hi, I'm Jane 👋
47 · mom of one · not a doctor · did the homework so you don't have to
For about a year I kept telling myself I was just tired.
Then it was the 3am wake-ups. Then the weeks my moods felt like they belonged to someone else. Then the strange month my period showed up twice and I genuinely wondered if something was wrong with me. My doctor was kind but rushed, and I left the appointment with the same question I walked in with: is this perimenopause, or is it just… me?
So I did what apparently a lot of us do at 2am: I started taking quizzes. "Am I in perimenopause?" "What menopause stage am I in?" I took nine of them over three weeks. Most were a letdown — a slick landing page, four questions, and a vague result designed to sell me a supplement. But a couple were genuinely useful, and one of them did something none of the others managed: it made me feel like I finally understood what was happening to my own body.
Here's my honest ranking, best to worst, scored on the same five things: how personal the result felt, how clearly it explained my stage, whether it gave me something to actually DO, whether it helped me talk to my doctor, and price.
The only quiz that treated me like a whole person instead of a lead.
I almost skipped this one because the name sounded like a Facebook group. I'm glad I didn't.
It's longer than the others — about 20 questions — and at first I thought here we go, more work. But the length is the point. Instead of four checkboxes, it actually asked me things: how my cycles had changed, which symptoms showed up and how often, what my sleep and stress looked like, and — this surprised me — it let me type in my own words what made me take the quiz. I wrote something honest about feeling like I'd lost myself. Then, while it "analyzed" my answers, it showed little progress notes like "You're not imagining it — you've noted 7 symptoms many women in this transition describe." I know that's a design trick. It still made my eyes sting a little, because no one had said that to me yet.
Right away, before paying anything, it told me my responses were most consistent with late perimenopause — and showed me a chart of my own symptom profile, with sleep and mood spiking exactly where I'd have put them myself. That alone reframed how I was thinking about the last year.
I paid — I think it was around $34 — mostly out of curiosity, and honestly it's the most useful $34 I've spent on myself in a while. It wasn't a PDF of generic tips. It opened by quoting my own words back to me and walking through what my stage generally involves, in plain language, without ever pretending to diagnose me — it was careful to say this is education, not a doctor's opinion. Then it broke down my top symptoms one by one: what women in my stage commonly experience, why it tends to happen, and I stopped feeling like I was the only one falling apart.
The two sections I didn't expect to love:
After I paid, it set me up with a little dashboard and a symptom tracker. I log how I'm feeling in about 20 seconds a day — a tap for each symptom, a note if I want. Over a few weeks it started showing me trends: my sleep and my mood tracking together, my night sweats slowly easing. There's a subscription (I think ~$12/month) that keeps the tracker going and sends you a refreshed report every few months that actually reflects your logged data — mine noticed my sleep had improved since my first report, which felt genuinely personal. I can also export my whole history as a PDF to bring to my doctor, which I've now done twice.
It's the priciest on this list, and the report is long — if you just want a 30-second label, it's more than you need. The subscription is easy to skip but they do offer it more than once. And to be fair, it's education and self-tracking, not medical care — it says so on every screen, and it kept nudging me to talk to my actual doctor, which I respect but a few people might want it to just tell them what to do. It won't, and honestly it shouldn't.
Bottom line. Every other quiz on this list gave me a result. This one gave me an understanding — and a tool I still open every morning. It's the only one I'd tell my sister to take.
Take the Our Menopause Club quiz → About 5 minutes · Free result · Full report optionalThe best free starting point, if you don't mind that they sell supplements.
Health & Her's female-health quiz is genuinely useful and completely free, and users online consistently say it's more than a tracker — there are CBT exercises and physician-reviewed content behind it (it's been rated the #1 menopause app by ORCHA).
The familiar giant, now with a perimenopause score.
If you've ever tracked a cycle, you know Flo. It added a Perimenopause Score, and with 380M+ downloads and 100+ medical experts behind it, users find it polished and easy to ease into.
A quick, clinician-backed "what stage am I in?" read.
This free questionnaire from a UK menopause clinic gives you a fast, clear sense of your stage, and users appreciate that the content is written by actual clinicians.
Less a quiz, more a warm community — and that has real value.
Perry is a perimenopause app built around peer support, expert events and podcasts, with a free core. Users repeatedly say the best part is not feeling alone.
A fine 2-minute free gut-check, nothing more.
A quick standalone "am I in perimenopause?" quiz. Users say it's a low-friction way to take the first step.
If you're having urgent or severe symptoms — very heavy bleeding, bleeding after your periods had fully stopped, or anything that scares you — skip the quizzes and call your doctor. A quiz is for understanding and preparing, not for emergencies. None of these tools, including my #1, are medical devices — they'll all tell you the same thing.
If you're in that confusing in-between where you suspect something's shifting but keep talking yourself out of it — that's exactly who these are for. And if you're going to take just one, take the one that gives you something to bring to your doctor. For me that was Our Menopause Club.
Take the quiz →About 5 minutes · Free resultI'm Jane, 47, a mom of one in California, and very much in the thick of this myself. I'm not a doctor and nothing here is medical advice — I'm just a woman who got tired of feeling dismissed and decided to do the homework. If this saved you a few weeks of 2am googling, it was worth writing.