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Built for Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis & IBS

Stop guessing which foods hurt.

Log a meal in two taps. After a week, see your likely trigger foods ranked by how often they preceded symptoms. Then walk into your GI visit with a one-page report your doctor will actually read.

Free to start. No calorie counting, ever.

  • On the App Store since 2017
  • Made by an IBD patient
  • Data export & delete built in
Home screen greeting 'Hey, Sam.' with a 1-day streak, the Day 1 of 7 challenge card, an In Remission status card, and Quick Log chips for recent meals.

Logged: scrambled eggs

Breakfast · rated fine

Coffee · likely trigger

4 of 5 times preceded symptoms

30-day report ready

PDF · share before your visit

to log a meal and how it sat
2 taps
IBD-specific symptoms, each with severity
14
of logs to your first trigger report
7 days
people tracking, as shown in the app
1,600+

On the App Store since 2017. Rating 4.2 out of 5 from 6 ratings; “people tracking” is the app’s own live count. Both as of 2026-09-13.

How it works

A week of two-tap logs beats a year of guessing.

  1. 01

    Log a meal in two taps.

    Tap what you ate, tap how it sat: fine, meh or nope. Add symptoms on the same screen if you want, or log a 'felt fine' day — good days are evidence too.

    Quick log

    How did scrambled eggs sit?

    😊Fine
    😐Meh
    😣Nope

    The app shows recent foods as chips. Tapping one, then tapping fine, meh or nope, records the meal and how it sat.

  2. 02

    After a week, see your triggers ranked.

    Every night the app scores each food by how often it was followed by symptoms, shrinking small samples toward caution so two bad mornings can't convict a coffee. Labels run from Watching to Very likely.

    Likely aggravators

    Last 30 days

    • Black coffee

      Very likely

      4 of 5 times preceded symptoms

    • Raw salad

      Likely

      3 of 4 times preceded symptoms

    • Whole milk

      Possibly

      2 of 4 times preceded symptoms

    • Popcorn

      Watching

      1 of 3 times preceded symptoms

    Meals that sat fine count too. A food eaten ten times and rated fine eight of them is not a trigger — and the app won’t say it is.

  3. 03

    Hand your GI a report, not a memory.

    Pick 7 days, 30 days or any range and get a PDF with symptom trends, severity by time of day, tolerated foods, likely aggravators and medications. Share it before the appointment.

    Health Reports screen listing Symptom Summary, Food Tolerance, Medication Tracking and Lifestyle Factors reports.

Everything in the app

Built for IBD. Not retrofitted from a calorie counter.

No calorie targets, no macros, no weight-loss nudges. Just the things that matter when your gut is the problem.

Two-tap meal logging

Tap the meal, tap how it sat: fine, meh or nope. Frequent foods and saved meals sit as chips on the home screen, so most days you never open a form.

Trigger foods, ranked

After a week of logs, foods are scored by how often they were followed by symptoms — with the meals that sat fine counted too, so one bad day can't frame a food you usually tolerate.

Premium

Doctor-ready PDF reports

Symptom trends, severity by time of day, tolerated foods, likely aggravators and medication history for 7 days, 30 days or any range. Print it or share it before your GI visit.

Symptoms with severity

Fourteen IBD-specific symptoms from urgency to mouth ulcers, each rated mild, moderate or severe. And a 'felt fine today' button, because good days are evidence too.

Premium

Trigger-food alerts

A heads-up the moment you log a food the app has flagged as a likely trigger for you — before it's a problem, not after.

Premium

Barcode safe-or-caution scan

Scan a packaged food and see ingredients that commonly aggravate IBD flagged in one tap, with your scan history kept for later.

A community that gets it

Threads tagged Flare Help, Nutrition, Remission Life and Medication, written by people who have Crohn's — under pseudonymous handles by default.

Premium

Care partner view

Let a parent or partner see that you're hydrating and taking your meds — without ever seeing your symptom or stool log. Scopes are fixed; they can't be widened.

Hydration & weight

Quick-add water and other drinks toward a daily goal, track weight over time, and sync both with Apple Health or Health Connect if you want.

Medication log

Record what you took and when, then see adherence and timing alongside symptoms in the medication report.

Apple Health & Health Connect

Opt-in sync reads weight, sleep, water and steps so reports reflect everything you already track, and writes your logged weight and hydration back.

Your data, exportable and deletable

Export everything you've logged, or delete your account and all of its data from inside the app. Health data is never sold or shared with advertisers.

Screens

What it actually looks like.

Real screenshots from the current release. Swipe through.

