Comparison

Volta vs Tending

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

Head to head
About

Volta

This science-backed app helps women track menopause symptoms, daily habits, and lifestyle factors to identify patterns and receive practical guidance. It focuses on sleep, energy, mood, nutrition, and movement without calorie counting.

Highlights
  • Log daily symptoms, mood, energy, and sleep
  • Track food, protein, movement, and recovery
  • Receive daily, science-backed guidance
  • Monitor period and cycle context
  • View weekly trends and insights
  • Access community support
  • Learn menopause and body composition education
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Volta is a science-backed menopause companion for women in perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause. It puts symptoms, food, workouts, and weight in one place, so you can see what's actually happening. Generic trackers miss the menopause context. Sleep may feel lighter, recovery may take longer, hot flashes or night sweats may disrupt routines, cravings may shift, and muscle matters more than it used to. Volta connects those dots and suggests a practical next step, not just another number to log. And when you finally get that doctor's appointment, you'll have a real log of what you've been dealing with. Volta can generate a shareable summary from your data to bring with you. With Volta, you can: - Track calories, protein, meals, and menopause nutrition patterns. - Follow workout guidance built around strength, recovery, and readiness. - Build muscle with protein-first nutrition and resistance training support. - Log symptoms, sleep, mood, energy, hot flashes, and night sweats. - Connect weight, workouts, food, recovery, and menopause symptoms over time. - Use daily guidance to know when to push, lift, recover, or refuel. - Review weekly trends for calories, protein, workouts, sleep, and body composition. Volta is not a diagnosis tool, medical device, treatment plan, or guarantee of weight loss. It is a menopause-focused tracking and guidance app for women working on nutrition, strength, recovery, and body composition. Volta is free to download. Access to Volta Pro features, including personalized guidance, advanced tracking, trend insights, and protocols requires a separate auto-renewing subscription purchased in the app. Plan options and local pricing are shown before purchase, and subscriptions can be managed or canceled in App Store settings. TERMS: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

Volta4 screens
Tending4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tending at none against Volta's 2. Volta's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Volta sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Tending asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Volta against 5.0 for Tending. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Volta ships an update every 4 days, Tending every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Volta versus Tending: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoltaTending
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDewluluJoshua Harrington

Customer experience

Volta

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tending

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Volta

Subscriptions2
  • Volta Monthly Plan7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Volta Yearly Plan7 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Tending

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Volta free?
Volta is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tending free?
Tending is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Volta or Tending?
Volta and Tending are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Volta or Tending have ads?
Neither Volta nor Tending shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Volta or Tending?
Volta ships an update every 4 days, and Tending every 6 weeks. Most recently, Volta was updated on October 8, 2026 and Tending on October 24, 2026.

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