Cusp vs Veyana Cycle
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.
Veyana Cycle
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Meet Veyana Cycle, a gentle and private place to understand your monthly rhythm. Keep your cycle information, daily check-ins, and personal reflections together in a simple app designed to feel warm, calm, and easy to use. TRACK YOUR CYCLE • Record the first day of your period • Add your typical cycle and period length • View your current cycle day and phase • See an estimated next-period window CHECK IN WITH YOUR BODY • Log flow from spotting to heavy • Record common symptoms • Note your mood and how you feel • Add a private note for the day KEEP A PERSONAL JOURNAL • Write longer reflections whenever you want • Revisit previous entries in one quiet space • Delete journal entries at any time MADE FOR YOU • Save your age, weight, and cycle preferences • Enjoy a feminine heart-and-V design with a warm gummy-inspired palette • Use every feature without creating an account PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your entries stay on your iPhone. Veyana Cycle has no account system, advertising, in-app analytics, or tracking, and it does not send your health information to us. The developer may view privacy-preserving, aggregate performance information supplied by Apple through App Store Connect, such as download counts and overall usage trends. This does not include your identity or anything you record in the app. COMPLETELY FREE There are no subscriptions, in-app purchases, advertisements, paywalls, or locked features. IMPORTANT Cycle dates and windows shown by Veyana Cycle are personal estimates. They may change and should not be used as medical advice, a diagnosis, or contraception guidance. Contact a qualified healthcare professional with health concerns.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Veyana Cycle at none against Cusp's 1. Cusp's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. Veyana Cycle asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Cusp | Veyana Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kwan Cheng Lee | Moshe Nahum |
In-app purchases
Cusp
- Ember Pro — Lifetime$9.99
Veyana Cycle
No in-app purchases









