Natural Cycles: Birth Control App Reviews

Easy to use and after four months all is good. Its really empowering understanding my own reproductive system and fertility status day to day. Only down side is I wish it would work in offline mode. Also I would like to see all sex, with or without protection, hearts show up on the chart.

I discontinued use of the pill after 3 years and started using Natural Cycles instead. I was amazed at how much more healthy I felt not being on the pill. My husband and I are extremely pleased with Natural Cycles ease of use and accuracy.

Gave up birth control after 12 years. Best decision ever! I wanted to be more natural and stopped putting all those nasty hormones in my body. App is super easy to use. It took about a month for it to figure out my cycle. I strongly suggest switching to all natural way!!

I love this app so much. Its so easy to use and I feel so much better being of the pill. Thank you!

Makes learning about my fertility easier!!

I wish I had had the idea to develop this app and its algorithm. It is very interesting to combine temperature measuring with the historic of your past cycles, so together they combine for more precision fertile and non fertile days. The app sometimes is a little bit slow, but it is working and calculating with lots of care, without risking many green days in the beginning, as it still doesnt know my body and cycle with accuracy. I super recommend.

I have been using this app for about a month now, and I have to say I was a bit disappointed by it after all the great marketing. I still intend to continue using it, at least for the six months I’ve subscribed to, but I’m not sure I’ll continue after that without some improvements. I really do like this program and want to see it succeed, so here is some detailed feedback that I hope will help make things more user friendly. 1. App design The app is just the website, shrunken down to fit an iPhone, and nothing more. The calendar and data entry parts are okay, but it’s difficult to read the chart because the text is so small and thin, and it’s not possible to adjust anything to make it more comfortable to read. The app should be redesigned to be a lot more user friendly. 2. Community and more information I feel like the team has put a huge amount of time on marketing this, and they did a great job of that. However, it feels like it’s really lacking things once you sign up. Fertility is complex and scary, and it’s not easy to just close your eyes and trust an app. It’s also important to use the program perfectly in order to get accurate results, and life is not as straightforward as “getting a solid 8 hours of sleep and waking up at the same time every morning”. This program really needs a public forum where we can chat with others who have used the app and hear about their experiences, and it needs more resources to get additional information on exactly what is going on in your body during its cycles so we can learn the finer points of fertility management. The basics are well explained on the website, but I still found myself with many more questions that were not fully answered there, or when I contacted support. 3. Support could be better I have emailed support with a few questions and while the responses were quick, I almost always had to reply back and repeat the question because I didn’t really receive an answer for exactly what I asked, or they only responded to part of it. The first replies were just info from the FAQ which I had already read. When I asked about forums (which have been mentioned before in their blog as “for our users’ eyes only” but don’t actually appear anywhere), I didn’t get a response at all. 4. Login on the website It would be nice if there was a “remember me” button on the website so I don’t have to type out my whole email address and password each time. 5. Alerts and nighttime reading I find it challenging to remember to take my temp immediately when I wake up, before getting out of bed. As a result I have missed a number of days and have only had red days since I started, because the app doesn’t have enough info. I do often look at my phone when I first wake up, so it would be nice if there was some kind of built in reminder (e.g. when the phone is first moved in the morning, a notification pops up). Also, the bright white background is hard on the eyes first thing in the morning when it’s still dark. It would be nice if there was an option to turn on “night mode” for reading, or something like that. Overall this app is okay and it seems promising, but I would love to see at least some of these improvements before I decide whether or not I will continue using this program. You have the marketing part well covered, now you need to follow through and make sure the user experience lives up to the expectations.

This app changed my relationship with my body, for the best :-) But...when you dont pay, you have not anymore access to your own historic. The app is just blocked with YOUR data. I suggest to lock the possibility to add new data, but allow us to see how our cycles were previously.

it does exactly what it should! easy to use and neat design. and what is very important for women on the move - it can be used on few devices simultaniously. highly recommended if you look for cycle planning app.

NaturalCycles is really THE best alternative for natural birth control and pregnancy prevention/planning!!! I’ve been using it for almost a year now as birth control, and couldn’t be happier about having found an alternative which doesn’t involve taking hormones or surgical procedures! Unlike other apps on the market, NC isn’t just an app where you keep track yourself of your period, temperature, etc, but it determines using advanced biostatistical methods when you’re safe and can’t get pregnant (or the reverse if that’s what you’re after :) ) I highly recommend it to any woman who’s looking for a natural alternative!!!

NaturalCycles is a fantastic way of keeping track of your fertility status using your temperature. The design is simple and makes using it a breeze. In comparing it to other FAM methods, it is remarkably consistent on predicting your status. The calendar view makes it easy to visualize and be on top of your cycles. I am happy to have this app to help me in preventing pregnancy without the use of hormones or surgeries.

To do anything you have to become a member and pay 60 dollars for I year.

Life changing, very accurate.

This birth control is easy, affordable, and it works. I have not had to compromise my values, beliefs or my body. My friends constantly complain about their irrational mood swings on pills and I tell them how my life has simply continued. My husband likes being apart of the process and knowing that when we want to have a baby it will be easy to switch from "prevent" to "plan". I love how safe and healthy Natural Cycles is! I dont have to worry about human error that I would probably make if family planning on my own. Natural Cycles really works!

This app is easy to use and gives me real assurance. You do have to take your temperature each morning, but if youre transition off of birth control, you will be used to the daily habit. I will continue using it with confidence.

Since yesterday, the month of February stopped on the 21th.

Ovulation made simple. Easy to use and intelligent. The only negative, and this may be user error. I never know when it wants make to take an ovulation test.

I decided to get the free trial when I was looking for a app for FAM. Most are geared towards getting pregnant. I love how simple it is to track my temp and I dont have to try to figure out all the FAM rules because green means safe and red means fertile. It does not get any easier then that. It did take two and a half cycles for it to give me an ovulation And more green days. But, for FAM I understand the app needs to be 99.9% accurate. If you are just tracking your cycle then there are other free apps out there for that. However, if you are using to get or avoid pregnancy this is a wonderful app to have.

Love this app, and company! So helpful and they have the best customer service!

Wont let you test the app before paying $60. Why would I pay for an app at such a high cost without getting to try it first. Ridiculous!