Period Tracker with Mood, Fertility & Birth Control Pill Diary with Reminder app review: mood and pill yes but not so much fertility

Introduction

Period Tracker with Mood, Fertility & Birth Control Pill Diary with Reminder for your iPhone and iPod touch is an app designed to track your monthly cycles rather than using your pocket calendar. Every woman should be tracking her cycles to discern whether there is an irregularity issue, and many developers have created apps with various features to assist with this.

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Great Illustrations

Period Tracker with Mood, Fertility & Birth Control Pill Diary with Reminder has really great illustrations. When you double tap on a day to enter your symptoms, you are presented with a comical blue blob person that is divided into three sections: head, torso, and bottom. Each section allows you to tap and select your symptoms. For example, on the head you can select insomnia, dizzy, headache, acne, and nausea. Each body section has several options, which makes tracking your day-to-day well-being super easy.

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In addition to this blob person, at the top of the day screen you find a blue hexagon to represent your birth control pill, but could also use this to denote condom use, or another form of contraception. You then have a bar to select if you had sex, and an area for your mood.

Calendar and Cycle Display

Period Tracker with Mood, Fertility & Birth Control Pill Diary with Reminder has a great calendar display with varying bars to denote the heaviness of your period, when your next expected period is, and then shades in the particular days that you have made an entry in the diary.

In addition to the main calendar screen, there is also a cycle screen with dates to indicate when you are expected to ovulate based on standard luteal phase, and when your next cycle will begin. As I have mentioned with several other tracking apps, this app does not allow you to use your personal temperature or fluids to denote exact ovulation. It is merely based on best guess.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Awesome graphics make it fun for teens
• Easy entry makes it quick to enter a daily diary
• Pill reminder if you are taking contraceptive pills
• Period reminder if you are prone to forgetting that your cycle is nearing

Cons

• Very basic tracking
• Limited reliability as the app does not note your basal temperature or other indicators

Final Thoughts

Period Tracker with Mood, Fertility & Birth Control Pill Diary with Reminder iPhone and iPod touch app would be great for teens who just need to track their cycles. It allows them to note mood changes, body symptoms, and to check off that they have taken their pill. It also has a reminder for the pill so that they are less likely to forget. If you are trying to use natural family planning to either prevent or achieve pregnancy, however, this app does not go into enough detail.