Comparison

Meno vs Tending

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

Head to head
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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Meno4 screens
Tending4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tending at 5.0 against Meno's 3.0. Tending also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Meno's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tending holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meno ships an update monthly, Tending every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Meno versus Tending: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMenoTending
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB3 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDuong Nguyen HuuJoshua Harrington

Customer experience

Meno

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

Tending

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Meno

No in-app purchases

None

Tending

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meno free?
Meno is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tending free?
Tending is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Meno or Tending?
Tending is rated higher. Meno averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Tending averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Meno or Tending have ads?
Meno shows ads; Tending does not.
Which is updated more often, Meno or Tending?
Meno ships an update monthly, and Tending every 6 weeks. Most recently, Meno was updated on October 15, 2026 and Tending on October 31, 2026.

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