Clove vs Pebble
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- 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
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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/
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Pebble sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Clove asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Clove | Pebble |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (32 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 133 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Colby Brown | JONATHAN DOUGLAS LAI |
Customer experience
Clove
Pebble
In-app purchases
Clove
No in-app purchases
Pebble
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$49.99







