Comparison

Monthly Cycles vs Bowel Mover Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Monthly Cycles

Monitor and understand your menstrual cycle with a beautifully designed app. Track symptoms, predict fertile days, and plan for pregnancy or contraception. Gain insights into your body's patterns and export your data for personal or medical use.

Highlights
  • Calendar view of cycle
  • Fertile day prediction
  • Symptom and flow tracking
  • Pregnancy mode
  • Weight and temperature tracking
  • Medical reports
  • Data export and Apple Health sync
Features
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Track, monitor, and understand your menstrual cycle with an app that truly gets you. Monthly Cycles was lovingly designed to be both fun and beautiful. See fertile days and variations in your cycle at a glance. It even has fun features like the most auspicious days for conceiving a boy or a girl! Monthly Cycles makes it possible to plan the next chapter in your life, or avoid unwanted pregnancy, putting you back in control. BEAUTIFUL INTERFACE – Calendar view shows your cycle at a glance – Color-coded icons for special days – Diary to keep track of symptoms, flow and more TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR CYCLE – Period calculations take account of your personal fluctuations – Detailed graphs to watch for changes – Instantly see your fertile days to help manage pregnancy – Pregnancy mode to count down the days ALL YOUR INFO – Track your weight and temperature changes – Medical reports for temperature, acne, cramps, headaches, nausea, tenderness – Logged and ready for you, or your doctor – Export data quickly via email – Sync your data with Apple Health App QUESTIONS? We want you to make the most of Monthly Cycles. Email our support team with questions and suggestions at: cycles@delworks.com

About

Bowel Mover Pro

Track your digestive health and identify patterns in your bowel movements and other habits. Understand what influences your symptoms to gain better control over your digestive well-being. Features include a visual calendar, customizable tracking, and detailed statistics.

Highlights
  • Track bowel movements and digestion
  • Identify symptom patterns
  • Bristol Stool Chart integration
  • Customizable health habit tracking
  • Visual calendar with notes
  • Multi-item graph comparisons
  • Data sharing via email/Dropbox
Features
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Award by Healthline: The Best Crohn's Disease Apps. Featured by Physicians Practice Journal. Also seen on Dr Oz and in Esquire Magazine. Track your digestion and health habits, look for patterns of what gets your bowels moving. Take control of your digestive health by tracking and better understanding what works. The app now features the Bristol Stool Chart for new users. If you want to keep using your current set up, you can add that scale manually. Patricia Salber, MD, MBA on The Doctor Weighs In blog "It can be helpful in trying to make correlations between bad symptom days and other stuff going on in your life – diet, stress, coffee intake, and so forth. ... This type of information, often pooh-poohed (pun intended) by traditional medicine in the past, could lead to a deeper understanding of disorders only incompletely understood at the present time." Several items are already set up. You can relabel those within limitations to make them fit your needs: Bowel Movements - Water Intake - Stress - Gluten Free Day - BM Note - BM Texture - Bristol Stool Chart Compare several items to each other in multi item graphs. Scroll back in time looking for patterns. One-tap cycling through statistics makes understanding the graphs simple. Share your results with your team via email. Share entire backups via email or Dropbox. Built in statistics, tap on graphed items to cycle through ∅ Averages ∆ Max ∇ Min ∑ Totals ⊥ Last The visual calendar shows all values and notes at a glance. Easy entry for past dates, just double tap a date. Take screenshots of your graphs and share via email. Password Protection DROP US A NOTE Email us, let us know how to make this app better. We LOVE to hear from you. Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ClickPod

Screenshots

Monthly Cycles4 screens
Bowel Mover Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Monthly Cycles at 4.5 against Bowel Mover Pro's 3.7. Monthly Cycles also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (70 vs 11). Bowel Mover Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Monthly Cycles costs $1.99 and Bowel Mover Pro $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Monthly Cycles holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Monthly Cycles has 70 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 71% and 70% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monthly Cycles ships an update every 3 weeks, Bowel Mover Pro every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Monthly Cycles versus Bowel Mover Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonthly CyclesBowel Mover Pro
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.5 (70 ratings) — better3.7 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews70.5% of reviews70.5% of reviews
Number of ratings70 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.610.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB29 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBeesoft AppsTrack & Share Apps, LLC

Customer experience

Monthly Cycles

All ratings69 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral5.8%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews370 reviews
Positive70.5%
Neutral7.3%
Negative22.2%

Bowel Mover Pro

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral9.1%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive70.5%
Neutral6.6%
Negative23.0%

User reviews

Monthly Cycles

From 70 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💻 Easy to use
  • 📆 Helpful for tracking cycles
  • 🔍 Accurate predictions
  • 📊 Useful data visualization
  • 🔔 Helpful reminders

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs after updates
  • 💾 Data loss when switching devices
  • 🕰️ Inaccurate date calculations
  • 🎨 Unimpressive visual design
  • 🔒 Lack of data backup/sync options

Bowel Mover Pro

From 11 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Helpful for tracking symptoms
  • 💡 Great for IBS/UC sufferers
  • 💡 Allows custom categories
  • 💡 Useful for doctor communication

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and errors
  • 🐛 Icons keep changing
  • 🐛 Not working
  • 🐛 Hard to use
  • 🐛 Awkward data entry

Bugs and requests

Monthly Cycles

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Calendar dates out of sync
  • Inability to delete/edit past entries
  • Crashing on login with passcode
  • Syncing issues when upgrading
  • Inaccurate fertility predictions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Custom symptom tracking
  • Ability to adjust ovulation dates
  • Postpartum tracking mode
  • Sync data across devices
  • More theme/skin options

Bowel Mover Pro

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App not working
  • Icons keep changing after submission
  • Warning when contacting via help guide
  • Entries disappear after saving
  • Not optimized for larger iPhones (UI blown up and pixelated)
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  • Latest update asks for passcode but no keypad
  • No way to add additional people
  • Cannot delete past inputs
  • Cannot edit entries

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add food diary section
  • Change water intake from glasses to ounces
  • Support larger iPhones
  • Incorporate Bristol poop scale
  • Ability to edit entries
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  • More customizable categories
  • More icon pictures
  • Add medication intake tracking
  • Add food intake and symptom tracking
  • Different icon for app (e.g., digestive track)
  • Rename app (e.g., GI Diary)
  • Ability to delete past entries
  • More texture categories
  • Add more people/profiles

In-app purchases

None

Monthly Cycles

No in-app purchases

None

Bowel Mover Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Monthly Cycles free?
Monthly Cycles costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bowel Mover Pro free?
Bowel Mover Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Monthly Cycles or Bowel Mover Pro?
Monthly Cycles is rated higher. Monthly Cycles averages 4.5 out of 5 from 70 ratings, while Bowel Mover Pro averages 3.7 from 11 ratings.
Do Monthly Cycles or Bowel Mover Pro have ads?
Neither Monthly Cycles nor Bowel Mover Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Monthly Cycles or Bowel Mover Pro?
Monthly Cycles ships an update every 3 weeks, and Bowel Mover Pro every 8 months. Most recently, Monthly Cycles was updated on November 6, 2026 and Bowel Mover Pro on November 1, 2026.

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