Throne is a smart sensor for your toilet that turns every flush into insights on your gut health, hydration, and urinary function. Here's what members say about living with it—in their own words.
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It's like an Apple Watch for your toilet, literally.
I delayed installing it for a couple of weeks because I thought it was going to be time consuming. Honestly, it was a lot easier than I thought—you take it out of the box and you plop it on the toilet. Installation, ease of use: amazing.
Installation and everything coming out of the box is super easy, professional. I would say a 10 out of 10.
The first presentation of the device was pretty amazing, pretty immaculate.
It felt like you're getting a tech product, like a phone or something.
Once I got it set up and I walked to the toilet and it lit up, I was like—this is the coolest thing ever.
Unboxing was sick. The box feels very high quality.
From receiving it to setup to getting the app going, everything was really smooth. Everything about the object is beautiful—really well designed and really easy to install.
Just how easy it is to install—and that you don't actually have to have your phone. There are a lot of really thoughtful features that make it a really good experience.
The setup was super easy. The hardware is good looking and it all makes sense.
It's super passive—set it and forget it. I set it up one day and the data just comes through.
It's been easy. I like that you don't have to charge it so frequently—for me, it lasts two to three weeks.
It's almost like a game to try to keep my hydration levels higher. I'm one that struggles to drink water day to day, so it motivates me. It's been helpful and impactful that way.
There have been a few times where I've been surprised by a low hydration score, so I'll go drink some water—it's more like an immediate feedback loop.
The hydration score is very insightful. Very quickly the app showed me that I'm dehydrated all the time—now every time I go to the bathroom, I'm already predicting what it's going to be.
My hydration scores are always really low in the morning, so I was like—okay, I need to be drinking some water before I go to bed.
You think, I'm drinking water, I know I'm hydrated—but then you see a number next to it. It definitely keeps it active in your forethought: hey, I want to drink my water today.
It makes me more thoughtful about drinking. I've added more electrolytes and try to hydrate earlier in the day—it's changed some of my behavior.
For years, my doctor would tell me I was dehydrated and I had no way of knowing that outside of her office. Now, I can't stop checking my phone. Hydrating is so much fun now.
When I open up the app it was like, man, this is so beautiful.
It works for the data nerds like me, but it also works for the totally normal humans like my wife.
I know this is going to be a successful product because when I forget to hit the button when I don't have my phone, I get sad I don't have the data. After just a couple of weeks it feels weirdly incomplete without it.
One of the dopest features is that you can keep it on the toilet and other people can use it, and it doesn't log their data. I think that is the coolest thing.
I definitely like the interface. It shows you your digestive patterns, and I like how it breaks that down. It's really clean, the way that it's laid out.
I like the Throne because it's not something that has to be worn. It's on my toilet—I'm always going to sit on my toilet, so I don't have to do anything more.
Now I'll walk up an extra flight of stairs just to go pee in the right toilet.
I've tried the rings and the watches—I don't like wearing things. What I like about the Throne is that I don't have to wear it. It's just there.
The interface is great. The detection algorithm is outstanding—the ability to drill down to every single event that's happening while you're in the bathroom is impressive.
It's like smart home mixed with health. I like that a lot.
It's definitely eye-opening to just see the trends day to day. I've surprised myself, actually—my gut health is better than I thought.
I always kind of thought I go at different times—but I've noticed it's pretty much usually around 11am every day. That's been interesting to see.
Intuitively you know these things are linked—but seeing the data, you're like: oh yeah, okay.
It forces you to think more about your bathroom habits. People tell me they go every day—then they start looking at the data and realize: actually, I go five days out of seven.
You sort of notice it in the moment if you're paying attention, but then you just forget. Having it in there, it's like—oh yeah, that Saturday and Sunday I was feeling rough in multiple ways.
I was super excited to get over 80% gut health. I think quantifying things does help to encourage good behavior.
The gut health score makes me happy.
It made me think more realistically about what was happening. It was like—no, I'm okay. You're not outside the norm.
I tracked one poop and it came back gut health 100%. I was like, great—the Michael Jordan of poops.
I've been more mindful of my gut health. I'm perfectly happy telling people about it—I think it's pretty cool.
I've been living with inflammatory bowel disease for about 22 years. The biggest thing Throne has done for me is that I don't have to look in the toilet anymore—I can't explain what a change that is.
