Comparison

Anima Cycle Period Tracker vs Rhythmus

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

Head to head
About

Anima Cycle Period Tracker

This app helps you understand your body's patterns by tracking your cycle, mood, and energy levels. It provides personalized daily guidance on work, food, and movement, with insights based on your unique data. Your health information remains private and on your device.

Highlights
  • Cycle and symptom tracking
  • Daily personalized insights
  • 7-day forecasts
  • Cross-cycle pattern analysis
  • Work affinity mapping
  • Symptom-impact breakdowns
  • Home screen widget and alerts
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More than a period tracker. Anima Cycle helps you understand your cycle and turn that awareness into practical support for everyday life. TRACK YOUR WAY Use Anima Cycle for your natural cycle, while taking the pill, or after stopping the pill. Track cycle days, symptoms, mood and energy in one place. KNOW WHAT SUPPORTS YOU TODAY Get daily insights and practical ideas for food, movement and self-care. Explore recipes, activity guidance and simple rituals that fit your current state. SEE YOUR PATTERNS Daily logging helps you notice recurring changes across weeks and cycles and better understand what feels different over time. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE Get period forecasts, reminders, pill-pack tracking when relevant, and an optional partner Circle that shares only the context you choose. FREEMIUM Core cycle tracking is free. Premium unlocks deeper insights, recipes, movement guidance, self-care content and advanced analysis. PRIVACY FIRST By default, your cycle data stays on your device. If you choose to enable iCloud sync, you can keep your Anima Cycle data in sync across your Apple devices. Terms: https://animacycle.com/terms Privacy: https://animacycle.com/privacy

About

Rhythmus

Features
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Rhythmus is a period tracker with a cycle calendar — plus a nutrition and training plan that changes with your cycle. WHAT RHYTHMUS DOES • Cycle and period calendar: log your period, see your cycle day and phase at a glance, with estimated ovulation and fertile window • Nutrition plan: meals and nutrients matched to your current phase – omnivore, vegetarian, vegan – with a shopping list • Training plan: workouts scaled to your intensity and training days, logged set by set • Supplements: which nutrients matter in which phase • Daily energy check-in: feeling low, and the app suggests a gentler session • Weekly overview, symptom diary, cycle statistics from your own history WHO IT IS FOR For women who train and notice that the same session feels easy one week and impossible the next. Menstruation, follicular phase, ovulation and the luteal phase each ask for something different — Rhythmus takes that into account. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING No sign-up, no registration, no ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases. Everything you enter stays on your device and is sent nowhere. The app works fully offline. From Settings you can export a backup at any time and restore it on another device. WITH SOURCES Every health statement in the app comes with a citation you can tap — straight to the study or fact sheet. Among others from the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, the Journal of Medical Internet Research and the National Institutes of Health. Available in German, English and Spanish. Rhythmus is a free passion project. Note: Rhythmus is not a medical device, not a contraception method, and does not replace medical advice.

Screenshots

Anima Cycle Period Tracker4 screens
Rhythmus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rhythmus at none against Anima Cycle Period Tracker's 2. Rhythmus also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Anima Cycle Period Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Rhythmus asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Anima Cycle Period Tracker ships an update every 4 days, Rhythmus every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Anima Cycle Period Tracker versus Rhythmus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnima Cycle Period TrackerRhythmus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB21 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperViktoriia PonomarovaPatrick Sarpen

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Anima Cycle Period Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Rhythmus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Anima Cycle Period Tracker free?
Anima Cycle Period Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rhythmus free?
Rhythmus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Anima Cycle Period Tracker or Rhythmus have ads?
Neither Anima Cycle Period Tracker nor Rhythmus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Anima Cycle Period Tracker or Rhythmus?
Anima Cycle Period Tracker ships an update every 4 days, and Rhythmus every 2 days. Most recently, Anima Cycle Period Tracker was updated on November 9, 2026 and Rhythmus on November 10, 2026.

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