Prefer to use an app to chart your cycle using your chosen Fertility Awareness-Based Method (FABM)?
Here’s the KEY thing you need to stay aware of:
Apps should never replace your own human knowledge and the rules of your chosen FABM.
Think of apps as simply a “digital paper chart” or a place to store your mucus and temperature observations.
Nothing more, nothing less!
This is one of the main reasons that I recommend the below two apps – they don’t provide fertility predicitions!
App fertility predictions are notoriously inaccurate.
This is an issue whether you are trying for a baby or wanting natural birth control.
Always refer to the rules of your chosen FABM over any app predictions.
Check with your FABM instructor or method manual if you are unsure.
PS: Concerned about data privacy? Choose an app that does not store your data.
The Read Your Body app is my go-to recommendation for all Fertility Awareness-Based Method charters.
The Read Your Body app is available for a modest annual subscription fee.
To my knowledge, it remains the most customisable option available and meets the needs of almost every possible Fertility Awareness-Based Method.
No fertility predictions are provided.
Use the Read Your Body app as a “digital paper chart” on your phone.
Data privacy: Data is stored on your phone only. Read Your Body do offer optional back-up accounts but this data is fully encrypted (meaning that Read Your Body app can never see, share, sell or do anything else with it).
If you don’t choose to utilise the optional data back-up service, be sure to download each new chart to ensure you never lose your data.
Available on both iOS and Android.
Read Your Body website Read Your Body for iOS Read Your Body for AndroidTemperatures:
- Choose to chart your temperature in either Fahrenheit or Celsius.
- Choose between automatic rounding or truncation of temperatures.
- Easily mark up to two separate coverlines on a single chart.
- Easily mark your temperature shift.
Bleeding and mucus:
Read Your Body app offers extremely customised options for cervical mucus charting, including coloured stamps, codes, written notes and customisable categories. Some key points include:
- Chart bleeding as either spotting, light, medium or heavy.
- Record your cervical mucus and sensation observations in your own words in the Notes section.
- Record sensation observations in the dedicated sensation charting area.
- Choose between three symbols to summarise your daily mucus observations (dry, non-peak and peak type).
- Easily mark peak count on your chart.
Are you on a budget?
Lutea app is a simple, free app suitable for Symptothermal Method charting. I recommend this app to all charters who are needing to reduce ongoing charting costs.
No fertility predictions are provided.
Use the Lutea app as a “digital paper chart” on your phone.
Data privacy: Data is stored on your phone only (!make sure to create a backup of each chart so that you don’t lose your data!)
Available on both iOS and Android
Lutea app for iOS Lutea app for AndroidTemperatures:
- Choose to chart your temperature in either Fahrenheit or Celsius.
- Temperatures are automatically rounded.
- Easily mark your coverline.
- Easily mark your temperature shift.
Bleeding and mucus:
- Chart bleeding as either spotting, light, medium or heavy.
- Record your cervical mucus and sensation observations in your own words in the Notes section.
- Choose between three symbols to summarise your daily mucus observations (dry, non-peak and peak type).
- Easily mark peak count on your chart.