It's useful to know how many sessions and the frequency, because that's all stuff I get asked by the doctor—and before, it was ‘I don't know.’ It's nice to have that information.
She comes to me like, daddy, daddy—look at your app! Look at your app! She's giving me a gift. It's fun to see.
When she does use the buttons correctly, it's really great—because I can tell, and I can give her some feedback.
I'm so excited about this and the potential for it. I would put this on my website right now.
There's no other way to get gut health data that I see. This is definitely the most compelling way to get this piece of data.
I really like what you guys are building. Keep at it—I'm a happy owner of the product.
There are definitely a lot of people that I think would get tremendous value out of this.
I think the Throne is the same like the smartwatches and smart wearables in 2007. It was strange, it was unrealistic—but nowadays, everybody wears it.
I really hope you succeed. It's going to be a default in every renovated bathroom from now on.
The ultimate goal is understanding my own body in order to be healthier—these connected devices fill in the blanks I don't have with my own intuition.
I ordered one for my parents as an early Christmas gift, and when the beta came out, I was like—okay, I'm curious to try it out too.
“Throne is a device that's easy to install. You put it on your toilet, and it accurately keeps track of your hydration status and gut health, so you can continue to work on your own wellness.”
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Dr. Karan Rajan is one of the most trusted voices in medicine today—a former NHS surgeon in the UK who has built an audience of over 10 million followers by making complex health science genuinely understandable. He's the rare clinician who can explain what's happening inside your body in a way that's both accurate and impossible to stop watching. His focus on gut health, digestion, and the science of how the body actually works has made him a go-to resource for millions of people looking for answers they can trust. Dr. Rajan believes that understanding your body is the first step to taking care of it.
Dr. David Rubin is one of the world's foremost experts on inflammatory bowel disease, serving as Chief of Gastroenterology at the University of Chicago Medicine. With over 600 published articles and 31,000 academic citations, he literally wrote the guidelines—including the 2025 American College of Gastroenterology standards for ulcerative colitis. He chairs the International Organization for the Study of IBD and has received the Sherman Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field. Dr. Rubin has dedicated his career to advancing early detection and prevention of serious GI disease, bringing world-class clinical science to everything he touches.
Dr. Suzelle Moffitt has been practicing medicine since 1986. With nearly four decades at the intersection of clinical care, health law, and patient advocacy, she built a career spanning full-time medical practice and time as general counsel for a regional health system, before returning to frontline patient care—bringing a uniquely whole-picture perspective to medicine that few physicians can match.
She is also the mother of Throne's CEO, Scott Hickle—and in many ways, the spark behind the company itself. In the summer of 2023, Scott called her with a simple question: "Is there any medical utility to what's in people's waste?" What followed was a 45-minute conversation. In the field of geriatrics, Dr. Moffitt explained, it's well understood that gut motility slows with age—and patients become acutely aware of it. "I no longer give my patients my phone number," she told him, "because they'll send me so many pictures of their poop." She was the first to tell Scott that what he was building wasn't just interesting—it was genuinely needed.
Dr. Vipul Jairath holds the McDonald Endowed Chair in IBD Clinical Research at Western University and trained at Oxford, where he earned his DPhil in clinical medicine. He's one of the world's leading experts on how to design clinical research that actually measures whether a gut health treatment works—the person research teams turn to when the stakes are high. With nearly 800 published studies and 16,000 citations, his work shapes the global standards by which digestive disease therapies are evaluated. Dr. Jairath brings some of the most rigorous scientific thinking in gastroenterology to everything he advises on.
Dr. Satish Rao holds the Harrison Distinguished Chair in Gastroenterology at Augusta University and is one of the rare physicians recognized as an outstanding researcher, distinguished educator, and master clinician—all three. With over 500 published papers, 20,000 academic citations, and 4 patents, he's a global authority on the gut-brain connection and how the digestive system actually moves. He pioneered several diagnostic techniques now used worldwide and has been named to "America's Top Doctors" for more than 25 consecutive years.
Dr. Mark Pimentel is the scientist who changed how the world understands IBS. As Executive Director of the MAST Program at Cedars-Sinai, he developed the first blood test to diagnose irritable bowel syndrome—proving once and for all that it's a real, organic disease, not "all in your head." He also pioneered the connection between gut bacteria, SIBO, and digestive symptoms that underpins modern microbiome medicine. With over 150 peer-reviewed papers and research featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Pimentel has spent his career turning gut science into answers patients can actually use.
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