5 Best Apps for PCOS in 2026 (Checked and Verified)

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal condition where the ovaries produce higher-than-typical levels of androgens, which can disrupt ovulation and cause irregular or absent periods, excess hair growth, acne, weight changes, and difficulty conceiving. The World Health Organization estimates that 10 to 13% of women worldwide have PCOS, and that up to 70% of affected cases go undiagnosed.

A PCOS app is a phone app that helps you record and interpret the moving parts of that condition: cycle length, symptoms like hirsutism and fatigue, weight, mood, medication such as metformin, and lab results. No app diagnoses PCOS or replaces an endocrinologist or gynaecologist. A good one does something narrower and useful, which is showing you and your doctor what your body actually did over the last six months instead of what you can recall in a ten-minute appointment.

We checked every app on this list against the App Store and Google Play in July 2026 to confirm it still exists and still gets updates. Several roundups you’ll find for this search recommend apps that were abandoned years ago. One of ours did too, once, which is why we now verify before we publish.

Which PCOS app should you use?

Rox is made by our team; the rest of this comparison is independent research. Prices checked July 2026.

Rox — best for tracking PCOS alongside other conditions

PCOS rarely arrives by itself. Fatigue, low mood, migraine, thyroid problems, and insulin resistance often sit on top of it, and cycle apps mostly aren’t built to hold all of that in one place. Rox is a free tracker built for people managing complex or overlapping conditions, so PCOS can be one of several things you log rather than the only thing the app understands.

Free features cover symptom logging, medication logging (useful if you’re on metformin or hormonal contraception and want to see what changed after starting), health vitals, insights drawn from your manual logs, and a doctor report you can hand over at an appointment. It connects to Whoop, Oura, Apple Watch, and Garmin and surfaces that data alongside what you log by hand. Paid tiers add AI features only, so the tracking itself stays free.

Fair limitation: Rox isn’t a cycle-prediction specialist. If your main need is knowing when your next period is likely to arrive, Clue and Flo do that better and we’d rather tell you than pretend otherwise. Rox is also iOS-only right now, with no Android build available at the time of writing.

Clue — best for making sense of irregular cycles

Clue, made by BioWink in Berlin, is the cycle tracker we’d point most people with PCOS toward when the cycle itself is the problem. Irregular and long cycles break a lot of period apps, which quietly assume a tidy 28-day loop and then give you predictions that drift further from reality every month. Clue’s model adjusts to variable cycle lengths and is upfront when it can’t predict confidently, which is more honest behaviour than a fake date on a calendar.

It’s been updated continuously (version 285 shipped in July 2026) and holds a 4.8 rating across roughly 399,000 App Store ratings. The free tier covers cycle and symptom logging, which is the part that matters for showing an anovulation pattern to a doctor.

Fair limitation: Clue doesn’t do anything PCOS-specific around insulin resistance, weight, or hirsutism. It tracks your cycle well and leaves the metabolic side of PCOS alone.

Cysterhood — best for insulin resistance and weight

Cysterhood is built by Tallene Hacatoryan, a registered dietitian who has PCOS herself, alongside trainer Sirak Hacatoryan. It’s the most PCOS-specific app that survived our checks, offering meal plans, 500+ recipes, and lower-intensity strength workouts designed around insulin resistance rather than generic calorie burn. The 2023 international PCOS guideline puts lifestyle change at the centre of management, and this is one of the few apps organised around that rather than bolted onto a period tracker.

The app is free to download and updated recently (June 2026), with a paid membership for the plans, recipes, and twice-monthly coaching calls.

Fair limitation: It’s a weight-loss-framed product, which won’t suit everyone with PCOS, and the useful parts sit behind a subscription whose price isn’t published on the website. Its rating base is small (around 634 ratings), so there’s less collective feedback to judge it by than the big cycle apps.

Bearable — best for finding what drives your symptoms

Bearable is a general symptom tracker that earns its place here because of one thing PCOS-specific apps mostly don’t do: correlation. You log symptoms, mood, energy, food, sleep, and medication, and it reports back on what tends to move together. For a condition where you’re trying to work out whether a change in diet or a new medication actually did anything, that’s the useful question. It’s the same reason it shows up on lists of chronic illness apps rather than women’s health lists.

