Comparison

Not Embarrassing vs Marigold

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

Head to head
About

Not Embarrassing

This app offers a private and secure way to track sensitive health symptoms. It helps identify patterns and provides shareable reports for productive conversations with healthcare providers. Features include customizable logging, visual trend analysis, and robust privacy controls.

Highlights
  • Track 15+ sensitive symptom types
  • Log severity, duration, and context
  • Identify triggers and patterns
  • Generate shareable symptom reports
  • Password and biometric app lock
  • Encrypted backups and iCloud sync
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Not Embarrassing is a private, secure tracker for the symptoms you'd rather not talk about — bloating, gas, body odor, hemorrhoids, intrusive thoughts, and more. WHY THIS APP EXISTS Certain health symptoms are common but rarely discussed. Tracking them consistently helps you find patterns and have more productive conversations with your healthcare provider. Not Embarrassing makes that easy while keeping your data completely private. TRACK SYMPTOMS YOUR WAY • 15 pre-defined symptom types covering common but sensitive conditions • Log severity (1–10), duration, time of day, and context • Tag potential triggers from 25+ common options (food, stress, environment, health) • Add freeform notes for anything else CALENDAR & HISTORY • Visual calendar with color-coded symptom severity • Weekly and monthly views to spot trends at a glance • Detailed history charts with customizable time ranges SYMPTOM REPORT • Generate a summary from your data — ready to share • Includes pattern insights, severity trends, trigger analysis, and a detailed log • Share via text, email, or print directly from the app PRIVACY & SECURITY • Lock the app with a password, Face ID, or Touch ID • Encrypted backups (AES-256-GCM) stored on your device • iCloud sync via CloudKit — only you can access your data • No accounts, no servers, no tracking APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION • Sync compatible symptoms (bloating, constipation, lower back pain, urinary issues) to Apple Health • Per-entry sync control — choose exactly what gets shared BACKUP & RESTORE • Automatic backups on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule • Manual export/import with encrypted file support • Seamless iCloud sync across devices CUSTOMIZE • Light, dark, or automatic theme • Choose your week start day (Sunday, Monday, or Saturday) • Reorder symptoms for quick access Designed to be simple, respectful, and genuinely useful. Your body does things — track them without embarrassment. Medical Disclaimer: This app does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking it because of something you have read in this app.

About

Marigold

Features
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Log a hot flash in one tap. Spot your patterns. Bring your doctor a clear summary. Marigold is a private tracker for perimenopause and menopause. Log from your iPhone, Apple Watch or Siri, see how your symptoms change over time, and keep HRT doses and refills in one place. No account. No ads. Nothing sold. Free to download. Try Premium free for a month. LOG YOUR DAY IN SECONDS • One-tap hot flash and night sweat logging, stamped with the time • 21 symptoms with a 0 to 4 severity scale and an optional note • Period start dates, logged on the day, so Marigold can forecast your next one AN HONEST FORECAST, NOT FALSE PRECISION (PREMIUM) Marigold predicts your next period as a range with a confidence level, and tells you plainly when your cycles are too irregular to call. The forecast is calculated on your iPhone from your own logs, and it needs at least three logged periods before it appears. SEE THE PATTERNS BEHIND YOUR DAYS (PREMIUM) Cycle length over time, hot flashes and night sweats week by week, your most-logged symptoms and your symptom burden score. A weekly "Marigold noticed" note reads your week back to you. HRT AND MEDICATION REMINDERS (PREMIUM) Track patch, gel, spray, tablet, pessary, vaginal cream, vaginal ring, injection, hormonal coil or implant. Get dose reminders and running-low refill alerts, and check doses off on the Today screen. A DOCTOR-READY SUMMARY One tap builds a PDF: your cycle pattern, symptom burden, HRT and logged doses, forecast, flags to raise and questions to ask. Your first summary is free; Premium covers any date range. ON YOUR WRIST, YOUR HOME SCREEN AND WITH SIRI (WATCH AND WIDGET ARE PREMIUM) An Apple Watch app to check your forecast and next dose, take a minute to breathe, and log a hot flash, symptom or mood in one tap. Home Screen widgets, a watch complication, and Siri: "Log a hot flash in Marigold." A CALMER MOMENT, WHEN YOU WANT ONE (ALL FREE) Fifteen quiet activities with no scores to chase: paced and cooling breathing, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, tension release, a pond where you catch your worries as fish and watch them go, bubbles to pop, colouring you can zoom into, a garden that grows as you spend calm minutes, memory and sorting games, and calm chess with no clock. After you log, Marigold may offer one when your own logs show a pattern, at most once every 8 hours. OPTIONAL WEATHER HEADS-UP If you turn it on, Marigold sends your approximate location (rounded to about 10 km) to Apple Weather for today's forecast. Nothing you log is sent. OPTIONAL APPLE HEALTH (PREMIUM) Read-only. Sleep, resting heart rate and wrist temperature from Apple Health help Marigold spot patterns. Health data never leaves your iPhone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics or tracking SDKs. Your logs stay on your iPhone: there is no HaloSync server. Optional iCloud sync keeps a copy in your own private iCloud. Otherwise only the optional, rounded weather location leaves your phone. MARIGOLD PREMIUM Logging, the Today screen, your 7-day flash chart, your top symptoms, every calm activity and one doctor summary are free. Marigold Premium unlocks the next-period forecast, full trends, pattern insights, doctor summaries for any date range, HRT and appointment reminders, Apple Health, the Home Screen widget and the Apple Watch app. Try Premium free for one month on the annual plan, or pay once for Lifetime and never renew. The free trial converts to a paid annual subscription automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.halosyncs.com/marigold/privacy Marigold is a private tracking tool, not a medical or diagnostic device. It never diagnoses and never recommends starting, stopping or dosing any medication. Decisions about treatment belong with you and your clinician.

Screenshots

Not Embarrassing4 screens
Marigold4 screens

Verdict

The call

Not Embarrassing and Marigold are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Not Embarrassing sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Marigold sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Not Embarrassing versus Marigold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNot EmbarrassingMarigold
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperZhi WangMd Rashadul Islam Roman

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Not Embarrassing

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$1.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
2 purchases

Marigold

Subscriptions1
  • Marigold Premium — Yearly1 Month trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Marigold Premium — Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Not Embarrassing free?
Not Embarrassing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Marigold free?
Marigold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Not Embarrassing or Marigold have ads?
Neither Not Embarrassing nor Marigold shows ads.

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