Bearable vs Fodmi: which tracker for IBS?

Bearable is a broad health tracker: you log symptoms, mood, sleep, medication, food and more, and it shows what correlates with feeling worse. It covers many conditions, IBS among them. Fodmi is built only for the low FODMAP diet: photograph your plate, see the meal’s FODMAPs across the six groups, and check in a few hours later on how it sat. If your symptoms seem tied to many things at once, such as stress, sleep or your cycle, Bearable casts a wider net. If you suspect food and want each meal’s FODMAPs worked out for you, Fodmi does that, and Bearable doesn’t.

We make Fodmi, so take our view with that in mind. Everything below about Bearable comes from its US App Store listing, which we read on 28 October 2026. Listings and prices change; check the current one before you decide. Fodmi is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bearable.

Side by side

	Fodmi	Bearable
Best for	Finding which meals and FODMAPs trigger your gut	Tracking many symptoms and habits across conditions
Logging food	Photo, voice or text; barcode or label photos for packaged food	Food is one of many things you can log
FODMAP content	Each meal across the six groups; more than 900 foods with the amount where each stays low	Its listing doesn’t mention FODMAPs
Symptoms	A check-in a few hours after each meal, with the Bristol stool scale	Fully customisable: symptoms, pain, mood, energy, sleep, medication and more
Finding patterns	Weekly trends of how meals sat	Correlations between symptoms and sleep, food, weather, stress, medication and habits
Other data	—	Steps, sleep and heart rate from Apple Health and Fitbit
Report for your doctor	PDF report	Reports and secure export
Devices	iPhone	iPhone and iPad
Price	Free download, full access by subscription	Free, with in-app purchases ($4.49 to $49.99 on its listing)

What Bearable does

Bearable’s listing describes a symptom tracker for working out what makes your symptoms better or worse. You rate how you feel and log whatever matters to you: symptoms, pain, migraine, mood, energy, stress, sleep, medication, exercise and diet. It then shows the correlations between your symptoms and everything else you log, and turns months of entries into reports.

It’s used for many conditions, including chronic pain, migraine, mental health, PoTS, ME/CFS and cycle-related symptoms. For gut problems, its listing describes logging digestive symptoms, food and bathroom habits to find which foods are behind IBS or GERD flare-ups. It syncs steps, sleep and heart rate from Apple Health and Fitbit, and says it never sells your data.

Its listing doesn’t mention FODMAPs, so it can tell you that a day with pasta went badly, but not that the pasta, garlic bread and apple together added up to a lot of fructans.

What Fodmi does

Fodmi starts from the meal on your plate. Take a photo, say what you ate, or type it. Fodmi picks out the ingredients, including hidden garlic and onion, and shows the whole meal across the six FODMAP groups, because FODMAPs from different foods add up. A few hours later it asks how the meal sat, so over a few weeks you can see which foods line up with bad days. You get weekly trends and a PDF report for your doctor or dietitian, you can look up more than 900 foods with the amount where each stays low (see the food list), and it scans packaged food by barcode or label.

What it doesn’t do: it doesn’t track mood, sleep, medication or other conditions, and it’s iPhone only. How Fodmi works out its answers.

Which should you pick?

• Following the low FODMAP diet, or suspect food is the main trigger? Fodmi.
• Have several conditions, or think stress, sleep or your cycle play a big part? Bearable tracks all of them.
• Want to know what’s in a meal, not just how you felt after it? Fodmi.
• Want your Apple Health or Fitbit data alongside symptoms? Bearable.

The two can run side by side: Bearable for the wider picture, Fodmi for meals and FODMAPs. For other diaries, see alternatives to mySymptoms, and for the diet itself, our guide to the low FODMAP diet.

Frequently asked questions

Does Bearable know which foods are high FODMAP?

Its listing doesn’t mention FODMAPs. It looks for correlations between what you log, including food, and how you feel. Fodmi works out the FODMAPs in each meal for you.

Can Bearable help with IBS?

Its listing lists IBS among the ways people use it, and describes logging digestive symptoms, food and bathroom habits to see which foods line up with flare-ups. It doesn’t tell you what’s in a food.

Is Bearable free?

It’s free to download, with in-app purchases; its US listing shows prices from $4.49 to $49.99. Fodmi is a free download with full access by subscription.

Can I use Bearable and Fodmi together?

Yes. Some people track mood, sleep and medication in Bearable and use Fodmi for meals and FODMAPs, which Bearable doesn’t cover.