The best period tracking apps of 2023

In the age of technological advancements, period tracking apps have emerged as invaluable tools for women to monitor and manage their menstrual cycles.

With a range of features that allow women to log in their periods, track symptoms, identify patterns and gain a better understanding of their bodies, these apps have become increasingly popular and have revolutionised the way women approach their reproductive health.

But that’s not all they are good for. Research shows apps can also provide timely information about specific contraceptive methods, ovulation and fertility windows, making them great tools for family planning.

Trackers can also foster open conversations about menstruation and provide platforms for sharing experiences and insights within supportive communities, destigmatising discussions around menstruation and female health more generally.

However, most period tracking apps are not appropriate to prevent pregnancy, so do use them with caution, if you had that in mind.

But if you are keen to learn more about cycle tracking, map your periods, monitor your ovulation, or keep tabs on your reproductive health, try some of our top picks below.

Nexus

Nexus isn’t just a cycle tracker, it’s a holistic women’s health coach which includes a cycle tracker but also nutrition, exercise and more to give you a more comprehensive experience when engaging with Nova, your AI coach 

Nexus bridges this gap with a female-specific onboarding process offering over 50,000 unique combinations of personalised wellness insights.

With Nova, users also have access to an AI coach that truly knows them, offering adaptive, actionable guidance grounded in science and tailored to each woman’s unique physiology and life stage.

The vision behind Nexus is to give women control over their own health data, using it to improve conversations with healthcare providers, reduce medical gaslighting and accelerate diagnosis times through advocacy and education.

At the heart of Nexus lies a proprietary large language model (LLM) and peer-reviewed health database, built specifically for women. This architecture blends medical research, clinical guidelines and user data to generate precise recommendations, far surpassing the capabilities of off-the-shelf AI systems.

• Built by medical professionals and scientists. Our team of experts have built, reviewed and tested this product.
• AI-powered health coach Nova, built from scratch to handle the bias and hallucinations for women’s health with AI
• Personalized experience: Nexus adjusts predictions and recommendations to each user’s unique cycle and health characteristics.
• Nexus is free with no upsales or features behind the pay wall.
• 5* reviews in the App Store.
• Your data is private. We don’t share your personal data with the AI model or any 3rd parties.
  

Nexus is only available on the UK Apple app store currently. You can download the app here or join the international / Android waitlist here. Coming early 2026.

Clue is a Berlin-based reproductive health company that supports, educates and empowers women and people with cycles with personalized health insights to support them from their first period to their last.

Created with science and technology at its core, the company’s mission is to be a trusted companion, empowering people around the world on their journeys to self-discovery and reproductive health.

Founded in 2012, Clue was one of the first femtech companies, serves millions of people around the world in 190 countries, and regularly partners with universities, researchers and clinicians on research to help address health gaps.

Clue’s app is free to download and includes its signature Period Tracking feature, with additional personalised modes like Clue Conceive and others available in the premium subscription offering, Clue Plus.

For more, visit helloclue.com.

Premom

Premom offers personalised, science-backed insights to help you better understand your body—whether you’re just tracking your cycle or actively trying to conceive.

What makes Premom different? It’s designed by fertility experts and powered by smart technology.

When you log ovulation tests, basal body temperature (BBT), cervical mucus, and other symptoms, Premom’s AI algorithm learns from your unique patterns—even if your cycles are irregular.

You’ll get a clear, easy-to-read period and ovulation calendar, automatic hormone and BBT charting, and real-time predictions so you can confidently spot your fertile window.

Created by the makers of Easy@Home ovulation tests, it’s helped over 1 million users get pregnant while using Premom.

Need extra support?

• FastPass™ to Pregnancy gives you a step-by-step plan to conceive faster, with smarter ovulation predictions, weekly expert video tips, and personalized guidance.
• Fertility AI Pro helps you make sense of your hormone results and gives you instant, expert-backed answers so you’re never left guessing.
• Pregnancy Mode kicks in once you’re expecting—with weekly updates on your baby’s development, body changes, and tips to feel your best each trimester.
• Predad™ keeps your partner involved with updates and ideas to stay connected and supportive through it all.

