Marigold vs Ebb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Marigold
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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.
Ebb
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Hormones don't run on a schedule ā so why do period apps pretend they do? Ebb is a symptom and cycle tracker for the hormonal stages other apps skip: PCOS, postpartum recovery, perimenopause and menopause. Log how today felt, mark the days that matter, track HRT or other doses, and see an honest RANGE for your cycle instead of a fake-precise date that falls apart the moment your body doesn't cooperate. Irregularity is normal here. It's not a bug in your body, and it's not a bug in the app. WHO EBB IS FOR ⢠PCOS ā irregular cycles, fatigue, mood and sleep, logged alongside your own triggers so you can see which ones come up most. ⢠Postpartum ā night sweats, sleep, mood and the return of your cycle, in the months when nobody is measuring anything. ⢠Perimenopause & menopause ā hot flashes, night sweats, brain fog, joint pain, plus HRT reminders with application-site rotation. ⢠Not sure yet ā that is a valid answer. Start logging; the pattern names itself. WHY EBB ⢠Honest ranges, not false predictions. Other apps silently push your "due date" forward when you don't log a period, or just give up and hide the prediction entirely. Ebb shows a range based on the cycles you log and explains why it's a range. ⢠HRT reminders that fit how you take it. Set a schedule for a patch, gel, oral tablet, cream, injection, pessary or hormonal coil, get a reminder when the next dose is due, and follow a suggested application-site rotation. Tap Taken and the dose is added to your history. ⢠See your own pattern. After three days of logging, Trends shows your most frequent symptom and how the last 7 days have been trending ā free. Ebb Pro adds your full history, your HRT doses listed next to your symptom trend, and a count of the triggers you log most often (caffeine, alcohol, stress, poor sleep). ⢠A doctor visit report (Pro). Generate a PDF summary of your average symptom scores, logged HRT doses and notes ā built for the appointment that's never long enough. ⢠Home & Lock Screen widgets and an Apple Watch complication for your next dose ā free. ⢠No account, no ads. Your log is stored on your device ā Ebb keeps no copy on a server. Nearly 40% of women say they were misdiagnosed while seeking care for perimenopause ā often treated for anxiety or depression instead of investigated for the hormonal cause. For a third of women with PCOS, a diagnosis takes more than two years and three or more doctors. Bring real data to your next appointment. Free: daily logging, your cycle range, one HRT schedule with reminders, widgets and your first pattern in Trends. Ebb Pro is an auto-renewing subscription (weekly or annual) that adds your full history, your HRT dose list alongside your symptom trend, the trigger breakdown, the doctor visit PDF and unlimited HRT schedules. Where a free trial is offered, the length and the price that follows are shown on the purchase screen before you confirm. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Account Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://necatidogrul.github.io/ebb-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://necatidogrul.github.io/ebb-legal/privacy.html Ebb is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat any condition. Always talk to a healthcare professional about symptoms and treatment decisions. Questions or feedback: support@necatidogrul.dev
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ebb at weekly against Marigold's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Marigold sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year and Ebb sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Marigold ships an update every 2 months, Ebb weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Marigold | Ebb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Md Rashadul Islam Roman | Necati Dogrul |
In-app purchases
Marigold
- Marigold Premium ā Yearly1 Month trial$24.991 Year
- Marigold Premium ā Lifetime$49.99
Ebb
- Ebb Pro Weekly7 Days trial$6.997 Days
- Ebb Pro Yearly$39.991 Year









