Comparison

Menopause by Fieldnote vs Marigold

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

Head to head
About

Menopause by Fieldnote

This app helps you track perimenopause and menopause symptoms like hot flashes, sleep disturbances, and mood changes. It allows for quick logging and provides a printable report for doctor's appointments. Integrates with Apple Health and prioritizes user privacy with no account or cloud storage.

Highlights
  • Log symptoms like hot flashes and mood
  • Track cycle and spotting
  • Daily two-minute check-ins
  • View symptom patterns with cycle
  • Printable reports for clinicians
  • Apple Watch symptom logging
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Menopause by Fieldnote helps you notice the patterns in perimenopause and menopause — and walk into your next appointment prepared. Hot flashes, sleep, mood, brain fog, cycle changes — it's a lot to hold in your head. Menopause by Fieldnote lets you capture each one the moment it happens, in a couple of taps, and quietly builds the picture over time. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Log symptoms — hot flashes, night sweats, mood, sleep, and more — as they happen • Close each day with a two-minute check-in • Track your cycle and spotting alongside everything else • See how your symptoms line up with your cycle (like hot flashes in the days before your period) • Bring a clear, printable report — with questions for your clinician — to your next visit ON YOUR WRIST With the Apple Watch app, log a hot flash or symptom the instant it hits — no need to reach for your phone. Today's entries are always a glance away. WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH Connect Apple Health to bring your period and cycle data into the picture, and keep your logs in sync. You decide what's shared. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. No sign-up. No cloud. • Everything you log stays on your iPhone. • Nothing is sold, shared, or sent to a server. • Export your data any time. Free to download. A calm, private place to track what you're going through — and make sense of it. Fieldnote makes calm, private health tools for iPhone. Menopause by Fieldnote is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Always consult a qualified clinician about your symptoms and care.

About

Marigold

Features
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Log a hot flash in one tap. Spot your patterns. Bring your doctor a clear summary. Marigold is a private tracker for perimenopause and menopause. Log from your iPhone, Apple Watch or Siri, see how your symptoms change over time, and keep HRT doses and refills in one place. No account. No ads. Nothing sold. Free to download. Try Premium free for a month. LOG YOUR DAY IN SECONDS • One-tap hot flash and night sweat logging, stamped with the time • 21 symptoms with a 0 to 4 severity scale and an optional note • Period start dates, logged on the day, so Marigold can forecast your next one AN HONEST FORECAST, NOT FALSE PRECISION (PREMIUM) Marigold predicts your next period as a range with a confidence level, and tells you plainly when your cycles are too irregular to call. The forecast is calculated on your iPhone from your own logs, and it needs at least three logged periods before it appears. SEE THE PATTERNS BEHIND YOUR DAYS (PREMIUM) Cycle length over time, hot flashes and night sweats week by week, your most-logged symptoms and your symptom burden score. A weekly "Marigold noticed" note reads your week back to you. HRT AND MEDICATION REMINDERS (PREMIUM) Track patch, gel, spray, tablet, pessary, vaginal cream, vaginal ring, injection, hormonal coil or implant. Get dose reminders and running-low refill alerts, and check doses off on the Today screen. A DOCTOR-READY SUMMARY One tap builds a PDF: your cycle pattern, symptom burden, HRT and logged doses, forecast, flags to raise and questions to ask. Your first summary is free; Premium covers any date range. ON YOUR WRIST, YOUR HOME SCREEN AND WITH SIRI (WATCH AND WIDGET ARE PREMIUM) An Apple Watch app to check your forecast and next dose, take a minute to breathe, and log a hot flash, symptom or mood in one tap. Home Screen widgets, a watch complication, and Siri: "Log a hot flash in Marigold." A CALMER MOMENT, WHEN YOU WANT ONE (ALL FREE) Fifteen quiet activities with no scores to chase: paced and cooling breathing, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, tension release, a pond where you catch your worries as fish and watch them go, bubbles to pop, colouring you can zoom into, a garden that grows as you spend calm minutes, memory and sorting games, and calm chess with no clock. After you log, Marigold may offer one when your own logs show a pattern, at most once every 8 hours. OPTIONAL WEATHER HEADS-UP If you turn it on, Marigold sends your approximate location (rounded to about 10 km) to Apple Weather for today's forecast. Nothing you log is sent. OPTIONAL APPLE HEALTH (PREMIUM) Read-only. Sleep, resting heart rate and wrist temperature from Apple Health help Marigold spot patterns. Health data never leaves your iPhone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics or tracking SDKs. Your logs stay on your iPhone: there is no HaloSync server. Optional iCloud sync keeps a copy in your own private iCloud. Otherwise only the optional, rounded weather location leaves your phone. MARIGOLD PREMIUM Logging, the Today screen, your 7-day flash chart, your top symptoms, every calm activity and one doctor summary are free. Marigold Premium unlocks the next-period forecast, full trends, pattern insights, doctor summaries for any date range, HRT and appointment reminders, Apple Health, the Home Screen widget and the Apple Watch app. Try Premium free for one month on the annual plan, or pay once for Lifetime and never renew. The free trial converts to a paid annual subscription automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.halosyncs.com/marigold/privacy Marigold is a private tracking tool, not a medical or diagnostic device. It never diagnoses and never recommends starting, stopping or dosing any medication. Decisions about treatment belong with you and your clinician.

Screenshots

Menopause by Fieldnote4 screens
Marigold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Menopause by Fieldnote at fortnightly against Marigold'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. Menopause by Fieldnote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Marigold sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Menopause by Fieldnote ships an update fortnightly, Marigold every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Menopause by Fieldnote versus Marigold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMenopause by FieldnoteMarigold
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPETER JOOST VAN ALLERMd Rashadul Islam Roman

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Menopause by Fieldnote

One-time1
  • Unlock Insights & Export$4.99
2 purchases

Marigold

Subscriptions1
  • Marigold Premium — Yearly1 Month trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Marigold Premium — Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Menopause by Fieldnote free?
Menopause by Fieldnote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Marigold free?
Marigold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Menopause by Fieldnote or Marigold have ads?
Neither Menopause by Fieldnote nor Marigold shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Menopause by Fieldnote or Marigold?
Menopause by Fieldnote ships an update fortnightly, and Marigold every 2 months. Most recently, Menopause by Fieldnote was updated on October 17, 2026 and Marigold on October 24, 2026.

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