Comparison

Spanda vs Parella

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

Head to head
About

Spanda

This app integrates period tracking directly into your existing calendar, offering daily personalized tips for work, exercise, and mood. It avoids intrusive notifications and data collection, focusing on helping you plan your life around your natural rhythm. Enjoy a seamless experience with no ads or accounts required.

Highlights
  • Integrated calendar view
  • Daily work, exercise, and mood tips
  • No push notifications
  • Ad-free experience
  • Local data storage
  • Supports Apple Calendar and Google Calendar
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Spanda is a period tracker that is integrated into your calendar. No separate windows, push notifications, or annoying alerts - just useful daily tips to help you plan your life based on your rhythm. • How it works After you add the date of your last period and the length of your cycle, Spanda adds brief comments to your calendar with daily tips for work, exercise and mood. Everything is uploaded to your calendar, right alongside appointments and tasks. • Daily tips Every day, Spanda sends three tips: - Work: what tasks you should work on - Exercise: how hard to push yourself - Mood: what to keep in mind All of the tips are fun and easy to understand.This is not a medical app. Spanda just helps you make the most of every day. • What’s unique about Spanda - Works as part of your calendar and not as a standalone app - Won’t distract you with push notifications and toxic alerts - Doesn’t collect user data or upload it to the server - No accounts, registrations or forms. Ad-free • Pick your calendar Spanda adds notes to Apple Calendar or Google Calendar - wherever you prefer. • Privacy The data is only stored on your device. Spanda does not have servers, data, analytics, or cookies. • Who’s it for Spanda is for those who want to live more comfortably and effortlessly, and who wish to adapt this useful tool to their own lives. Spanda works on iPhone with iOS 17 and later. We are happy to read reviews and receive feedback; they help us create updates: supportspanda@gmail.com • Privacy policy: https://lizakovalenkolol.github.io/spanda-privacy/

About

Parella

This app offers a private digital space for couples to manage shared calendars, communicate via chat, set joint goals, and play games together. It includes features like a days-together counter, mood tracking, and shared lists for various purposes, all without external social feeds.

Highlights
  • Shared calendar for events and appointments
  • Private chat for two with media sharing
  • Days-together counter and home screen widgets
  • Shared goals and progress tracking
  • Couple games and questions
  • Cycle calendar for partners
  • Shared lists and notes
Features
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Parella is an app for couples: a shared calendar, a chat, a days-together counter, shared goals, and games and questions for two. No feed, no likes, nobody else: one calm place for the two of you. No ads. The author answers in the "Write to us" chat too and takes requests. WHAT'S INSIDE • Shared calendar Date nights, trips, appointments, birthdays — one schedule for both. Anniversaries repeat every year, an event that matters can remind you, and a ticket or booking goes with it. • A chat for two No group threads, no outsiders. Photos, voice messages, video circles, reactions, replies and read receipts. • "Together for" counter The date it all started and the days since — on the home screen and widget. • Widgets for the home screen Days together, moods, events, tasks and shopping you can tick off, how long until you meet, a note, the photo of the day and the cycle day — without opening the app. • Mood of the day Log how your day goes and see your partner's, with a month of history for both. • Games and questions for couples Questions for each other, "Secret answers", "Which of us?", a reaction duel, tic-tac-toe, Battleships. "Dilemma" — on one phone or on two: see where you agree. • Assistant Say or type "dinner with Anya on Saturday at seven" and it makes the event, chore or shopping item, showing what it will create first. It answers questions about your week, too. • Cycle calendar Whoever has a cycle marks a period's first and last day; the app works out the cycle and the next date; the partner sees what to expect. If you both have one, each gets their own — and only you two see it. • Shared goals The dream trip, the renovation, the half marathon — with a checklist, a cover and progress you both see. If it is about money, set an amount: you see what is saved and what is left, and the pot is shared. • Letters to the future A letter that opens no earlier than the day you pick. Until then nobody can read it, the author included: it stays sealed on the server. • Wishlists Each of you keeps a list with photos, prices and links. Your partner can reserve a gift without you knowing — the surprise stays a surprise. • Agreements Write down what you two settled on: who cooks, how you argue, what matters. Stopped working? Tap "Talk it over" and your partner sees it on the home screen. • Lists A shopping list, films and books, places to go — a place gets an address and directions. A tick shows on their phone at once; films and books get a genre and a rating. Chores are shared: "I'll take it" or "For Asya" — you both see who took what. • Notes The door code, the Wi-Fi at your parents', a weekend idea. Pinned ones come first and show on the home screen; one can greet your partner on opening. • Documents Policies, tickets, contracts and scans — one shared folder, up to 50 MB. • Loyalty cards Store cards for both: a barcode or QR code at the till. • Shared contacts One address book for two: doctor, plumber, parents, friends. • Album of memories Shared photos with captions and dates. Up to 75 MB per couple. • App lock It opens the way your phone does — fingerprint, face or passcode. HOW IT WORKS One of you creates the couple space and gets a code or link; the other joins — and everything shared appears for both. Changes sync in real time across different phones. Good for long-distance couples too. Russian and English interface, light and dark themes. For couples at any stage: just dating, living together or married for years.

Screenshots

Spanda4 screens
Parella4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Parella at none against Spanda's 2. Parella also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks) and review sentiment (93% vs 80%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Spanda sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Parella asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Spanda against 5.0 for Parella. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 22 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Spanda's written reviews are positive against 93% of Parella's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spanda ships an update every 3 weeks, Parella daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Spanda versus Parella: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpandaParella
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (35 ratings)5.0 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.2% of reviews93.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better22
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB37 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperElizaveta KovalenkoMikhail Efanov

Customer experience

Spanda

All ratings35 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews86 reviews
Positive80.2%
Neutral10.5%
Negative9.3%

Parella

All ratings22 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral2.2%
Negative4.4%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Spanda

Subscriptions2
  • Spanda Premium — Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Spanda Premium — Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
None

Parella

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spanda free?
Spanda is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Parella free?
Parella is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spanda or Parella?
Parella is rated higher. Spanda averages 4.9 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while Parella averages 5.0 from 22 ratings.
Do Spanda or Parella have ads?
Neither Spanda nor Parella shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spanda or Parella?
Spanda ships an update every 3 weeks, and Parella daily. Most recently, Spanda was updated on October 31, 2026 and Parella on November 1, 2026.

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