Plop learns what's normal for you — not population averages. Establish your personal baseline, track bowel movements and symptoms, and discover the patterns that matter to your health. Get insights your doctor can actually use.
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You're having 0.4 bowel movements per day this week, 73% lower than your typical 1.6 per day. This is a volume decrease (fewer entries per week).
Statistical analysis found an unusual pattern in your data.
People live with IBS globally
Of gut apps are abandoned in 30 days due to poor UX
More productive doctor visits with symptom logs
Tap to log each visit in under 10 seconds. Bristol Stool Scale, pain, urgency, color, and more.
Plop detects patterns automatically — connecting symptoms to foods, stress, and habits.
Export a clean PDF or CSV report. Hand it to your doctor at your next appointment.
Plop establishes your personal baseline and alerts you to meaningful changes. See visual trend analysis over 10+ interactive charts. Understand how specific triggers actually affect your health through correlation analysis.
Real-time analysis learns from your logging patterns. Over 2-3 weeks, meaningful patterns become visible. Track progress, celebrate improvements, and receive personalized insights based on your data—not generic health tips.
Generate monthly compiled insights in professional narrative format. Shareable summaries written in language healthcare providers understand. Export your data for sharing with doctors, keeping medical records, or personal reference.
Log your essential data in seconds with quick-tap entry. Optional rich documentation with photos and notes. Flexible tagging, dual view options (calendar or list), and edit historical entries without friction.
Local-first design means your data lives on your device by default. Optional cloud sync when you choose it. You decide what to log, what factors to track, and whether to share insights. No forced cloud dependency.
Seamlessly use Plop on iOS and Android with data syncing across devices. Free core experience with basic tracking. Premium subscription for advanced pattern detection and deeper correlation analysis.
Works completely offline. Cloud sync happens in the background without interrupting your experience. Advanced analysis runs efficiently on-device. Designed for long-term reliability—supporting years of accumulated health data.
Whether you're managing a chronic condition or just paying attention to your body — Plop helps you make sense of what's happening.
"I've been using Plop for 6 months to track my Crohn's flares. The pattern reports have genuinely changed my conversations with my gastroenterologist."
"I started on the paleo lifestyle and wanted to track what goes in and what comes out. Plop is well designed, easy to use, and makes me want to track."
"Finally a one-stop-shop for logging food and bowel movements. Using it for insights for myself and to share with my nutritionist."
From your first log to your first doctor-ready report — here's exactly what Plop does.
The Bristol Stool Scale is the internationally recognized clinical tool for classifying stool consistency, developed at the Bristol Royal Infirmary in 1997. It's used by gastroenterologists worldwide. Plop uses it as the foundation for every log.
Like nuts, hard to pass. Severe constipation.
Sausage-shaped but lumpy. Mild constipation.
Like a sausage but with cracks on surface. Normal.
Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft. Ideal morphology.
Soft blobs with clear-cut edges. Lacking dietary fiber.
Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, mushy. Mild diarrhea.
No solid pieces, entirely liquid. Severe diarrhea.
Select standard shape illustrations instantly.
Most gut issues don't announce their triggers. Plop quietly builds a picture of your gut over time — noticing that your worst symptoms tend to appear two days after high-stress periods, or that certain foods consistently precede bloating. You get clarity without having to analyze your own logs.
Plop automatically flags significant variance from your normal transit timeline.
Group and highlight specific occurrences that occur together repeatedly.
Correlates foods, medications, or high stress directly with physical flares.
Generate a clean PDF or CSV summary of your gut health history. Include trends, patterns, most common stool types, symptom frequency, and food correlations. Hand it to your gastroenterologist, GP, or dietitian — and arrive at appointments with data, not just memories.
Elegant charts, symptom frequencies, and custom variables mapped to the Bristol Scale. Easy to print or attachment-ready for medical files.
Raw data spreadsheets designed for deeper analysis by specialized nutritionists, clinical researchers, or your own tracking logs.
Nothing leaves your phone unless you specifically export it or opt in to cloud sync.
Your gut health is your personal clinical history. We never sell or license it to advertisers.
Sync securely across devices using end-to-end encryption on your own terms.
What gut health means, why it matters, and what your body is trying to tell you.
