Is Clue Plus worth it?
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What's the lowdown?
Clue Plus is the premium and paid version of the Clue cycle tracking app
The enhanced features could help you to understand your body and your cycle even better
Clue Plus has additional tracking features, personalised modes and content from experts
A yearly Clue Plus subscription costs just £24.99 per year to learn more about your cycle
You’ve got to be super into tracking your cycle to get the most out of your subscription
Why is symptom tracking and understanding your cycle pattern important?
These days we live busy lives with jam-packed schedules and can easily forget things ….like when your period is due. How many of us have had to resort to toilet paper in our knickers?
Apps that track your cycle can offer you gentle reminders when your period is due so you can stock up on necessities like period products, chocolate and pain-killers. And they nudge you to be kind to yourself during your busy days.
Period tracking can also be important for the general management of your social life. Just ask Alice, our CEO, who realised she was due on her period on her wedding day (one reason women book to speak to our doctors). And it’s useful if you need to consider delaying your period for a holiday.
Furthermore, the menstrual cycle is so much more than just a period. Tracking your cycle offers information about your body and overall health, and can give us indications when something is not quite right.
By tracking your symptoms, you will be able to establish what is normal for you and build a cycle health record over time. This will allow you to understand patterns and notice when something’s not normal. Noting all your symptoms and experiences down will also allow you to better advocate for yourself when something doesn’t feel right.
Tracking your cycle is so important to help get a diagnosis of conditions such as endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), premenstrual syndrome (PMS) or premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and perimenopause. You will have all the information at your fingertips so you can show your doctor what’s happening. Having an awareness of your symptoms and triggers throughout your cycle can also be a great tool for managing these conditions.
What is Clue?
Clue took the world by storm when they first launched in 2013, offering women a new and innovative way to track their periods on their phones. Gone are the days where we write everything down on a notepad. Clue started their journey with menstrual cycle tracking but have now expanded into perimenopause, trying to conceive and even pregnancy.
The standard version of the Clue app offers period and ovulation tracking as well as limited pregnancy features all in one place. The more information you log in the app, the better the algorithm gets at giving you individual insights about your cycle. According to Clue, data from your last 12 cycles will create predictions around your cycle, period length and symptoms of PMS.1 There are over 200+ symptom tracking options that you can log over your cycle not just including menstrual flow but also your mood, skin and energy levels. All important indicators for your overall health.
As with most app products, there is a free version and paid version, which is called Clue Plus. But the question is…..is Clue Plus worth it?
What is Clue Plus?
Clue Plus is the paid version of the Clue app that offers you access to differing modes, more content and deeper tracking analysis. You still have access to several features with the standard free Clue app, but Clue Plus will be able to give you further predictions and insights into your health. You also get access to Clue Conceive, Clue Pregnancy, Clue Perimenopause, and Clue Connect included in your Clue Plus subscription.
Clue vs Clue Plus
It is hard to compare the offerings on the Clue website, so we have created a convenient table to easily compare the differences.
| Clue2 | Clue Plus3 | |
| Content library 📚 Gain access to a catalogue of women’s health articles by experts | Partial access | Full Access to over 200+ health articles from medical experts |
| Cycle tracking 📱 Input information about your past and current cycles to help the Clue app predict your future cycles | Full access but only 3 future cycle predictions and basic cycle statistics | Full access with cycle overviews and advanced cycle predictions so you can plan 12 cycles into the future |
| Clue Connect 🤝 Ability to share details with your loved ones via the app | Not available | Included in the Clue Plus offering so you can share your cycle with your partner, a friend, a family member or even a work colleague (they will need to have a free Clue account to view this)4 |
| Custom tags 🏷️ Ability to add tags to monitor specific symptoms | Up to 5 custom tracking tags | Unlimited so you can personalise your tracking and record which symptoms matter to you. You can even add a note to yourself on a specific cycle day. |
| Custom reminders 🔔 | We know that it can be tricky to remember to update your app so Clue has a helpful reminder feature to keep you on track! | Available across Clue and Clue Plus |
| Analysis tab 📈 Get the stats and patterns on your cycles | Limited to cycle length and cycle variation statistics | Includes cycle lengths and variation as well as advanced cycle insights, predictions, and pattern analysis. The pattern analysis includes the newly launched ‘Feelings Analysis’ that helps you understand your mood patterns throughout your cycle, as well as detailed cycle insights into pain and sleep too. |
| Tracking categories 👀 Track up to 40 categories from mood to vaginal symptoms | Over 150+ tracking categories including mood, skin and energy levels | Additional 50+ tracking categories like sleep quality, urine, vulval and vaginal symptoms, and use of supplements on top of the 30+ standard tracking categories |
