Table 5.

Apps offering bowel motion tracking.

	Time	Consistency	Urgency	Blood	Mucous
Colitis Diary	Date and time	Multiple checkboxes (7 options)	Checkbox	Checkbox (“bloody stool”)	Checkbox (“mucus with stool”)	Blood and mucus are under “consistency”
Colitis Ulcerativa Manager	—	5-point scale (water, liquid, soft, normal, hard)	—	Checkbox (“blood within the stool”)	Checkbox (“slime within the stool”)	Can log defecation frequency per day
Crohn’s Diary	Date and time	Multiple checkboxes (7 options)	Checkbox	Checkbox (“bloody stool”)	Checkbox (“mucus with stool”)	Blood and mucus are under “consistency”
Crohn’s Disease Manager	—	5-point scale (water, liquid, soft, normal, hard)	—	Checkbox (“blood within the stool”)	Checkbox (“slime within the stool”)	Can log defecation frequency per day
GI Buddy	Date and time	3-point scale (formed, semi, liquid)	4-point scale (none, hurry, immediate, accident)	4-point scale (trace, blood, mucus, blood + mucus)	4-point scale (trace, blood, mucus, blood + mucus)	Blood and mucus are on same scale
GI Monitor	Date and time	3-point scale (solid, mixed, loose)	3-point scale (low, medium, high)	3-point scale (none, light, heavy)	—
myIBD	Date and 2-point scale (day, night)	10-point sliding scale	10-point sliding scale	10-point sliding scale	—
Poocount	Date and time	—	—	3-point scale (blood 0, blood +, blood ++)	—
Toilet diary	—	Checkbox (“diarrhea”)	Checkbox (“enormous pressure”)	Checkbox (“blood”)	Checkbox (“mucus”)