Comparison

Plait vs Pattern

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

Head to head
About

Plait

This app provides personalized support for perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause, offering an AI coach, custom meal plans, and symptom tracking. It helps users understand their body's changes and provides practical, tailored advice for daily life.

Highlights
  • AI menopause coach for symptom advice
  • Personalized meal plans and grocery lists
  • Meal photo analysis and scoring
  • Daily symptom and mood check-ins
  • Home workout sessions
  • Apple Health integration
  • Community support forum
Features
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Meet your menopause coach. Ask about night sweats, sleep, mood, cravings or the 3pm slump, day or night, and get answers that know your symptoms, your plan and how your week has gone. If you are doing everything you have always done and your body keeps moving the wrong way, it is not a willpower problem. Perimenopause and menopause change how your body responds, and most apps were built for an average body. Plait is built for yours. WHAT YOU GET • Plait Coach. An AI coach that already knows your symptoms, your goals and how your week has gone. Ask about cravings, the 3pm slump, broken sleep or stress, and get one small, practical next step. • A meal plan built around you. Your week of meals is planned around your symptoms, conditions, allergies, medications and tastes, with a grocery list built from it. • Snap your plate. Photograph a meal and Plait estimates what is on it and scores it for your body, with the reasons it fits. Estimates are clearly labelled and easy to correct. • See your own patterns. A quick daily check in for mood, energy and symptoms. After 21 days, Plait shows which meals line up with your hot flushes, bloating or low energy, in your own data. • Workouts for your body. Short home sessions with no gym needed, screened for your conditions and life stage. • Syncs with Apple Health. Steps, sleep, weight and heart rate come in automatically. • People who get it. Share wins, questions and honest tips with women going through the same things. BUILT FOR YOUR STAGE OF LIFE Perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause, alongside PCOS and endometriosis, plus pregnancy and breastfeeding. Plait also tracks the symptoms that come with them, like hot flushes, night sweats, bloating, poor sleep, low energy and brain fog, and plans around all of it together. HONEST BY DESIGN • No generic 1,200 calorie default, no "good" or "bad" foods and no shame. • You see the price before you pay, and you can cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. • We never sell your health data, and you can export or delete everything from inside the app. If you are reading this at 3am, you are not the only one. Start tonight with a plan built for the body you have now. Plait is an educational nutrition tool, not medical advice. It does not diagnose or treat any condition. Talk to your doctor or midwife before changing your diet, exercise or medication. SUBSCRIPTION Plait requires a subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Service: https://plaithealth.org/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://plaithealth.org/legal/privacy

About

Pattern

Features
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Bring your clinician a clear report of the last 30, 90, or 180 days—not a rushed attempt to remember months of symptoms. Pattern turns quick daily check-ins into a clean, shareable PDF, and your intimate health data stays on your iPhone. Log hot flashes, night sweats, sleep, mood, cognition, body changes, irregular bleeding, and possible influences in under 30 seconds. There are no cycle predictions and no fertility assumptions—just a record of what happened. SEE PATTERNS, HONESTLY Follow symptom trends across 30, 90, or 365 days. Pattern only surfaces associations after enough paired observations and always labels them as patterns worth discussing, not causes or diagnoses. ARRIVE PREPARED Create a monochrome-friendly doctor report with symptom averages and trends, hot-flash and sleep summaries, cycle gaps, notable patterns, and your questions. AirDrop, print, save, or email it using the iPhone share sheet. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no server, no advertising, and no analytics SDK. Your entries stay on-device unless you choose to export or share them. Export everything as JSON or delete everything at any time. Optional Face ID/passcode protection is available. Pattern includes optional read-only access to sleep duration and heart rate from Apple Health. It works completely without Health access and never writes Health data. A subscription is required after your first check-in. Annual and monthly plans include a 14-day free trial for eligible subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account after confirmation and renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Apple ID subscription settings. Pattern is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Share this information with your clinician. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Plait4 screens
Pattern4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pattern at none against Plait's shown. Plait's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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. Plait sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Pattern sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Plait versus Pattern: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlaitPattern
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB3 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMurdoch's Dietary LIMITEDGreyscale holding LLC

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Plait

Subscriptions4
  • Plait Pro Weekly7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Monthly7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year
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  • Annual3 Days trial$179.991 Year
2 purchases

Pattern

Subscriptions2
  • Pattern Pro Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Pattern Pro Annual14 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Plait free?
Plait is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pattern free?
Pattern is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Plait or Pattern have ads?
Plait shows ads; Pattern does not.

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