Bowelle - The IBS tracker

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1. ★★★★★subscription disappoints on price and terms

   Not worth the price. Careful with the subscription service . Three years ago this would have been a one time reasonable fee. Realized this was a subscription way too late

2. ★★★★★free version lacks features and customization

   Promises. Promises. Nothing ever changes. Ever. No progress. No updates. Just take my money and do nothing to earn it. I have asked repeatedly for the ability to scroll back on a graph instead of choosing 180 days and hoping to be able to click on a certain day. I have been told they will be implementing this in an update. I have been told that over and over for months. It is never implemented. Seeing the entire graph at once I basically useless. Contacting the developer is also, it seems, basically useless. They promise and do not deliver. A thirty, ninety and 180-day graph is nice, but essentially useless. IMPLEMENT SCROLLING!!! It cannot be all that hard. It might be time to switch to a different app. I am tired of the lack of response.

3. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and data loss

   Glitchy. Shuts down for no reason when in the middle of adding data

4. ★★★★★simple, easy daily tracker

   Too pretty to be useful. The graphs/ data is simplified so far (e.g. not even axis labels on compound views) that it’s impossible to glean any insights from the data.

5. ★★★★★subscription disappoints on price and terms

   Not worth the money. All this app does is track in a fancy way. You can do the same thing in any app or the apple notes. Not worth paying any money for

6. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and data loss

   New phone no data. I got a new phone. Wanted to track data. Everything should be connected to your apple account, right? lol, nope. I see no point in keeping this if its usefulness is illusory at best. Data should be easily transferable but I guess they wanted to paywall that.

7. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and data loss

   Upgrade keeps crashing. I keep trying to add to notes and every attempt has failed. What do I do?

8. ★★★★★subscription disappoints on price and terms

   Doesn’t actually track food. You have to type everything in so there is no direct connection between what you ate and the response. What a waste of money

9. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and data loss

   Bowelle. I started app on iPad and wanted to sync to iPhone but it stops at 67%• I have enough storage. I have deleted app and reinstalled. I have searched the web for help but no luck. Unfortunately I have purchased a subscription and cannot cancel for a year.

10. ★★★★★subscription disappoints on price and terms

    Wants to sell upgrade immediately. I decided to try this app so that I could track food intake as well as several other things to help me control IBS. Started to set up app. First, it only asks how you feel and the options are 5 different smiley faces. No room for explanation as to what other health issues or things going on which are determining your mood. When I added the first custom field, easy, but I found out that you cannot add even a second custom field without upgrading to premium. Misleading advertising because it says you can have custom fields (with an “s”), when only one is allowed. One custom field is not enough as there are many things(fields) that one should be tracking to help with their IBS. The premium wouldn’t be so bad if it was once and done. But it is yearly. I really don’t want to pay yearly. That gets too costly.

11. ★★★★★subscription disappoints on price and terms

    deleted it. misleading about features and sneaky about billing

12. ★★★★★simple, easy daily tracker

    meh. not what i expected. doesn't change meals or days easily. inflexible design.

13. ★★★★★simple, easy daily tracker

    Tracker. Does not track all information.

14. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and data loss

    Bug!. Hi, The export feature isn’t working. In particular, I’m unable to press the “send” button because it’s not changing to a blue indicating that all forwards have been complete. We have the premium version of the app. In fact I couldn’t send the bug report within the app either. Ramya

15. ★★★★★simple, easy daily tracker

    Super overrated app. Not much to this app... Kind of a joke really. Much better apps out there...i am flushing this one

16. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and data loss

    Freezesr. I have been having problems with the app freezing when I add a new symptom to the list. The first time it happened I uninstalled and re-installed it & it worked for another month or so. Then it did it again. When I uninstalled it this time, it would not re-install. Now I have to open it directly from the App Store! And today it froze again. Now it is useless. Yes, this is the paid version - beware!

17. ★★★★★spots trigger foods and patterns

    IBS issues. This application is good since it helps me see my triggers and helps me better choices…

18. ★★★★★spots trigger foods and patterns

    It’s a good database, but not much more. I find the app easy to use. It is well laid out, easy to navigate and easy to add custom fields/tags. The reports do a good job laying everything out, however I expected a bit more ‘intelligence’ from the app. I was looking for some sort of correlations listed for types of food eaten and times and how they line up with my BMs and the details of the BMs. I’m sure we are all different, however my triggers are not immediate. I’m finding that they are often from the day before, or at least a meal or two before. The app lays all of your inputs out nice and neat, however you have to do your own sleuthing to figure out triggers and timings. Maybe my expectations were just too high.