Gut health refers to the overall function and balance of your gastrointestinal system — the network of organs from your mouth to your rectum that digests food, absorbs nutrients, and expels waste. A healthy gut moves food through efficiently, produces well-formed stool (Bristol Stool Scale types 3–4), maintains a diverse microbiome, and causes minimal discomfort. Poor gut health can manifest as irregular bowel movements, chronic bloating, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, and many conditions beyond the gut itself.
The gut and brain are in constant two-way communication via the vagus nerve, a pathway known as the gut-brain axis. Stress increases gut inflammation, while anxiety can speed or slow digestive motility. This explains why functional disorders like IBS frequently flare during stressful periods, and why improving digestive patterns has such a clear, positive impact on overall mental well-being.
Feeling of fullness or distension, often caused by gas, food intolerances, or altered gut motility.
A sudden, intense need to use the bathroom; common in IBS-D and IBD flares.
Pain or spasms in the lower abdomen, often linked directly to impending bowel movements.
Significant changes in baseline speed, producing hard stool (types 1-2) or liquid stool (types 6-7).
Normal bowel movement frequency ranges from 3 times per day to 3 times per week. Normal stool consistency is Bristol Stool Scale types 3 or 4 — smooth, soft, easy to pass. Normal stool color is medium to dark brown. Variations within this range are common and not necessarily concerning — it's changes from your personal baseline that matter most.
Consult a healthcare provider immediately if you experience any of these "red flag" symptoms:
Most gut conditions are diagnosed through pattern recognition — what happens, when it happens, and what precedes it. Doctors rely on patient-reported history, but human memory is unreliable over weeks and months. A structured gut health log gives clinicians the data they need to identify conditions faster, adjust treatments, and measure whether interventions are working. It also gives patients agency — visible patterns make abstract symptoms concrete and actionable.
Know what triggers your flare-ups — before they happen. Log symptoms, track food, and arrive at every appointment with real data.
A functional gut disorder affecting how the intestines work. Characterized by abdominal pain, cramping, bloating, and altered bowel habits (diarrhea, constipation, or both). Affects approximately 10–15% of the global population. No permanent structural damage to the gut, but deeply disruptive to everyday life.
An umbrella term for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Involves chronic, progressive inflammation of the digestive tract, causing severe physical damage. Symptoms include painful flares, chronic diarrhea, abdominal cramping, fatigue, and sudden weight loss. Requires ongoing, professional specialist clinical care.
Food sensitivities, stress levels, medications, and hormonal shifts are hard to synthesize manually. Tracking reveals patterns your memory forgets.
Your doctor can make vastly superior clinical decisions when presented with a month of precise Bristol Scale and frequency data instead of vague recollections.
Instantly assess whether a new medication, dietary change, or low-FODMAP elimination protocol is physically resolving your baseline flares.
Monitor flares, log medications, and share structured reports with your specialist — all from one app.
Can affect any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus. Typically involves patchy inflammation with healthy segments of tissue in between. Symptoms commonly include chronic diarrhea, severe pain, fatigue, and sudden weight loss. May lead to strictures, fistulas, or deep abscesses over time.
Strictly limited to the large intestine (colon and rectum). Features continuous areas of inflammation on the inner lining. Core symptoms include painful bloody stools, sudden rectal urgency, and abdominal cramping. Typically managed with targeted prescription anti-inflammatory drugs.
Flares are unpredictable but often have precursors — increased urgency, change in stool consistency, new abdominal pain, or fatigue. Consistent daily logging makes it possible to spot these warning signs early and contact your care team before a flare escalates.
Log biologics, steroids, aminosalicylates, and immunomodulators alongside physical symptoms to observe drug response objectively.
Plop can be used by caregivers tracking gut health for children, elderly parents, or family members — especially those who may not be able to self-report accurately during physical flares.
The clinical standard for classifying stool consistency — and what each type tells you about your digestive health.
The Bristol Stool Scale is a clinical diagnostic tool developed at the Bristol Royal Infirmary in the United Kingdom and first published in 1997 by Dr. Ken Heaton. It classifies human stool into seven distinct types based on shape and consistency, ranging from Type 1 (hard, separate lumps — indicating severe constipation) to Type 7 (entirely liquid — indicating severe diarrhea). The scale is used by gastroenterologists, general practitioners, dietitians, and researchers worldwide to standardize communication about bowel habits. It is also the foundation of many gut health tracking apps, including Plop.
