Cusp vs Perilog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cusp
Track perimenopause symptoms with ease and generate shareable reports for your doctor. Visualize your health patterns with heat maps and gain insights into symptom intensity and frequency.
- Log 80+ symptoms in 30 seconds
- Generate shareable Doctor Cards
- Visualize symptom patterns with heat maps
- Track HRT medication and efficacy
- Receive auto-generated clinical summaries
- View cycle-phase symptom clustering
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Your labs are normal. Your doctor said so. But something is happening, and it has been for months. Ember is a perimenopause symptom tracker built around one idea: make the chaos legible. Log how you feel in 30 seconds a day. After two weeks, Ember turns those logs into a monthly heat map - 80 symptoms, every day, intensity-coded from barely-noticed to can't-function. Then you show it to your doctor instead of trying to explain it. THE DOCTOR CARD Every existing perimenopause app lets you log. None of them turn the log into something you can hand to a clinician. Ember does. Tap "Doctor Card" and Ember renders a 1080×1920 shareable image: your symptom grid for the month, your top three symptoms by frequency and severity, the days when three or more symptoms hit hard at the same time, and an automatically generated pattern note. Save it to Photos or share directly to your provider via iMessage, WhatsApp, or your patient portal. Pro unlocks PDF export - a clean, clinic-printable version your doctor can file. DOCTOR BRIEF (PRO) Walk into the appointment with the paragraph already drafted. Ember reads your last 30 days (or 3 or 6 months) and writes a plain-English clinical summary - your top concerns, your HRT narrative, and a numbered list of what you'd like to discuss. Toggle between a clinical tone and a warmer conversational one. Share via iMessage or paste directly into your patient portal. THE HEAT MAP A grid of every day this month by every symptom you logged, colored by intensity. A cycle-phase band runs above the grid so you can see whether your hot flashes cluster in the luteal phase or your brain fog tracks with the bleed. Ember auto-generates a pattern note - phase clustering, symptom co-occurrence, month-over-month trends - so you do not have to do the analysis yourself. HRT TRACKING Add your estradiol patch, progesterone gel, or any other medication. Each day, Ember shows a checkbox on the Today screen - one tap to log it taken. Pro users can see the HRT efficacy view: does your symptom intensity actually move on days you take your medication versus days you miss it? Clinical-grade correlation, on-device, no servers. LOG 80 SYMPTOMS IN 30 SECONDS Hot flashes, night sweats, brain fog, joint pain, heart palpitations, electric-shock sensations, rage spikes, low mood, sleep disruption, dry mouth, ear pressure, frozen shoulder, formication, vaginal dryness - and dozens more across 13 categories. Tap to log, hold to set intensity and triggers. Your eight most-used symptoms stay in a quick-access row so most days take less than half a minute. INSIGHTS A weekly view shows days logged, peak-intensity days, your top symptom, and your loudest cluster day. A lifetime strip shows total days, streak, months tracked, and symptoms covered. The Spotlight card calls out the month's most active symptom with a sparkline. Constellation View (Pro) traces any single symptom across every month you have ever logged - so you can see whether your joint pain has been improving since you started HRT. PRIVACY - LOCAL ONLY Your symptom log lives in a single database file on this device. There is no account. There is no server. There are no analytics SDKs in this app - no Firebase, no Sentry, no Amplitude. We have no way to read what you log, and neither does anyone else. When you generate a Doctor Card, it stays on your phone until you choose to share it. FREE VS PRO Free: full symptom logging (all 80), Today screen, heat map for the current and one prior month, one Doctor Card image per calendar month, 14-day backfill. Pro ($9.99, one-time, lifetime): unlimited Doctor Cards, PDF export for clinic printouts, Doctor Brief with discussion list, HRT efficacy tracking, Constellation View, extended heat map (30 rows), no ads. One purchase. No subscription. No upsell. Less than one HRT consultation copay.
Perilog
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You know something's changing. Perilog helps you see exactly what, in your own words, on your own phone. A private symptom journal made for perimenopause — not another period app squinting at your data for the wrong reason. WHY PERILOG One-tap logging Log hot flashes, night sweats, mood, sleep, and cycle changes in seconds — built for the 2am moment, not a 20-minute form. Made for perimenopause, not adapted from one Most "cycle" apps assume a predictable period. Perilog is built around the irregularity, the unpredictability, and the symptoms that actually show up in your 40s and 50s. A doctor-ready report, not a guess Turn weeks of logs into a clean PDF you can hand your doctor — so the appointment starts with your patterns, not "I don't really remember when it started." 100% private, on-device Your logs never leave your phone. No account, no cloud, no ads, nothing to sync or lose. Delete the app and your data is gone — that's the point. No account needed Open it and start logging. There is no sign-up screen between you and tracking your first symptom. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK - Hot flashes and night sweats - Sleep disruption - Mood shifts - Cycle changes and irregularity - Your own free-text notes, for anything that doesn't fit a category Perilog is a personal symptom journal, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, or predict any condition, and it isn't a substitute for professional medical advice. Always talk to a licensed healthcare provider about your symptoms and any treatment decisions. Start logging today — free, private, no account required. Privacy Policy: https://perilog-omega.vercel.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Cusp at 3 against Perilog's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Cusp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Perilog sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Cusp | Perilog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kwan Cheng Lee | Emrah Sinekli |
In-app purchases
Cusp
- Ember Pro — Lifetime$9.99
Perilog
- Perilog Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
- Perilog Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
- Perilog Pro Lifetime$99.99









