Spot On Period Tracker

I’ve been using this app for I don’t even know how long. I’ve never had a “normal” cycle or period, ever since my very first one almost hospitalized me. I’ve never been very good at guessing when my period would come because it was so irregular. I downloaded this app to track my period and then I started using all of its awesome features. I started using this app before I was sexually active simply for the help it offered. I tried many kinds of period control and almost nothing wanted to work for me but this app helped me keep track of everything I tried and the different ways it affected me. I recently got an IUD put in after much hesitation (the first time I tried the IUD it fell out on its own after a week and a half.) So far its been excellent in helping me track my periods, fertile days and moods. Now that I am sexually active it is so helpful also with keeping track of when I’ve had sex! I love all the the features it offers and the helpful information. They are always adding new features and other important improvements to the app. I recommend this app to every person with a uterus!

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I’ve been using this app to track my birth control ring for the last five months or so. It is great to be able to log my physical stats every day so that I can figure out when I am likely to experience what on any given month. I also like that you can add your own symptoms to track, and personalize the tracking system to suit you. The problem with this app is that, at least for the ring, it only works if you do everything right. There is no ability to tell it that you took the ring out for a bit, or that it fell out, so it has no way to know that it needs to give you advice or warn you that you might not be protected. It would be amazing to have a “Ring’s Out” button that would start a two hour timer or something so that if I want to take it out to have sex or go for a run or anything like that, then it will tell me when I need to get the ring back in. The app also needs to recognize that sometimes women will go four weeks with the same ring and then do a ring free week specifically to move their period, not skip it. Right now, if you leave the ring in for four weeks, it assumes that you need to start a new ring at the end of week 4, and there’s no option for still having a ring-free week. Please update this app with features to make it helpful even when everything doesn’t happen completely “by the book”.

This app is all around pretty amazing. The in-app integration of being able to talk to a health care educator is so convenient. I love absolutely everything about this app except for the fact that there’s no option to put you accidentally doubled up on your pill one day. Normally if you forget to take a pill, you put it into the app, and they tell you what to do, but if you accidentally double up, the app can’t help you, and you can’t log it, so you must reach out to one of their educators. If the app was to include this feature, I’d give it a 5 stars. Now that we’ve got the negatives out of the way, let’s go over what’s great about this app. 1) The app allows you to require FaceID to open it, so someone being nosy can’t open your app with sensitive information. 2) They allow you to insert your individual birth control method, so the app is tailor fit to you. ( I’d suggest adding the option to add multiple methods being used at once, but the app still works great without it. ) 3) If you chose to use more than one app to track your periods and birth control, you can export the data out of the app easily. 4) They have a very compact and helpful FAQ integrated into the app. 5) The app is FREE, and there’s no free trial / pay to use features.

I began to use this app on the day I visited Planned Parenthood to start my first birth control method (pills). This app literally keeps me on track by reminding me to take my pill everyday, the same time, and it keeps record of all the days you pressed “yes” if you took the pill for the day so that if you feel unsure, forgot, or must take two pills if you missed, you can check and proceed to take action to get back on track. They also have a feature where you can add any symptoms, feelings, or when you stated your period as of well as the flow to look back on to see any changes or differences. I gave this app four stars because as a suggestion, this app can improve if it can have an option where people can make an account or not. My phone suddenly stopped working and the four month progress I had put time to keep track of my moods, my side effects, and my period is now gone. I can’t look back on those four months to compare it to a new pill I was switched to. I would really hate to lose all of the progress I have made in the app to keep track of everything again. Thank you!

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This app is a generally fine period tracker in that I can examine the personal information on the calendar and see trends. However, I’d like to echo the other commenters who note the necessity for a comment section so this information and its causes can be more accurately assessed. Unfortunately, I have two other problems as well. Firstly, I have a problem with my not taking birth control being equated with me taking “unknown” birth control. I cringe whenever I see that in my statistics and profile because “unknown” does not represent me. Second, the app does little to account for women of different ages and with medical conditions. Information about ovulation and exact periods is unlikely to be of use for an older woman going through perimenopause or an adolescent whose cycle is not yet regular and who may be experiencing more emotional highs and lows around the time they menstruate. Clearly the app cannot give everyone feedback on their personal menstrual health, but I would feel more comfortable being able to input my health concerns (I lost an ovary a couple years ago and have struggled with mood swings and hot flashes uncharacteristic of my age) and having more resources to browse in the resources tab concerning such topics.