Aura vs MyGutMap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aura
This app helps you understand and manage stress, anxiety, and low energy with personalized daily plans and guided exercises. It offers bite-sized education on the nervous system and mindset to support your overall wellbeing.
- Personalized wellbeing plans
- 7-minute guided exercises
- Daily educational lessons
- Stress and anxiety management
- Nervous system resets
- Mindset improvement
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Stress, anxiety, tension, brain fog, low energy — your body and mind are always sending signals. Aura helps you notice them, understand them, and act on them, a few minutes at a time. THREE REASONS TO INSTALL AURA: 1. A plan built around you Take a quick quiz and get a personalized path based on your goals and symptoms — calming an overactive stress response, easing tension, improving focus, or just feeling more like yourself. 2. 7-min guided exercises Daily exercises — breathing, somatic movement, nervous system resets — are built to fit into a real schedule, not replace it. 3. Daily lessons that actually stick Bite-sized, easy-to-follow education on stress, the nervous system, and mindset, so you understand the “why” behind every practice. Aura isn’t one technique — it’s a companion for your overall wellbeing, adapting with you as your needs change. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aura.care/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://aura.care/terms/
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: MyGutMap at none against Aura's shown. MyGutMap also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). Aura's advantage is ratings volume (2.7K vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Aura sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month and MyGutMap sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MyGutMap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Aura has 2.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Aura ships an update fortnightly, MyGutMap every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Aura | MyGutMap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.7K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Aura SAS | SINGULAR SOFTWARE, L.L.C. |
Customer experience
Aura
MyGutMap
In-app purchases
Aura
- 1 Month$17.991 Month
- 3 Months$29.993 Months
MyGutMap
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99









