Food, symptoms and reintroductions — finally connected.

Yes — Free is £0 indefinitely, not a trial with an end date. You can create a Free account today with no card required, and it stays free for as long as you use Gutward.

Account and profile setup, protocol tracking starting with AIP, your personal food statuses, meal/symptom/bowel logging, history, selected free recipes, and connecting to a professional — everything you need to keep and access your own records. See /pricing for the full list. During the current beta, every feature on the site is actually usable on a Free account, since Gutward+ entitlement gating isn't built yet — the Free/Plus split described here and on /pricing is the confirmed model for when Gutward+ launches.

Gutward's paid tier — live now — adding advanced weekly meal planning, shopping-list generation, guided trials, extended history, trends and reports, complete recipe access, unlimited saved meals and recipes, and enhanced personalisation. You upgrade from Settings inside the app.

£4.99/month for founding members, protected for as long as you keep your subscription continuously active — it isn't a lifetime price, and letting it lapse means rejoining later at the standard rate (£6.99/month).

Never without you choosing it. A Free account has no payment method attached and nothing that can charge you. Gutward+ is a paid subscription you start yourself, through Stripe checkout in Settings, with the price shown before you confirm — and once subscribed it renews monthly until you cancel, which you can do at any time (with a full refund if you cancel within 14 days of first subscribing).

Sponsored Plus lasts only while both the professional connection and the professional's own subscription stay active. When either ends, sponsored Plus ends too — you're never charged automatically, you keep your Gutward account, history and data, and you can continue on Free or choose personal Plus at the standard price. The entitlement machinery is built; sponsoring becomes available when paid professional subscriptions launch.

No. Ending a professional connection removes their ongoing access to your records — it doesn't delete your account, your history, or anything you've recorded. Deleting your entire Gutward account is a separate, deliberate action you take yourself in Settings.

No. A professional sees nothing about you until you explicitly accept their invitation, and they can never browse or search for Gutward users. You can revoke their access at any time from the app, which immediately ends their ability to view your records.

A clearer, structured, consent-based view of a connected client's food, symptoms, bowel patterns and food trials between appointments, plus appointments, weight check-ins, private practitioner notes and secure messaging. It doesn't replace their clinical judgement, their own clinical record, or emergency communication.

Professional plans include unlimited connected clients, subject to fair use — pricing is based on the number of professional users on the account, not the number of connected clients.

Not yet. Practice and Clinic pricing is published on /pricing for transparency, but both depend on multi-professional team roles and permissions that aren't built yet, so they can't be purchased today. Solo (one professional user) and the Design Partner pilot are the two ways to start now.

No. Gutward is not a monitoring system and must not be used for emergency or time-critical communication with a professional. If you're experiencing an urgent health concern, contact your IBD team, GP or emergency services directly.

No. Gutward helps organise information and follow structured tracking or food-reintroduction steps. It does not diagnose, recommend treatment or replace advice from a qualified healthcare professional.

Gutward is being built from lived experience of Crohn's disease, but the same problem — food, symptoms and reintroductions scattered across notes, apps and memory — affects people following structured elimination and reintroduction protocols for other reasons too. AIP is Gutward's first complete protocol; suitability still depends on your own clinical circumstances.

The Gutward AIP Cookbook is planned and will be included with Gutward when released. Its final format is still being developed — there's no cookbook content in the product yet.

The barcode scanner evaluates a product's listed ingredient information against your selected protocol, current stage and recorded exclusions. It does not determine that a product is safe for you, and you must always check the manufacturer's current packaging for allergens and ingredient changes.

No. Logged observations can't diagnose an allergy, intolerance or sensitivity, and the food-trial tools must not be used to test a known or suspected allergy without appropriate professional direction.

Yes. You can delete your Gutward account yourself at any time in Settings — deletion is immediate and permanent. Self-service data export isn't built yet; email hello@gutward.com for a copy of what we hold about you or a portable export where applicable. See our Privacy notice for full detail.