Comparison

Flare vs Pausely

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

Head to head
About

Flare

This app helps women understand and track their menopause symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats. It identifies personal triggers by correlating symptom occurrences with daily activities and environmental factors. Users can generate reports to share with their doctors.

Highlights
  • Log hot flashes and night sweats
  • Identify personal symptom triggers
  • Track intensity and duration
  • Generate doctor-ready PDF reports
  • Offline and private data storage
  • No fertility or period tracking
Features
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You used to know how your body worked. Then something shifted. Hot flashes without warning. Night sweats at 3am. The same question, every time: why is this happening? Flare finds the answers. KNOW WHY, NOT JUST WHEN Most apps tell you when your symptoms happen. Flare tells you why. Log each hot flash or night sweat with intensity, duration, and what was happening around it — alcohol, caffeine, stress, poor sleep, spicy food, heat. Over time, Flare builds your personal trigger report: the factors that actually correlate with your worst episodes. You'll walk into your next doctor's appointment with real data, not just a feeling. LOG IN SECONDS · Intensity — rate how severe each episode felt · Duration — how long it lasted · Triggers — alcohol, caffeine, stress, sleep, food, heat, and more · Notes — anything only you would know No fertility charts. No period tracking. No features built for someone else's life stage. YOUR TRIGGER REPORT After a few weeks of logging, Flare's Insights screen shows which triggers correlate with your perimenopause or menopause symptoms — ranked, visualized, and easy to read. See your patterns clearly. For the first time. BRING IT TO YOUR DOCTOR Turn your trigger report into a doctor-ready PDF in one tap — print it, save it, or hand it straight to your provider at your next appointment. Want to share your progress instead? Generate a simple, private summary card with your top trigger and stats. BUILT FOR PRIVACY No account. No cloud. No one has access to your health data — not us, not anyone. Everything stays on your phone, offline, always. Your body, your data, your call. Download Flare free. Start finding your patterns today. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the time of purchase confirmation. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy policy: https://another1dd.github.io/flare/privacy Terms of use: https://another1dd.github.io/flare/terms

About

Pausely

This app offers a private space to track perimenopause and menopause symptoms, including hot flashes, sleep, mood, and cycle changes. It provides quick logging, detailed symptom analysis, trigger tracking, and helpful insights to understand your patterns over time. Generate comprehensive reports for doctor visits.

Highlights
  • Quick hot flash logging
  • 34 symptom library with severity tracking
  • Trigger tracking (caffeine, stress, etc.)
  • Daily check-ins for sleep and energy
  • Time of day hot flash patterns
  • Doctor visit PDF reports
  • Treatment comparison (Pro)
Features
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Pausely is a calm, private place to track perimenopause and menopause: what happened, how strong it was, and how your recorded patterns change over time. Log a hot flash with one hand: open Today, set intensity and optional triggers, then save. WHAT YOU GET - Hot flash quick log: a one tap instant log at typical intensity for the moment itself, or time, intensity from 1 to 5, and triggers for full detail - A real symptom library: 34 symptoms across heat and flushing, sleep, mood, mind and memory, body, skin and hair, cycle changes, and intimate changes, each described in plain language and logged with 1 to 5 severity - Trigger tracking: mark caffeine, alcohol, stress, and poor sleep days with a tap - Daily check in: record your own sleep and energy ratings with an optional note in under a minute - Symptom shortcuts: choose up to three symptoms for one tap logging on Today, with recent symptoms filling open spots - Visit snapshot: see thirty days of hot flashes, symptom entries, daily check ins, treatments, and open appointment questions together before a visit - Your time of day pattern: a clean chart of when your hot flashes tend to happen, morning to night - Night flashes counted on their own: what happened between 10pm and 6am, separated from the daytime total, because it is the number clinicians ask about first - Your month in review: at thirty days, a plain summary of what you logged, when your flashes cluster, which trigger tracked worst, and what changed since the month before - Treatment comparison: once a change has enough logged days on both sides, Pausely compares the same window before and after without claiming a cause (Pro) - Weekly pattern insights computed from your own logs, like "Hot flashes cluster 9 to 11 PM" or "More hot flashes within a day of alcohol" (Pro) - Two-week change radar comparing the latest seven days with the seven days before (Pro) - Treatment tracker: log a medication, supplement, or lifestyle change with its start date, and see an honest before and after comparison of your symptoms (Pro) - Appointment agenda for questions and priorities, included in the doctor visit PDF (Pro) - Cycle-change notes: a dated record of timing, flow, and anything unusual - Doctor visit PDF: symptom frequency by week, severity trends and charts, the hot flash log, trigger patterns, your treatment log with before and after results, and your cycle notes in one clean summary (Pro) - A gentle daily check-in reminder at the time you choose (Pro) HONEST BY DESIGN Insight cards and treatment comparisons only appear after enough real occurrences, and they describe your logs, never a diagnosis. No pattern, no card. FREE AND PRO New customers can save two hot flash or symptom records for free. Trigger days, cycle notes, a daily check in, and the time of day chart remain available. Existing customers keep their earlier allowance and saved data. Pro adds unlimited records across 34 symptoms, complete history, insights, change radar, treatments, appointment agenda, the daily reminder, and the doctor PDF. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Pausely is an informational journal for your own records. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment; bring your summary to a health professional and decide together. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Pausely Pro offers monthly and yearly subscriptions plus a one-time lifetime purchase. The purchase screen shows the live localized price for the selected storefront. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period. The lifetime option does not renew. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Flare4 screens
Pausely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Flare at 4 against Pausely's 1. On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Flare sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Pausely sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Flare against 5.0 for Pausely. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flare ships an update every 2 weeks, Pausely weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Flare versus Pausely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlarePausely
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTsimafei LemeshchankaInnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Flare

Subscriptions4
  • Flare+ Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Flare+ Annual$17.991 Year
  • Flare+ Annual7 Days trial$34.991 Year
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  • Flare+ Annual$34.991 Year
3 purchases

Pausely

Subscriptions2
  • Pausely Pro$5.991 Month
  • Pausely Pro$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pausely Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is Flare free?
Flare is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pausely free?
Pausely is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Flare or Pausely?
Flare and Pausely are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Flare or Pausely have ads?
Neither Flare nor Pausely shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flare or Pausely?
Flare ships an update every 2 weeks, and Pausely weekly. Most recently, Flare was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pausely on November 5, 2026.

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