Comparison

Mella vs Meno

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

Head to head
About

Mella

This app helps individuals understand and track symptoms related to perimenopause. It offers personalized insights, daily tips, and educational content to navigate this life transition.

Highlights
  • Symptom assessment and phase suggestion
  • Symptom profile mapping
  • Daily symptom check-ins
  • Sleep tracking integration with Apple Health
  • Personalized daily tips
  • Bloom Type identification
  • Educational articles
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Perimenopause is confusing. Cycles shift, sleep gets lighter, energy moves in ways you can't quite place. Mella helps you see the pattern. How it works: • Start with a short assessment. Based on the symptoms you share, Mella suggests which phase of the transition your pattern best fits (early, mid, or late). For education, not a medical diagnosis. • See your symptom profile. Your answers mapped across six dimensions (temperature, sleep, mood, body, intimate, digestive) so you can spot what's shifting and what isn't. • Check in daily. Thirty seconds to log common perimenopause symptoms, or add your own. Your history builds into a timeline so you can see what's changing over time. • See your sleep, scored. Connect Apple Health and Mella turns your Apple Watch sleep into a nightly score, plus trends in duration, regularity, and wake-ups. • Let your days fill themselves in. Connect Apple Health and the movement your Apple Watch recorded can pre-fill your daily check-in. • Gentle daily reminders. An optional daily nudge so checking in becomes a habit. • Today on your Lock Screen. Check in, log a symptom or mark a dose without opening the app. • Meet your Bloom Type. After your first seven check-ins, Mella reveals the archetype your pattern most resembles: the cluster of symptoms you carry, the way they travel, the rhythm that's only yours. It's a name for what's happening, not a diagnosis. • Something to read each day. A short piece drawn from research, matched to the areas where you have the most room to feel better. • Follow a weekly plan. A few small tasks each week, chosen with you around the symptom area that hits hardest, ticked off day by day. • Get weekly insights. As your check-in history grows, Mella highlights patterns across your symptoms week to week, in plain language. • Read or listen on your own time. Short, research-informed articles on perimenopause topics, from sleep to mood to body changes. Selected articles come with audio narration. • Keep your daily routine in one place. What you take and do each day, with a history you can look back through and bring to an appointment. • Get ready for doctor visits. Turn your check-ins into a clear summary with your questions, add lab results, letters or scans, get a reminder before the appointment, record the visit if your doctor is fine with it, and keep what you were told and what comes next. Save or share the summary as a PDF. Mella is for education and wellness. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional for medical decisions. Subscription: Mella Monthly is $14.99 per month and Mella Annual is $118.99 per year. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Prices are in US dollars and may vary by country. Privacy Policy: https://www.mella.health/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.mella.health/terms Questions or feedback: hello@mella.health

About

Meno

Track perimenopause symptoms, triggers, and cycles privately on your phone. Log over 30 symptoms, custom entries, and period variations. Offers free basic tracking with ads, and a Pro version for advanced features and an ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Track 30+ perimenopause symptoms
  • Log custom symptoms and triggers
  • Record irregular cycles and spotting
  • HRT and medication tracking (Pro)
  • Heatmap calendar and trend charts
  • PDF and CSV export for doctors
  • Encrypted local data backup (Pro)
Features
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Meno helps you understand your perimenopause — privately, in seconds a day, on a phone that keeps your health data to itself. Built for the symptoms that generic period apps ignore, and for cycles that no longer follow a schedule. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK • 30+ symptoms — hot flashes, night sweats, brain fog, joint pain, anxiety, insomnia, palpitations, and more • Severity 1–5, in two taps • Triggers: caffeine, alcohol, stress, poor sleep, heat, and your own • Periods of any length — a 2-day bleed, a 60-day gap, spotting. No app should tell you that is invalid • Free-text notes, and a "good day" marker for the wins • Your own custom symptoms and triggers, with no limit WHAT'S FREE, FOREVER • Logging symptoms, triggers, cycles and notes • Heatmap calendar over your whole history • Trend and frequency charts for 7, 30 and 90 days • PDF export for your doctor • A daily reminder • Five languages No account. No sign-up. Supported by ads. WHAT MENO PRO ADDS • HRT & medication tracking — record what you were prescribed, tick off each dose, and see how your symptoms compared before and after a dose change • Doctor report — a fuller PDF with a symptom score clinicians recognise, charts, your medications and adherence, plus a space for the questions you want to ask. CSV export too • Encrypted backup — one file you save wherever you keep your files, so a new phone does not cost you years of entries • Longer history — 6 months, a year, everything; compare two symptoms side by side • No ads, and no advertising SDK running at all ABOUT YOUR DATA Your symptoms, cycles and medications are stored only on your phone, in a local database. They are never uploaded, never sold, and never visible to advertisers — there is no server to send them to. The free version shows ads. The advertiser sees your device's ad identifier, never anything you logged. Meno Pro removes ads entirely. Your health data leaves the app only when you choose: a report you export, or a backup file you create, which is encrypted with a passphrase only you know. A NOTE ON THE MEDICATION FEATURE Meno records what your clinician prescribed and shows you your own logged data around it. It does not recommend, calculate or adjust doses, and it is not a substitute for medical advice. Always discuss your treatment with your clinician. Designed for women 40–55. Built after reading 134,000+ reviews of apps that let them down. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://giavanghomnay.id.vn/MenoTracker/privacy-policy

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mella at 43% against Meno's 0%. Mella also leads on rating (3.5 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). Meno's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mella sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Meno asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mella holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mella has 26 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Mella's written reviews are positive against 0% of Meno's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mella ships an update weekly, Meno monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Mella versus Meno: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMellaMeno
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (26 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings26 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size162 MB41 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMella HealthDuong Nguyen Huu

Customer experience

Mella

All ratings25 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative36.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative57.1%

Meno

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Mella

Subscriptions3
  • Mella Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Mella Monthly$24.991 Month
  • Mella Annual$118.991 Year
None

Meno

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mella free?
Mella is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meno free?
Meno is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mella or Meno?
Mella is rated higher. Mella averages 3.5 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Meno averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Mella or Meno have ads?
Meno shows ads; Mella does not.
Which is updated more often, Mella or Meno?
Mella ships an update weekly, and Meno monthly. Most recently, Mella was updated on November 9, 2026 and Meno on October 31, 2026.

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