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Gut health tracking with appointment reports, $4.8K MRR: built for patterns
FlareCare is a mobile gut-health tracker that organizes daily records and appointment reports for people managing digestive conditions. Its $4.8K MRR is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (RevenueCat), as of September 30, 2026.
What it actually sells
FlareCare is an iPhone and Android app for tracking gut health. People log bowel movements, Bristol Stool Scale type, food, symptoms, medication, stress, and labs in one place.
The stated audience includes people using FlareCare for IBS, IBD, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, food sensitivities, ostomy-friendly tracking, and sensitive digestion.
How it charges
The pages we read do not state a subscription price or other pricing details. The revenue profile lists active subscriptions, so the visible revenue model is subscription-based, but the product pages do not explain plan differences, billing intervals, or free features.
Month by month
Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.
| Month | Revenue (USD) |
|---|---|
| 2025-10 | $2,234 |
| 2025-11 | $2,052 |
| 2025-12 | $1,323 |
| 2026-01 | $1,774 |
| 2026-02 | $1,465 |
| 2026-03 | $1,730 |
| 2026-04 | $1,354 |
| 2026-05 | $2,636 |
| 2026-06 | $8,279 |
| 2026-07 | $6,140 |
| 2026-08 | $9,993 |
| 2026-09 | $8,920 |
Where customers come from
Visible site signals include an App Store app, gut health articles and guides under “From the Gut Guide,” and camera-based meal scanning. The founder’s listed growth channels include App store optimization, Blog, content marketing, SEO, Newsletter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, TikTok, X / Twitter, YouTube, Meta Ads, and TikTok Ads.
The founder lists these channels, while the website directly shows the app listing and editorial content.
What stands out
The product combines daily tracking with a structured report for a gastrointestinal appointment. Its feature list covers bowel movements, Bristol Stool Scale type, symptoms, meals, hydration, medication, stress, flare notes, lab results, and appointment reports.
Camera AI names meal ingredients and flags FODMAP trigger risk. FlareCare also creates a 30-day PDF report for the next appointment, giving users a concrete document beyond private tracking.
The App Store page shows a 4.5 rating. That is a visible product signal, not a claim about retention, revenue, or customer outcomes.
From the official site
People use FlareCare for IBS, IBD, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, food sensitivities, ostomy-friendly tracking, and sensitive digestion.
Camera AI names the ingredients and flags FODMAP trigger risk.
Bowel movements, Bristol Stool Scale type, symptoms, meals, hydration, medication, stress, flare notes, lab results, and appointment reports.
Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.
Where it sits in the data
FlareCare's $4.8K MRR is higher than 89% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Health & Fitness” category (505 projects) it is higher than 92% (category median $96). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.
Currency
All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.
Could you build something like this?
My view is that demand comes from people managing ongoing digestive symptoms who need a simple way to record daily details and bring them to an appointment. The buyer is a consumer, not a clinical software purchaser, so the product has to be understandable and useful outside a medical workflow.
Distribution would need to work through app-store search, health content, newsletters, social platforms, and paid promotion. The hard parts are health-data privacy, avoiding medical claims, keeping tracking easy, supporting users across iPhone and Android, and competing for attention in a crowded health and wellness market.
Verdict: Needs real work.
One thing to take from it
FlareCare turns a collection of daily gut-health records into a product with two clear use cases: spotting repeated timing and preparing a 30-day PDF report for an appointment. Its App Store presence, gut-health articles, and camera-based meal scanning form the visible product and distribution surface.
Sources
- FlareCare official website, fetched October 1, 2026
- TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (RevenueCat), as of September 30, 2026
Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure