MyHealthyGut app

The MyHealthyGut app provides people with coeliac disease or gluten intolerance, and those who want to live gluten-free, with tools to manage and improve their digestive health. The app is divided into 5 main sections all with sub sections:

• Home – This is the home page that allows navigation to the safe food search, food and symptom tracker, therapeutic meal plans and recipes, healing foods and supplements, tips news and articles as well as a place to ask questions.
  Note that the questions open up a digestive health bot “Professor G” that asks what topics you want to learn about and then provides content in response.

• Plan – The plan section has a range of features to help you plan weekly meals that are satisfying as well as suitable for your gut condition. There's the option to search by recipe type or ingredient or access pre-set meal plans. There's further information on healing foods and healing supplements

• My Day – This section contains 2  tabs, one each for detailed food and symptom tracking. This includes options for adding food and/or recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. There's an optional notes section. Symptom tracking is in the second tab of this section with space to input stress levels, fatigue, abdominal pain and discomfort, bowel movements and any other symptoms or notes of relevance.

• Resources – This expansive section includes articles that provide supporting information on the gut, coeliac disease, gluten free diets, and extra sections with facts and news.

• Journey – This section provides a visual overview of your symptom tracking that can be viewed a week at a time. There's further colour coding for whether food logged is gluten free, contains gluten, cross-contamination or unverified foods. It allows a visual for seeing patterns of the food you eat with your symptoms.

There's a hamburger menu that's accessed through the 3 horizontal bars in the top right corner that provides extra tools such as a grocery list function, reminders, managing account and other background information about the app.

For the complete app description, go to iTunes(external link) , app website(external link) or, for a more detailed review, see reviews below.

Clinical review

Free version:

Paid version:

Reviewer: Nickie Hursthouse, Registered Dietitian
Date of review: July 2024
Platform: Apple
Version: 2.6.1
Comments: This app is useful for people wanting to learn how to follow a gluten free diet for coeliac disease and gluten intolerance. Both the free and paid versions allow you to track your symptoms, and provide educational content to help improve knowledge on gut health and safe foods for coeliac disease. For those needing it, the paid version is an affordable option that provides a greater level of support and guidance including a Q&A bot to assist if you have questions, as well as much more extensive food plans, recipes and tools to help practically implement and maintain a gluten free diet, while managing symptoms.
New Zealand relevance: Yes.

Clinical review

Free version:

Paid version:

Reviewer: Jeremy Steinberg, GP, FRNZCGP
Date of review: May 2019
Platform: Apple
Version: 1.0.8
Comments: This app is primarily designed for people with coeliac disease and gluten intolerance; however, it also has information about general gut health and irritable bowel syndrome. It's evidence based, extensively referenced and includes many very helpful tips on staying gluten free. The searchable food database is also very handy but it lacks barcode scanning. Free access gives you general gut education, recommended top 25 foods and 3 supplements, and a 1-day gluten free meal plan (4 recipes). The paid version (complete package) includes recommended top 50 foods and 10 supplements, a 7-day gluten free meal plan (24 recipes), a food and symptom tracker, a searchable safe-to-eat food database, and high quality information about ceoliac disease and gluten intolerance. 
Safety concerns: None.
New Zealand relevance: Imperial measurements are used.