We IBD
A calm, private journal to track your food, symptoms and flares when you live with an inflammatory bowel disease — Crohn's, ulcerative colitis or IBS. See when things go off track, get a clearer sense of why, and walk into your next consultation with an objective report instead of a foggy memory. Everything stays on your iPhone.
🚧 We IBD is in the final stages of development — it launches here first.
Five years ago, I was diagnosed with IBD (inflammatory bowel disease). Like a lot of people, that diagnosis came as a real shock. From one day to the next, I found myself with more questions than answers.
Even though the diagnosis was hard to accept, the illness wasn't entirely unfamiliar to me. That was when I remembered my Grandma and all the little bits of care she put into what she ate. I can still picture her carefully peeling her tomatoes and taking out the seeds. As a child, I didn't understand why she did it. It was only many years later that I realised those small habits were simply part of her daily life, her way of trying to live better with the illness.
At first, you look for answers everywhere. With every flare-up, you wonder what set it off. Was it that meal? That drink shared with friends? Stress? A bad night's sleep? You go back over everything you did, trying to find an explanation.
And then, almost without noticing, the guilt sets in. You start to fear certain foods. You hesitate before going out to a restaurant. Sometimes you turn down an invitation because you don't know how your body will react. You read articles, you listen to everyone's advice, you try different approaches... and despite all your efforts, the symptoms sometimes come back for no obvious reason.
Over time, I understood that there is no miracle cure. Every case of IBD is different. What works for one person won't necessarily work for another.
But I also understood that it's often small, almost trivial habits that can make the difference. Like my Grandma's careful gestures, each of us gradually learns which foods we tolerate better, which are best avoided during certain periods, and the impact that stress, sleep or fatigue can have. That path takes time, patience and a lot of listening to yourself.
But memory has its limits. Between two appointments, the weeks go by. You forget when the symptoms started. You no longer remember exactly what you ate or what happened in the preceding days. And yet it's often those small details that help you understand your illness better.
We IBD was born out of that experience. I wanted to create the app I would have loved to have from the start. A simple place to note your meals, your symptoms, your sleep, your stress level, your energy, or simply how you feel. Not to find immediate answers, but to step back. Because over the weeks and months, you sometimes start to see habits, connections or triggers appear that you would never have noticed otherwise.
We IBD is not meant to replace a doctor or to make diagnoses. Its purpose is to help you better understand your own journey and to have a clear history you can share with your gastroenterologist if you wish.
Privacy was essential to me. Living with a chronic illness is personal enough already. That's why your data stays on your device. No account to create, no cloud storage, no advertising based on your health information. It's simply yours.
Today, I too am still learning to live with my IBD. I don't have all the answers, and I don't think anyone does. But I've learned that you shouldn't try to control everything. You have to learn to listen to your body, accept that every journey is unique, and move forward one day at a time.
If you recognise yourself in these few lines, then I hope We IBD can be there for you. Because at heart, this app was born from the same thing as your journey: the wish to understand your illness better, so you can live with it rather than against it.
— Werner Masseglia
Founder of Wewe apps
The things that actually come up in a consultation — logged in seconds, from your iPhone or Apple Watch.
Frequency, the Bristol scale, blood, urgency and night-time episodes — the everyday signals that matter, captured without fuss.
Log what you eat and let the app surface your personal patterns with simple traffic-lights — 🟢 fine, 🟡 sometimes, 🟠 often, 🔴 always an issue.
Abdominal pain, fatigue, stress and sleep — the context that explains a rough day as much as the food does.
Keep a simple record of weight and of when you take your treatment, so nothing gets lost between visits.
Mark the start and end of a flare, its severity and suspected triggers — and watch how remission builds back up over time.
Note key values like CRP and faecal calprotectin so your trend lines tell the whole story, not just how you felt.
The whole point: turning weeks of small notes into one clear picture for your doctor.
Generate a clean, shareable summary (PDF) of your period — symptoms, food, flares and trends — built only from what you logged. No invented content, nothing embellished.
A single, continuously-updated view of how you're doing, drawing on recognised self-observation frameworks (Bristol, and disease-activity indices) — as a tracking aid, never a diagnosis.
Keep a running list of what you want to ask, and note the answers afterwards — so each appointment picks up where the last one left off.
Your health is nobody's business but yours. We IBD keeps everything on your device, in an encrypted store: no backend, no telemetry, no data collection. You decide, purpose by purpose, what the app may use — and you can withdraw any consent, or erase everything, just as easily. Lock the app behind Face ID / Touch ID. Optional iCloud sync uses only your own iCloud to reach your other devices. Ads in the free tier are kept strictly separate from your health data.
🔒 On-device · 🔐 Encrypted · 🙅 No account · 📄 Reports you own
The essentials before We IBD arrives.
Yes. Everything you log stays on your device in an encrypted store, and nothing is sent to any server of ours — no backend, no telemetry, no data collection. Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID, and erase all your data at any time from within the app.
No. We IBD is a personal self-tracking journal, not a medical device, and it does not diagnose or replace medical advice. Its indicators use recognised self-observation frameworks to help you spot patterns and prepare your consultation — always discuss any concern with your doctor.
People living with Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis or IBS — or anyone who simply wants to track digestive symptoms. You pick a tracking profile at the start and the app adapts its reference frameworks and tone.
No health or symptom data leaves your iPhone. Optional iCloud sync travels only through your own encrypted iCloud to your other Apple devices — never our servers. In the free tier, ads and anonymous crash diagnostics stay strictly isolated from your health data.
We IBD is in the final stages of development and will launch on the App Store — it appears here first. Check back soon, or get in touch if you'd like to hear when it's ready.