Comparison

Ember vs Perimenopause Compass

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

Head to head
About

Ember

This app offers a private daily wellness journal designed for women experiencing perimenopause. It helps users track mood, energy, sleep, symptoms, and personal patterns with simple daily check-ins and deeper reflection tools.

Highlights
  • Daily wellness tracking
  • Symptom logging
  • Mood and energy tracking
  • Sleep quality monitoring
  • Private journaling
  • Pattern analysis
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Ember is a private daily wellness journal for women navigating perimenopause, mood changes, disrupted sleep, shifting energy, symptoms, and the quiet questions that can come with midlife. In about a minute a day, Ember helps you log how you feel, notice personal patterns, and build a calm record you can return to over time. No pressure. No ads. No social feed. Just a warm place to reflect. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK Use Ember to keep a gentle daily record of: • Mood, energy, and sleep quality • Hot flashes, night sweats, brain fog, and physical discomfort • Anxiety, irritability, and social battery • Cycle context, food and drink context, and custom symptoms • Private notes, journal prompts, and morning or night reflections A DAILY RITUAL, NOT HOMEWORK Choose a quick Daily Check-In or a slower Guided Check-In. Ember is built to feel simple enough for tired days and thoughtful enough for the days when you want to understand more. Your free experience includes daily tracking, journaling, calendar history, weekly summaries, custom symptoms, cycle context, learning tools, glossary access, and reflection prompts. PATTERNS WITHOUT PANIC Over time, Ember helps your self-reported history become easier to review. You can look back at your mood, sleep, energy, symptoms, notes, and reflections with more clarity instead of relying on memory alone. Ember Premium unlocks deeper pattern and reflection tools, including Monthly Pattern Reports, Body Battery, Pattern Map, Ask Ember, My Mirror, Weekly Letters, Doctor Visit Companion, Doctor Export, guided programs, and long-term archives. Premium is designed for women who want a fuller picture of their rhythm over weeks and months, not just a place to log today. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your wellness history is personal. Ember is built around that belief. • Works offline • No account needed to begin • Data is stored locally by default • Optional cloud backup if you choose it • No ads • No social feed IMPORTANT NOTE Ember is a wellness journal and personal pattern-awareness tool. It is not a medical device, diagnostic tool, therapy product, or replacement for professional medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional about medical concerns. Meet Ember. Start noticing your rhythm, one private day at a time. Terms of Use: https://emberwellnessjournal.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://emberwellnessjournal.com/privacy

About

Perimenopause Compass

Features
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Perimenopause does not feel random because you are imagining it. It feels random because the evidence is scattered. A bad night here. A hot flush there. Mood changes, brain fog, joint pain, night sweats, irregular periods, HRT adjustments, and the vague memory that last week was worse, but not exactly why. Then comes the appointment, and you are expected to explain months of changing symptoms in ten minutes. Perimenopause Compass is a private symptom, cycle and HRT tracker built to make the pattern visible. Not a generic wellness diary. Not a fertility app with a menopause label. Not a cloud account asking for intimate data. A calm, on-device perimenopause tracker for understanding what changed, when it changed, and what you want to discuss next. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED App requires an auto-renewable subscription. Weekly Pro includes a 7-day free trial, then renews weekly unless cancelled. Annual Pro gives full access for one year, is billed immediately, and does not include a free trial. WHAT CHANGES ON DAY ONE Daily symptom logging becomes a 20-second check-in. Scattered notes become clear trends. Cycle changes stop living only in memory. HRT adjustments become a timeline you can review. Doctor appointments start with evidence, not guesswork. TRACK THE SYMPTOMS THAT MATTER Choose the symptoms you want to follow, then log severity with simple sliders. Track common perimenopause and menopause symptoms such as: • hot flushes • night sweats • poor sleep • mood changes • brain fog • joint pain • cycle irregularity • and other symptoms you choose to monitor No endless diary entries. No noisy dashboard. No pressure to record everything. SEE PATTERNS OVER TIME Symptoms are hard to understand when each day is viewed alone. Perimenopause Compass helps you review changes across days, weeks and months so you can see: • which symptoms keep returning • whether symptoms cluster together • how symptoms change around recent periods • whether sleep, mood or hot flushes are improving or worsening • what changed after an HRT or regimen adjustment This is not diagnosis. It is your own information made easier to understand. TRACK HRT AND REGIMEN CHANGES If you are taking HRT or another regimen, record what changed and when. Keep a simple history of medications, doses, dates and how symptoms felt afterwards. Instead of “I think it helped”, you have a clearer record. CYCLE CONTEXT WITHOUT FERTILITY NOISE Many cycle apps are still built around fertility prediction. Perimenopause Compass is different. It lets you log periods and cycle changes without unnecessary ovulation windows or fertility framing. The focus is simple: recent periods, irregularity, symptom context and what is useful for this stage of life. DOCTOR-READY APPOINTMENT SUMMARY Prepare a structured appointment summary from your own logged data. Use it to organise: • your most difficult symptoms • recent patterns • current treatment or HRT • what you want to ask at your appointment You can edit the summary before sharing or exporting it as a PDF. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data stays on your device. No account. No cloud database. No advertising profile. No selling of personal health data. Where available, on-device Apple Intelligence can help organise your logged information into clearer appointment wording, without sending private health information to an external AI service. BUILT FOR CALM USE Perimenopause can already feel noisy enough. The app is deliberately restrained: cream background, carmine accents, simple cards, readable charts and quick daily input. The point is not to make you track more. The point is to help you understand more. Perimenopause is not random. You just need to see the pattern. RESOURCES Privacy Policy: https://pragmathema.com/#perimenopause Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Ember4 screens
Perimenopause Compass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Ember at 15.1 against Perimenopause Compass's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ember sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Perimenopause Compass sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ember ships an update every 9 days, Perimenopause Compass fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Ember versus Perimenopause Compass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmberPerimenopause Compass
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB3 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMuhsin Mert TEKINNikola Knezevic

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Ember

Subscriptions2
  • Ember Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Ember Premium Annual$49.991 Year
One-time3
  • Ember Premium Gift$49.99
  • Ember Gift$49.99
  • Ember Lifetime$99.99
2 purchases

Perimenopause Compass

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Pro7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Annual Pro$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Ember free?
Ember is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Perimenopause Compass free?
Perimenopause Compass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ember or Perimenopause Compass have ads?
Neither Ember nor Perimenopause Compass shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ember or Perimenopause Compass?
Ember ships an update every 9 days, and Perimenopause Compass fortnightly. Most recently, Ember was updated on October 31, 2026 and Perimenopause Compass on October 5, 2026.

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