What app worked best for you?

[HelloOverHere]

I have been using OVIA app for a while but now I thought I'd try GLOW.

According to GLOW I'm a day late and my average is a 29 day cycle whereas OVIA is saying my period is due on Thursday 6th making that 31 day cycle which I think is a big long for me.

We're TTC and would love to be pregnant this month. Have tAken pregnancy tests and they've been negative.

Any advise?

@HelloOverHere me and my husband never used an app when trying.

I'm not saying you shouldn't but I think they are very 'make sure you have sex this week' rather than just go with the flow. I feel apps destroy the fun in sex and baby making.

With our first we never used anything and I caught the first month. Same with the second.

Good luck though with it. Everyone is different and different things work for different people.

Fertility friend, all the way. Paid for the 365 day upgrade and got pregnant both times on first attempt (well, after several months of careful tracking!)

I used Ovia plus IC ovulation sticks. We got a BFP after 5 months but we pretty much knew we hadn't hit the right day in the preceding months, not due to the app but just stuff going on in our lives (e.g. DH away with work). I tried the free Fertility Friend at the start but found, for me, but it wasn't as accurate at predicting my period as Ovia was.

I used a paper calendar pinned to the wall and could tell I was ovulating as I was like a horny dog!

Fertility friend was way better than Glow for us. It looks kinda dated but it's so much more detailed. Pregnant first time, twice.

I enjoyed fertility friend. I got the free trial then they gave me a half-price upgrade for the year.

By the end, I was basically just trying to DTD whenever we had the right kind of CM, so I don’t think it actually helped me to get pregnant, exactly, but it was always reassuring to see when I’d ovulated and to know that we’d DTD at the appropriate time.

It wasn’t 100% at predicting AF, but that’s because I have a variable luteal phase (which isn’t supposed to be a thing, but there you go). On the other hand, by the time I got to 15 days post-ovulation, I knew it was late, and the app did give me the data to do that!

Also, it was good to know my ovulation date when I did eventually get pregnant (we had fertility problems, and weren’t expecting to get pregnant naturally, which is why it took so long!). I ovulate quite early, so my estimated due date according to the midwife was a bit off. It’s been moved again thanks to the first scan, and baby would have had to have bent the space-time continuum to be conceived on that day, but AF would have been an even worse predictor for that date!

In summary, I couldn’t promise that fertility friend necessarily helped me to get pregnant in the end, but it did help me to feel a lot more in control, and to plan roughly when we’d be likely to want to DTD. I will be using it again next time I want to conceive, even if I have to pay full price.

(Oh, and I charted my BBT, of course, to give accurate post-hoc information about when I’d ovulated. I think that if I were throwing more money at the thing, I’d probably try ovusense, and see what that app is like. Next time I will hopefully have a small child who won’t necessarily make it easy for me to spend 10 minutes taking my temperature each morning, so ovusense might help with that. I don’t know if their app is as good as fertility friend, though.)

@HelloOverThere Whilst working out my cycle length before TTC I used Ovia and then switched to Fertility Friend while TTC.

FF I found better in terms of pin-pointing date of ovulation, I was charting my basal body temp and monitoring cervical fluid and also used clear blue ovulation sticks. It all helped with figuring out when the best times were to BD but in the end the month we conceived I completely stopped tracking everything apart from CF.

The apps were good for me to learn what my body was doing when but the stress of constantly tracking and inputting data can also hinder conception I think. Or that was my experience anyway.

Good luck to you, fingers crossed it doesn't take long

Any app is only as good as the data you input: cm, opk, bbt etc...

@Bee4s for me, I think the tracking actually reduced stress, because it felt like I was doing something proactive, and I could look back and see that we’d DTD at the appropriate point in the cycle. I was advised by a doctor not to track because it’s too stressful, but I’d have gone mad not knowing what was going on!

So my point to @HelloOverHere is that you should consider whether tracking actually helps you once you’ve become familiar with your cycle. It seems to help some people, and hinder others! As long as you know your own fertile signs (which it’s easiest to learn by charting), you can get by just DTD when your fertile mucus arrives (I conceived the first time we actually managed to DTD with my most fertile morning stuff - we’d always been too busy to take advantage of it in the past. There were other factors involved, but ultimately the CM was what told me it was time!)

I used the free version of GLOW, too much to subscribe 😂 and just mainly used it to track period and just went by the ovulation dates as a guide and dtd as normal and stopped stressing about it. Got my BFP after ttc for 9 months for #2 ☺️

I used apps but they can’t magically predict when you actually ovulate. Get some ovulation sticks! Clear Blue worked for me.