Minthe vs Bearable
Choose Bearable if
- You track more than one condition, or an undiagnosed picture across several systems.
- You want to correlate mood, sleep, medication and pain alongside gut symptoms.
- You want a highly customisable tracker you can shape to your own symptom set.
- You use Android. Minthe is iPhone only.
- You want one app for everything rather than a specialist for each thing.
Choose Minthe if
- Your gut is the main event, not one row among twenty.
- You want FODMAP groups counted by dose, not by whether a tag was applied.
- You want delayed reactions handled properly, across several onset windows.
- You want the multiple-comparison problem corrected for, and the method published.
- You want a suspected trigger confirmed by a controlled test rather than flagged.
Where Bearable is genuinely better
- Breadth, and it is not close. Bearable covers migraine, chronic pain, fatigue, mood, medication, menstrual health and a long list of conditions Minthe does not touch. Gut symptoms rarely arrive alone, and for a complicated health picture one tracker that holds all of it beats a specialist that holds a fifth of it.
- Customisation. You can shape it to symptoms nobody anticipated. Minthe is opinionated about what it tracks, which is what makes the analysis possible and also what makes it inflexible.
- People genuinely love it. Its rating average is among the highest in this category, on a large review base. That is earned.
- Android, and a longer track record. Live since 2020, on both platforms.
The cost of tracking everything
This is the one real technical difference, and it is worth stating carefully because it is easy to turn into an unfair claim.
If you track forty factors and compare each against your symptoms, you are running forty statistical tests. At the usual 5% threshold, roughly two of them will look significant purely by chance even if nothing you track affects you at all. Track a hundred things and you are guaranteed a handful of confident-looking associations that mean nothing. This is the multiple-comparison problem, and it is not a criticism of any particular app, it is arithmetic that applies to every tool that offers correlations across many variables, including ours.
The difference is what you do about it. Minthe applies a Benjamini-Yekutieli false discovery rate correction, requires a minimum number of separate exposures, requires the confidence interval to exclude no effect, requires a real contrast against your own base rate, and then still calls the result a suspect rather than a trigger until a guided test confirms it. All of that is published. We could not find an equivalent description of Bearable’s method, which is why the row below says "not verified" rather than "no".
| Bearable | Minthe | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | General chronic-illness and symptom tracker | Gut-specific tracker with a statistical trigger engine |
| Conditions covered | Very broad: pain, migraine, fatigue, mood, PoTS, PCOS and more | Gut and the things that drive it |
| Platform | iPhone and Android | iPhone only. No Android, no web. |
| Free tier | Yes, with paid analysis features | Unlimited manual logging, free forever. Export included. |
| Customisation | Extensive. Build your own symptom set | Opinionated. Fixed gut-focused model |
| FODMAP handling | not verified | Six groups, counted by measured dose |
| Onset windows | not verified | Four: 0-2h, 2-6h, same day, next day. |
| Stool tracking | not verified | Bristol 1-7, urgency, incomplete evacuation, color flags. |
| Your own base rate | not verified | Yes. Every result is contrasted against your own base rate. |
| Statistical method | not verified | Published in full at /method. |
| Multiple-comparison correction | not verified | Yes. Benjamini-Yekutieli false discovery rate correction. |
| Unlogged days | not verified | Unlogged days treated as unknown, never as symptom-free. |
| Confirmation testing | not verified | Yes. Guided with-and-without trials with washout. |
| Lab test import | not verified | Manual entry plus GI-MAP import, with evidence tiering. |
| Track record | On the App Store since 2020, large user base | New in 2026. No long track record yet. |
Checked August 2026. "Not verified" means we could not confirm it from public sources, not that the feature is missing.
How to pick, in one question
Is your gut the problem, or one of the problems? If it is one of several, the tracker that holds the whole picture is worth more than the one with better gut statistics, because the connections you need might run between systems. If it is the problem, then the specialist machinery is the entire point, and a row in a general tracker will not get you there.
We would rather you used Bearable consistently than Minthe for nine days. The most common reason people never identify their triggers is not app choice, it is stopping in week two.
Comparing more widely? Bearable alternatives, if your gut has become the main problem.
Not comparing against Minthe? Bearable vs mySymptoms, with Minthe left out of the table.
Minthe is a wellness and self-tracking tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose or treat any condition and isn't a substitute for professional medical advice. If you have red-flag symptoms such as blood in your stool, unintentional weight loss, difficulty swallowing, persistent vomiting or a fever alongside gut symptoms, see a clinician rather than tracking them.
Frequently asked
Is Bearable good for IBS?
It is good for tracking IBS alongside everything else. Bearable is a general chronic-illness tracker used for migraine, pain, fatigue, mood, PoTS, PCOS and much more, and gut symptoms are one of many things it will record. If your health picture is broader than your gut, that breadth is a real advantage and Minthe cannot match it.
What does Minthe do that Bearable does not?
Minthe is gut-specific, which lets it do things a general tracker cannot justify building: FODMAP groups tracked by dose rather than by label, four separate onset windows because gut reactions are delayed and variable, Bristol stool typing, and a guided with-and-without trial to confirm a suspected trigger. It also publishes its statistical method, including the correction it applies for testing many foods at once.
Should I use both?
Usually not, and we would say that even though it costs us. Double logging is the fastest way to stop logging altogether, and adherence matters more than which app you chose. Pick the one that matches your main problem. If your gut is one symptom among several, that is Bearable. If your gut is the problem, that is what Minthe is built for.
Does Bearable correlate food with symptoms?
It offers correlation analysis across the factors you track, and users do apply it to food. We could not find a published description of the statistical method behind it, so we cannot tell you how it handles the multiple-comparison problem, and we are not going to assert that it handles it badly on the strength of not having found the documentation.
Which is better value?
Both let you log for free and charge for the analysis. Bearable is cheaper and covers more conditions. If you want one app for a complicated health picture, it is better value on any reading. Minthe is only better value if the gut question is the one you actually need answered.