Comparison

Period Tracker vs Emberpause

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

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Period Tracker

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MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: This app is for personal tracking and informational purposes only. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before making any health or medical decisions. Period & Pregnancy Tracker is a private, elegant app for tracking your menstrual cycle, understanding your fertility, and following your pregnancy journey , all without an account, no cloud sync, and no data ever leaving your device. Designed for simplicity and built around your privacy, the app gives you a clear picture of your cycle every single day. CYCLE TRACKING Log your period with one tap and the app immediately calculates where you are in your cycle. A beautiful ring visualization shows your current phase, fertile window, and ovulation day at a glance. Tap any day on the ring to explore what that phase means for your body. Drag around the ring to scrub through your entire cycle. DAILY LOGGING Record flow intensity, symptoms, moods, discharge, and notes for any day. The more you log, the smarter your predictions become. Everything is saved instantly on your device. FERTILITY AWARENESS See your fertile window and predicted ovulation day clearly marked in the cycle ring and calendar. The app uses your logged cycle history to refine predictions over time, blending your real data with your settings for the most accurate estimates possible. PREGNANCY MODE Switch to pregnancy mode at any time. Track your week-by-week progress, see what is developing with your baby each week, log kick counts, time contractions, manage prenatal appointments, write a pregnancy journal, build hospital bag checklists, and save baby names you love. Switch back to period mode at any time, all your data is preserved. CALENDAR A full calendar view color codes every day, period days, fertile window, ovulation, predicted dates, and logged symptoms. Tap any day to see a detailed summary of what you logged. INSIGHTS See patterns across your cycles, average cycle length, flow distribution, most common symptoms, mood trends, and cycle-to-cycle comparisons. Insights unlock the more you track. COMPLETE PRIVACY There are no accounts. No login. No internet connection required. Your health data is stored only on your device. We have no servers and cannot access your data under any circumstances. Export a full backup of everything from Settings at any time. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/periodtracker-privacy/home Terms & Conditions: https://sites.google.com/view/periodtracker-privacy/home

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Emberpause

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It's 3:12am. You didn't set an alarm, your body did. Your heart is racing and nothing is wrong. So you lie there and run the list again. The shoulder that seized up for no reason. The word that vanished in Tuesday's meeting. The ear you can't scratch. The night you were drenched, then freezing ten minutes later. He's asleep next to you. He thinks you're losing it. Some mornings you agree with him. You went to the doctor about it. Twice. Took the afternoon off, drove in, paid, sat down, and got "probably stress" and a leaflet in eight minutes. Your bloods came back fine, which somehow made it worse. So you stopped asking. Now you read the groups at 3am instead, where every second post is a woman going "is anyone else?" and two hundred women underneath saying yes. Here's what nobody said in either appointment. You weren't wrong. You just had nothing to show them. A feeling and a bad night is easy to call stress. Six months of nights, dated, in your own words, isn't. Emberpause is that record. TALK, DON'T TRACK Tell Flick what happened the way you'd tell a friend. "Soaked again at 3am, couldn't get back off till 5." She drafts the check-in, shows you what she noticed, and you tap confirm. Nothing goes on your record without you. Some nights you'd rather tap than talk, so there's a 60 second check-in too. Both land in the same place. SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHERE YOU WERE IN MARCH Flick answers from your record, not from a generic article. Ask her at 3am whether this is new or whether it was worse in March, and she knows, because she was there. Nobody else in your life holds that timeline. Not eight minutes with a GP, not the group, not him. THE REAL TREND, NOT A FEELING Every week you get a short letter about what your pattern is actually doing. The 3am wake-ups landing on the same days as the racing heart. The fog worst the week before your period, when you get one. Things you can't see from inside them, because you're too tired to look. ONE TAP. ONE PAGE. A DIFFERENT APPOINTMENT. Your symptoms, your timeline, your own words, the questions worth asking, dated. You hand it across the desk. It's hard to say "probably stress" to six weeks of evidence, so the eight minutes go on what to do about it instead of you telling the story from memory, nervous and out of order. That's the appointment that goes somewhere. And the one after it is the one you don't have to book. ALL 48 SYMPTOMS, EXPLAINED CALMLY Most women can name four. The other 44 are the ones you've been apologising for. Itchy ears. Electric shocks. Burning mouth. Frozen shoulder. What it is, why hormones do it, what tends to help, and when it needs a professional tonight rather than a hormone label. WHERE YOU LIVE MATTERS Tell Flick your country once. What's true in the US isn't always true in the UK or New Zealand, and she reflects it. YOUR RECORD STAYS YOURS It lives on your phone. No account. We never sell your data. When you talk to Flick, your message and the slice of your record needed to answer it go to our server and on to our AI provider. Our server keeps none of it. The provider doesn't train on it. You've learned to distrust health apps, and you were right to, so here is exactly where your words go. FREE FOR 7 DAYS All of it. Cancel anytime, and your record is still yours. You said "I miss me." She didn't go anywhere. She's been running on four hours' sleep with no explanation. Let's get her one. Our goal for 2026 is to help one million women understand what their own body is doing. Tonight, you're one of them. Flick explains and remembers. She doesn't diagnose, and she'll tell you plainly when something deserves a doctor tonight. Emberpause does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always talk to a qualified health professional about your symptoms. Emberpause Plus auto-renews until cancelled in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://emberpause.com/privacy

Screenshots

Period Tracker4 screens
Emberpause4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Period Tracker at none against Emberpause's 3. Period Tracker also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Emberpause sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.49 per 7 days. Period Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Period Tracker versus Emberpause: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPeriod TrackerEmberpause
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size33 MB16 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperSujan AnandChase Empson

In-app purchases

None

Period Tracker

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Emberpause

Subscriptions3
  • Emberpause Plus$9.497 Days
  • Emberpause Plus Monthly3 Days trial$34.991 Month
  • Emberpause Plus Yearly7 Days trial$239.991 Year

Questions

Is Period Tracker free?
Period Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Emberpause free?
Emberpause is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Period Tracker or Emberpause have ads?
Neither Period Tracker nor Emberpause shows ads.

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