Period Tracker vs Tending
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Period Tracker
This app helps you understand your body's natural rhythm by predicting your cycle and optimizing your life around your hormones. It allows you to log flow levels, mood changes, and symptoms, offering insights into patterns and trends.
- Predict cycle and fertile window
- Log flow levels and mood changes
- Track symptoms like cramps and fatigue
- 5-phase cycle visualization
- Smart predictions based on history
- Color-coded calendar
- Detailed cycle statistics
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Understand your body's natural rhythm. Period Tracker helps you predict your cycle and optimize your life around your hormones. FEATURES: • Log flow levels: light, moderate, heavy • Track mood changes throughout your cycle • Record symptoms: cramps, bloating, fatigue, and more • 5-phase cycle visualization: Menstruation, Follicular, Fertile Window, Ovulation, Luteal • Smart predictions based on your history • Color-coded calendar for easy pattern recognition • Detailed cycle statistics and averages INSIGHTS & TRENDS: • See your average cycle length • Identify symptom patterns by phase • Track mood shifts across your cycle • Predict your next period and fertile window PRIVACY FIRST: All data is stored locally on your device. No accounts required. No cloud sync. No one sees your data but you. Period Tracker is free and ad-supported. Download now and start understanding your cycle today.
Tending
This app offers a private space to track your menstrual cycle, water intake, and workouts. It features adaptive predictions for your cycle, playful hydration tracking, and simple movement logging, all while prioritizing user privacy with on-device data storage and no ads or analytics.
- Menstrual cycle and moon phase tracking
- Adaptive period and fertility predictions
- Playful water intake logging with streaks
- Simple workout streak tracking
- On-device data storage for privacy
- Face ID/Touch ID app lock
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Tending is a calm, private home for the rhythms worth keeping an eye on: your menstrual cycle, your water, and your movement. No account, no cloud, no tracking — everything stays on your device. MENSTRUAL CYCLE & MOON - Log period start and end dates in seconds, and backlog past cycles too. - Adaptive predictions learn from your history — the more you log, the sharper your next-period, ovulation, and fertile-window estimates become. - A day-by-day phase ring shows exactly where you are in your cycle. - Swipe to a moon view that tracks the lunar phase alongside your cycle. - A full-year calendar map and a cycle-vs-moon chart reveal your patterns over time. - An optional, gentle reminder before your next predicted period. WATER - Track every sip against a daily goal with a playful animated tumbler. - One-tap quick-add buttons you can customize. - Hydration streaks and pace-aware reminders that nudge you only when you fall behind. - Optional, write-only sync to Apple Health. - A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget with one-tap logging. MOVEMENT - A simple daily yes/no workout streak with a weekly goal. - A 16-week heatmap so you can see your consistency at a glance. PRIVACY FIRST - All your data is stored only on your device. There is no Tending account and no server. - No analytics, no ads, no third-party tracking. - Lock the app behind Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode. - Your cycle data never leaves the app. The only optional sharing is water to Apple Health — off by default and write-only. Tending is built to be quiet, warm, and yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tending at 5.0 against Period Tracker's 4.6. Tending also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Period Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tending holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Period Tracker has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Period Tracker | Tending |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | — | iPhone — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blas Prieto | Joshua Harrington |
In-app purchases
Period Tracker
No in-app purchases
Tending
No in-app purchases









