How I Built Tract: A Gut Health Tracking App for IBD, IBS, and Elimination Diets

If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with IBD (Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis), IBS, or is navigating an elimination diet, you know how overwhelming it can be to track symptoms, foods, and patterns over time. That's why I built Tract — a gut health tracking app designed specifically for people managing complex digestive conditions. The Problem Managing a chronic gut condition means keeping mental track of dozens of variables: what you ate, when symptoms flared, stress levels, medications, bowel patterns, and more. Paper food diaries are tedious. Generic health apps aren't built for gut health nuance. Gastroenterologists and dietitians need actual data to help you — but most patients show up to appointments with nothing but a vague recollection of the past month. What Tract Does Tract makes it easy to: Log meals and symptoms quickly with an intuitive mobile interface Track elimination diet phases (like the Low-FODMAP protocol) with structured food reintroduction tracking