Comparison

Soft Challenge vs The Hormone Method

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

Head to head
About

Soft Challenge

This app guides users in building healthy habits through a customizable daily routine. It offers recommended rules for fitness, diet, hydration, and reading, allowing users to adapt the duration and tasks to their personal goals and lifestyle.

Highlights
  • Customizable habit rules
  • Personalized goals and lifestyle adaptation
  • Recommended daily workout routine
  • Healthy diet tracking
  • Hydration goals
  • Reading habit tracking
Features
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The Soft Challenge has its own recommended set of rules and guidelines that are all about creating healthy habits at a steady daily pace.  The Soft Challenge is completely configurable to your personal goals and lifestyle, you can modify the tasks and or the duration as needed! The recommended rules for The Soft Challenge are as follows: - One 45-minute workout per day, with one day for active recovery every week. - Eat a Healthy Diet, of your choosing - Only Drink Alcohol socially, if any at all - Drink 3 liters of water per day - Read 10 pages of any book

About

The Hormone Method

Personalized hormonal wellness support for women at various life stages, including cycles, perimenopause, and menopause. Offers daily check-ins, AI coaching, and a comprehensive library of resources.

Highlights
  • Personalized hormonal wellness
  • Daily symptom check-ins
  • AI coach
  • Resource library (nutrition, movement, breathwork)
  • Partner support section
  • Data privacy
Features
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The Hormone Method is personalized hormonal wellness for women navigating cycles, perimenopause, hysterectomy, or menopause. It's built around your actual stage, not a one-size-fits-all program. The Hormone Method offers a 7-day free trial, then continues as an auto-renewing monthly subscription ($9.99/month). Your subscription unlocks daily check-ins for symptoms, energy, mood, sleep, and anxiety, plus guidance that shifts with where you really are — whether that's a cycle phase, surgical recovery, or life after menopause. You'll also get a personal AI coach available anytime, a full library covering nutrition, movement, breathwork, and mindfulness, and a history and patterns view that turns your daily logs into something useful for you and your next doctor's visit. There's also a section written specifically for your partner, so they understand what you're going through instead of guessing. Your data is never sold. That's structural, not just a policy. The Hormone Method is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult your healthcare provider before making health changes. Terms of Use: https://lorrean.github.io/the-hormone-method/terms.html

Screenshots

Soft Challenge4 screens
The Hormone Method4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: The Hormone Method at Free against Soft Challenge's $1.99. The Hormone Method also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Soft Challenge's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (283 vs 1). On 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

The Hormone Method is free to download; Soft Challenge costs $1.99 up front. The Hormone Method sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Soft Challenge asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Hormone Method holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Soft Challenge has 283 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Soft Challenge's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Hormone Method's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Soft Challenge versus The Hormone Method: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSoft ChallengeThe Hormone Method
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (283 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings283 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB9 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperWhite Belt Development LLCLorrean Whited

Customer experience

Soft Challenge

All ratings283 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral3.2%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive64.0%
Neutral12.0%
Negative24.0%

The Hormone Method

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Soft Challenge

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App stuck on Day 1 congratulation screen
  • Water consumption not saving
  • App won't allow moving forward without checking all tasks
  • Cannot save changes to weight units
  • App stuck on 'great job keep on crushing it' screen
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  • Cannot go back and fix missed tasks

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow users to share progress with others
  • Option to edit/disable certain features
  • Photo option for tracking
  • Extend the number of days for challenges

The Hormone Method

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Soft Challenge

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

The Hormone Method

Subscriptions3
  • Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • 6-Month Premium7 Days trial$49.996 Months
  • Annual Premium7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Soft Challenge free?
Soft Challenge costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Hormone Method free?
The Hormone Method is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Soft Challenge or The Hormone Method?
The Hormone Method is rated higher. Soft Challenge averages 4.8 out of 5 from 283 ratings, while The Hormone Method averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Soft Challenge or The Hormone Method have ads?
Neither Soft Challenge nor The Hormone Method shows ads.

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