Comparison

Tending vs Orla

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

Head to head
About

Tending

This app offers a private space to track your menstrual cycle, water intake, and workouts. It features adaptive predictions for your cycle, playful hydration tracking, and simple movement logging, all while prioritizing user privacy with on-device data storage and no ads or analytics.

Highlights
  • Menstrual cycle and moon phase tracking
  • Adaptive period and fertility predictions
  • Playful water intake logging with streaks
  • Simple workout streak tracking
  • On-device data storage for privacy
  • Face ID/Touch ID app lock
Features
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Tending is a calm, private home for the rhythms worth keeping an eye on: your menstrual cycle, your water, and your movement. No account, no cloud, no tracking — everything stays on your device. MENSTRUAL CYCLE & MOON - Log period start and end dates in seconds, and backlog past cycles too. - Adaptive predictions learn from your history — the more you log, the sharper your next-period, ovulation, and fertile-window estimates become. - A day-by-day phase ring shows exactly where you are in your cycle. - Swipe to a moon view that tracks the lunar phase alongside your cycle. - A full-year calendar map and a cycle-vs-moon chart reveal your patterns over time. - An optional, gentle reminder before your next predicted period. WATER - Track every sip against a daily goal with a playful animated tumbler. - One-tap quick-add buttons you can customize. - Hydration streaks and pace-aware reminders that nudge you only when you fall behind. - Optional, write-only sync to Apple Health. - A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget with one-tap logging. MOVEMENT - A simple daily yes/no workout streak with a weekly goal. - A 16-week heatmap so you can see your consistency at a glance. PRIVACY FIRST - All your data is stored only on your device. There is no Tending account and no server. - No analytics, no ads, no third-party tracking. - Lock the app behind Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode. - Your cycle data never leaves the app. The only optional sharing is water to Apple Health — off by default and write-only. Tending is built to be quiet, warm, and yours.

About

Orla

Features
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Orla keeps your menopause record on your iPhone. No account, no sign-in, nothing to be locked out of. Before an appointment it turns what you logged into one dated PDF: every symptom, every HRT dose, with the dates. 7 days free, then a monthly or yearly plan. Cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. A RECORD THAT STAYS YOURS There is no account to make and no password to forget. Everything you log is stored on this iPhone, and you can delete a single entry, or all of it, from Settings. An app update does not ask you to sign in again. LOG WHAT YOU FEEL, WHEN YOU FEEL IT Hot flashes, night sweats, trouble staying asleep, mood changes, brain fog, joint pain, palpitations, vaginal and urinary changes, low libido, skin and hair changes — 30+ symptoms in all. Pick the symptom, pick how strong it was, and Orla fills in the time. Even at 2am. EVERY HRT DOSE, WITH ITS DATES Log hormone therapy properly: type, dose and route (patch, gel, spray, tablet and more), plus supplements. When your dose changes, Orla keeps the old one on a dated timeline instead of overwriting it, so the record shows the dose you stopped and the dates it ran, not only what you are on today. That history is exactly what a clinician asks about. PERIODS, OR NO PERIODS Periods in the transition get irregular, skip, or stop — and plenty of people are not cycling at all. Orla logs whatever is actually happening without forcing a "cycle" frame on you. In the first questions you can answer "Stopped altogether" or skip the cycle question entirely, and nothing in the app changes. No cycle to log is a first-class experience here, not a broken one. SEE APPLE HEALTH ALONGSIDE YOUR NOTES With your permission, Orla can read wrist temperature, heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and sleep from Apple Health and show them next to your own entries. Read-only — Orla never writes anything back to Health. THE PDF, IN FULL Pick a date range and Orla builds the document: how many days each symptom was logged and at what severity, your HRT and supplement timeline with every dose and the dates it ran, and every period and spotting entry with its dates and the gaps in between. It is dated, it has your name on it, and you can bring it, print it, or email it ahead. A PLAIN-LANGUAGE LIBRARY 20 short, readable articles on what is happening during the transition and the ways HRT is commonly taken — written in plain English, so you walk in informed. NOTHING TO SELL YOU BUT THE APP Orla sells no supplements, runs no clinic and carries no advertising. It gives no advice, no scores and no interpretation — it records what you tell it and shows it back to you. No ads, no advertising SDKs, and no third-party analytics or tracking SDKs touching your health entries. Your data is never sold. ——— Orla is a record-keeping tool, not a medical device, and does not diagnose or give medical advice. ——— SUBSCRIPTION Orla is a paid subscription with a 7-day free trial. $9.99/month or $49.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://legal.tjbventures.ai/privacy.html · Terms of Use: Apple Standard EULA

Screenshots

Tending4 screens
Orla4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tending at none against Orla's 2. Tending also leads on ads (none vs shown). Orla's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, 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. Orla sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Tending asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tending ships an update every 6 weeks, Orla every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Tending versus Orla: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTendingOrla
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB21 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJoshua HarringtonTJB Ventures FZE

In-app purchases

None

Tending

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Orla

Subscriptions2
  • Orla Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Orla Pro Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Tending free?
Tending is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orla free?
Orla is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tending or Orla have ads?
Orla shows ads; Tending does not.
Which is updated more often, Tending or Orla?
Tending ships an update every 6 weeks, and Orla every 4 days. Most recently, Tending was updated on October 14, 2026 and Orla on October 9, 2026.

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