The health of women, particularly menstruation, has been a popular playground for developers in recent years. On Google Play or the App Store, there are a variety of applications for tracking the menstrual cycle. These include Glow, Flo, My Cycles Period, and Clue. They allow you to predict the date of your next period, calculate the length of your menstrual cycle, and determine when you are fertile. Some offer broader functionality by tracking nutrition and moods during the various phases of the cycle. Menstrual Period Tracker stands out for its simplicity and ranks 3rd in our Top 5 Menstrual Cycle Applications. Available for download in the App Store for just over 4 years, it is straightforward and not overly feminine in color. How does it work? Let's take a closer look.
Menstrual Period Tracker: the first impression is rather sober
"No flowery background like with Flo, no mini-messages like 'Pay attention to your diet' like with Glow. The Menstrual Period Tracker offers a calendar on a white background, with menstruation days marked in pink and the day of ovulation framed in black. Is this app just an electronic version of the good old menstrual calendar that used to be marked with a pencil? Not quite. Despite this minimalist appearance, it offers intelligent menstrual control:"
- Automatic prediction of the next menstruation;
- Automatic prediction of the next ice jump;
- Course of the last menstrual cycles, easily accessible;
- Daily notes.
This app therefore includes all the basic functionalities expected from a cycle app. It informs you when the first day of your period is approaching, so you can put on your washable period underwear in time. It also shows you your fertile days. This way, you immediately know on which days you are most likely to get pregnant. If you want to avoid pregnancy, you should avoid unprotected sex during this time. Otherwise, a sperm may succeed in fertilizing your mature egg, which is waiting somewhere in the fallopian tubes...
Menstrual Period Tracker is definitely an excellent ovulation calendar for women who have stopped their contraception because they want to have a baby. They can record the results of their ovulation tests to refine the prediction of their next cycles.
A cycle app with some more advanced features
Despite its sober design, this app offers more than just simple menstrual tracking: it allows users to track their menstrual flow and recognize any unusual discharge. Additionally, users can note the following information:
- The intake of the pill;
- The results of the ovulation tests;
- The temperature;
- The presence of cervical mucus;
- sexual intercourse.
Women can track the course of their basal temperature on special charts. Additionally, other user-specific symptoms can also be observed. In fact, with the Menstrual Period Tracker, you can track up to 4 symptoms that you can change as you wish. For example, if you tend to experience headaches and lower abdominal pain during your period, you can enter these symptoms into the app and monitor their development since your last period. Therefore, the app is a good way to monitor PMS and other mild menstrual discomforts.
When it comes to user-friendliness, you can already guess that such a simplified app is necessarily easy to use. Navigation is very simple: You can quickly find the information you are looking for, e.g. the date of your next period, your notes, or the symptoms.
What improvements can be expected from the app?
This app is clearly designed for simplicity and minimalism, but it could be a bit more thorough. For example, it would make sense to be able to track more than 4 symptoms in order to include both emotional symptoms (moods) and physical symptoms. By the way, the user can determine each cycle phase (follicular phase, luteal phase, and of course the menstrual phase) by observing the course; therefore, it would be helpful if the Menstrual Period Tracker could display all phases accurately. This way, you wouldn't have to calculate your menstrual cycle yourself. Finally, the app is dedicated to the female cycle, so it should also be comprehensive! And last but not least, for the many women who use oral contraceptives, a daily reminder would be quite good to avoid forgetting to take them.
The design is perfect for women who like it simple. No girly decor, but an efficient and user-friendly interface. In this regard, the app stands out from the others, and we think this is a plus point. The color pink is already present in several markers, that's already enough!
Conclusion: The Menstrual Period Tracker lives up to its name.
The main goal of this application is to be an app for monitoring menstruation. It is therefore a tool for women who want to get straight to the point. Speaking of control: users are satisfied with the app. In the App Store, Menstrual Period Tracker received a rating of 4.4/5, and the reviews are clear: this app allows for easy and effective cycle tracking, whether it is regular or irregular. It predicts the start of your period, shows the fertile days, informs you about the days when you need to protect yourself (period panties or condom...) and helps you, above all, to get to know yourself better. This app thus provides the essentials, efficiently replacing the old notebook and calendar with checkmarks.
"Only a few users have downloaded menstrual period trackers just because cycle apps are currently in fashion. In fact, it regularly ranks among the "best menstruation apps" in online guides. So if you have 11.2 MB free on your smartphone and are looking for a free and effective cycle app, download it! It is available in 6 languages and has everything to satisfy millions of women around the world."
