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Which period/pregnancy/reproductive health tracking app do you recommend? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/opensource
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A friend was asking, and it would be nice to have one or two to recommend.

Bonus if it's on Google Play in addition to Fdroid, but not necessary.

Some recommendations in these threads:

Some discussion on apps (including non-FOSS) here:

Leading Recommendation from the comments

The leading recommendation seems to be Drip (bloodyhealth.gitlab.io)

Summarizing what people shared:

  • accessible: it is on F-droid, Google Play, & iOS App Store
  • does not allow any third-party tracking
  • the project got support from "PrototypeFund & Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Superrr Lab and Mozilla"
  • Listed features:
    • "Your data, your choice: Everything you enter stays on your device"
    • "Not another cute, pink app: drip is designed with gender inclusivity in mind."
    • "Your body is not a black box: drip is transparent in its calculations and encourages you to think for yourself."
    • "Track what you like: Just your period, or detect your fertility using the symptothermal method."

Their Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@dripapp

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you are in the US, I strongly recommend a paper calendar.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Written in a format only you understand

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

(from a recent discussion on Mastodon – absolutely DO NOT touch anything that isn’t local storage only)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

If you're in the us, don't use a computer at all. Lot harder to get a warrant for a unlabeled calendar than it is to force you to unlock your phone, since there's a lot less bullshit you can make up (read: lie) about a calendar than someone's phone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

so i have no uterus so i can't seriously test it but there is

  1. Mensinator https://github.com/EmmaTellblom/Mensinator it's on fdroid and playstore, it's actively maintained and has 41 stars on github it is private and local and it reads like you put it in the calender when you have your period and it gives you some statistics

  2. drip, its on android (fdroid and gplay) and ios and actively maintained, local and private. you can put in data like bleeding, temperature, cervical mucus, mood and some more. it seems to additionally give you reproductive information in the statistics https://bloodyhealth.gitlab.io/ it's website suggests that it is financially supported by Mozilla which is cool.

again i can't really test these but after some clicking around, drip seems to have more features and better support

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Also drip seems to be supported by the German ministry of education and science. Usually Germans rank privacy rather high in importance. So I think that speaks in favor of it too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Drip is such a good name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for looking into that! I've edited the post (and the other meme post) with Drip as the recommendation, and I included your points :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

no worries! happy to help :)