Answers to common questions about Gutsy, the iPhone app that uses AI and your personal gut transit time to help find IBS food triggers.
Gutsy is an iPhone app that helps people with IBS find their personal food triggers. You log meals, symptoms, stool, water, supplements, stress and mood, and Gutsy uses AI to link each symptom back to the meal most likely behind it. It also includes a low FODMAP database, structured reintroduction challenges, a daily wellness score and doctor-ready PDF reports. Core tracking is free to download.
Gutsy finds likely IBS triggers by matching your symptoms to meals eaten earlier, not just your last meal. Food can take roughly 6 to 72 hours to move through the gut, and that timing differs by person. Gutsy learns your personal transit time from your logs, analyzes a 48-hour symptom window, and surfaces likely trigger foods with confidence levels and the symptoms most often linked to each one.
Delayed IBS symptoms are common because many trigger foods, especially FODMAPs, cause gas and bloating once they reach the large intestine, often 4 hours or more after eating. Whole gut transit in healthy adults usually takes about a day or longer, so the meal you just ate is often not the one to blame. Tracking timing over several weeks helps reveal the real pattern.
Yes, Gutsy supports the low FODMAP approach. It includes a FODMAP database of 100+ ingredients across all 5 FODMAP groups, classifies photographed meals and scanned barcodes by FODMAP group, and offers structured 3-day reintroduction challenges with graduated portions. Gutsy is designed to help you learn which FODMAPs and foods affect you personally, rather than avoiding every high FODMAP food long term.
In Gutsy you can log meals, symptoms, stool using Bristol types 1 to 7, water, supplements, stress and mood. Meals can be logged by snapping a photo, uploading from your library, scanning a barcode, or saving meals you eat often for one-tap logging. You can also edit a meal's foods after logging it, and add entries for previous days if you forgot to log at the time.
Yes. Gutsy lets you track the supplements you take, including weekly-cadence compounds such as GLP-1 medications, and shows what changes on the days you take them, such as symptom load, sleep and stress. This helps you see whether a supplement like psyllium or peppermint oil lines up with better or worse gut days for you, so you can discuss it with your doctor.
Many users see first insights within the first week, and Gutsy sends a weekly report after 7 days of logging. Stronger trigger patterns usually need more data, which is why Gutsy is built around a 6-week Trigger Program. Logging consistently, including every meal and every symptom, gives the most reliable results. Timing varies from person to person.
The 6-Week Trigger Program is a guided plan inside Gutsy Premium. You use Gutsy daily for 6 weeks with the goal of surfacing at least one of your food triggers. It moves from tracking to elimination and reintroduction at a day-by-day pace. If the program does not surface a trigger, the Gutsy team says it will personally support your refund request through Apple.
Gutsy is free to download with core tracking. Gutsy Premium unlocks AI chat, trigger detection, camera analysis, reintroduction guides, weekly reports and the 6-Week Trigger Program. Premium includes a 7-day free trial, then $149.99 a year for the annual plan (about $12.50 a month) or $19.99 a month for the monthly plan. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID subscription settings.
Yes, Gutsy is currently available for iPhone only, through the Apple App Store. It requires iOS 18.0 or later. An Android version is coming soon, but there is no confirmed release date yet. Gutsy integrates with Apple Health to sync heart rate, HRV, sleep, exercise and steps, and correlate them with your gut symptoms.
Yes. Gutsy creates doctor-ready PDF reports with a per-ingredient FODMAP breakdown, symptom summary, stool patterns and pattern alerts, for 30 days, 90 days, six months or all time. You can share a report with your provider in one tap. You can also export all of your data as CSV or JSON.
Yes. Your health logs, including meals, symptoms, stool, medications and Apple Health data, are stored on your iPhone, and Gutsy never sells your data. Some data does leave your device: with your consent, photos and text you send to AI features are analyzed by OpenAI and not kept afterwards; usage analytics, including the diagnoses and symptoms you enter during onboarding, are sent to Mixpanel under a pseudonymous ID; and AI chat transcripts are stored to improve answers unless you turn that off in Settings. Gutsy does not require you to share data publicly, and you can export your full data at any time. Read the full privacy policy.
No. Gutsy is a tracking and pattern-finding tool, not a medical device, and it does not diagnose or treat IBS or any other condition. Its insights are meant to help you and your doctor or dietitian have a more informed conversation. Always talk to a healthcare professional before changing your diet, supplements or medications, and seek care for red-flag symptoms like blood in stool or unexplained weight loss.
Gutsy is designed for IBS of all types, including IBS-C, IBS-D and IBS-M, and includes improved scoring for constipation-predominant patterns. It can also help people managing celiac disease, SIBO, Crohn's, GERD and common digestive sensitivities track food and symptoms. It does not replace care from your gastroenterologist for these conditions.
Gutsy was built by a couple, Sudjeev Singh and Anisha, who are Gutsy's co-founders. Sudjeev built the first version to help Anisha manage her IBS. Anisha then joined to improve the product and shape it into exactly the tool she had always wanted and needed. Gutsy continues to be shaped by feedback from the IBS community.
Gutsy links each symptom to the meal most likely behind it, using your own gut transit time.
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