Indicates: Severe constipation.
Common Causes: Dehydration, low dietary fiber, sedentary lifestyle, certain medications (opioids, iron supplements).
Action: Increase water and dietary fiber intake; if persistent beyond two weeks, consult a clinical specialist.
Indicates: Mild constipation.
Common Causes: Insufficient dietary fiber, low daily fluid intake.
Action: Simple dietary adjustments usually resolve; consult a clinical professional if symptoms persist.
Indicates: Normal (slightly firm). Falling fully within healthy bounds.
Action: Excellent transit; no intervention required unless accompanied by discomfort.
Indicates: Optimal gut transit. This is the absolute gold standard for overall digestive function.
Action: No action required. Maintain current lifestyle, diet, and hydration.
Indicates: Lacking fiber; approaching loose stools.
Common Causes: Low dietary fiber, rapid intestinal motility.
Action: Consider increasing prebiotic fiber and assessing overall meal composition.
Indicates: Mild diarrhea.
Common Causes: Food intolerance, acute stress, mild infection, IBS flare-ups.
Action: Prioritize daily hydration; monitor closely; consult a doctor if accompanied by chronic blood or fever.
Indicates: Severe diarrhea.
Common Causes: Infectious pathogens, severe IBD flare-ups, severe food poisoning, medication reactions.
Action: Prioritize rapid rehydration with electrolytes; seek medical attention if it persists more than 48 hours.
Normal bowel movement frequency ranges from three times per day to three times per week. A normal stool consistency is Bristol Stool Scale Type 3 or Type 4 — smooth, soft, and easy to pass without straining. Normal stool color is medium to dark brown, resulting from bile breakdown. Individual variation is common, and what matters most is consistency within your own baseline — significant changes from your usual pattern are more meaningful than any single reading.
Plop is built on the Bristol Stool Scale as its core logging framework. Every time you log in the app, you select your stool type from an illustrated Bristol Scale guide. Over time, Plop tracks your distribution across all seven types, highlights unusual deviations from your personal norm, and includes Bristol type data in all exported reports — so your doctor sees the same clinical classification they use in practice.
Plop gives your patients a structured way to track their gut health between visits — and gives you the reports to make those visits count.
Rather than trying to recall weeks of intermittent gut symptoms from memory in the exam room, patients utilizing Plop can share exact histories. Plop's structured reports make diagnostic triage and flare mapping vastly more efficient for GPs, gastroenterologists, and dietitians alike.
Plop's logging framework is based on the Bristol Stool Scale — the internationally recognized clinical tool for stool classification developed at the Bristol Royal Infirmary in 1997. All symptom categories in Plop align with standard gastroenterology intake questionnaires, making reported data immediately interpretable in a clinical context.
Parents tracking gut symptoms for children with IBS or constipation; adult children monitoring aging parents with digestive conditions; caregivers in residential or care home settings. Plop's simple logging interface works for anyone, and reports can be shared at any medical appointment.
Instruct your patient to search "Plop poop tracker" on the App Store or Google Play. It is completely free to install and immediately ready to log without any prior profile creation.
We believe your gut health information is deeply personal. Here's exactly how Plop handles it.
Your logs, symptoms, and history are stored on your device. Nothing is transmitted without your explicit choice.
Plop does not sell, license, or share your personal health data with advertisers, data brokers, or third parties. Ever.
Export your data. Delete your data. Disable cloud backup. Every data decision is yours to make.
On-device: all log entries (stool type, symptoms, foods, notes, dates), app settings, patterns detected locally.
Never collected: Plop does not require you to provide name, email, or physical location identifiers to start logging. There is no active third-party tracking sdk included in our core application build.
Optional cloud backups are encrypted. This enables secure synchronization if you decide to load your dataset on a separate secondary device. You can immediately wipe this cloud footprint from within your settings panel at any time.
When you generate reports, they are created locally on your physical processor. Plop never routes these documents to central storage. You own the exact delivery mechanism (AirDrop, secure chat, print).
Wiping your entire historical data set takes seconds:
Everything you need to know about tracking your gut health with Plop.