Fertility apps

So how accurate is my fertility app?

Fertility apps for the iphone and android: Princeton IVF blog
Do fertility apps work?

Many couples trying to get pregnant use them, but do fertility apps for the iphone and android devices really give you valuable information?

As a fertility specialist, my patients are always sharing with me information they learn about their menstrual cycles and their fertile windows from apps on their cell phones. Knowledge about one's body is always a good thing to have, but are these apps really helping couples get accurate information?

To answer this questions, doctors at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York looked at whether these apps (and websites which give out similar information) actually properly inform normal fertile women with regular cycles on the correct days to try for a baby. What they found was a bit disappointing.

While fertility apps were able to select the most fertile day of the cycle, they were quite frequently inaccurate on advising women about their "fertile window."

The apps were not a total bust. Couples who followed the apps advice were not putting their chances of having a baby in peril, even if the app's advice was less than optimal. The iphone has still not replaced the advice of your fertility doctor or gynecologist, at least not yet.