Comparison

Cusp vs Menopause Tracker

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Menopause Tracker

Features
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Somewhere in your 40s, your body starts rewriting its own rules. Sleep breaks at 3 a.m. A wave of heat arrives mid-meeting. Your cycle stops keeping its own schedule, and your memory misplaces a word it has known for decades. None of this is unusual — but it is far easier to navigate when you can see what is actually happening. Menolyn is a perimenopause and menopause symptom journal built for exactly that: log what you feel in seconds, watch the patterns emerge, and walk into your next appointment with real data instead of vague recollections. FREE FOREVER • Log symptoms as individual episodes, with the time of day — not just a daily checkbox • Hot flashes, night sweats, sleep, mood, brain fog, cycle changes — 29 built-in symptoms in all • Add your own custom symptoms and free-text notes — your list is never locked • Calendar view of your history, with period and spotting markers if you still cycle • Track medications or HRT if you choose to — neutrally, with zero promotion • Export everything to CSV at any time. Your data is yours. EPISODES, NOT CHECKBOXES Most trackers let you tick "hot flash: yes" once a day. But hot flashes don't happen once a day — they happen at 2 p.m. in a meeting and again at 3 a.m. Menolyn records each episode with its time, intensity and optional triggers (caffeine, alcohol, stress, spicy food and more), so your patterns actually have something to show. A REPORT YOUR DOCTOR CAN USE Menolyn Plus generates a clean, one-page PDF summary of your last three months: symptom frequencies, hot-flash time-of-day pattern, sleep trend, and your current medication log. Bring it to your appointment and spend the visit talking, not remembering. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your symptoms, notes and health data stay on your phone. No account. No cloud. No ads. Nothing to sign up for. MENOLYN PLUS The essentials above are free forever. Menolyn Plus adds: • Insights & patterns: weekly trends, time-of-day heatmaps, trigger correlations, sleep vs. symptoms • The doctor-report PDF • Medication and HRT reminders $39.99/year after a 7-day free trial, or $5.99/month. Prices may vary by region. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically — including at the end of a free trial — unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your account settings. A NOTE ON WHAT MENOLYN IS Menolyn is a tracking journal, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent any condition, and it makes no claim to relieve symptoms — and it never replaces professional care. It simply helps you notice and describe what you experience, and share it clearly with the people who can help. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://agemoware.com/menolyn/privacy.html

Screenshots

Cusp4 screens
Menopause Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Menopause Tracker at every 5 days against Cusp's monthly. 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. Cusp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Menopause Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cusp ships an update monthly, Menopause Tracker every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cusp versus Menopause Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCuspMenopause Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB46 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKwan Cheng LeeOleksandr Kazakov

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cusp

One-time1
  • Ember Pro — Lifetime$9.99
2 purchases

Menopause Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Menolyn Plus (Monthly)$5.991 Month
  • Menolyn Plus (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Cusp free?
Cusp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Menopause Tracker free?
Menopause Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cusp or Menopause Tracker have ads?
Neither Cusp nor Menopause Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cusp or Menopause Tracker?
Cusp ships an update monthly, and Menopause Tracker every 5 days. Most recently, Cusp was updated on September 22, 2026 and Menopause Tracker on September 3, 2026.

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