Comparison

Sync vs Cycluna

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

Head to head
About

Sync

A privacy-focused period tracker that stores all your data locally on your device. It offers a simple and ad-free experience for managing your menstrual cycle.

Highlights
  • Privacy-focused design
  • Local data storage
  • Ad-free experience
  • Simple interface
  • Cycle tracking
Features
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Sync Period tracks cycles locally and supports private sharing with a partner or friend. Log periods, symptoms, moods, and notes; view your calendar and pattern summaries; set optional reminders; and import supported Flo, Clue, Drip, or generic CSV data after reviewing what Sync can recognize. Your cycle history is encrypted on your device. Private predictions adapt to your recent cycle history and confirmed corrections entirely on your device. Sync shows a likely-start window and confidence level, learns recurring pre-period patterns, and can use an enabled BBT signal or positive ovulation test without uploading those health details. Predictions become more cautious when history is sparse or variable. Partner sharing is optional and off by default. You choose which supported cycle details to share. Updates are end-to-end encrypted and require the complete private invite to open. Each encrypted relay update expires after no more than 30 days; active sharing renews that rolling expiration when a new update is published. Recent physical symptoms and flow, sex-drive and intimacy check-ins, and moods are three separate opt-ins that can each be turned off again. Intimate sharing is off by default and never indicates consent. Discharge, medications, written notes, and other sexual details remain private. Sync Period has no ads, no behavioral analytics SDKs, and no required account. You can export a private backup or permanently delete local app data at any time. Cycle predictions and pattern summaries are estimates. Sync Period does not provide diagnosis, contraception, or medical advice.

About

Cycluna

Features
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Cycluna is a period and cycle tracker that keeps everything on your iPhone. No account. No sign-up. No data leaving your device, because there is nowhere for it to go. Know where you are Your cycle day, your phase, your fertile window, and when your next period is likely to arrive. One look and you know. A calendar that knows your rhythm Period days and fertile days marked across the month, so planning ahead doesn't take math. What your body is actually doing Each phase explained in plain language, with a hormone reference chart showing how oestrogen, progesterone, LH and FSH move through a typical cycle. A journal that's actually private Moods, headaches, and anything you want to write down. Lock it behind Face ID if you like. Patterns, only when they're real Cycluna looks at your mood and headache logs across your days, your cycle phases, and the lunar month. It only names a pattern when there is enough data to support one — and says so plainly when there isn't. No invented insights. The moon, every night Tonight's moon phase, the nights ahead, and how your own logs sit across the lunar month. Research has not established a moon–mood link, and Cycluna does not pretend otherwise — this lens describes your logs and nothing more. Reminders before it matters A gentle nudge before your period or ovulation, scheduled by your own phone. Turn them off and they're gone. Yours to take with you Export your data whenever you want. Delete it and it's gone from the device for good — there is no copy anywhere else, because we never had one.

Screenshots

Sync4 screens
Cycluna3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cycluna at weekly against Sync's every 3 weeks. Sync's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sync ships an update every 3 weeks, Cycluna weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sync versus Cycluna: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSyncCycluna
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB6 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperWei Jian WongSeema Jagadeesh

In-app purchases

None

Sync

No in-app purchases

None

Cycluna

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sync free?
Sync is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cycluna free?
Cycluna is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sync or Cycluna have ads?
Neither Sync nor Cycluna shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sync or Cycluna?
Sync ships an update every 3 weeks, and Cycluna weekly. Most recently, Sync was updated on October 3, 2026 and Cycluna on October 13, 2026.

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