In recent years, several applications for monitoring the menstrual cycle have emerged. They allow you to know the date of your next menstrual period, your ovulation period or to follow the symptoms of PMS. Here is our selection of the best apps to better understand your body and make your life easier during menstruation.
Analyze your sleep, calculate calories, learn to meditate or even assess your endurance … Thanks to new technologies, it is now possible to measure everything and anything. Among these innovations, menstruation apps took a little longer to emerge, the fault of the taboos still too present in our society.
Fortunately, connected health has come to focus on the well-being of women. Today there are several free applications that allow you to better understand your menstrual cycle. All offer the same service, namely to follow the different stages of the menstrual cycle: start of menstruation, ovulation period or manifestations and inconvenience related to menstruation. Some of them are more focused on fertility for women who want to get pregnant, others include men or allow them to discuss sexual health. Here is our selection to find yours!
1. Clue, the essential rules monitoring app
In 2007, Ida Tin searches for an application to remember the arrival of her period but finds nothing that suits her.
6 years later, the German entrepreneur then created Clue, an application which not only makes it possible to predict the start of menstruation, but also to better inform women about the functioning of their menstrual cycle.
To use it, it could not be more simple, just answer a few questions about its rules (duration, flow …), its size, its age, its method of contraception … The application asks also if you are subject to pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) characterized by physical and emotional manifestations occurring a few days before the arrival of your period.
At the end of this questionnaire, Clue offers a very clear diagram which indicates to us at what point in our cycle we are. Everything is noted above: date of the next period, fertility period, PMS … Each day, we can complete our calendar with our physical and emotional feelings: bleeding (light, profuse, moderate), pain, emotions, sleep or even skin or hair.
2. Flo Period Tracker, the most fun
On this application, we start by informing if we want to: follow her cycle, get pregnant or follow her pregnancy. The main advantage of Flo is the possibility of generate fun graphics from a wealth of information. We can thus analyze in detail the duration of the cycle, the evolution of its weight curve, of its sleep, the symptoms of his premenstrual syndrome, etc.
Flo presents a very practical interface, although a little too girly. To personalize its interface, we have no choice but to opt for a pink background, flowers, dolphins or a baby.
Another little bonus of the app: when you enter your contraceptive method, you can get a reminder, regardless of the contraception chosen. You can activate an automatic reminder to think about taking your pill or not to forget to go check or replace your IUD (IUD).
3. Glow, the most inclusive application
In addition to offering a different follow-up depending on whether you want to conceive a child or not, the Glow application differs from its competitors since it offers a category "male user". An option to include men. Because it should be emphasized that transgender men can also be affected by the rules.
Another asset, Glow has a little "self love" side. A little wellness advice accompanies each menstrual day: " pamper yourself " (take care of yourself), " eat well " (eat well), " stay hydrated "(Hydrate yourself) and" indulge yourself Among other things are recommendations. Small positive messages that are not refused during this time of the month!
In addition to the application, Glow is available in a forum, the Glow Community, to allow users to exchange and advise on a whole host of subjects. Only downside, the application is only accessible in English.
4. Menstrual Period Tracker, the simplest
Menstrual Period Tracker is the most minimalist that exists in terms of cycle monitoring. The application is in the form of a calendar with a white background and the boxes of menstrual days are colored in pink, a bit like the notebook in which we noted the menstrual days finally.
Like Flo, Menstrual Period Tracker allows you to create graphs from the data entered. We can follow the average length of her period, her cycle or the intensity of her menstruation.
5. Eve, the app on women's health and sex life
Named the most innovative app of 2016, Eve offers little more than just menstrual monitoring. This is meant to be a "positive period" and a positive body to help women live their periods better. Eve is full of articles, tips and fun quizzes on women's sex lives. A space to discuss sexuality, rules and PMS without taboos. A little sorority is good, right?
The big highlight of the application probably lies in its very modern design and graphics, which make it an app Millennial-friendly ultimate. Eve is only available in Shakespeare's language at this time.
6. The next day, the diary
Like the other apps, the Next Day allows you to follow your rules with a calendar, but not only! It looks like a sort of diary that follows daily life; we note his moods, his desires and his thoughts in addition to monitoring our cycle.
It is also possible to program reminders before the arrival of menstruation or ovulation as well as to lock the app with a code, in order to keep your intimate information safe from prying eyes. Easy to use, the application also creates pretty graphics to follow its rules (cycle time, SPM …).