Steady Belly / Press kit

Everything you need to write about Steady Belly.

Steady Belly is a diverticulitis recovery tracker — it tells you what you can eat at each stage of healing, helps you spot your own triggers, and turns months of symptoms into one page your doctor can read in the time you actually get with them. Take anything on this page and use it as is.

Pre-launch · in open testing Updated 13 September 2026 Email the founder Open the app

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Product
Steady Belly — a recovery and symptom tracker built specifically for diverticulitis
Category
Digestive health · chronic condition self-tracking
Platforms
Web app, installable to any phone home screen (iOS, Android, desktop). No app-store download required.
Price
Free to use. Steady Belly Plus is $7.99/month or $49.99/year. Billing is not switched on yet — every feature is currently free while the app is in testing.
Plus includes
A weekly plain-language summary of your week, unlimited doctor-report exports, and a read-only link you can share with a caregiver
Availability
Worldwide, English. Live and in open testing now.
Founded
2026, independently funded. No outside investment.
Team
One founder — Kim Cameron, who built it after her own diverticulitis diagnosis
Based
[city, state]
Website
steadybelly.app · get.steadybelly.app
Press contact
support@steadybelly.app — goes straight to the founder, answered within 72 hours

Boilerplate

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One line

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Steady Belly is a diverticulitis recovery tracker that tells you what to eat tonight.

Short — for a roundup or a listicle entry

40 words

Steady Belly is a recovery tracker built only for diverticulitis. It shows you what you can eat at each stage of healing, helps you spot the patterns behind your flares, and builds a symptom report your doctor can actually use.

Standard — the "about" paragraph for the end of a piece

76 words

Steady Belly is a recovery and symptom tracker built specifically for people with diverticulitis, a condition most digestive-health apps treat as an afterthought. It walks you through the four stages of recovery eating — clear liquids, low residue, fiber ramp, maintenance — tracks meals, sleep, stress and symptoms to surface your personal patterns, and turns months of logs into a single report for your gastroenterologist. Steady Belly is independent, ad-free, and does not sell user data.

Long — for a feature or a profile

121 words

Steady Belly is a recovery and symptom tracker built specifically for diverticulitis — a condition that sends roughly 450,000 Americans to the emergency room every year and then sends them home with a discharge sheet and a lot of contradictory diet advice. Founded in 2026 by a solo founder after her own diagnosis, the app answers the question people are actually googling at 2am: what can I eat tonight? It walks through the four stages of recovery eating, tracks meals, sleep, stress and symptoms to surface personal patterns over time, flags the symptoms worth calling a doctor about, and compiles months of logs into one report for a ten-minute gastroenterology appointment. It is independent, ad-free, and does not sell user data.

The story

Why this exists

The short version, in the founder's words — quote any of it directly.

Steady Belly started with a diverticulitis diagnosis that arrived the way most of them do: a frightening attack, a course of antibiotics, and a discharge sheet that said "low residue diet" without explaining what that meant, how long it lasted, or what came next.

Every tracking app the founder tried was built for IBS or Crohn's. None of them knew the four-stage recovery model. None of them knew that fiber is both the villain and the cure depending entirely on where you are in healing. None of them knew that the famous warning about nuts, seeds and popcorn was overturned by a 47,000-person study in 2008 — and that half the internet still repeats it anyway.

So she built the tracker she needed at 2am, and then kept building it: the trigger patterns, the doctor report, the calm answer to "is this the kind of pain I should call someone about."

Founder quotes

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"Nobody is at their most capable the night they get diagnosed. You're scared, you're sore, and you're reading six websites that contradict each other. The whole app is built around answering one question that night: what can I eat?"

— Kim Cameron, founder of Steady Belly

"A gastroenterology appointment is ten minutes long and you've had three months of symptoms. People walk in and forget everything. Steady Belly's whole job in that moment is to hand you one page that makes those ten minutes count."

— Kim Cameron, founder of Steady Belly

"I'm careful about what this app claims. It doesn't diagnose anything and it never will. It notices patterns and hands them to you and your doctor — that's a real job, and it's an honest one."

— Kim Cameron, founder of Steady Belly

What it does

The features worth a paragraph

Staged food guide

Four recovery stages — clear liquids, low residue, fiber ramp, maintenance — with what's safe to eat at each one, so "what can I have tonight" has an actual answer.

Talk instead of typing

Describe your day out loud the way you'd tell a friend — "oatmeal for breakfast, pain's about a 3, slept badly" — and it fills in the whole entry. You see exactly what it heard and can fix it before anything is analyzed or saved.

Meal logging, three ways

Type a description, photograph the plate, or scan a barcode. Each returns a nutrition and fiber estimate, including the soluble/insoluble split that actually matters here.

Your trigger patterns

Starts with a watchlist on day one, then narrows to your confirmed patterns as you log — so it's useful before it has any of your data, not six weeks later.

The doctor report

A clean PDF for your gastroenterologist: symptom timeline, medications, flare episodes, weight trend — everything since your last visit, on one page.

Appointment mode

Set your next appointment date and the app counts down, builds the report, and suggests questions to ask — some standard, some drawn from what your own logs have been showing.

