It wasn’t all that long ago that if you wanted to get pregnant, you either had to hope for the best or seek out expert fertility help.
Now things have changed. Thanks to engaging online and mobile communities, personal health tracking, and advanced medical technologies, the process of getting pregnant is much more in your control than ever before.
In this blog post, we’ll walk you through some of the most popular apps and platforms that can help you get from “Meh” to “Baby!”
Best Apps For Getting Pregnant
Ovia
Ovia
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Key Specs:
Cost: Free
Features: Period and symptom charts
Why We Chose It: Ovia is an inexpensive app that helps women nail their most fertile days of the month.
PROS
Fertility window predictions
Excels at charting symptoms indicative of fertility
Charts period
CONS
App defaults to info for trying to concieve; if you don’t want that, you have to select “tracking my period” option and turn off fertility content
Most of the apps featured here are free to download for tracking data, with additional features offered for paid memberships. What makes Ovia stand out is that it’s actually 100% free, with everything available to you just by downloading it.
When you input your fertility data into Ovia, it creates fertile window predictions and a daily fertility score, so you can see at a glance how likely you are to conceive. You can track tons of other metrics as well, like exercise, sleep, mood, and meals. You can get support from both the app and the Ovia community for all your PMS and period questions.
What’s more, Ovia really shines when it comes to syncing data: Not only do you get cycle summaries every month, you can export your data and share it with your partner, too.
Again, all of this is available to you free of charge—making it our top choice for a budget pick. We would say Ovia gives you the best bang for your buck, but does that apply if your “buck” is free?
BEST FLEXIBILITY
Glow
Glow
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Key Specs:
Cost: Basic version is free. Glow Premium is about $60 per year or roughly $80 for lifetime subscription.
Features: Suite of cycle apps.
Why We Chose It: Glow offers a versatile suite of apps that help women track their cycles at every stage of life.
PROS
Tracks multiple stages of women’s cycles
Compares your stats with other users
More customized cycle and symptom predictions
Free to download
CONS
Can be information overload
Have to download multiple apps to track different things
Let’s do some math: if you get your first period when you’re about 13 and finish menopause around 56, that’s a whopping 43 years of fertility. Those numbers are only averages, but still: A woman’s reproductive life is long.
And it changes, too, often beginning with that first period and cycling through sex, pregnancy, and breastfeeding before finally hitting the brakes. Thankfully, the creators behind Glow understand that fertility needs evolve throughout a woman’s life, so her fertility apps should, too.
While Glow can compete with the best of them when it comes to achieving pregnancy, the company also offers apps for tracking pregnancy and baby milestones, plus an app specially designed to help you manage your period and sex life. Literally wherever you are in your fertility journey—or whatever your fertility goals may be—Glow has got you covered.
All of the Glow apps, including Fertility, are free to download and offer in-app purchases for more features. With the free, basic membership, you’ll still be able to do everything you need to track your ovulation and better plan for pregnancy; signing up for a premium membership lets you access private messaging with community members within the app, plus, you can obtain personal support and more in-depth resource articles.
BEST SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
Period Tracker by GP Apps
Period Tracker
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Key Specs:
Cost: Basic version is free. Premium is around $10 per month
Features: Comprehensive symptom tracker.
Why We Chose It: Period Tracker by GP Apps is an easy to navigate period-tracking app that takes the guesswork out of your monthly flow.
PROS
Tracks PMS symptoms
Pill reminders
Helps predict fertile days
Free
Simple interface
CONS
A bit basic
When you’re PMS-ing, how much acne do you get? What about constipation? And do you crave salty pretzels or sweet milk chocolate? If you’ve never asked yourself these questions, you’re missing out on a key metric for decoding your periods—and figuring it all out could make you feel better every month when good ol’ Aunt Flo comes to town.
Enter GP Apps’ Period Tracker, which admittedly has a super nondescript name but is not so generic once you download it and get to work. In addition to all of your random PMS symptoms, the tracker is adept at analyzing your daily temperatures and signs of fertility to send you customized info about your next period, fertile days, and upcoming PMS symptoms. The platform itself is simple and easy to navigate, making it a good fit for women who don’t want a lot of bells and whistles with their fertility info.
You can upgrade to a premium membership, but there doesn’t seem to be much benefit: You get all this good stuff right from Period Tracker’s free download. It’s a solid, user-friendly option for anyone wanting to track their fertility and know what’s coming next, reproductively speaking.
BEST FOR BIRTH CONTROL
Natural Cycles
Natural Cycles
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Key Specs:
Cost: Around $90 per year (includes thermometer) or roughly $10 per month (thermometer is $15 extra)
Features: Basal thermometer.
Why We Chose It: Natural Cycles is a helpful birth control tool for women who’d rather go au naturel.
PROS
Intuitive period tracker
Basal body thermometer with subscription
Levitt’s class gets right to what helps anxiety
Fertile/not fertile days clearly noted
CONS
Need a subscription
A bit expensive
Sick of worrying about the side effects of hormonal birth control and stressing about the effectiveness of barrier methods like condoms?2 The Natural Cycles app is a real win-win, serving as an all-natural form of birth control that puts you right in the driver’s seat of your fertility: You’ll have all the info you need to know when you’re fertile and when you’re not.
