Comparison

Pauva vs Marigold

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

Head to head
About

Pauva

Track menopause and perimenopause symptoms privately and easily. Log your feelings, mood, sleep, and triggers daily to identify patterns and prepare for doctor visits. Your health data stays on your device, with no accounts or ads.

Highlights
  • Track menopause/perimenopause symptoms
  • Log mood, sleep, energy, triggers
  • Identify patterns in health data
  • Create doctor-friendly summaries
  • Add custom symptoms
  • Daily reminders
  • Private, on-device data storage
Features
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Pauva is a private menopause and perimenopause symptom tracker designed to help you understand your body without accounts, ads, or unnecessary complexity. Log how you feel in under 60 seconds a day. Track symptoms, mood, sleep, energy, triggers, and notes so you can spot possible patterns over time and prepare clearer summaries for healthcare visits. With Pauva, you can: • Track common menopause and perimenopause symptoms • Log sleep, mood, energy, triggers, and personal notes • Review your check-in history • Spot possible changes and patterns over time • Create doctor-friendly summaries from your logs • Add custom symptoms that matter to you • Use daily reminders to stay consistent • Keep your health data private on your device Pauva is built for privacy. There is no account required, no ads, and no selling of health data. Your symptom logs are stored locally on your device unless you choose to share them. Pauva Pro unlocks unlimited check-ins, unlimited history, doctor report sharing, and unlimited custom symptoms. Important: Pauva does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevention of any condition. Pauva is intended for personal tracking and informational purposes only. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional regarding medical concerns, symptoms, medications, or treatment decisions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

Pauva4 screens
Marigold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Pauva at 15.1 against Marigold's 17.0. 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. Pauva sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Pauva versus Marigold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPauvaMarigold
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTashinga HlanguyoMd Rashadul Islam Roman

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pauva

Subscriptions2
  • Pauva Pro$4.991 Month
  • Pauva Pro$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Marigold

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

Questions

Is Pauva free?
Pauva is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Marigold free?
Marigold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pauva or Marigold have ads?
Neither Pauva nor Marigold shows ads.

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