Interactive stool chart
What does your stool look like?
Explore the seven Bristol stool types. Compare descriptive illustrations, understand what the chart can tell you, and connect your next observation to everyday tracking.
01 / Find a familiar form
A shared language
for your stool.
Look at the shape and consistency, then choose the closest description. More than one can fit. This chart describes form; it does not assess your overall gut health.
02 / Give it context
One movement.
Part of a bigger day.
Form is one detail. Add the observations that make your record understandable later.
- 01
When
The date and time, including days you did not record. Missing information is not a symptom-free day.
- 02
Your experience
How often you went and whether passing stool felt easy or difficult.
- 03
The rest of the day
Meals, symptoms, medicines or other changes you want to remember. Timing alone does not establish a cause.
No photo upload or account. Your selection stays in this page’s memory and clears when you leave. Copying is your choice; we do not receive the description you select.
Before you read too much into it
The chart, explained.
What is the Bristol Stool Scale?
The Bristol Stool Scale describes seven stool forms, from separate hard lumps to watery stool. It gives people and clinicians shared descriptive language. The original research examined stool form in relation to intestinal transit; it did not create a standalone diagnostic test.
Does a stool type tell me what is wrong?
No. Stool form is one observation. It cannot diagnose IBS, identify a food intolerance, measure your microbiome or explain why your bowel habits changed. Persistent changes and symptoms that concern you deserve medical advice.
What if no type looks exactly right?
Use the closest description or choose “I’m not sure.” More than one form can fit, and your own words can add context. You do not have to assign a type to every observation.
Can I track this in Get Regular?
Get Regular’s stool-tracking workflow uses Bristol stool-form language alongside meal and symptom records. This web chart is a reference, not your app account; copying a description does not save or transfer it into the app.
Scale reference: Lewis & Heaton (1997)
Original descriptive illustrations. The source is not an endorsement of Get Regular. Seek medical advice about symptoms that concern you; do not delay care to complete a chart.
Keep the context. Keep going.
Your next log has more to say.
Keep Bristol types beside meals and symptoms in Get Regular. An ongoing record gives one observation some company.
See stool tracking in the appGo a little deeper.
Read the Bristol Stool Scale guideThese educational experiences describe observations. They do not identify a cause, prescribe a diet or replace healthcare.