My husband and I use Natural Cycles for Natural Family Planning to adhere to our religious preferences and I have loved it for tracking my cycle. I’ve found the educational aspect of the app to be extremely helpful and a unique feature. I did get pregnant because we were not cautious on a “red day” while the app was in birth control mode. I was disappointed that the prompts where very somber and apologetic when I marked that I had a positive pregnancy test. I would like to have seen a prompt that asked how I felt about a positive pregnancy test that determined the responses in the app. It was also advertised as a pregnancy tracker, which it is not on par at all. While it does have the capability to switch to pregnancy mode, it does not provide any information about your pregnancy or baby at all. Even the weeks of my pregnancy were off in the app because it tracked based on ovulation, where the OBGYN tracks from the first day off you last period. Hopefully that is something the be easily fixable. While I was hoping for NC to be an all-in-one app, I understand that pregnancy is not the speciality in this circumstance and they are clearly very educated in their field of fertility. I still very much enjoy this app and have resumed using it the track my cycle postpartum. It is the only app that I feel comfortable using when my hormones are all over the place!

I LOVE natural cycles. This app has changed my life, literally. It’s so helpful learning specific topics about woman’s health, tracking my cycle and the algorithm adjusts specifically to my body. My good friend and I both use the NC app and oura rings. I barely even think about it now, logging into my ring app, it loads my temp and sleep stats- then I open NC and it syncs! The insights are so helpful for my own knowledge about my body but also has been helpful in my relationship with my husband. I’ve been off hormonal birth control for years now and after my planned pregnancy I wanted to have a better piece of mind as to where I was in my monthly cycle to prevent pregnancy. Natural cycles is the way to go if you’re thinking about a non-hormonal birth control. I’ve recommended this to strangers in person even when they see my oura ring! I think it’s important to mention this involves a long commitment to your health, and time and patience are important when using this method of birth control to prevent pregnancy! I’ve been using the app for approximately 8 months and the algorithm is still working to adjust correctly for my personal cycle; that and my baby is almost 11 months old. I hope this helps!!

Tried NFP and a diaphragm-like product, but I get vaginal infections with spermicide, making the diaphragm even less effective. (We got married in 2020 when I couldn’t get a appointment for a birth control conversation with a doctor, so we had to figure out something on our own.) Got pregnant within 3 months of getting married and then 5 months after she was born I got pregnant with twins! Knew we needed another option but didn’t want surgical or pharmacological (pills). NC has been a game-changer! Who wants to use condoms every time when your married and really enjoy each other?? With how active we are in bed, NC has worked out to about $2 per condom-free sex which is comparable to the price of condoms. It just feels like a lot of $$ when you spend it all at once. But after our first year was over with NC my husband didn’t hesitate - “Renew your subscription!” 😊Only problem I have is that it doesn’t allow you to input data like “I’m weaning my baby this month” so we used condoms even on “green days” while I was weaning our twins just to be sure, and it’s predictions were off that month, of course. Otherwise it has been impressively accurate! Very satisfied customer!