Comparison

Lively vs MindTank

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

Head to head
About

Lively

This app helps users understand and align with their menstrual cycle, offering personalized daily tips for nutrition, sports, and self-care. It supports users through all cycle phases, pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause/menopause, with an option for partners to sync and share insights.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily tips by cycle phase
  • Nutrition, sports, and self-care guidance
  • Partner Syncing for shared insights
  • Pregnancy and postpartum support
  • Perimenopause and menopause tracking
  • Integration with Apple Health
Features
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Meet Lively Cycle, the premier app for aligning with your cycle to enhance every day. Personalised daily tips are tailored to your menstrual phase and hormone levels, empowering you to navigate each day with confidence and ease. Lively® Cycle app offers guidance on nutrition, sports, and self-care, ensuring you feel supported and nurtured throughout your entire cycle. Unlike men, who function on a 24-hour cycle, women experience a unique 28-day cycle that influences their mood, energy, and well-being. Enjoy Lively with your partner using the "Partner Syncing" feature. Share cycle phases and moods in a private setting to deepen your connection. This unique app experience keeps you in tune with each other’s needs, enhancing understanding and closeness. Your menstrual cycle has four phases, and we've got your back through them all: MENSTRUAL: Time to shed the uterine lining and start anew! Focus on rest, self-care, and light exercise. FOLLICULAR: Feel the energy and creativity boost! Let's set goals, plan, and enjoy nourishing foods. OVULATORY: Embrace your peak fertility and energy. This is the perfect time for socializing, working out, and maintaining a balanced diet. Lively also supports your Pregnancy and Postpartum journey. As your body changes, Lively provides expert-backed insights on nutrition, movement, and self-care tailored to each stage of pregnancy and postpartum recovery. Stay informed about your baby’s growth, track key milestones, and receive gentle reminders to support your well-being. With Partner Syncing, your partner can also access guidance on how to be there for you, making this journey smoother for both of you. LUTEAL: Time to unwind and reflect. Indulge in nurturing activities and satisfy cravings with healthy alternatives. Perimenopause, Menopause Tracker - Discover patterns over time, and better understand what may be happening in your body. When periods are no longer the center of your health journey, Lively continues to support you. What sets Lively apart is not just its comprehensive cycle tracking but also its inclusion of a unique aesthetic period tracker and an ovulation tracker, designed with elegance and sophistication. Lively ensures your health data stays in sync with Apple Health, allowing for an integrated approach to managing your well-being. With Livelyby your side, you'll stay in sync with your body's natural rhythm, optimizing your well-being, energy, and mood. We'll help you make the most of your 28-day cycle and enhance your daily life. From nourishing your body with the right foods to finding the best exercise routines and practicing self-care, Lively has you covered. Ready to start your journey? Join the Lively® community today and let's begin syncing your cycle to transform your everyday life! Join community: IG: @livelycycle Terms and conditions: https://livelycycle.com/terms-conditions/ Privacy policy: https://livelycycle.com/privacy/ Subscription pricing and terms: Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be identified. You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after the purchase. If we receive a refund request for an in-app purchase, we may provide Apple with information about the user's in-app purchase activity. This could include details such as time since app installation, total app usage time, an anonymous account identifier, whether the in-app purchase was fully consumed, whether it included a trial period, the total amount spent, and the total amount refunded."

About

MindTank

Features
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MindTank helps you understand your migraines, not just record them. Log an event in seconds, check in once a day, and let MindTank's on-device statistics engine find the patterns behind your migraines: the triggers that genuinely raise your risk, and the habits that seem to protect you. FIND YOUR REAL TRIGGERS Most trackers leave you staring at a diary. MindTank runs real statistics on your own history, comparing migraine rates on exposed vs unexposed days, testing time lags (same day, next day, two days later), and correcting for multiple comparisons so you're not chasing coincidences. Every insight states its confidence plainly, with the day counts to back it up. Associations, not medical claims. TRACK WHAT MATTERS, FAST • Log events with severity, pain location, symptoms, aura and more in a few taps • A 15-second daily check-in covers sleep, stress, water, sun, food and screen load • Choose which factors you track • Apple Health fills in sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, steps and cycle data automatically (optional) • Local weather, barometric pressure drops, UV, air quality, and pollen is fetched once a day from your approximate location (optional) MEDICATIONS, HANDLED • One-tap dose logging for acute meds, preventives and supplements • Re-dose timers with a Live Activity countdown on your Lock Screen • Medication-overuse warnings before rebound headaches sneak up on you • Daily reminders for preventives PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your health data never leaves your phone. No account. No cloud. No analytics. The database is encrypted on-device, insights are computed on-device, and the optional AI recap runs on-device with Apple Intelligence. The only network request MindTank ever makes is a daily weather lookup using a deliberately imprecise location, and only if you turn it on. Take your data with you anytime with a one-tap backup export. BUILT FOR BAD DAYS Dark, calm, and fast. Designed to be usable mid-attack. Log now, add details later. MindTank surfaces patterns in your own data. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always talk to your clinician about your migraines and medications.

Screenshots

Lively4 screens
MindTank4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MindTank at none against Lively's 10. Lively's advantage is chart position (#45 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Lively sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. MindTank asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Lively versus MindTank: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLivelyMindTank
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings56K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
Best chart rank#45 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size207 MB53 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLively Cycle, LLCMark Graham

Bugs and requests

Lively

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Logging issues and data loss
  • Syncing problems with Apple Health
  • Inconsistent app performance

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add custom symptom tracking
  • Improve partner syncing for LGBTQ+ couples
  • Integrate temperature/ovulation tracking
  • Provide more detailed hormone insights
  • Include pregnancy/postpartum tracking

MindTank

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Lively

Subscriptions10
  • Weekly membership3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Monthly membership3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Monthly membership$4.991 Month
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  • premium$14.991 Year
  • Annual Membership$18.991 Year
  • premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Annual Membership7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Annual Membership7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Premium membership7 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

MindTank

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lively free?
Lively is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MindTank free?
MindTank is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lively or MindTank have ads?
Neither Lively nor MindTank shows ads.

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