Hormonology retired all of its Hormone Horoscope apps in January 2023. The apps were removed from the App Store and Google Play, and the company pivoted to paper products — printed hormone journals and books — instead of software. If you search for the app today, you’ll mostly find the retirement notice and stale APK mirror sites; the app itself is gone and was never handed over to a new developer.
For the people who opened it every morning, that was a real loss: the Hormone Horoscope pioneered a very specific thing — a daily, horoscope-style reading driven by your cycle rather than by the stars. We wrote a full guide to the hormone horoscope app and its successor; this post covers the story of the original.
What the Hormone Horoscope actually was
Long before “cycle syncing” became a hashtag, Hormonology’s app did something disarmingly simple: you told it where you were in your cycle, and it told you what today would likely feel like — energy, mood, focus, sociability — in a short, friendly daily entry. No lab tests, no gadgets; just the well-documented arc of estrogen and progesterone across the month, translated into plain language.
That format earned it a devoted audience. It read like a horoscope — a small daily ritual, screenshot-friendly, a little uncanny in its accuracy — but the engine underneath was your own biology rather than your star sign.
Why it shut down
Hormonology’s stated reason for leaving software was privacy. Running a cycle-tracking app means holding some of the most sensitive personal data there is, and in the post-2022 climate around reproductive-health data in the US, the company chose not to be a custodian of it at all. Paper journals can’t be breached, subpoenaed or sold — so paper is where they went.
It’s a principled exit, and it points at the real lesson: the problem was never the daily reading. It was where the data lived. A cycle app that keeps everything on your phone — no account, no server, nothing to hand over — answers the concern without giving up the product. That’s the design constraint we built Hormoscope around, and it’s the same reason privacy-first trackers are having a moment; see our comparison of period trackers that don’t share data.
What to use instead
If what you miss is the daily reading — not just period dates — a generic tracker won’t scratch the itch. Here’s what to look for in a successor:
- A genuine daily forecast, written for today, not a static phase explainer you’ve read twenty times.
- Adaptation to your real cycles, so the reading stays accurate even when your cycle length wobbles.
- On-device data — the exact concern that ended the original should be solved, not repeated.
A warning about the APK mirrors
Search results for the old app are littered with third-party APK download sites offering “the last version” of Hormone Horoscope for Android. Skip them. Beyond the usual sideloading risks — you have no way to verify what’s actually inside a repackaged APK — there is a special irony in downloading an unverifiable build of an app whose maker shut it down over data-privacy concerns. Even a clean copy would be a time capsule: unmaintained, unsupported, and never updated for modern Android. If the developer chose to end the app, the respectful (and safe) move is to let it rest and find a living successor.
There’s no iOS equivalent of the mirror problem — once an app leaves the App Store, it’s simply gone unless you already had it in your purchase history, and even then it will age out of compatibility eventually.
How Hormoscope carries the idea forward
Hormoscope is our attempt to give the hormone horoscope a proper home rather than a nostalgic clone:
- A one-line daily reading every morning, in forecast voice — what today will feel like, before it happens.
- Five live meters — energy, mood, social battery, skin and libido — that shift through your phases instead of a single generic score.
- The Briefing, a week-ahead view that turns the reading into plans: which days to book, which to protect.
- Everything on-device. No account, no cloud copy of your cycle, Face ID lock on the intimate parts. The reason Hormonology quit is the reason Hormoscope is built this way.
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The usual honest footnote applies: this is wellness entertainment built on typical cycle patterns, not medicine — if something feels genuinely wrong with your cycle, a clinician beats any app.