Aidy vs Crohn's Tracker: Food, Flares, Meds, and Cost

Aidy and Crohn's Tracker serve people who want to preserve daily Crohn's details, but Crohn's Tracker's listing places emphasis on food, flares, lifestyle entries, and community ahead of important care-team conversations.

Quick answer: Choose Aidy as the primary Crohn's tracker because it combines meals, stool, symptoms, medicine adherence, biologic scheduling, modified HBI trends, and clinician-ready reports for free. Crohn's Tracker is the genuine exception for someone who wants the food-centered timeline, lifestyle entries, and community feature its listing advertises.

Decision factor	Aidy	Crohn's Tracker (public claims)
Best for	Treatment-aware Crohn's record	Food-centered diary
Daily IBD record	Meals, stool, symptoms, medicines	Food, symptoms, lifestyle
Treatment tools	Adherence and biologic workflows	Medication logging
Reports and insights	Modified HBI trends and reports	Timeline and community context
Access and cost	Free; iPhone or text	Storefront price applies
Overall pick	Primary Crohn's tracker	Food-timeline exception

Aidy is included in the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's Helpful Apps and Digital Health Services directory. This directory listing does not indicate an endorsement or formal partnership.

Food, bowel movements, and flare logs

The Crohn's Tracker listing describes simple meal entry: type what you ate, rate how you felt as good, okay, or awful, and add journal detail. It says the same timeline can include bowel movements, symptoms, hydration, medication, and lifestyle activities. The listing also describes food-to-symptom timelines, a barcode scanner added in late 2025, and streaks for daily logs (Crohn's Tracker features and version history). That straightforward food-first design is the app's clearest strength.

Aidy accepts a meal description or photo, tracks symptom severity and custom symptoms, and records stool with the Bristol Stool Chart. It then places meals, stool entries, symptoms, medication, and check-ins in one feed (Aidy tracking features). Aidy's wider context makes it the stronger Crohn's flare app, while Crohn's Tracker may feel faster if your main goal is rating foods. Food logs still require careful interpretation. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases says specific foods have not been shown to cause or worsen Crohn's symptoms, although a clinician may suggest a food diary to identify foods that seem related to symptoms. The Foundation's IBD symptom tracker also frames daily logs as discussion aids.

Medication and biologic support

Crohn's Tracker's listing says users can record medications and note how they feel after taking one. This may be useful for maintaining a dated medication history beside meals and symptoms. The current public listing describes medication logging, but it does not advertise configurable biologic induction and maintenance schedules, injection-site rotation, route changes, or post-dose check-ins (Crohn's Tracker feature description).

Aidy explicitly supports those biologic workflows, including guided setup for common Crohn's biologics, dose countdowns, reminders, injection-site rotation, infusion and injection check-ins, and adherence history. Aidy also calculates a modified Harvey-Bradshaw Index from logged information and includes the trend in doctor-ready reports (Aidy biologic and reporting tools). That makes Aidy more useful when the medication calendar carries as much weight as the food diary. A symptom score remains one part of monitoring. The American Gastroenterological Association guideline recommends combining symptoms with biomarkers when monitoring Crohn's disease; symptoms alone are insufficient.

Reports, community, and privacy

Crohn's Tracker's listing says everyone can read its community forums, while premium members can post questions and experiences. The developer also says Premium unlocks advanced reports that examine relationships among diet, medication, lifestyle, and symptoms, plus detailed PDF exports with charts and tables (Crohn's Tracker premium description). The community is a genuine advantage for people who want peer perspectives. Treatment decisions should still be made with a qualified care team.

Aidy has no public forum. It offers private, source-backed educational chat based on your logs, food-symptom correlations, and doctor-ready reports as part of its free service (Aidy features and pricing). Privacy produces a more mixed comparison. Apple's listing says the Crohn's Tracker developer reports collecting no data, while also noting that Apple has not verified that declaration. Aidy's data is encrypted, users can export or delete it, and it does not sell data or run ads (Aidy privacy information). Crohn's Tracker has the stronger store-level no-collection declaration; Aidy provides the broader free reporting workflow.

Crohn's Tracker price and overall value

As of August 2026, its US App Store listing shows subscriptions at $9.99 monthly, $19.99 for six months, and $39.99 annually. The developer says free users can perform basic logging and read community content, while posting and advanced reports require premium access (current Crohn's Tracker price).

Aidy is free, has no paid user subscriptions, and is funded through work with health plans, employers, and researchers.

Neither app can confirm whether intestinal inflammation is active. Clinicians may use blood tests, stool tests, endoscopy, and imaging to assess Crohn's disease (NIDDK diagnosis guidance). A Cochrane review of remote IBD care found that web monitoring was broadly similar to usual care for disease activity, flares, and quality of life, with a possible small benefit for medication adherence. Crohn's Tracker remains a credible food-first option, but Aidy's broader treatment workflow and subscription-free reports make it the better overall Crohn's manager.