Menopause and perimenopause apps compared
The category clusters tightly on price and splits on purpose. Consumer trackers sit at roughly $40–50 a year — Balance+ around $49.99, Caria Premium $49.99, Flo Premium around $39.99, Clue Plus $39.99 — so price is not how you choose. Prescriber platforms (Midi, Alloy, Winona, Evernow) are a different product at a different price band, bundling clinicians rather than tracking.
The genuine gap is HRT as a regimen. Consumer trackers log medication the way they log a symptom: a tick on a day. Nothing in the mainstream consumer category models what you take, at what dose, in what formulation, since when, and what changed — which is exactly the record you need at a review appointment when you are titrating over months.
HormoneLog is ours, disclosed throughout, and is in development and not released.
The comparison
| App | Price | Built around | HRT regimen | Clinician report | Community |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balance (Newson Health) | Free core; Balance+ ~$4.99/mo, ~$49.99/yr | Menopause symptoms + education | Basic medication log | Yes — shareable health report | Yes |
| Caria | Free; Premium $9.99/mo or $49.99/yr | Daily symptom score + CBT/nutrition programmes | Basic | Limited | Yes, strong |
| Flo | Free with ads; Premium ~$39.99/yr | Cycle tracking, with a perimenopause mode | No | No | Yes |
| Clue | Free; Clue Plus $9.99/mo or $39.99/yr | Cycle tracking, science-forward | No | No | No |
| Perry | Free; premium tier | Community and peer support | No | No | Community-first |
| Health & Her | Free | Symptom toolkit; supplement cross-sell | No | No | Limited |
| Midday (Lisa Health) | Free | AI-personalised guidance | No | No | Limited |
| Stella (Vira Health) | Via employers/insurers | Programme + UK clinic | Via clinic | Via clinic | Limited |
| HormoneLog (ours, in development) | Free | HRT regimen + symptom timeline | Yes — the point of it | Appointment summary | No |
What each is actually for
Balance — the established default
Free core app with a paid Balance+ tier, over a million users globally, Apple Editors' Choice, ORCHA-certified, official rating 4.7/5. Its shareable health report, overhauled in July 2025 to be journal-powered, is the closest thing in the category to a clinician-facing output.
Where users push back: App Store reviews cite failed report generation and difficulty entering basic fields such as birth year and height, plus data not being pulled from Apple Health or Garmin. Those are execution complaints about a good product rather than reasons to avoid it.
Best for: most people starting out. It is the sensible first install.
Caria — programmes and community
Free download, Premium $49.99/yr or $9.99/mo. Daily symptom score plus structured CBT, nutrition and mindfulness programmes, and an active community. Its positioning leans hard on the anti-dismissal narrative — "not dismissed, but met with compassion, care, and community."
Where users push back: notification and "homework" pressure. If a programme structure motivates you it is a strength; if it does not it becomes another thing you are failing at.
Best for: people who want structure and other people, not just a log.
Flo and Clue — cycle apps with a perimenopause mode
Both are excellent cycle trackers that extended into perimenopause rather than being built for it. Clue Plus is $39.99/yr or $9.99/mo, holds 4.8 stars from a very large review base, and passed a million paid subscribers in May 2025. Flo Premium is around $39.99/yr.
The privacy note that belongs here: Flo settled with the FTC in 2021 and settled a class action in September 2025 relating to sharing period and pregnancy data with third parties. That is a matter of record and it is reasonable to weigh it. Clue's most common complaint is aggressive upgrade prompting on the free tier — and the widely repeated claim that Clue's rating "fell to about 3 stars" is not accurate; it holds 4.8.
Best for: people still cycling who want one app across the transition.
Perry — free and community-first
Community, peer support and education. Free with a premium tier.
Best for: people who mainly want not to be alone in it.
Health & Her, Midday, Stella
Health & Her is a free toolkit funded by supplement cross-sell and is ORCHA-certified. Midday is free, Mayo-Clinic-backed and AI-forward. Stella is distributed through employers and insurers rather than sold direct.
HormoneLog — the HRT record
Disclosed: ours, in development, not released. It exists for one job the category does not do — HRT as a regimen over time, against symptoms, in a form you can take to a review appointment.
Three things it deliberately does not do:
- It does not implement either of the two best-known licensed menopause symptom scales. Both are licensed instruments, one with no published tier covering a commercial consumer app and the other requiring contact for commercial licensing. HormoneLog uses its own Symptom Burden Index over the same clinical domains.
- It does not calculate or recommend doses. It logs what you were prescribed and what changed. Dose calculation is a different category of product with different rules.
- It does not tell you your score is severe. Published severity bands come from research populations; showing a number against them is an assessment, and this is not an assessment tool.
Best for: people titrating HRT over months who want a record for a review appointment. Not for you if: you want community, programmes, cycle tracking, or an app that exists today.
The two things worth checking in any app you choose
Privacy. The 2023 systematic review of 28 UK menopause apps found 32 percent indicated third-party data sharing. Health data is sensitive and this category has a real track record. Read the privacy policy, not the landing page.
Whether it produces anything a clinician can use. The same review found most apps lacked any mechanism for sharing data with a provider or exporting structured records. If preparing for appointments is why you are tracking, check that the export exists and works before you rely on it.
Prices are as published in September 2026 and change often; several were taken from app-store listings rather than a live checkout, and they vary by region. This page is information, not medical advice, and HormoneLog is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by any organisation named on it.
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About HormoneLog
HormoneLog is an iOS app from Baker Ventures LLC for tracking perimenopause and menopause symptoms and keeping an HRT record: what you took, at what dose, from when, and what changed afterwards. It is built for the appointment, where "it has been bad lately" is worth far less than a dated record of frequency and severity. The app is in development.
HormoneLog is a record-keeping tool. It does not diagnose, does not score you, and makes no claim about symptom relief. The guides on this site link to NICE, the NHS, the Menopause Society and peer-reviewed sources, and say plainly where the evidence is thin. Everything here is free and needs no account.
Questions and answers
What is the best menopause tracking app?
Balance is the most established and is ORCHA-certified with a shareable health report. Caria pairs tracking with structured programmes and community. Flo and Clue are cycle-first apps with perimenopause modes. Perry is community-first and free. Each is the right answer for a different need, and none of them is built primarily around HRT regimen logging.
Is there a free menopause app?
Yes. Balance's core app is free with a paid Balance+ tier, Perry is free with a premium add-on, Health and Her is free and cross-sells supplements, and Midday is free. Flo and Clue both have substantial free tiers with paid upgrades.
Which menopause app is best for tracking HRT?
This is the gap in the category. Consumer trackers generally record medication as a simple log rather than as a regimen with doses, formulations and change dates, and prescriber platforms manage prescriptions without being self-tracking tools. HormoneLog is being built specifically for this, and is not yet released.
Are menopause apps private?
It varies and it is worth checking. A 2023 systematic review of 28 UK menopause apps found 32 percent indicated third-party data sharing. Flo settled with the FTC in 2021 and settled a class action in September 2025 over sharing period and pregnancy data with third parties. Read the privacy policy rather than the marketing.
Do menopause apps use validated symptom scales?
Mostly not, and the licensing is why. The two best-known menopause symptom scales in research are both licensed instruments with commercial terms, so consumer apps typically use their own symptom lists instead. A 2023 review of menopause apps (excluding symptom trackers) found none had been formally trialled or tested in peer-reviewed research.
HormoneLog. “Menopause and perimenopause apps compared.” Baker Ventures LLC, September 6, 2026. https://hormonelog.bakerventuresstudio.com/compare/best-menopause-tracking-apps-2026/