Here’s the deal: When you use this app, you basically use the fertility awareness method of birth control, which requires you to get familiar with your body’s signs of fertility, like daily temperature and cervical mucus.3 (When you sign up for Natural Cycles, part of the expense includes a basal body thermometer to give you a super accurate temperature reading). You input your temperature and any other key fertility signs, and the app works its magic to tell you if today is a “green” day or “red” day (i.e. if you’re possibly fertile or not and if you should use protection if you have sex).
Since Natural Cycles works as birth control and includes a basal body temperature, it’s not free. It is, however, cheaper than a lot of OTC and prescription forms of birth control at roughly $90 per year (with the thermometer included) or about $10 per month (with a one-time charge of around $15 for the thermometer).
Best ovulation app to get pregnant free
Period and Ovulation Trackers:
Fertility Friend
What it does: Hopeful moms-to-be observe and record fertility signs, which Fertility Friend uses to predict the best days for baby-making or taking a pregnancy test.
Cost: The basic app is free, but a $45-a-year premium membership gives you VIP access to message boards and advanced features like an intercourse timing analyzer and detailed analysis of your fertility signals, including those that may point to a potential pregnancy.
What makes it different: With 15-plus years of experience and 650,000 pregnancies and counting, Fertility Friend pioneered the concept of online fertility charting.
Glow
What it does: Glow pinpoints a woman’s fertility cycle using personalized data to help them conceive faster.
Cost: Free with the option of signing up for a premium option ($48 per year or $60 for a lifetime membership) with charts, guided meditation for when things get stressful, and the ability to compare your symptoms to others going through the same process.
What makes it different: Glow is brought to you, oddly enough, by the co-founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. The app also engages men to take charge of their fertility, with new support just for them. Like the gals, men log data about their health, which is intended to reveal potential stumbling blocks to conceiving. A super cool feature is that a man’s data can be linked to his partner’s, to produce a full picture of your fertility as a couple.
Clue
What it does: Plugging your data into an algorithm that calculates and predicts your own unique cycle, Clue tracks cramps, emotions, skin, hair, sleep, sex, pain, moods, cervical fluid and more.
Cost: Free
What makes it different: Clue improves your predictions with every tracked piece of your data (through cute emoji indicators), and is even optimized for Apple Watch.
Period Tracker
What it does: Period Tracker takes the guess work out of when to expect a visit from your monthly friend and makes it easier to figure out when you are most fertile using simple data entry and charting.
Cost: Free
What makes it different: Its tracking of ovulation, period, and PMS symptoms go uber micro, including dividing cravings into salty and sweet and showing levels of acne.
Ovia
What it does: Ovia incorporates multiple fertility and key health indicators, like eating and sleeping habits, to predict ovulation and claims it can get users pregnant up to 3 times faster than the national average. Just ask its Harvard-educated CEO, who developed the app’s proprietary algorithms to help him and his wife conceive.
Cost: Free
What makes it different: The company says its algorithm is based on data collected from millions of women who are pregnant or trying to conceive, which it says is “the largest data set that’s ever been collected on this population.”
Fertility Trackers:
Kindara
What it does: In addition to tracking your period and ovulation through charts, Kindara can monitor basal body temperature and cervical fluidto learn about hormone levels in your body and tell you the best time to conceive.
Cost: Free
What makes it different: Kindara works alongside an oral thermometer called Wink, which retails for $129 and syncs automatically to the app.
OvaGraph
What it does: The app uses data from a hand-held monitor, OvaCue, which measures saliva and cervical mucus to predict ovulation up to 7 days in advance. Because peeing on an ovulation strip is so 2014!
Cost: The OvaCue fertility monitor costs $299
What makes it different: OvaGraph is teaming up with author Toni Weschler to become the official charting tool and community for her book, Taking Charge of Your Fertility. Weschler’s Fertility Awareness Method, which is used in the charting logic, has helped millions of women conceive.
Daysy
What it does: Daysy is a fertility monitor synced to an app, which learns from and tracks your menstrual cycle. Using daily oral temperature readings and data entry, Daysy claims to show if you are fertile or not with an accuracy of 99.3 percent.
Cost: $422.50
What makes it different: The app makes it easy to share your fertility data with your mate. Hubba, hubba.
What’s the most accurate fertility app?
The bottom line is that a lot of these apps do similar functions. But when you’re trying to get pregnant, more information is good. Dr. Nathaniel G. DeNicola, chair of Telehealth for the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, says there’s clinically proven evidence that tracking your cycle improves your chances of getting pregnant. But he warns against putting too much stock in app companies’ claims that they’ll get you pregnant so much faster than another app (or pen on a paper calendar). There’s not a lot of data collected on accuracy that’s not done by the apps themselves.
“I wouldn’t want a patient to see an app company promise them some stellar result that hasn’t yet really been proven,” DeNicola said. “Tracking basal body temperature, tracking cervical mucus thickness, those kinds of things can make the fertility tracking and timing of ovulation more accurate. The app connected to a vaginal thermometer, I can’t really say we have a demonstrated benefit there.”
But again, more information when trying to get pregnant is usually good. So pick the app with the interface that best suits your style and get tracking!
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