Niyora vs Apple Cycle Tracking: which helps with PMS and PMDD?
Apple’s Health app logs your period and predicts the next one. Niyora reads that history, marks your PMS window and helps in the hard moment.
Checked on 13 October 2026 against Apple Cycle Tracking’s own site and App Store listing.
Feature by feature
How Niyora and Apple Cycle Tracking compare
Every Apple Cycle Tracking entry is what Apple says on its own site, help pages or App Store listing. Where it says nothing, the table says so.
| Feature | Niyora | Apple Cycle Tracking |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A PMS and PMDD support app for the hard moment, with a cycle calendar. | The period tracker built into the Health app on iPhone and Cycle Tracking on Apple Watch. |
| Built for | The days before your period, when a feeling hits and you have to decide what to do next. | Logging periods and symptoms, predicting your next period and fertile window, and flagging irregular cycles. |
| Help in the hard moment When it’s happening, not after | Built for it Tell Moon what happened. Swipe through other ways to see it, each with its source, calming activities and facts about your body, then decide what to say, with drafts. | Not offered Apple’s Cycle Tracking guide covers logging, predictions and alerts. You can log moods separately in the Health app’s State of Mind. |
| PMS and PMDD | A predicted PMS window, a library of common PMS and PMDD scenarios, your saved moments mapped by cycle day, and a cycle report PDF for a doctor or therapist. | Logs symptoms. Apple’s Cycle Tracking guide doesn’t mention PMS or PMDD. |
| Cycle prediction | Predicts your period and PMS window from your own logged cycles or your Apple Health period history. | Predicts your period from past cycles and a six-day fertile window. Can alert you to irregular, infrequent or prolonged periods. |
| AI | Moon runs on Google’s Gemini models. Names and places are replaced on your phone first, and your text isn’t used to train the models. | None described for Cycle Tracking. |
| Account | None. No sign-up, email or password. | Uses your Apple Account. No separate sign-up. |
| Your data | Entries are encrypted on your phone. Its App Store label lists no data used to track you and none linked to you. | On your iPhone. Cycle data synced to iCloud is end-to-end encrypted when two-factor authentication is on. The Health app’s label lists no data used to track you. |
| Price | Free to start. Premium is $8.99 a month or $29.99 a year. Lifetime is $79.99 until 30 November 2026. | Free on iPhone and Apple Watch. |
| Free version | Moon moments each month, the cycle calendar and PMS window, and calming activities. | All of it. |
| Platforms | iPhone today. Android coming soon. | iPhone and Apple Watch. |
Sources for Apple Cycle Tracking, checked 13 October 2026: Apple Support, Track your period with Cycle Tracking; Apple Watch User Guide, Log your state of mind; Apple’s Health app privacy label; Apple Support, Health data encryption. Sources for Niyora: its privacy policy and App Store listing.
Who each is for
Who Niyora and Apple Cycle Tracking are for
Niyora is for you if
You already log your period in Health. What you’re missing is help in the days before it, when a small thing turns into a big one.
Apple Cycle Tracking is for you if
You want simple period logging on your iPhone or Apple Watch, with predictions and alerts, and no extra app.
The difference
What Niyora does that Apple Cycle Tracking doesn’t
Measured against what Apple Cycle Tracking describes on its own pages on 13 October 2026.
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Your PMS window, not only a date
Niyora marks the days before your period when PMS is likely, from your own cycles, and sends a heads-up before they start.
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Help with the situation you’re in
Tell Moon what happened in a sentence. It answers that moment, with other ways to see it, a way to calm down and facts about your body.
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Words for what to say next
Moon drafts the message with you. Make it softer, shorter, or hold it until tomorrow.
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Keeps your Health data where it is
Niyora reads your period dates from Apple Health on your phone. It never writes to Health and never sends that data anywhere.
Pricing
What Niyora and Apple Cycle Tracking cost
Niyora
Free to start
- Monthly
- $8.99
- Yearly
- $29.99
- Lifetime
- $79.99 until 30 November 2026
Free: Moon moments each month, the cycle calendar and PMS window, and calming activities.
Apple Cycle Tracking
Free on iPhone and Apple Watch.
Free version: All of it.
Source: Built into iOS, read 13 October 2026. Prices can differ by country and change with offers.
Niyora prices are in US dollars on the US App Store. Premium adds unlimited Moon moments, your patterns, the cycle report and asking Moon about your past moments.
Privacy
What happens to what you log
What each app declares in its App Store privacy label and its own policy. Each line is the company’s own declaration.
Niyora
- Account
- None. No email, password or sign-in.
- Where entries live
- Encrypted on your phone, with a key that never leaves it.
- Before the AI sees it
- Names and places are replaced on your phone. Your text isn’t used to train the AI.
- Used to track you (App Store label)
- None declared
- Linked to your identity
- None declared
- Collected, not linked to you
- Health, Purchase History, Photos or Videos, Other User Content, Device ID
Apple Cycle Tracking
- Account
- Uses your Apple Account. No separate sign-up.
- Where data lives
- On your device, end to end encrypted if it syncs to iCloud with two-factor on
- Used to track you (App Store label)
- None declared
- Linked to your identity
- None declared
- Sells your data
- Says it does not, per its privacy policy
App Store label read 13 October 2026. Policy details from our app privacy table, checked 19 August 2026.
FAQ
Questions about Niyora and Apple Cycle Tracking
Can Apple Health predict PMS?
Apple’s Cycle Tracking predicts your next period and a six-day fertile window, and can flag irregular cycles. Apple’s Cycle Tracking guide doesn’t mention PMS or PMDD, checked in October 2026. Niyora reads your Apple Health period dates and marks the days before your period when PMS is likely.
Does Niyora work with Apple Health?
Yes. If you connect Apple Health, Niyora reads your menstrual flow records to place your cycle and predict your PMS window. Niyora only reads. It never writes to Apple Health, and that data stays on your phone. It isn’t sent to the AI or to anyone else.
Can I log my mood in Apple Health?
Yes. Apple’s Health app has State of Mind, where you can log momentary emotions and daily moods. It records how you feel. Niyora helps with what happened: Moon offers other ways to see it, a way to calm down, and help deciding what to say next.
Is Niyora free like Apple Cycle Tracking?
Niyora is free to start, with Moon moments each month and the cycle calendar included. Premium, at $8.99 a month or $29.99 a year, adds unlimited moments, your patterns and the cycle report. Apple Cycle Tracking is free and built into iPhone and Apple Watch.
How this page was checked
Checked on 13 October 2026. Every Apple Cycle Tracking fact above comes from these pages, read on that date. We name them here and don’t link to them.
- Apple Support, Track your period with Cycle Tracking
- Apple Watch User Guide, Log your state of mind
- Apple’s Health app privacy label
- Apple Support, Health data encryption
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