Symptom calendar

A month at a glance, each day colored on the same sage-to-rose scale as your daily score, so a bad stretch is visible without reading a single number.

Warning signs

Plain, calm guidance on which symptoms mean call your doctor now — phrased to prompt a call, never to make a judgment about what's wrong.

Caregiver sharing

A read-only link an adult child or partner can open — no account needed on their end, revocable any time.

Sourced education

Short lessons on what's actually true, each with its citation — starting with the nuts-and-popcorn myth that a 2008 JAMA study put to rest.

Screenshots

Images

These slots are reserved and go live the moment the files land — the captions below describe exactly what each one will show. In the meantime, email support@steadybelly.app and you'll get full-resolution originals, plus any specific screen your piece needs, within a day.

Steady Belly dashboard showing today's recovery stage and plan
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Today's planThe home screen: current recovery stage, what to eat, today's score.
Voice entry review screen showing the transcribed text before analysis
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Here's what I heardSpoken entry shown back for editing before anything is analyzed.
The four-stage recovery food guide
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The four stagesClear liquids through maintenance, with foods for each.
Personal trigger patterns view
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Your patternsThe watchlist narrowing into confirmed personal triggers.
The doctor report export
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The doctor reportSymptom timeline and medications, ready for a GI visit.
Monthly symptom calendar heat map
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Symptom calendarA month colored by daily score — sage for steady, rose for rough.

Context & numbers

Background for your story

These are about the condition, not about us — every one is sourced so you can verify it independently. We don't publish user counts or revenue yet; when we do, they'll be here rather than in a pitch email.

450,000+ US emergency-room visits for diverticulitis each year, with roughly 200,000 hospital admissions. StatPearls
$2.2B Annual US healthcare cost of acute diverticulitis. Epidemiology of Diverticulitis, NIH/PMC
40–60% Share of adults over 60 with diverticulosis, the precondition — about 20% of adults under 40 have it too. NIH/PMC
18.5% → 28.2% Complicated cases as a share of under-50 admissions, 2005 to 2020 — the condition is arriving earlier and harder in younger adults. UCLA Health
2008 The year the nuts-and-popcorn warning was overturned — 47,228 men followed for 18 years, and the ones who ate the most popcorn had a 28% lower risk of diverticulitis, nuts 20% lower. Patients are still told to avoid them. Strate et al., JAMA, 2008

The angle most writers miss

Diverticulitis has no dedicated app category. Patients get handed IBS and Crohn's trackers that don't know what "low residue" means or that the dietary rules invert depending on whether you're mid-flare or months clear. That gap — a common, expensive, frightening condition with no software built for it — is usually the actual story here.

Brand assets

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Writing about us

Two lists that keep us both accurate

This is a health app, so the wording genuinely matters — these aren't brand preferences, they're the line between describing a tracking tool and describing a medical device.

Accurate

  • "Steady Belly" — two words, both capitalized, always spaced
  • "Steady Belly Plus" for the paid tier ("Plus" after first mention)
  • "tracks," "helps you spot patterns," "helps you notice"
  • "information to bring to your doctor"
  • "a recovery and symptom tracker"

Not accurate — please avoid

  • "SteadyBelly" or "SB"
  • "diagnoses," "detects," "treats," "prevents," or "predicts" flares
  • "medical-grade" or "clinically validated"
  • "doctor-approved" or "clinician-reviewed" — see the note below
  • Any framing where the app replaces a doctor's advice

Where the medical content stands

Steady Belly's educational content is written from peer-reviewed research and standard clinical guidelines, with sources cited rather than asserted. A credentialed reviewer — a registered dietitian or GI nurse practitioner — has not yet formally signed off on it, and we won't claim otherwise until one has. If you need that status confirmed for fact-checking, just ask; when it changes, this page changes the same day.

For reviewers & bloggers

If you want to try it properly

A tracker is hard to review in ten minutes — it's built to get more useful over a few weeks of real logging. So here's what's on offer, no strings and no approval over what you write.

Free Plus access

Email for a code that unlocks three months of Steady Belly Plus — weekly summaries, unlimited doctor reports, caregiver sharing. No card, no expiry surprise, and nothing changes if your review is unflattering.

A demo account with real history

An empty tracker shows you nothing. Ask for a pre-populated account with months of realistic logs so you can see the trigger patterns, the calendar, and the doctor report actually working.

Founder interview

Email, phone, or video — usually within the same week. Diagnosis story, why nothing existed for this condition, what building solo looks like, or how the trigger analysis works under the hood.

Custom screenshots or a walkthrough

Need a specific screen, a particular stage of recovery, or a short screen recording for video? Say what your piece needs and you'll get the file, not a runaround.

What we ask in return

Only two things, and neither is approval rights. Disclose that you were given free access, the way you'd disclose any comped product. And if you're writing about diverticulitis itself rather than just the app, run the medical claims past the sources above — this is a condition people get genuinely bad advice about, and a well-sourced piece helps far more than a kind one.

Contact

One person reads this inbox

There's no press office and no agency in between. Email goes to the founder and is answered within 72 hours — usually faster if you're on a deadline, so say so in the subject line and it gets pulled to the front of the queue.

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