My IBD Tracker
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Description
Living with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis means paying attention to a lot of moving parts — what you ate, how you slept, where you were, how stressed you felt, and whether any of it seemed to matter. My IBD Tracker gives you one calm, organised place to capture all of it, and the tools to start spotting what's actually going on.
I built this app because I have ulcerative colitis and needed something that tracked the right things without getting in the way. Every feature comes from real experience of managing IBD day to day. Personally, I only log new meals, snacks or drinks rather than every single one — but the app supports whatever approach works for you, including saving favourites and quickly reusing recent entries.
What you can track
Bowel movements — stool consistency on the Bristol scale, urgency, and blood indication
Cramps — pain level (1–5), location (left, centre, right), and optional duration
Meals, snacks and drinks — with fully customisable trigger lists so you can flag whatever you suspect; define favourites and quickly reuse recent entries
Daily check-in — day type, location, stress level, energy level, and activity impact
Environmental signals (experimental) — optional barometric pressure and temperature capture, for investigating potential correlations with your symptoms
Sleep and heart rate (new) — Apple Health sleep duration, wake events, resting heart rate and HRV, pulled in automatically for extra context alongside your symptoms
On your Apple Watch
Log bowel movements and cramps from your wrist — quick, discreet, and synced straight back to the app.
How it helps you understand your data
History — every event for a day on one scrollable timeline, with your check-in summary at the top
Patterns — symptom trends across 7, 30 or 90 days, with active phase threshold line, energy and stress overlays, location-based pressure data, and now sleep and heart rate charts mapped against your active phases
Trigger breakdown — compare bowel movements and cramps by day type, location and food trigger — same day and next day
Reports — a clinical PDF covering bowel movements, cramps, stress, energy, an exploratory environmental signals section, and sleep analysis and heart metrics sections, ready to share with your consultant
Designed for real use
One-tap logging from the home screen — each tile shows your last entry and opens the log form
Apple Watch companion app for wrist logging on the go
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — Quick Log and a Today's Summary widget showing your current status
Works without an internet connection
Fully customisable trigger lists, favourite meals and drinks, locations and day types
Active phase threshold you set yourself
I built this for myself first, with full control to customise trigger lists, defaults and categories to match real life. If something's missing, confusing, or could work better for you, I genuinely want to hear about it — this app grows from real feedback, not guesswork. And if it's helped you make sense of your IBD, a review means a lot and helps other people managing the same thing find it too.
A note on the experimental features
The environmental tracking (pressure and temperature) is based on reading research articles exploring possible links with IBD flares. Sleep and heart rate data from Apple Health are included for broader lifestyle and recovery context, not to assess health status or explain IBD activity. None of these are clinically established triggers, and each is clearly marked as exploratory throughout the app and in reports. Apple Health data is read for on-device analysis only — nothing is written back to Health. It's all there for you to investigate your own patterns — not to replace clinical advice.
Important
This app is intended solely as a personal tracking and communication aid. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or emergency assessment. Always consult your clinical team about your symptoms and treatment.