My IBD Tracker

Apple Watch companion app, experimental environmental tracking, active phase charts, simplified home and settings — your IBD tracker just got a lot more useful.

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

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, and location-based pressure data • 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, and an exploratory environmental signals section, 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 directly • Apple Watch companion app for wrist logging on the go • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — Quick Log for instant access, 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 in Settings

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. These are not clinically established triggers and the feature is clearly marked as exploratory throughout the app and in reports. It's 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.