Comparison

OliaCycle vs The Calm Button

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

Head to head
About

OliaCycle

This app helps users understand their menstrual cycle, mood, and emotions through easy tracking and journaling. It provides insights into cycle phases and helps identify patterns between physical and emotional well-being. Designed for a simple and private user experience.

Highlights
  • Track period start and end dates
  • Predict cycle events and ovulation
  • Understand menstrual cycle phases
  • Journal for self-reflection
  • Spot mood and symptom patterns
  • Privacy-first data security
Features
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OliaCycle is your personal companion for understanding your cycle, mood, and mind — beautifully and simply. Whether you're tracking your period, predicting ovulation, or capturing daily reflections, OliaCycle gives you a clear and calming space to connect with your body and emotions. What You Can Do with OliaCycle: Track Your Cycle: Log period start and end dates, symptoms, and phases with ease. OliaCycle provides insight into your body’s natural rhythm and predicts your next cycle events. Understand Your Phases: Get gentle, informative insights about where you are in your cycle — from menstruation to ovulation to luteal. Learn how each phase affects your energy, focus, and mood. Reflect with Journaling: Write freely in a dedicated journal space designed for self-reflection. Whether you’re feeling empowered, low, or in between — your thoughts belong here. Spot Patterns Over Time: See how your mood, symptoms, and cycle align. OliaCycle helps you recognize emotional and physical patterns so you can plan with more self-awareness. Privacy-First Design: Your data belongs to you. Everything you log stays secure and private. Who It’s For: OliaCycle is designed for women and people who menstruate who want to feel more connected to their bodies without being overwhelmed by charts or cluttered dashboards. Simple, intentional, and focused on what really matters.

About

The Calm Button

Features
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When anxiety hits, you don't need another app that tells you to think differently about it. Anxiety is a nervous system response. The tools that work are the ones that work with your body — not the ones that try to argue it out of how it feels. The Calm Button gives you immediate relief in the moment you need it. WHEN YOU NEED CALM NOW The Immediate Calm session guides you through a proven somatic sequence in about 8 minutes. Step by step, with voice guidance and ambient sound. It works during a panic attack. It works at 2am. The more you practice it, the faster it becomes available to you. YOUR CALM PLAN A personal reference for what actually helps you — your grounding anchors, your calming phrase, who to call. Built by you, for the moments when you can't think clearly. AMBIENT SOUNDS Brown noise, rain, soft river. Seamless loops designed to support presence and sleep. GENTLE BY DESIGN No streaks. No scores. No pressure. Just a quiet place to practice being here. COMING SOON A 14-day guided healing program for retraining your anxiety response — plus evening and sleep sessions — is in development and will arrive in a future update. The Calm Button is free to use. Immediate Calm, your Calm Plan, and ambient sounds are always free.

Screenshots

OliaCycle4 screens
The Calm Button4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: The Calm Button at daily against OliaCycle's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

OliaCycle ships an update monthly, The Calm Button daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
OliaCycle versus The Calm Button: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOliaCycleThe Calm Button
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB74 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSterlla Pierre LouisABRDN Co

In-app purchases

None

OliaCycle

No in-app purchases

None

The Calm Button

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OliaCycle free?
OliaCycle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Calm Button free?
The Calm Button is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do OliaCycle or The Calm Button have ads?
Neither OliaCycle nor The Calm Button shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OliaCycle or The Calm Button?
OliaCycle ships an update monthly, and The Calm Button daily. Most recently, OliaCycle was updated on October 24, 2026 and The Calm Button on October 17, 2026.

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