The free tier allows unlimited custom symptoms and metrics, which is more generous than most. Pro runs $34.99 a year and unlocks correlation reports and history beyond the last 30 days.

Fair limitation: Bearable knows nothing about PCOS specifically. Every symptom you want tracked, you set up yourself, and the initial configuration takes real effort before the app gives you anything back.

Flo — best for trying to conceive with PCOS

Flo is the largest app here by a wide margin (roughly 1.9 million App Store ratings) and its strength for PCOS is fertility. If you’re tracking ovulation while trying to conceive with irregular cycles, Flo’s irregular-cycle mode and ovulation predictions are more developed than anything else on this list. It’s actively maintained, with an update shipped the day we checked.

Fair limitation: Flo settled with the US Federal Trade Commission in 2021 over allegations it shared users’ health data with third parties including Facebook and Google, which is worth knowing before you log intimate health data. The app has since changed its practices and added an anonymous mode, though the history is a reasonable thing to weigh.

How do you choose a PCOS app?

Start with which part of PCOS is actually bothering you right now, because no app covers all of it well.

If the cycle is the problem, meaning you can’t predict anything and want an anovulation pattern documented, pick a cycle tracker built for irregularity. If insulin resistance and weight are the focus, a lifestyle app built by someone who understands PCOS metabolism will beat a period calendar. If PCOS is one of several conditions you’re juggling, a general tracker that holds all of them together saves you from running four apps at once. The same logic applies whichever condition you’re tracking, whether that’s PCOS, an endometriosis app, or one of the best perimenopause apps.

Two other things worth checking before you commit months of data. First, look at the last update date on the App Store or Google Play listing. An app that hasn’t shipped in over a year is often abandoned, and your data goes with it. Second, read what the app does with your data, since reproductive health data is sensitive and the free ones have to make money somewhere.

One app we expected to recommend didn’t make it. AskPCOS, built by Monash University (the team behind the international PCOS guideline), is exactly the kind of evidence-based tool this list should feature. Its last update was September 2023, nearly three years before we checked, so we’ve left it out. If Monash revives it, it belongs here.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best free app for PCOS?

For free PCOS tracking with no paywall on the core features, Rox and Bearable go furthest. Rox offers free symptom logging, medication logging, vitals, insights from your logs, wearable connection, and a doctor report, with payment only for AI features. Bearable’s free tier allows unlimited custom symptoms and weekly reports, though correlation analysis requires Pro at $34.99 a year. Clue and Flo both have usable free tiers for cycle tracking, with predictions and fertility features largely behind their subscriptions.

Can an app help manage PCOS symptoms?

An app can help you manage PCOS symptoms indirectly, by recording what’s happening so you and your clinician can act on real data rather than memory. Tracking cycle length over several months can document irregular or absent ovulation, which supports diagnosis and treatment decisions. Logging symptoms against medication such as metformin shows whether it’s working. No app treats PCOS, and the 2023 international PCOS guideline places lifestyle change, medication, and clinician-led care at the centre of management. An app is the record-keeping layer around that.

Do period trackers work if you have PCOS?

Period trackers work with PCOS, though less reliably than for regular cycles, because most prediction models assume a consistent cycle length. Irregular and long cycles are a core feature of PCOS, so predicted dates drift. Clue handles variable cycle lengths better than most and states when confidence is low. The tracking itself remains worthwhile even when predictions aren’t, since a documented record of cycle length over six to twelve months is useful evidence for a doctor assessing anovulation.

What should you track if you have PCOS?

The most useful things to track with PCOS are cycle start dates and length (to document irregularity or anovulation), symptoms including hirsutism, acne, hair loss, and fatigue, weight and any changes in it, mood, and medication with start dates and doses. If you’re trying to conceive, add ovulation signs. Bringing six months of that to an appointment gives your clinician far more to work with than a verbal summary, particularly given the NHS lists metformin among treatments for tiredness and weight problems in PCOS, where before-and-after data matters.

This article is general information and not medical advice. Talk to a qualified clinician about diagnosing or managing PCOS.