Comparison

SootheHer vs Cycle Diary

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

Head to head
About

SootheHer

This app helps you track your menstrual cycle, predict your next period, and offers drug-free relief for cramps. It prioritizes user privacy with no accounts or data sharing, keeping all information on your device.

Highlights
  • Cycle tracking with symptoms and moods
  • Period, fertile window, and ovulation predictions
  • Drug-free cramp relief routines
  • Insights into cycle patterns
  • Library of wellness articles
  • Gentle reminders
Features
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SootheHer is a completely free period and cycle tracker that helps you understand your body and feel more prepared each month without ads, accounts, or data harvesting. Log your period, symptoms, and moods in seconds, see clear predictions for your next period, fertile window, and ovulation, and reach for calming, drug-free relief when cramps hit. Everything lives on your device. Nothing is uploaded, sold, or shared. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Track your cycle — Log flow, symptoms, mood, sleep, sex drive, and more with a fast, thoughtful daily log. • See what's coming — Adaptive predictions learn from the cycles you log, so your next period, fertile window, and ovulation estimates get more personal over time. • Understand your patterns — Insights show your most common symptoms and moods, how they map to each cycle phase, and a history of your cycle lengths. • Find relief — Guided routines for cramps and tension: gentle stretching, breathing, heat therapy, meditation, yoga, self-massage, and step-by-step acupressure with clear diagrams for each pressure point. • Learn — A library of practical, judgment-free articles on cycles, cramps, hormones, and everyday wellness. • Gentle reminders — Optional nudges to log each day, take a daily pill, or prepare for an upcoming period. You choose the times; you can turn them off anytime. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, no tracking. • Your health data never leaves your device. • Export a backup anytime, and restore it whenever you like. • Optional 4-digit app lock for extra privacy. DESIGNED TO SOOTHE A soft, spring-inspired light theme and a cosmic dark theme, with a friendly companion butterfly to guide you. SootheHer is built to feel supportive, not clinical. A NOTE ON PREDICTIONS SootheHer's predictions are estimates based on the data you log and can be inaccurate, especially with irregular cycles. SootheHer does not provide medical advice and should not be relied on for contraception. For medical concerns, please talk to a healthcare professional.

About

Cycle Diary

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Cycle Diary is a private period tracker and menstrual calendar that lives on your phone. Log your period, follow your cycle, and see the pattern your body has been keeping all along. There is no account to create, no ads, no subscription and nothing behind a paywall. Every feature is free, in 65 languages. TRACK YOUR PERIOD Tap the days your period starts and ends and the calendar fills in around them. Cycle Diary works out your average cycle length and period length from what you actually enter, then shows the next expected period right on the home screen. Cycles that are not clockwork are perfectly normal, so if yours vary you can switch on irregular mode and see an honest date range instead of a single confident day. KNOW YOUR FERTILE WINDOW Turn on fertility predictions and the calendar marks your fertile window and your estimated ovulation day, with higher and lower chance days shaded so you can read a whole month at a glance. These are estimates based on the dates you enter. They are not medical advice and not a method of birth control. LOG MORE THAN DATES A period is not only a date range. For any day you can record flow intensity from spotting to heavy, your mood, symptoms such as cramps, headache, bloating, back pain, breast tenderness, nausea, dizziness, acne, appetite changes, fatigue and insomnia, whether you were sexually active and whether protection was used, and a note in your own words. SEE YOUR OWN PATTERN The history screen lays out every recorded cycle beside the length of the period inside it, so you can tell at a glance whether things are steady or drifting. Averages update as you log. You choose whether predictions are calculated from your recent months or from lengths you set by hand. GENTLE REMINDERS Optional notifications tell you when your period is due, when a heavier day is expected, when your fertile window opens and when your cycle is running late. You pick how many days ahead and at what time of day, and you can switch the lot off. PREGNANCY MODE Expecting? Record the start and expected end of a pregnancy and Cycle Diary pauses predictions and reminders for that stretch rather than guessing at a cycle you are not having. Your history is kept and picks up again afterwards. BUILT TO STAY PRIVATE Your entries live on your device. There is no account, we run no servers of our own, and there is nothing to sign up for. If you are signed in to iCloud your entries also sync to your own private iCloud storage, encrypted, so a new phone or a reinstall brings them straight back. We never see them. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking of any kind. LOCK IT Set a PIN, or unlock with Face ID or Touch ID. You can also hide the app's contents in the app switcher, so a glance over your shoulder shows a blank screen. YOURS TO TAKE WITH YOU Export everything to a CSV file whenever you like, and import a CSV back in. Your data is never held hostage. WHO IT IS FOR Whether you are keeping an eye on your monthly cycle, trying to conceive, watching PMS build in the days before bleeding, following an irregular or unusually long cycle, coming off hormonal birth control, or you simply want a quiet private diary of how each month felt, Cycle Diary stays out of your way. It works offline and opens straight to the calendar. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS, NO SUBSCRIPTION Nothing is locked. No premium tier, no trial that ends, no upsell, no advertising. The whole app is free and always will be. IN 65 LANGUAGES English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Urdu, German, Japanese, Vietnamese, Turkish, Korean, Thai, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Malay, Malayalam, Swedish, Hungarian, Czech, Hebrew, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Slovak, Norwegian, Slovenian and more. Cycle Diary is a tracking and information app. It is not a medical device and gives no medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. For health decisions, speak to a qualified healthcare professional.

Screenshots

SootheHer4 screens
Cycle Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: SootheHer at 3 against Cycle Diary's 1. SootheHer also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SootheHer versus Cycle Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSootheHerCycle Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequency—Every 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB5 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperSootheHer LLCAdnan Adnan

In-app purchases

None

SootheHer

No in-app purchases

None

Cycle Diary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SootheHer free?
SootheHer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cycle Diary free?
Cycle Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SootheHer or Cycle Diary have ads?
Neither SootheHer nor Cycle Diary shows ads.

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