Know Before You Go

Menopause

Hot flashes, broken sleep, brain fog, mood changes — perimenopause and menopause can start years before your last period, and the symptoms are easy to misread as something else. The tools here help you track what's happening, understand the pattern, and walk into a clinician visit with a record instead of a guess.

Two kinds of listings live on this shelf, and we label them clearly: free AI companions and tracking apps, and paid specialist clinics — where at most the booking or insurance check is free, and the care itself is not.

Companions, trackers & clinics

Menovia

TRULY FREE

An AI companion (named Ziena) for perimenopause and menopause: track up to 40 symptoms, chat for plain-language explanations of what may be happening, and export a provider-ready report. It does not diagnose or prescribe.

Who pays: Subscription-funded. The site states: no ads ever, and your data is never sold.

Price: Free tier is real: dashboard, cycle/stage and symptom tracking, community, full library, and 30 AI chats a month. Premium (unlimited chats, insights, provider PDF export): $9.99/month or $79.99/year.

Age: Built for women 40+ in peri-, menopause, or postmenopause; no hard age gate published.

Privacy: Encrypted at rest; states data is never sold and never used to train outside models; intimate and mental-health logs are excluded from provider exports unless you opt in per export.

Verified Oct 23, 2026, on the provider's own site.

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Hello Nila

TRULY FREE

Plain-language, evidence-graded menopause and perimenopause guides and a research library, with symptom tracking and daily check-ins, plus an AI chat that only draws from its own verified sources. It does not diagnose or prescribe.

Who pays: Premium subscriptions and a small number of clearly labelled sponsorships — Nila states sponsors do not shape its editorial. It also sells team/employer plans.

Price: 91 symptom guides are free forever, and much of the library needs no sign-in. Premium (unlimited use): CAD $10.75/month billed annually.

Privacy: States: your tracking, journals and check-ins are yours — no data sale, no employer view; searching the site stays on your device.

Verified Oct 23, 2026, on the provider's own site.

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Balance — Menopause & Hormones

TRULY FREE

A hormone-health app from Dr Louise Newson’s Newson Health covering PMS, PMDD, PCOS, endometriosis, perimenopause and menopause: track symptoms, read medically reviewed content, and prepare for consultations. It is an app, not a clinic, and does not diagnose.

Who pays: Balance+ subscriptions — the company states every subscription helps keep the rest of Balance free. Some employers fund Balance+ for staff.

Price: Core app free (tracking, resources, community). Balance+: £4.99/month or £49.99/year with a 14-day free trial; prices vary by location — check your app store.

Privacy: No “we never sell data” statement found on the pages we checked — read its privacy policy. Its founder states no pharmaceutical company has input into its content.

Verified Oct 23, 2026, on the provider's own site.

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Perry

TRULY FREE

A perimenopause peer community and education app: connect with other women going through it, join expert-led talks, read evidence-based content, and listen to its podcast. Support and education — not medical care.

Who pays: Not stated on its consumer site. Perry also runs Perry Academy, paid training for healthcare professionals.

Price: The app itself is free to download (per Perry’s own descriptions); no consumer premium price is published.

Privacy: Perry describes the app as private; no detailed data statement was found on its homepage — check the in-app policy.

Verified Oct 23, 2026, on the provider's own site.

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Midi Health

A paid virtual clinic: video visits with women’s-health clinicians for perimenopause, menopause and related midlife care, with a personalised care plan that can include hormone therapy and other prescriptions, labs, and supplements.

Who pays: Billed to insurance — Midi says it is in-network with most major insurance providers — or self-pay. Labs and prescriptions cost extra.

Price: Self-pay: first visit (30 min) $250; returning visit (15 min) $150. With insurance, your copay, deductible, or coinsurance applies.

Privacy: No privacy or data-sale statement found on the pages we checked; expect a standard medical-clinic intake.

Verified Oct 23, 2026, on the provider's own site.

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Evernow

A paid virtual menopause clinic: video visits and ongoing messaging with menopause clinicians, personalised care plans, and prescriptions including hormone therapy.

Who pays: Video visits may be billed to insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield, Anthem, UnitedHealthcare and Aetna are listed); membership or per-visit fees are paid by you; medications are billed separately.

Price: Membership from $35/month (unlimited ongoing messaging), or one-time pay-per-visit at $150 with no membership required.

