuals managing chronic conditions, it prioritizes ease of use and data privacy.

Highlights
  • Daily symptom logging (mood, pain, energy)
  • Customizable symptom list
  • Pain location mapping
  • Medication tracking
  • One-page doctor brief generation
  • Offline data storage
  • Optional Apple Health integration
Features
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Pebble is a hand-drawn symptom diary that takes thirty seconds a day. No cloud, no accounts, no streaks. Just enough to walk into your next appointment prepared. Three sliders for energy, pain, and mood. Tap a few symptoms. Close the app. That's the whole daily log. Then once a month — or before your next doctor's visit — Pebble prints a one-page brief. A short, plain-language summary your doctor can actually read. Not a 12-page spreadsheet. Not a scrollable chart dump. One page, sixty seconds. — Made for foggy days — Pebble is built for chronic illness, ADHD, and AuDHD. For people with fibromyalgia, POTS, EDS, migraine, IBS, endometriosis, long COVID, PMDD, ME/CFS — and anyone whose health doesn't fit neatly into "feeling well" or "feeling sick" boxes. If your brain can't track ten things at once. If filling out another form is the last thing you have energy for. If you've ever forgotten half your symptoms by the time you got to your appointment — this is for you. — What you log — • Mood, energy, and pain on simple sliders • Where the pain is — a small body diagram (front + back) you can tap to mark the spots • Your own symptoms, from a customizable list (no 2,000-symptom menus) • Medications — taken or skipped, no guilt either way • Cycle, if you track one • Flare-ups, on the days they happen • Short voice notes, transcribed on your phone • Sleep, steps, and resting heart rate from Apple Health (optional) — The doctor brief — The hero feature. Pebble reads your last 7, 14, or 30 days and writes: "Energy dropped sharply on Tuesday and stayed below baseline through Thursday. Pain peaked at 8/10 on Wednesday morning, correlated with poor sleep the night before. Brain fog was reported 4 of the last 7 days." A paragraph your doctor reads in sixty seconds. Print it. Email it. Screenshot it to your patient portal. Walk in prepared. — Nothing leaves your phone — Pebble has no accounts. No cloud sync. No analytics. No third-party trackers. Your symptom data is encrypted on your phone and never leaves it. Not by Pebble, not by anyone. Even your daily logs stay local. The only network calls Pebble ever makes: weather lookup, opt-in, city-level only, never precise GPS; and receipt validation for Premium purchases. That's the entire list. — No streaks, no guilt — Pebble has no streak counter. No "you missed yesterday" notifications. No gamification. Vacation mode for flare weeks lets you skip without losing anything. Streaks were the wrong shape for chronic illness from day one. — Premium — $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year. Unlocks unlimited briefs, intraday mood capture (Moments), a private backup file you control, and your voice notes folded into the brief. The free tier is fully usable forever — log every day, get one brief a week. — Who built this — I made Pebble for my wife. She came home from doctor visits frustrated they didn't believe how bad it was, and the other apps were too much. Pebble is the artifact she wished she had: small, calm, defensible. Insights provided by Pebble do not constitute medical advice. Please consult your doctor. Questions or feedback: pebble.symptom.app@gmail.com END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Clove4 screens
Pebble4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clove at none against Pebble's 3. Clove also leads on ratings volume (32 vs 3). Pebble's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, 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. Pebble sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Clove asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pebble holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clove has 32 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clove ships an update every 6 weeks, Pebble every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Clove versus Pebble: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClovePebble
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (32 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings32 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB133 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperColby BrownJONATHAN DOUGLAS LAI

Customer experience

Clove

All ratings32 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral6.3%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pebble

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Clove

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Pebble

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Clove free?
Clove is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pebble free?
Pebble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clove or Pebble?
Pebble is rated higher. Clove averages 4.7 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while Pebble averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Clove or Pebble have ads?
Neither Clove nor Pebble shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clove or Pebble?
Clove ships an update every 6 weeks, and Pebble every 4 weeks. Most recently, Clove was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pebble on October 25, 2026.

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