Comparison

Marea vs Vela

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

Head to head
About

Marea

Navigate hormonal changes with personalized insights based on your symptoms, cycle, and health data. Understand perimenopause patterns with OB/GYN-authored content and prepare for appointments with clinical summaries. Free to download.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily wellness score
  • Daily AI-driven insights
  • Symptom and cycle tracking
  • Apple Health data integration
  • Clinical summary generation
  • OB/GYN-authored educational content
Features
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Marea is the perimenopause app that reads the patterns in your data — so you can navigate hormonal change with clarity instead of confusion. Built by board-certified OB/GYNs. Free to download. The hormonal shift behind hot flashes, sleep loss, brain fog, and mood swings often starts up to a decade before your final period. Marea brings together your daily symptoms, cycle, and Apple Health data into one personalized picture of where you are — and what's coming. WHAT'S INCLUDED • Marea Index — a daily wellness score from your symptoms, cycle phase, and Apple Health signals (HRV, sleep). Updates as you log. • Today Marea Noticed — one personalized insight every morning, drawn from patterns only your data can write. • Daily Symptom Tracker — log mood, sleep, hot flashes, energy, brain fog, and night sweats in seconds. • Cycle Intelligence — track your cycle, see your phase, and understand how it shapes your symptoms. • Apple Health — automatic sleep and HRV signals from your iPhone, Apple Watch, Oura, Whoop, or any HealthKit-connected tracker. • Appointment Prep — generate a clinical PDF summary of your symptoms, cycle, and patterns to bring to your provider. • Learn — read OB/GYN-authored articles on every aspect of perimenopause, from HRT to bone density. MAREA MEMBER SUBSCRIPTION Marea Member unlocks daily personalized AI insights from day 14, the full Insights archive, the Daily Forecast, the Weekly Letter, the Lab Interpreter, and personalized Marea reads on every score. Available subscriptions: • Marea Member Monthly — auto-renewing every 1 month • Marea Member Annual — auto-renewing every 1 year Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew at the same price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel anytime in iPhone Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. PRIVACY Your symptoms, cycle, and HealthKit data stay private. We never sell your data. You can disconnect Apple Health, export your data, or delete your account anytime from Profile → Data. Marea was built with women's health expertise — not generic wellness platitudes. We respect your time, your privacy, and the seriousness of what you're going through. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mareahealth.com/privacy Support: https://mareahealth.com/support

About

Vela

Features
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Vela is the perimenopause tracker built around the moment it actually happens. One tap logs a hot flash or night sweat as it hits — timestamped, as many times a day as it comes — and your calendar heat-map shows where the episodes cluster, so you can finally see the shape of what you're living through. Vela is honest about your cycle. Instead of pretending to predict a date, it names what irregular actually looks like: "your cycles now range 26–41 days." In perimenopause the widening itself is the signal worth watching, and Vela says so plainly — no false precision, no alarms that something is wrong. When you're ready to talk to your clinician, the Doctor Visit Brief turns your logs into a clear, structured summary: hot-flash frequency and trend, your cycle's real range and stage read, what seemed to help, and the questions worth asking — built for the 12-minute appointment and for having the HRT conversation on your terms, with your own evidence in hand. Logging takes seconds: hot flashes and night sweats as they happen, mood, energy and sleep, brain fog, rage, aching joints and the other companions of the transition, plus period starts. Read calm, science-backed lessons on what's happening in your body — every clinical claim cites its source, anchored in NICE and Menopause Society guidance, written to inform, never to alarm. The safety layer is free forever: a crisis-support banner with real helplines that is never behind the paywall. All logging, the calendar heat-map, current trends, your first full insight and the pattern quiz are free. Vela Plus adds your full history across stages, complete pattern narratives with the numbers behind them, PDF export of the Doctor Visit Brief, and the full lesson library — as a subscription with a free trial. Your data stays on your device. No account, no ads, no third-party analytics. We never see what you log — so it can never be sold, shared, or leaked by us. Vela offers education and self-tracking. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice; it never tells you whether hormone therapy or any treatment is right for you — that is a conversation for you and your clinician. If you are in crisis, free support resources are always shown in the app. Vela Plus is an auto-renewable subscription: $4.99/month or $29.99/year, with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cooperative-catmint-496.notion.site/Vela-Privacy-Policy-392d692d254d808da6d7ee8442a4227e

Screenshots

Marea4 screens
Vela4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Marea at 15.0 against Vela's 17.0. 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. Marea sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Vela sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Marea versus Vela: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMareaVela
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB3 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperMarea Health, LLCPetr Nezval

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Marea

Subscriptions2
  • Marea Member Monthly7 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Marea Member Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Vela

Subscriptions2
  • Vela Plus (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Vela Plus (Annual)7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Marea free?
Marea is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vela free?
Vela is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Marea or Vela have ads?
Neither Marea nor Vela shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Marea or Vela?
Marea ships an update every 2 months, and Vela every 2 months. Most recently, Marea was updated on October 9, 2026 and Vela on October 25, 2026.

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