Home screen greeting 'Hey, Sam.' with a 1-day streak, the Day 1 of 7 challenge card, an In Remission status card, and Quick Log chips for recent meals.
Home
Quick-log sheet for Rice asking 'How did it sit?' with three large buttons: Fine, Meh, Nope.
Two-tap log
Log Meal form with Dinner selected, 'Salmon' entered, and the tolerance rating set to Fine.
Log a meal
Log Symptoms screen with a 'Felt fine today' option and a grid of symptoms; Bloating and Fatigue are selected.
Log symptoms
Home screen scrolled to Recent Activity, listing a logged meal rated Fine, a symptom rated Mild and a cup of water, with Today's Stats: 4 meals, 1 symptom, 3 cups water.
Recent activity
Health Reports screen listing Symptom Summary, Food Tolerance, Medication Tracking and Lifestyle Factors reports.
Health reports
Hydration Tracker showing 3 of 8 cups (38%) with quick-add buttons for ½, 1, 2 and 3 cups and other drinks.
Hydration
Reminders screen with a daily Meal Log reminder at 7:30 PM and a Symptoms Log reminder.
Reminders
Screen after the intake survey: 'Your Crohn's plan is ready. Based on what you told us — remission — here's how we'll help.'
Your plan is ready
Profile screen showing the account, status Remission, and settings including push notifications.
Profile

For gastroenterologists & IBD nurses

A patient handed you one of our reports?

Here’s exactly what they logged, how the “likely trigger” list is computed, and what it is not. Ninety seconds, no sign-up.

Read the clinician page

Free vs Premium

Free to start. Premium when you’re ready.

Tracking is free, forever. Premium adds the analysis and the paperwork. Try it free, cancel any time from your phone’s subscription settings.

Free

Everything you need to start finding patterns.

  • Meal logging with fine / meh / nope
  • Symptoms with severity, 'felt fine' days
  • Medications, hydration, weight, lifestyle
  • Daily logging reminders
  • Community feed (read)
  • Your first comprehensive report, free after 7 days
  • Apple Health / Health Connect sync
  • Export your data, delete your account
Free trial

Premium

The analysis, the alerts and the reports.

  • Unlimited doctor-ready PDF reports
  • Advanced trigger detection & analytics
  • Trigger-food alerts when you log a flagged food
  • Barcode safe-or-caution scanning
  • Post and comment in the community
  • Care partner read-only view

Monthly, six-month and annual plans. Prices are shown in the app in your local currency. Trial length and availability depend on the plan and store.

FAQ

Questions people ask before installing.

Is Crohn's Food Tracker free?

Yes. Logging meals, symptoms, medications, hydration and weight is free, and so is the community feed and your first comprehensive report after seven days of tracking. Premium is an optional subscription that adds unlimited doctor-ready PDF reports, advanced trigger detection, trigger-food alerts, barcode safe-or-caution scanning, community posting and care-partner access. You can cancel any time from your phone's subscription settings.

How does the app work out which foods are my triggers?

Every meal you log is an observation. You rate it fine, meh or nope, and can add symptoms on the same screen. Overnight, the app scores each food by how often it was followed by adverse evidence, counting the meals that sat fine in the denominator so a food you tolerate most of the time is not blamed for one bad day. Small samples are shrunk toward a prior so two coffees and two bad mornings read 'Possibly', not 'Very likely'. It is an association in your own self-reported data — a hypothesis to test with your care team, not a diagnosis.

Does it work for ulcerative colitis and IBS, or only Crohn's?

It is built for inflammatory bowel disease generally — Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis — and the same food-and-symptom logging works for IBS and other sensitive-gut conditions. The intake survey asks whether you are in remission, flaring, post-op or newly diagnosed so guidance fits your current state.

What can I track?

Meals with a three-point tolerance rating; symptoms including abdominal pain, urgency, diarrhea, blood in stool, constipation, bloating, nausea, fatigue, night waking, fever, appetite loss, joint pain, mouth ulcers and headache, each with a severity; medications and when you took them; hydration; weight; and lifestyle factors like sleep, stress and activity. You can also log a 'felt fine today' day, which is just as useful for ruling foods in.

Can I share a report with my gastroenterologist?

Yes. The app generates PDF reports for a chosen period — seven days, thirty days or a custom range — with symptom trends, severity by time of day, tolerated foods, likely aggravators, medication history and hydration. You can print it or send it through your phone's share sheet before an appointment. Every report says on it that it is educational support, not medical advice.

Does it sync with Apple Health or Health Connect?

Yes, optionally. When you turn Health sync on in Settings, the app reads weight, sleep, water and steps so reports reflect what you already track, and writes the weight and hydration you log back to Health. Nothing else is requested, and the permission prompt only appears when you enable the toggle.

Is my health data private?

Your entries are stored in your own account and are never sold or shared with advertisers. The community uses pseudonymous handles by default. You can export everything you have logged, and you can delete your account and all of its data from inside the app at any time.

Is this medical advice?

No. Crohn's Food Tracker is a self-tracking and educational tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or prescribe. Use what you learn from it as a starting point for a conversation with your gastroenterologist or IBD nurse, and seek urgent care for red-flag symptoms such as severe pain, persistent bleeding, high fever or signs of obstruction.

Which phones does it run on?

iPhone and iPad on iOS 15.1 or later, and Android phones on Android 8.0 (API 26) or later. The same account works on both.

Your next GI visit is coming. Show up with data.

Start logging today. In a week the app hands you your first trigger report, free.

Onboarding screen: 'Walk into your GI visit with proof. One-tap reports your doctor will actually read.'