Volta vs PainTrail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
PainTrail
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Living with chronic pain means remembering details your doctor needs — right when you're least able to. PainTrail is a private, calm way to log pain, symptoms, and medications as life happens, so you walk into every appointment with the full picture instead of scattered notes and guesswork. PainTrail is a calm, structured place to record pain as life happens. Log where you feel pain, rate the intensity, add context, and include a note only when it helps. Review a dated history by day, week, month, or all time so the details do not have to live in scattered notes—or in memory alone. WHAT YOU CAN RECORD • Pain location and 0–10 intensity • Context such as sleep, stress, activity, weather, and medication taken • Optional notes • Medication name, dose as entered, time, and notes • Questions for an upcoming visit REVIEW YOUR OWN HISTORY See daily entries, simple trends, common locations, and descriptive observations based only on what you entered. PainTrail may flag a logged day whose average pain is at least two points above the selected period's average. This is a descriptive comparison, not a medical assessment. PainTrail does not diagnose causes or recommend care. PREPARE A USER-ENTERED SUMMARY Create a PDF with pain averages and peaks, locations, context, and medication records for the selected date range. Questions saved for an upcoming visit remain in the app and are not included in the PDF. PRIVATE, WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Your records are stored in local app storage. PainTrail has no product account, backend server, advertising, or analytics integration. Files leave local app storage only when you choose to share a PDF or manually export a JSON backup. FREE • Unlimited pain and medication logging • Day, week, month, and all-time history and summary views • PDF exports up to 30 days • Manual JSON backup and restore for pain check-ins and medication records PAINTRAIL PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE • PDF ranges longer than 30 days • Optional free-text notes in PDF exports • Descriptive tag comparisons PainTrail is intended for personal tracking and informational purposes. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment recommendations, medication guidance, or emergency support. Consult a qualified healthcare professional about medical decisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Volta at every 4 days against PainTrail's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Volta sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and PainTrail sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Volta ships an update every 4 days, PainTrail every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Volta | PainTrail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dewlulu | Jonathan Brito |
In-app purchases
Volta
- Volta Monthly Plan7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Volta Yearly Plan7 Days trial$39.991 Year
PainTrail
- Pro Unlock$9.99









