About
Founded by Dr. Louise Newson, balance app is the world's #1 app dedicated to the menopause, being the 1st and only to be awarded with Apple's Editors' Choice Award, as well as the 1st to be certified by ORCHA and recognised as safe, accredited, compliant, and trusted to feature in digital health libraries for the NHS and other national health bodies around the world. Balance was created with a single mission in mind, to make menopause support inclusive and accessible to all, providing evidence-based information to help you become better informed, prepared, and empowered during the perimenopause and menopause. Bionow’s Product of the Year 2021 Winner | Recognising best innovations in biomedical and life science What can you do on balance for FREE? • Explore a vast collection of evidence based, expert articles • Keep track of your symptoms and periods • Generate a Health Report© to take to your next healthcare appointment • Be part of a supportive community • Keep an eye on your mental health and mood • Take part in community experiments to see how your symptoms can be improved • Monitor your sleep quality What is Balance+ premium? We introduced balance+ as an optional premium subscription that offers a more personalised experience. Plus, the good news is that subscription revenue goes towards keeping the main part of the app free. So, what does balance+ include? • Live Q&A with Dr Louise Newson and handpicked guests • balance+ gurus sharing their expertise on: • Nutrition & Weight Management • Skin and Hair Care • Mental Health & Wellbeing • Sexual Health & Pelvic Floor • Physical Health • Sleep • Cook-a-long recipe videos • Pilates, yoga, and guided meditation sessions • Consultation examples to help you better prepare yourself for your next healthcare appointment and discuss treatment options. Read our terms & conditions here: https://www.balance-menopause.com/terms-of-use/ Read our privacy policy: https://www.balance-menopause.com/balance-app-privacy-policy/
Info
Release
Jun 9, 2020
Last Updates
What’s new in Balance? We’ve made some big improvements to your Health Report to make it faster, easier, and more accurate: • Your journal logs now power your Health Report — no need to fill in a separate questionnaire. • Review and edit your symptom summary before generating your report, so you can make sure it accurately reflects how you’ve been feeling. • Updated symptom list based on the latest menopause and hormone health research from Newson Health.
Rating
Everyone
Genre
Health & Fitness
Reviews
Has been really useful as regular logging has greatly aided conversations with health professionals. However, since last update, app is really glitchy - 4 notifications every night to log symptoms etc but when I tap on a notification it no longer takes me straight to the journal (not a huge problem, I know, but a step backwards from before); also laggy saving journal logs, still shows 'last updated a day ago' 10 minutes after I've logged. Today I've tried logging sleep 6 times but won't save.
Sarah C
I really love this app. To be able to record my symptoms daily has supported me to notice what's going on for me when and realise that when I'm shattered, it doesn't last forever. Also I love the experiments I can take part in, it's a real encouragement to do different things to take charge. The only reason it's not a 5 is that at times the app seems to block, I've had to reinstall.
Nathalie Wilson
This is a great app for monitoring symptoms and the community feature is great. It could be improved by having more options to choose from in the food diary section and some way to dismiss articles and nutrition hints once you've read them. Also a way to save answers rather than having to retype every time you add a story would save time.
Gemma D
Really useful app. All the symptoms are included and it is easy to highlight the ones that apply to you. However, I feel the food and drink section could be improved, eg you can choose between alcohol, caffeine or water but there are no other options (eg decaff, milk, juice). It would also be useful to have a free text box to make your own notes, eg something stressful happened today, or started/changed medication, or anything else which might affect you.
Barbara Delahunty
Good app for tracking symptoms and plenty of articles covering a wide range of topics associated with periods and the menopause. I liked the different journal sections, however, some symptoms can be daily, such as fatigue, others are more likely noticed on a weekly or monthly basis (weightgain, facial hair growth, etc) but no way to split them.
Ma Mo
This used to be a brilliant app for tracking periods as well as general health and symptoms, diet and exercise but it suddenly stopped offering the period tracker and while I was told it was an issue with my phone and that reloading he app or doing a health report or adding medical data would sort the issue, it's been nearly 2 years and I went elsewhere for the tracking so have stopped bothering coming to balance because bouncing across multiple apps to log data every day is time consuming.
Cara Hanman
I've only started using this Balance app. I find it so easy to use. I love that it breaks everything down from symptoms, sleep, mood, meditation, activity and food and drink. That it takes a holistic view of your whole lifestyle. I also love the challenges you can take part in. And all the useful articles to read up in. I am going to collect all this data for a month or so and go back to my doctor fully armed with more confidence and I won't let them dismiss my symptoms or feelings.
Donna English
Excellent and long overdue app for monitoring all symptoms associated with peri & menopause. Very simple to use and navigate around. One star dropped, as I'd like to be able to edit symptoms myself. You can only select what is listed, and I think there might be others that would be worth monitoring and being able to add. I haven't been on the available forums which some might find useful for support so I can't review that bit.
Tommysgirl14
Such a helpful app. I am very grateful to Dr Louise. I use the free version. I am wondering however can you please make a search function for topics so I can type in what I want to search? Or is that only on the paid version?
RG
I generally think it is a great app. Could maybe connect somehow to other apps like fitbit to get more accurate sleep and food details. The food section is really not very flexible and detailed. However, today the app is not working at all, won't let me open it, says there's a fault. I hope my data is still there when it is fixed.
Donna Watson
The app is simple to use and contains useful information. I would like to see more options in the food and exercise sections. I eat a lot of beans and pulse but that option isn't there. Also some exercise styles are missing.bIt would be good if we could manually add some food & exercise optiins to give a more accurate picture of what we eat/exercise daily. Other than that it's great. I find the community conversations and the experiments useful too
Lou