19. ★★★★★simple, easy daily tracker

    Please fix these issues. 1. Everywhere you show the date, please show the day of week as well. I forget to enter things sometimes. When I go back to fix things up, I think of the day of week, not the date. 2. In History, all entries with times should be shown in time order and not separated by category - BMs and food should be listed all together. This would make it easier to see if what’s eaten is having an effect on BMs 3. If you use the time control to enter a time for meals, the text afterward is smaller than it should be. You have to close that entry and reopen it to see the normal size text.

20. ★★★★★free version lacks features and customization

    Good app policies, lacking features. The app can be used without needing to create an account, which is good, but it lacks many features needed to keep up with symptoms and health. There is no diary or way to enter medications you’ve taken, or to log additional info. You can create a custom field, but I don’t use an app to have to do the work myself.

21. ★★★★★simple, easy daily tracker

    Please make it possible to save multiple profiles!. I love this app. It’s the only all in one app I’ve found (I had 2 different apps before this one for BM tracker and food journal). With this app, I can put it all in one place. Would be super helpful to have multiple profiles (even if just offered with a subscription). I have Crohn’s and for the first time my daughter is experiencing the same symptoms but I have to download 2 other apps to keep track of her so adding multiple profiles would really help households with IBS/IBD.

22. ★★★★★simple, easy daily tracker

    Portability. Portability could be better if it could link devices. I work with my iPad at home, it’s easy to see and type on. iPhone at work, Iwatch all the time.

23. ★★★★★free version lacks features and customization

    Could add a few things. Could add a few things to make it better. But very helpful and easy to use. I use it every time I go to the bathroom and whenever I eat and it just takes a few seconds to a minute to do. Very good

24. ★★★★★simple, easy daily tracker

    Good. Nice app ,but have no attraction element

25. ★★★★★simple, easy daily tracker

    Helpful. This app one of my most frequently used. I track things from the moment I get up to before I go to bed. The support staff are really great!

26. ★★★★★subscription disappoints on price and terms

    Needs a notes field/premium sub is bad. Either allow notes or a lifetime premium purchase. Shouldn’t be sub based.

27. ★★★★★simple, easy daily tracker

    Buggy now. Latest version doesn’t display movements in portrait mode and in landscape mode reports them as steps! One can no longer add data for a previous day.

28. ★★★★★free version lacks features and customization

    Almost everything you need. Where the app exceeds: The design is very intuitive and easy to start using immediately Standard categories are useful and well designed for tracking. The overlapping chart is helpful in comparing effects of categories with each other. The reports look really good when generated from the day to day data. The ability to create and add categories allows for some customization, and more detailed tracking. Where the app falls short: Tracking how individual foods effect your gut - You can pick how you are feeling for the day, however you cannot pick after each meal or each item you ate. The meal section is in narrative form so you can write in how that meal affected you, but it won’t show as well on the report. Multiple Med doses - you can create a Med tab and select meds taken that day. However, if you have a Med you need to take multiple times a day, you will need to make it a narrative format instead of just a tag. Again this will not look as tidy on the report. Lack of time tracking - Some categories will track time. Such as time of BMs, but tracking how you feel through the day, or how long after a meal you start to feel worse or better is not easy to do in this app. Creating detailed categories - category names can only be 10 caricatures long. So if you are trying to solve the problem of tracking how you feel after each meal, you can’t title the category “after breakfast effects”. Conclusion: All in all a beautifully designed app and easy to use, however if you are really trying to narrow down a specific food and how it affects your gut and how long it takes to affect your gut, and where in your gut it hurts and for how long etc. This app will leave you wanting for more. After using this app for an initial trial I found myself back in the App Store looking for a more detailed bowel tracking app. I really hope the developers keep working on this app to improve it, as i would love to continue to use it. I just need the ability to drill down a little deeper than this app is capable right now.

29. ★★★★★free version lacks features and customization

    Helpful for IBS tracking. I’ve used this app religiously for a few mi thx to help track my IBS. It’s solid but it needs a few things. I need more options for stool amount (like 2 more), and definite could use an option for notes on each record! I need to be able to describe my stool to adequately track my movements

30. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and data loss

    I want to like this. but there appears to be a glitch where it’s stuck in a confusion between landscape & portrait and I can’t see or access the buttons fully. It won’t let me scroll down to see more. I’ll try deleting & reuploading, but I wonder if I’m the only one experiencing this…