| Clue Conceive 🤰 Optional mode in Clue Plus to help you understand your fertility better | Not available | Included in the Clue Plus offering so you can track your cycle to predict fertile days with a clinically-tested algorithm allowing you to time sex or insemination, increasing your chances of conception5 |
| Clue Pregnancy 👶 Record symptoms you experience during your pregnancy and learn more about early baby development | Limited features. You can only follow the pregnancy progress and see weekly early baby development updates | A premium version is available with Clue Plus where you have pregnancy specific tracking categories, weekly insights to your bodily changes and early baby development as well as additional expert pregnancy-related content |
| Clue Perimenopause 💛 This is an optional mode in Clue Plus designed to help you better navigate this life stage | You can manually track symptoms in categories such as ‘Energy, Mind, Feelings and Social Life’ to monitor perimenopausal symptoms and use the analysis tab to understand how your cycle length may be changing over time. | Included in Clue Plus to automatically track specific perimenopause symptoms, and adapts to your changing cycles during this phase of life6 |
| Customer Service 📞 Easily connect with Clue’s support team when you need any help | Access to over 200 FAQs within the Support section of the app where you can provide feedback, report issues, and make suggestions any time | Access to Premium Customer Care where a dedicated member of Clue’s Support Team will look into your request and personally get back to you |
| Oura integration 💍 Connect your Oura ring to Clue Plus to import your Oura temperature | Not available | Oura ring temperature integration (on iOS devices only), to align your temperature profile with your menstrual cycle |
| Clue Perks ✅ Bonuses and benefits you can look forward to | Not available | Exclusive offers from select Clue partners. |
How much does a Clue Plus subscription cost?
Clue Plus offers a monthly or yearly subscription option. So if you want to give Clue Plus a try for just a month, you have no obligation to continue; however, if you know you love it, you can secure a year-long subscription for cheaper (£24.99 in the UK, which works out at just over £2 per month).
We always love a try before you buy, and Clue has given all Lowdown users an exclusive 100% off the first 12 months of your Clue Plus subscription. Just use the code LowdownxClue to redeem. FYI: this will renew at full price after 12 months, but you can cancel at any time, more details here.
Clue Plus and Oura Ring
The Oura Ring is a health-tracking wearable ring that measures various biometric data, such as heart rate, temperature, sleep patterns, and activity levels. The Oura Ring can now be paired with the Clue app to offer seamless tracking.
Temperature tracking can be especially useful as the Oura Ring tracks your temperature which is an important indicator of ovulation and can help identify your current cycle phase. Along with temperature tracking, the Oura Ring also tracks your sleep quality and other physiological data (like heart rate variability), which can be important indicators of overall health and reproductive wellness. The combination of sleep, heart rate, and temperature data can give you a better picture of your overall health too.
This feature is only available with a Clue Plus and Oura Ring subscription. The Oura Ring itself has a relatively high up-front cost starting at around £349.
If this is something you are interested in but has left you umming and ahhing due to the large up-front costs, Clue can offer you an exclusive discount on your Oura Ring purchase and membership.7
Clue does also integrate with Apple Health, but doesn’t yet allow integration of other common health tracking wearables like the Apple Watch or Garmins into their app.
What are the benefits of Clue Plus?
While Clue already offers a fair bit with their free version, these features multiply with Clue Plus.
As this app mainly relies on the data you input, you want to be diligent and disciplined with logging into the app as the algorithm thrives on what you feed it. Luckily for us, Clue has reminders you can customise, fast-tracking options and daily check-ins to make sure this isn’t a problem.
Your decision on Clue Plus should be based on how much you will use these additional features to analyse and understand your body and reproductive health. Some might find them simply too overwhelming while others love the depth of understanding about their body. If you have, or suspect you might have endometriosis, PMS or PMDD the extra tracking features could be amazingly helpful.
There are multiple different women’s health tracking apps on the market these days, all some variation of each other. You might gel with one more than the other so it is important to try them out for yourself. We think Clue Plus is a great investment into your health, especially if you have a gynaecological condition, are trying to conceive or potentially in the perimenopause phase of life.
Clue has given Lowdown readers an exclusive 100% off your first 12 months of your Clue Plus membership so you can explore it fully for yourself.
Dr Fatema Dawoodbhoy
Fatema is currently training in London as an Academic doctor, with a special interest in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She is passionate about championing women to understand their bodies better and prioritise their health. She understands the importance of clinically accurate articles and has been writing engaging and educative medical content for 5 years.
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