The Best iOS Apps for Keeping Track of Your Period

For any woman who just wants a basic app for tracking their period and symptoms relating to it.

Spot On is one of the most simple yet effective apps for tracking your period and birth control. With just a few taps, you'll be all set up and ready to track your flow, activity, symptoms, and moods in relation to your period. Plus, if you are using some kind of birth control, Spot On will help remind you when you need to take it, or even give you help on what to do if you made a mistake. And since this is an official app from Planned Parenthood, there are helpful resources to help you find the nearest PP center for women's health services, answers from PP experts on commonly asked questions, and even a full sexual health history that can be exported whenever it's needed. Planned Parenthood did a great job with creating a simple app for all women to use for their health needs.

Why we love it

Planned Parenthood create a slick and simple app that is easy to use for females of all ages. In just a few taps, you'll be on your way to tracking everything relating to your menstrual cycle.

For any woman who needs to track their period, PMS, and fertility in one place.

With Clue, women will be able to understand their own cycles much better. Not only does Clue serve as a period tracker, but it can even alert you when you're going to have PMS, so be warned, everyone! It also can track your most fertile ovulation times, in case you and your partner are attempting to get pregnant in the near future. Clue is also capable of tracking your unique patterns, such as pain, sex, bodily fluids, moods, and more. And if you have an Apple Watch, you're able to view your cycle info as a glance, so it's discreet and always ready when you need it. It's also fast to input your data into Clue and get fairly accurate predictions, so make sure to give this one a try if you're looking for a complete period and fertility tracker.

Why we love it

Clue has a sleek interface that is colorful and fun, not pink and girly like you'd expect a period tracker to be. Plus the information that it can track is comprehensive, it's fast, and there is an Apple Watch companion app to go along with everything.

Track your sexual activity.

Track when and where you had sex, to look back at those times. The app includes a calendar and map view.

For women who are looking to track their period while also checking when they can get pregnant

When you want to not only keep track of your period, but make sure you know when you're the most fertile to have a baby, then Ovia Fertility is the app for you. This comprehensive women's health app lets you input your data so that the algorithm can get to work and give you accurate predictions of your next period and fertile ovulation windows. In addition to being a tracker, the app also provides women with useful and helpful articles regarding fertility and conception, and you can also share your data with your partner and export to an Excel spreadsheet. And if you're worried about prying eyes, the app can be protected by a PIN number. If you're in the market for a powerful and comprehensive female health tracking package, then Ovia Fertility is one of the best apps you can download.

Why we love it

Ovia Fertility is a powerful period and fertility tracker that gives us accurate predictions so we are not caught by surprise anymore. It is also very helpful for women who are planning on getting pregnant thanks to the fertility window information that it gives.