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 anyone who wants to keep track of their period as well as any other female health concern.

Glow is a sleek and powerful tracking app for females of all ages. In Glow, users can input their menstrual cycle information for accurate predictions of when their next cycle will start, how long it will last, as well as get information on their fertile ovulation windows in case they're trying to get pregnant with their partner. The app also helps you track medications, exercise, moods, bodily fluids, sexual activity, and much more. Additionally, you can join the Glow community and discuss daily poll questions with other women or just hang out in the forums and chat. Glow also gives users helpful tips and trick style articles and links relating back to women's health. Plus, you can invite your partner and keep track of everything together.

Why we love it

It is a beautiful and slick app for helping females of all ages track their menstrual cycles and reproductive health. The tips and tricks and community can be extremely helpful and comforting as well.