We have an app for everything now. There are many apps that help you with pretty much everything from tracking period to ovulation.
Fertility Friend
Fertility Friend predicts the best days for baby-making or taking a pregnancy test.
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.
Glow
Glow pinpoints a woman’s fertility cycle using personalized data to help them conceive faster.
Cost: Free with the option of contributing to a mutual assistance program, which can be used towards fertility treatments if Glow doesn’t help you conceive in 10 months.
Kindara
Kindara monitors basal body temperature and cervical fluid to 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.
Clue
By plugging your data into an algorithm that calculates and predicts your own unique cycle, Clue promises a more tailored approach to conception: “The more you use it, the smarter it gets,” it boasts.
It is more of cost and collects data about a woman’s mood in addition to other fertility signs, and is even optimized for Apple Watch.
Conceivable
Created by a fertility wellness expert, Conceivable looks at underlying factors that can affect your fertility. It is $199 a month
What makes it different: Users get much more than a fertility tracker: they receive 3 herbal formulas each month, which, according to the company’s website, are “focused on removing specific obstacles to your natural fertility,” such as irregular ovulation, painful periods, and weak menstrual cycles.
Period Tracker
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: $1.99 to download from iTunes
What makes it different: A nifty feature exports your period dates and notes to email for doctor visits.
Ovia
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.
Users can purchase a 99¢ upgrade, which includes personalized articles and extras, custom themes, and the ability to export data to Excel.
OvaCue
What it does: A hand-held monitor, OvaCue, measures saliva and cervical mucus, which works in conjunction with a portable adapter and the OvaGraph app 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
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: $375
Natural Cycles
What it does: Employing bio-statistical algorithm, Natural Cycles uses women’s unique temperature readings to determine when she has ovulated and when she is likely to ovulate in her next cycle, pinpointing when a women can and can’t get pregnant, with 99.9% accuracy.