Want to go deeper? Premom Premium unlocks advanced fertility reports, expert-led webinars, and tools like a PCOS self-assessment so you feel informed and empowered every step of the way.

The Premom app is free to download with the option to upgrade for further support.

Learn more at www.premom.com

*Over 1 million users logged pregnancy or positive pregnancy test results while using the Premom App

WomanLog

WomanLog is a reliable and easy-to-use period tracker app tailor-made for women of all ages in every moment of their health.

There are dozens of complex processes that take over a woman’s body every day. Why not be aware of them and be prepared for everything?

WomanLog, a free multi-use app, is much more than a digital calendar that tracks menstruation cycle, sex life and contraception used. It has an encyclopedia of more than 200 symptoms that may occur in a woman’s body during her cycle.

The Latvia-based start-up is among the leaders in the global market for more than 10 years. Translated into 30 languages, it has 1.5 million active monthly users worldwide and more than 20 million installs.

WomanLog app has three modes: period tracker, pregnancy and menopause mode. WomanLogBaby app helps to track every step of baby’s daily activities while “Intelligent Assistant” with cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technology offers even more detailed analysis.

Users are constantly introduced to articles on women’s health, psychology, daily life and activities.

Data safety in the key point of every app, and WomanLog is the leader with the highest security level that meets all the GDPR standards.

Moreover, the web version of WomanLog, available without even signing-in, features online calculators that count the days left until your next period or fertility windows within seconds.

For more, visit womanlog.com.

Wild.AI

Wild.AI has done extensive research on what a woman is, studying what the female body needs and when.

The company translates this research into the app, helping woman track, train, eat, and recover, with their physiology – whether they menstruate, use birth control, or are in perimenopause or menopause.

While all products, apps, and wearables seem to serve men well, Wild.AI interprets data through a female lens. The readiness score is calculated by the combination of wearable data and daily subjective check-ins, including symptoms, stress levels and periods.

As an example, if the body temperature goes up, as a man, it could mean you are sick. As a woman, it may mean you ovulate, you’re pregnant, or have perimenopausal symptoms.

Wild.AI provides daily adaptive and personalised recommendations that take the ever-changing daily context into account and adapts with you, effectively acting as human data-scientist, a coach, and a nutritionist.

The app is launching the coach interface alongside the coach academy, to upskill coaches and let them train women with their physiology seamlessly.

Led by Helene Guillaume and Dr Stacy Sims, this is possible thanks to the research conducted internally and in partnership with universities, continuously advancing the knowledge on female health, and covering more life stages over time, 50+ female-specific symptoms, 149 different birth controls – and counting.

In a one-stop-shop, Wild.AI is the performance platform for women, establishing itself as the gold standard in the industry.

For more, visit wild.ai.

Spot On

Spot On is Planned Parenthood’s free, medically accurate, period and birth control tracking app. The app — available in both English and Spanish — has over six birth control methods you can choose to track (the pill, patch, ring, shot, IUD, and implant) and over 180 brands represented that you can sync the app to.

It also offers advice tailored to you based on your unique cycle and schedule, birth control, and reproductive goals.

Since its launch in 2016, Spot On has had over 2.6 million downloads, and close to 73,000 monthly engaged users who log on and track their period, mood, activity and/or birth control.

Spot On offers an inclusive user experience, never making assumptions about your gender, sexual orientation, or reproductive goals. This app talks about your period and birth control the way real people do (so, no pink flowers or butterflies).

In a post-Roe world, Spot On is committed to data privacy, allowing users to choose to create an account or use the app anonymously.

Spot On’s usership over-indexes BiPOC representation in comparison to the US population: Spot On has 58 per cent BiPOC users as compared to 42 per cent of the US population.

The majority of Spot On users are between ages 18-24 (42 per cent), closely followed by ages 25-29 (24 per cent). Most of its engaged users are patients at Planned Parenthood health centres.

Spot On does not display ads or prompt users to upgrade. The app’s north star is to increase user engagement and satisfaction and to empower BiPOC community members to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive, mental, and physical health goals.

For more, visit plannedparenthood.org.

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