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
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
I've just installed the app, followed the instructions to sign up and when I log in I get a continuous loading spinner with the text "Fetching user data". It never completes so the app is unusable. I've tried various things to fix it such as reinstalling the app, deleting app cache and changing my password but nothing has worked. I have a working network connection. Any suggestions?
Gemma Evans
great app, good journal however i would like to see it having more functions where I can add more details.
AniTa
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
Last update was extremely poor. This app worked well until a couple of weeks ago but is now unusable. Keeps crashing every time I try to add an entry or look at the journal. Why haven't the obvious bugs been fixed?
D H
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
It's a great app, lots of advise and support, I wish there was a diary option separate from the period section, so that you can document how you are feeling, as the symptoms checklist does allow you to elaborate, which is a shame. sometimes you want to put deeper explanations so that when you go to your doctors, you have it all in one place.
Wendy Perretta
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 have been using this app for less than a week. I was initially really excited by it, but I find it clunky and slow to use and it sometimes freezes. Also there's no room for customisation (adding additional symptoms or notes) so it's not as useful as I'd hoped. I think it's a great idea and hope that with updates it can be improved.
Caitlin Carew
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
Super clunky. I've started an experiment and when I update the day it actually updates the following day. Notification reminders don't work and the 'add button doesn't work either. I also accidently entered the wrong answer on my experiment and couldn't alter it. This app just seems like another unnecessary task on the too do list!
Jo Leary