Privacy: No privacy or data-sale statement found on the homepage we checked.

Verified Oct 23, 2026, on the provider's own site.

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Free Mammograms & Pap Tests — CDC Screening Program

TRULY FREE

The CDC's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) pays for breast and cervical cancer screening — mammograms, clinical breast exams, and Pap tests — and for diagnostic follow-up if a screening comes back abnormal. It is for women with low incomes who are uninsured, or whose insurance does not cover screening. The program runs through state health departments in all 50 states; the CDC page below finds the program near you. Questions: CDC at 800-232-4636.

Who pays: Federal CDC funding, delivered through state programs. Eligible women pay nothing for covered screening and diagnostic services.

Price: $0 if you qualify. CDC's eligibility: no insurance, or your plan does not cover screening exams; household income at or below 250% of the federal poverty level.

Age: 40 to 64 for breast cancer screening; 21 to 64 for cervical cancer screening. Some women younger or older may also qualify.

Verified Oct 24, 2026, on the CDC's own site.

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Texas: Free Screening Through Breast & Cervical Cancer Services (BCCS)

TRULY FREE

Texas's version of the CDC program, run by Texas Health and Human Services. BCCS funds clinics across Texas to provide free breast cancer screening and diagnostic services — clinical breast exams, mammograms, and breast biopsies — plus cervical cancer screening and treatment for precancerous cervical conditions. If cancer is found and you have no insurance to treat it, BCCS clinic staff can help you apply for Medicaid for Breast and Cervical Cancer.

Who pays: The CDC's national early-detection program together with the State of Texas.

Price: $0 if you qualify: you live in Texas, are 18 or older, are uninsured or underinsured, and your income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. Breast services are generally for ages 40 to 64.

Find a clinic: Healthy Texas Women (Texas HHS) lists participating clinics, or dial 2-1-1 anywhere in Texas.

Verified Oct 24, 2026, on the CDC's and Healthy Texas Women's sites.

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Fertility — support, straight facts & clinic results

Trying to build a family comes with its own questions — and its own industry, with prices to match. These three are the free, no-sales-pitch starting points: support from people who understand it, facts from the specialists' own society, and the government's clinic-by-clinic results. For cycle trackers and ovulation apps, see the full Fertility shelf.

RESOLVE — Free Infertility Support Groups

TRULY FREE

Peer-led support groups — virtual and in person — from RESOLVE, the national infertility association: a room (or a Zoom call) full of people who understand family building the hard way. RESOLVE also runs a free online support community and plain-language education on treatment options and insurance advocacy.

Who pays: RESOLVE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, funded by donations and fundraising. Nobody in the room is selling you treatment.

Price: Peer-led groups are free. The same directory also lists professionally-led groups, which may charge — RESOLVE says so on its page, so check before joining one of those.

Verified Oct 28, 2026, on RESOLVE's own site.

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ReproductiveFacts.org — Patient Education from ASRM

TRULY FREE

The patient site of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine: plain-language fact sheets, booklets, and videos on infertility causes, IVF, ICSI, fibroids, and more — in English, Spanish, and Chinese — plus a finder for reproductive-medicine specialists and a page tracking each state's infertility insurance laws.

Who pays: ASRM, the reproductive specialists' professional society (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit). Free to read, no account needed.

Price: $0.

Verified Oct 28, 2026, on ASRM's own site.

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CDC ART Success Rates — Compare Fertility Clinics

TRULY FREE

Before you pay a fertility clinic, look at its report card. Federal law requires U.S. fertility clinics to report their IVF results to the CDC, and this tool shows every reporting clinic's success rates — by age group, and for own eggs vs. donor eggs — plus its services and cycle counts, searchable by state or ZIP code. Compare live-birth rates, not clinic marketing.

Who pays: The CDC. The reporting is required by federal law, and the lookup is free.

Price: $0. One caution: the newest published data covers 2022 — birth outcomes take years to finalize — and a clinic's rates reflect the patients it treats, so use them to ask better questions, not as a guarantee.

Verified Oct 28, 2026, on the CDC's own site.

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What menopause care costs

Specialist visits, hormone therapy, and labs vary widely by provider and insurance. Our sister project publishes real hospital and clinic prices so you can compare before you book.

Check prices at virlar.info