Comparison

Vela Period Tracker vs Steady

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

Head to head
About

Vela Period Tracker

Features
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Vela is a private period and cycle tracking app designed to help you understand your body with clarity and confidence. Track your period, symptoms, moods, notes, weight, and basal body temperature in one simple place. Features include: • Period and cycle tracking • Flow, symptom, and mood logging • Journal notes • Basal body temperature tracking • Cycle insights and predictions • Theme customisation • Privacy-focused local tracking Vela Premium unlocks advanced insights, reminders, reports, partner sharing, and all themes. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://suftnetrepo.github.io/vela Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Steady

Features
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Steady is a symptom and trigger diary for people living with one or more chronic conditions — the kind where symptoms move for no obvious reason, and the appointment is fifteen minutes long. Half a minute a day. Score how you felt, tick what happened. After a few weeks there is enough in the record to check whether anything you log lines up with how you feel — and when there is not enough, Steady says so plainly instead of inventing an answer. WHY THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT It is easy to build a tracker that announces your top trigger after a week. It is also easy for that answer to be water, because you drink it every day and there was nothing to compare against. Steady will not do that. Before it compares anything it needs at least ten days where a factor was present and ten days where it was not. It checks same day, next day and two days later separately, and corrects every comparison together, so that testing many things does not manufacture a result by luck. Until a pattern clears that bar, the Patterns screen shows you how close each one is and nothing more. WHAT YOU CAN RECORD • Any symptoms you choose, 0 to 10, named in your own words — pain, fatigue, brain fog, headache, nausea, dizziness • Factors — food, sleep, weather, stress, anything you want to test • Flares: a spike at noon that eased by evening, kept as its own event • Medications with reminders, including weekly, every-other-week and on/off cycle schedules • Period days, if you turn cycle tracking on • Sleep, resting heart rate, heart rate variability and steps from Apple Health, if you allow it (read only) • A note for whatever the numbers do not capture • Days you missed. You can fill them in later, and gaps stay gaps — nothing is smoothed over FOR THE APPOINTMENT The doctor's report is one page: how each symptom ran over the period, how closely you kept to your medication, and any association that held up — with the method stated, so a clinician can judge it rather than take it on trust. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER There is nothing to sign up for. Your record is on this iPhone and nowhere else — not on our servers, because there are none. Save a backup whenever you like; the file is yours to keep and yours to move. BOUGHT ONCE, NOT RENTED Everything you record is free and stays free: every score, the calendar, the charts at any range, reminders, backups and CSV export. Pro is a single one-time purchase — no subscription, and no trial to forget to cancel. It unlocks the full analysis and the doctor's report. The strongest pattern in your record is free as well. COMING FROM ANOTHER TRACKER Export a CSV and bring it with you. Steady shows you every symptom and factor it found in the file and asks what each one is before writing anything, and importing only adds — nothing already in Steady is overwritten. Two years of history is two years the analysis can start from. IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Português, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文 and 繁體中文. Steady follows your iPhone's language, and you can pick another one just for Steady in iOS Settings. NOT MEDICAL ADVICE Steady describes what is in your own record. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent any condition, and it does not tell you what to do about what it finds. A pattern is a question worth asking your clinician, not an answer. Never start, stop or change a medication because of something the app shows you.

Screenshots

Vela Period Tracker4 screens
Steady4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Steady at fortnightly against Vela Period Tracker's every 2 months. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Vela Period Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Steady sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vela Period Tracker ships an update every 2 months, Steady fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Vela Period Tracker versus Steady: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVela Period TrackerSteady
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB42 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSuftnet limited辉 任

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Vela Period Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Vela Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Vela Premium Yearly$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Vela Premium Lifetime$9.99
1 purchases

Steady

One-time1
  • Steady Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Vela Period Tracker free?
Vela Period Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Steady free?
Steady is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Vela Period Tracker or Steady have ads?
Neither Vela Period Tracker nor Steady shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vela Period Tracker or Steady?
Vela Period Tracker ships an update every 2 months, and Steady fortnightly. Most recently, Vela Period Tracker was updated on September 29, 2026 and Steady on October 25, 2026.

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