Comparison

Poop Tracker vs Throb

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

Head to head
About

Poop Tracker

Features
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Get to know your gut, one entry at a time. Track bowel movements, record symptoms, and see how your routines change over time. Your diary works offline, with encrypted storage on your device and no account to create. MAKE TRACKING A DAILY HABIT • Log bowel movements using the Bristol Stool Scale. • Record comfort ratings, symptoms, notes, and personal tags. • Log foods, medicines, and other factors separately to explore patterns over time. • Find past entries with searchable history and a calendar view. SEE YOUR ROUTINES MORE CLEARLY • Review charts, trends, and summaries based on your own entries. • Explore associations between recorded factors and how you feel. • Set tracking goals, schedule reminders, and celebrate milestones. • Export CSV data and create printable reports to support conversations with your healthcare professional. KEEP CONTROL OF YOUR DIARY • Your diary is stored encrypted on your device, without automatic uploads or cloud sync. • Protect access with the biometric app lock. • Create password-encrypted backups through Files to restore your diary or move it to another device. All features are free. This version has no advertising. Available in English, Spanish, German, and Ukrainian. Upgrading from version 1.x starts a new local diary; earlier online and on-device tracking history is not imported. Updating from version 2.x keeps your existing local diary. Back up regularly; recovery requires an exported backup and its password. This app supports personal tracking and awareness. Its summaries describe patterns in your records and do not establish causes, provide a diagnosis, or replace medical advice.

About

Throb

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Log a migraine in one tap, even mid-attack, on a dark screen that won't hurt your eyes. Throb is a private migraine and headache diary you pay for once: no subscription, no account, no ads. ABOUT THROB Throb is a migraine and headache tracker for iPhone (iOS 18 or later) with an Apple Watch app. It is made for people with frequent or chronic migraine who need a reliable headache diary for themselves and for their doctor or neurologist. Everything is stored on the device; nothing is sent to the developer. LOGGING • Start an attack with one tap from the app, the Lock Screen widget, Control Center, the Action Button, Siri ("Log a migraine in Throb") or Apple Watch. • Attack mode is a dark, low-light screen. Tap the pain level as it changes to draw a pain-over-time curve, and log every dose. • Record where it hurts on a head map, plus symptoms, triggers, aura and prodrome, relief methods and notes. • Whole-day entries for daily or continuous headache, with no start or end time. • "Feeling one coming" notes early warning signs before the pain starts. • Log medication doses taken outside an attack, including preventives. FOR YOUR DOCTOR • Doctor report PDF: headache days, attacks, duration, peak pain, acute-medication days, how often each medication helped and its median time to relief, MIDAS disability score and the HIT-6 questionnaire. • A monthly count of acute-medication days, shown as information, never as an alarm. INSIGHTS • Calendar heat map, trends and a searchable list of every attack. • Co-occurrence: which triggers and symptoms show up with your attacks. Patterns only, never claimed causes. • Preventive treatment check: headache days per 30 days before versus since you started a preventive, with optional reminders from daily tablets to injections every few weeks. • Barometric pressure trend from the iPhone's own barometer, optional alerts on sharp drops, and an optional pressure forecast from Apple Weather. DATA AND PRIVACY • Works fully offline. No account, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, no ads. • Optional iCloud sync through your own private iCloud database. • Optional Apple Health: reads sleep and menstrual cycle, writes headache events. • Automatic local backups with restore, plus CSV and JSON export. • Import from a Migraine Buddy CSV export or a headache spreadsheet. • Face ID lock. PRICE Free: logging, attack mode, full history, calendar, search, backups, iCloud sync, export, Face ID lock and a doctor report for the last 30 days. One-time purchase, no subscription: doctor reports for any date range and all insights. LANGUAGES 20 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Hindi, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese. WHAT THROB IS NOT Throb does not diagnose, predict or treat migraine and is not a medical device. It records what you log so that you and your clinician can see the pattern. No streaks, no gamification, no community feed, no notification spam.

Screenshots

Poop Tracker4 screens
Throb4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Poop Tracker at weekly against Throb's every 2 months. Poop Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Poop Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Throb sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Poop Tracker ships an update weekly, Throb every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Poop Tracker versus Throb: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPoop TrackerThrob
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB6 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperOleksandr SolodovnikovEvatech Innovations,TOO

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Poop Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Premium$5.991 Month
  • Premium$54.991 Year
1 purchases

Throb

One-time1
  • Throb Lifetime Unlock$12.99

Questions

Is Poop Tracker free?
Poop Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Throb free?
Throb is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Poop Tracker or Throb have ads?
Neither Poop Tracker nor Throb shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Poop Tracker or Throb?
Poop Tracker ships an update weekly, and Throb every 2 months. Most recently, Poop Tracker was updated on October 28, 2026 and Throb on October 31, 2026.

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