Comparison

Pausely vs Synka

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

Head to head
About

Pausely

This app offers a private space to track perimenopause and menopause symptoms, including hot flashes, sleep, mood, and cycle changes. It provides quick logging, detailed symptom analysis, trigger tracking, and helpful insights to understand your patterns over time. Generate comprehensive reports for doctor visits.

Highlights
  • Quick hot flash logging
  • 34 symptom library with severity tracking
  • Trigger tracking (caffeine, stress, etc.)
  • Daily check-ins for sleep and energy
  • Time of day hot flash patterns
  • Doctor visit PDF reports
  • Treatment comparison (Pro)
Features
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Pausely is a calm, private place to track perimenopause and menopause: what happened, how strong it was, and how your recorded patterns change over time. Log a hot flash with one hand: open Today, set intensity and optional triggers, then save. WHAT YOU GET - Hot flash quick log: a one tap instant log at typical intensity for the moment itself, or time, intensity from 1 to 5, and triggers for full detail - A real symptom library: 34 symptoms across heat and flushing, sleep, mood, mind and memory, body, skin and hair, cycle changes, and intimate changes, each described in plain language and logged with 1 to 5 severity - Trigger tracking: mark caffeine, alcohol, stress, and poor sleep days with a tap - Daily check in: record your own sleep and energy ratings with an optional note in under a minute - Symptom shortcuts: choose up to three symptoms for one tap logging on Today, with recent symptoms filling open spots - Visit snapshot: see thirty days of hot flashes, symptom entries, daily check ins, treatments, and open appointment questions together before a visit - Your time of day pattern: a clean chart of when your hot flashes tend to happen, morning to night - Night flashes counted on their own: what happened between 10pm and 6am, separated from the daytime total, because it is the number clinicians ask about first - Your month in review: at thirty days, a plain summary of what you logged, when your flashes cluster, which trigger tracked worst, and what changed since the month before - Treatment comparison: once a change has enough logged days on both sides, Pausely compares the same window before and after without claiming a cause (Pro) - Weekly pattern insights computed from your own logs, like "Hot flashes cluster 9 to 11 PM" or "More hot flashes within a day of alcohol" (Pro) - Two-week change radar comparing the latest seven days with the seven days before (Pro) - Treatment tracker: log a medication, supplement, or lifestyle change with its start date, and see an honest before and after comparison of your symptoms (Pro) - Appointment agenda for questions and priorities, included in the doctor visit PDF (Pro) - Cycle-change notes: a dated record of timing, flow, and anything unusual - Doctor visit PDF: symptom frequency by week, severity trends and charts, the hot flash log, trigger patterns, your treatment log with before and after results, and your cycle notes in one clean summary (Pro) - A gentle daily check-in reminder at the time you choose (Pro) HONEST BY DESIGN Insight cards and treatment comparisons only appear after enough real occurrences, and they describe your logs, never a diagnosis. No pattern, no card. FREE AND PRO New customers can save two hot flash or symptom records for free. Trigger days, cycle notes, a daily check in, and the time of day chart remain available. Existing customers keep their earlier allowance and saved data. Pro adds unlimited records across 34 symptoms, complete history, insights, change radar, treatments, appointment agenda, the daily reminder, and the doctor PDF. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Pausely is an informational journal for your own records. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment; bring your summary to a health professional and decide together. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Pausely Pro offers monthly and yearly subscriptions plus a one-time lifetime purchase. The purchase screen shows the live localized price for the selected storefront. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period. The lifetime option does not renew. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Synka

Features
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4 runners in 10 get injured while training for a marathon, and some never make the start line. Synka has one goal: get you to the start line, then across the finish line. IT'S NOT THE MILES, IT'S THE SPIKES Most training mistakes are sudden jumps: a long run much longer than anything you did this month, a hard session the day after a hard session, a comeback that starts too fast. Synka builds your plan to race day and smooths those jumps out, week after week. A PLAN THAT FOLLOWS YOU Ten seconds each morning: energy, pain, period. If you are tired, today's session gets easier. After a bad night, the hard session moves to a better day. Short on time? Say how many minutes you have and Synka builds a session that fits. Missed a week? It eases you back in. YOUR CYCLE, TAKEN SERIOUSLY Synka learns which phases of your cycle cost you more and places hard sessions on your best days. On hormonal contraception or without cycle tracking, the plan works exactly the same. EVERYTHING A PREP NEEDS Build, race-specific and taper blocks. Intervals, threshold, tempo, long runs and lighter weeks. One to seven runs a week, a run-walk start for beginners, and guided strength sessions built into the plan. GPS runs with voice-guided pace, your run on the lock screen, sessions sent to your Apple Watch. SEE YOURSELF PROGRESS Your paces are set on your real level, not on a wish. Synka reads your runs from Apple Health and shows the race time you can aim for, your VO2max pace, your freshness, and your pace at the same heart rate: how many seconds you gained in three months. No watch? Everything works by feel. HONEST Every change to your plan comes with its reason. No made-up numbers, no ads, no tracking, no in-app purchase. Delete your account and all your data from the app, immediately. Synka is not a medical device and does not replace medical advice.

Screenshots

Pausely4 screens
Synka4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Synka at none against Pausely's 3. Synka also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Pausely sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Synka asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pausely ships an update weekly, Synka every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Pausely versus Synka: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPauselySynka
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInnovaLabWorksArthur Tornqvist

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pausely

Subscriptions2
  • Pausely Pro$5.991 Month
  • Pausely Pro$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pausely Lifetime$79.99
None

Synka

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pausely free?
Pausely is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Synka free?
Synka is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pausely or Synka have ads?
Neither Pausely nor Synka shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pausely or Synka?
Pausely ships an update weekly, and Synka every 10 days. Most recently, Pausely was updated on October 28, 2026 and Synka on October 31, 2026.

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