Cycle tracking without the subscription trap
Cycle apps commonly meter the basics: history beyond a few months, symptom categories, or predictions. Noralia keeps tracking, symptoms, reminders and the PDF export free; Premium adds extras, not essentials.
Metering the basics
A familiar pattern in cycle apps: logging is free, but the history view stops after a few cycles, custom symptoms are locked, or the prediction — the reason most people installed it — appears behind a recurring fee. Some apps additionally run ads against intimate health data, which is its own problem.
Cycle tracking is a long-horizon activity. Its value comes from months and years of history, which makes a subscription lapse unusually costly: the data is still there, but the view of it is gone.
What stays free in Noralia
Period and cycle tracking, symptom and mood logging, reminders, the full history and the doctor-ready PDF export are part of the free app. There are no ads, and no advertising or analytics SDKs, so the free tier is not being paid for with data.
Premium is a one-time in-app purchase rather than a recurring charge, and it adds genuinely optional tools: basal temperature tracking, custom symptom categories, intimate health logs and home screen widgets. Nothing in it is required to track a cycle or to understand your own history.
Why the free tier can stay free
There is no server holding cycle data, so there is no hosting cost that scales with users, and no dataset that could be monetised later even if the incentives changed. That is what makes the arrangement stable rather than a promise.
What that looks like in practice
- Cycle and period tracking, unlimited history, free.
- Symptom, mood, sleep and energy logging included.
- Doctor-ready PDF export in the free app.
- Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.
- No ads and no tracking SDKs at any tier.
Noralia
Noralia has been prepared for Google Play and the App Store and is moving through store review. The Noralia overview has the latest availability and covers what the app does and how it handles cycle data.
More guides
- What a cycle app knows, and who else might
- Reminders that do not out you
- A cycle prediction is an estimate, not a diagnosis
A full feature overview lives on the Noralia app page, more articles in the Noralia guides, and answers to technical questions in the support section.