Tended vs Cycluna
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tended
This health journal helps you track chronic illness symptoms, pain, and daily well-being. Log entries quickly, even on difficult days, and identify potential patterns to better prepare for doctor appointments. It's designed for fluctuating conditions and prioritizes your privacy.
- Log symptoms, pain, energy, mood, and more
- Identify patterns and potential triggers
- Prepare for doctor appointments with reports
- Condition-specific starter sets
- On-device AI for descriptions
- Privacy-focused with no data collection
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Track chronic illness without turning your health into homework. Tended is a privacy-first health journal and symptom tracker for people living with long-term symptoms, pain, fatigue, flares, and appointments that never quite fit into ten minutes. Log in seconds, notice possible patterns, and prepare for doctor appointments without streaks, guilt, accounts, analytics, data collection, or external servers. LOG IN SECONDS, EVEN ON HARD DAYS When thinking is hard, Tended keeps logging light. Record a day rating, symptoms, pain, medications, energy, sleep, mood, bowel changes, food, triggers, activities, periods, photos, and notes at your own pace. Use Apple Watch, widgets, Siri, the Lock Screen, or the full app when opening your phone feels like too much. Duplicate yesterday, edit only what changed, or describe your day in your own words with optional on-device AI. BUILT FOR CHRONIC ILLNESS Tended is made for fluctuating conditions where a normal habit tracker does not fit. Use it as a chronic illness journal, symptom tracker, pain tracker, medication tracker, flare tracker, energy tracking tool, sleep tracking companion, and body map. Condition starter sets help you begin with relevant symptoms and triggers for fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, lupus, endometriosis, PMOS / PCOS, POTS, EDS, migraine, MS, IBD, PMDD, and many more. SEE PATTERNS IN YOUR OWN DATA Your journal can become more useful over time. Tended may help you notice possible links between symptoms, medications, food, sleep, activity, weather, Apple Health averages, menstrual cycle phases, flares, and better days. Insights are based on what you log yourself. They are self-reported observations, not clinical findings, so you stay in charge of what feels useful. PREPARE FOR APPOINTMENTS When brain fog arrives before your appointment, Tended helps you bring the important parts with you. Use Doctor Mode, appointment notes, body map history, medication adherence, symptom trends, focused visual reports, and PDF health reports to explain what has been happening. Tended+ unlocks longer history, deeper pattern insights, trigger experiments, appointment-ready PDF health reports, focused evidence and care PDFs, and CSV export for people who want to go deeper. STAY CONNECTED, WITHOUT OVERSHARING If you choose, Tended can help you share small practical updates with someone you trust through Supported, the carer companion app. Send a quiet check-in, a quick need, or a regular summary without exposing your whole private journal. FREE FOREVER. NO GUILT. Every tracking feature is free and unlimited. There are no streaks, no shame, and no "you missed a day" messages. Tended+ is for people who want longer-term insight and appointment-ready reports. The free journal stays useful on its own. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No analytics. No data collection. No external server. Your journal lives on your device or in your personal iCloud. Apple Health data is read only when you allow it. Optional on-device AI features run on your device where available; your journal is not sent to Cocoacorn servers. Use Tended gently, at your own pace. Bring what helps. Leave the rest. MEDICAL DISCLAIMER Tended is a personal health journal, not a medical device or clinical tool. It is not a substitute for medical advice or emergency support. Content is based on what you log yourself and may be incomplete or inaccurate. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional for medical decisions. Tended does not monitor journal entries for distress. If you are in crisis, contact local emergency or crisis support. Terms of Use: https://www.cocoacorn.com/tended/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.cocoacorn.com/tended/privacy
Cycluna
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cycluna at none against Tended's 1. Tended's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Tended sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cycluna asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tended ships an update every 4 days, Cycluna weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tended | Cycluna |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Geoff Davis | Seema Jagadeesh |
In-app purchases
Tended
- Lifetime$34.99
Cycluna
No in-app purchases









