Squatty Potty Simple Curve Toilet Stool: what the feedback sample supports

In brief

This is a curved seven-inch footrest stool that sits at the base of a toilet and slides underneath it when not in use. There is nothing to assemble: it arrives as one piece. The marketplace average is 4.6 out of 5 across roughly 59,900 ratings, with 79 percent at five stars, 11 percent at four, 5 percent at three, and a low-star tail of about 5 percent at one and two stars combined.

A distribution that top-heavy usually means buyers broadly agree on what the product is and what it does, and this sample fits that pattern. Where it gets interesting is in the small minority who report no benefit, because they describe the same reason each time.

What the sample agrees on

Buyers describe the stool as the right height for a standard toilet, easy to pull out and easy to tuck away, light enough to move with one hand, and simple to wipe clean. Several say it arrived as a single piece with no setup at all, and one long-term owner notes it fits neatly under an older toilet without getting in the way.

The second consistent theme is how buyers arrived at the product. A notable share of this sample were pointed to it by a professional rather than by an advert: one buyer describes a pelvic floor physiotherapist recommending it as the first step, another says a gastroenterologist sent them to buy it, and another reports it being prescribed by a doctor. Several describe using it alongside a raised toilet seat or after surgery. Their own descriptions of the change are personal reports rather than tested outcomes, and we take them as such, but the pattern of who recommends it is worth knowing.

The variable the sample keeps returning to

The clearest caveat in this set is body size, and it comes from the same buyer who praises it. A shorter user describes it working well for her, then adds that family members over six feet tall and heavier did not find it comfortable and did not feel it made a difference. That is a specific, plausible limitation of a fixed-height, fixed-width footrest, and it lines up with the wider picture: across the full rating set, comfort, height and stability all draw mixed feedback, with some buyers finding the seven-inch height right and others finding it too tall, and some reporting it wobbles while others report it staying put.

There is also a small quality-control note in the sample: one buyer received the stool with one of the four rubber anti-skid feet missing, and points out that this could stop it sitting level. One report is not a pattern, but it is the kind of thing worth checking on arrival, since the rubber feet are what keep the stool planted. Because the low-star tail here is only about 5 percent, we cannot generalise about how often problems occur; what we can say is that the complaints that do appear cluster around fit and stability rather than around the product failing to do its job.

We have not tested this toilet stool. Nothing here is medical advice, and anyone managing a digestive or pelvic floor condition should take a clinician’s view rather than a review page’s.

Bottom line

Worth considering if you are of roughly average height and build and want a simple, no-assembly footrest that stores out of the way, especially if a clinician has suggested one. If you are unusually tall or heavy, or you are not sure which height suits you, an adjustable-height stool is the safer choice than a fixed seven-inch one. The score shown for this product comes from the marketplace-wide rating and its rating count, not from these 13 comments. No individual customer review is reproduced here.