Comparison

Settle vs Pausely

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

Head to head
About

Settle

Features
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Build a healthy relationship with your gut. Settle is the gut health tracker that helps you finally understand your body — logging your bowel movements, spotting patterns, and turning daily data into real clarity about how you feel and why. Log in seconds A quick daily log using the Bristol Stool Scale, plus notes on food, mood, stress, and sleep. No complicated forms. Just tap, log, and go. Decode your patterns Settle surfaces connections between your habits and your symptoms — the ones that only become visible over weeks of data. See what's helping, what's hurting, and what's worth bringing up with your doctor. Research-backed insights Every suggestion in Settle is grounded in research — with sources provided, so you can read the evidence yourself. Guidance that's actually worth following. Built for real conversations Generate a clean gut health report in one tap — designed to share with your gastroenterologist, dietitian, or GP so your appointments start with data, not guesswork. Private by design Your most personal health data is encrypted and never sold. Log freely, knowing it stays yours.

About

Pausely

Easily track hot flashes and other menopause symptoms with a single tap. This private app helps you visualize your symptom patterns over time, providing clear data for doctor visits without any ads or cloud storage.

Highlights
  • One-tap hot flash logging
  • Track 34 perimenopause symptoms
  • View symptom patterns over 30/90 days
  • Doctor-visit symptom summary
  • Private, on-device storage
  • No ads or tracking
Features
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Pausely is the private menopause tracker built around the one thing other apps make impossible: logging a hot flash the moment it happens, in a single tap. ONE-TAP HOT FLASH LOGGING Hot flashes hit many times a day, at the worst times. Tap once to log each one, with the time captured automatically. See how many you have had today on a simple timeline, and watch the real pattern build, including how many strike at night. ALL 34 PERIMENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS From night sweats and brain fog to joint pain, anxiety, and the symptoms no one warns you about. Tap what you feel, set the severity, and Pausely quietly builds your picture over weeks. SEE YOUR PATTERN, READY FOR YOUR DOCTOR Clear trends over 30 and 90 days, and a doctor-visit summary that turns months of tracking into real data for your appointment instead of vague recollection. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No ads, no tracking, no cloud. Your symptoms are stored only on your device, and nothing is ever uploaded. Pausely is a tracking tool, not medical advice or a diagnosis. Talk to your doctor or a menopause specialist about treatment.

Screenshots

Settle4 screens
Pausely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Settle at none against Pausely's 1. Settle also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pausely sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Settle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Settle ships an update every 3 days, Pausely fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Settle versus Pausely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSettlePausely
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB10 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperTSUN-CHUNG JOHN CHANGPeter Hallander

In-app purchases

None

Settle

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pausely

One-time1
  • Full Access$9.99

Questions

Is Settle free?
Settle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pausely free?
Pausely is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Settle or Pausely have ads?
Neither Settle nor Pausely shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Settle or Pausely?
Settle ships an update every 3 days, and Pausely fortnightly. Most recently, Settle was updated on October 28, 2026 and Pausely on October 25, 2026.

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