Birth Control Pill Reminder vs Natural Cycles Fertility App

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R2] Birth Control Pill Reminder 5/5 · US Simple and easy to use: Straightforward app. I’ve never missed a day of birth control thanks to it!
2. [R5] Birth Control Pill Reminder 5/5 · US Great!!!!: Has been a lifesaver. Has kept me consistent on changing my patch on time to void any unplanned pregnancy. Gives me a peace of mind.
3. [R6] Birth Control Pill Reminder 3/5 · US Alarm: This is a great app but I just wish it had a feature to change the alarm time for each day. For instance, I would like to set the alarm for 6:30am Mon-Fri and then 9:00am on the weekends. Just a thought. Thanks!
4. [R12] Birth Control Pill Reminder 3/5 · US One step forward, two steps back: Update allowed custom scheduling for rings, but no longer reminds you when to remove or replace, which is literally the point of the app.
5. [R4] Birth Control Pill Reminder 2/5 · US Colors aren’t easily legible: Both color schemes rely on contrast to differentiate and highlight days, but the shades are too similar. It needs a more visually accessible palette with options other than pink and blue.
6. [R15] Birth Control Pill Reminder 3/5 · US More choices for period length: This seemed like the perfect app for my Nuva reminders, but it won't let you stray from the 21 days in/7 days out schedule. I've been instructed by a doctor to go 23 days in/5 days out. This is a widely accepted concept with most forms of contraception now (accommodating for a naturally shorter period or intentionally shortening/eliminating periods.) Please make thi
7. [R21] Birth Control Pill Reminder 3/5 · US Just downloaded...: The first thing that I don't like is the color. I know it's trivial but pink makes my think of Pepto Bismol and makes me want to vomit. Otherwise, I like the reminders and the different tones. It there were other color options, I might love it.
8. [R3] Birth Control Pill Reminder 3/5 · US Updates defeat the purpose: I swear this app requires updates once a month (I don’t get it, it’s a single-task calendar? Like my bank app only needs updates a few times a year, what is causing this to require such constant revision?) and kind of fails to serve its purpose if you don’t have auto-update for your apps. I’m usually reminding myself to update the app so that it updates me on what I alr
9. [R7] Birth Control Pill Reminder 1/5 · US NEGATIVE STARS: I set it up and while setting it up it CRASHED my phone. It shut it down entirely as if my phone died, when I had almost full battery. DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!! DO NOT USE!!!!
10. [R10] Birth Control Pill Reminder 1/5 · US Wack: Alarm doesn’t work
11. [R13] Birth Control Pill Reminder 1/5 · US Never worked.: Let me start by saying that I DID have my push notifications enabled and all settings correctly configured! However, this app never worked the way I needed it to: as a reminder to take my pill!!! I am a very forgetful person so a reminder is an absolute necessity. I could go in and mark my pill as taken, so that portion of the app worked, but it never reminded me. No alarm went off,
12. [R1] Birth Control Pill Reminder 1/5 · US Pay to use: Horrible, you have to pay to even change the time of your alarm! At this point, just use your built in calendar.
13. [R20] Birth Control Pill Reminder 5/5 · US Excelent: I used for a long time ago and still using it, I don’t know remember for how many years But I like it and the best it is for free. Thank you, you are the best!!
14. [R25] Birth Control Pill Reminder 1/5 · US Couldn’t use it for more than 2 minutes.: You have to buy the upgraded version if you want to change the time of the reminder. I wish I would’ve known before getting it. I understand that the developers need to eat (get paid) but I would’ve definitely been more willing to buy the app if I would’ve just been offered the paid version upfront instead of being lured into downloading it and finding o
15. [R26] Birth Control Pill Reminder 4/5 · US Has everything you need with the purchased feature: I paid for the upgrade and it was worth it. Just a couple bucks which is no big deal for how important this is. The app works great and has great features so if you are considering the upgrade, it’s worth it. The only bug I have noticed is related to time changes when I am traveling through different time zones. You can manually change the remin
16. [R61] Natural Cycles Fertility App 1/5 · US Misleading subscription cancellation: I tried canceling my subscription several months ago through apple subscriptions, but was just charged an annual fee anyway. So after digging some more, I found out you have to cancel through their app. Getting a hold of anyone in customer service is impossible. They just scammed me out of $159.99. So on top of being perimenopausal and my chances of conceiving
17. [R76] Natural Cycles Fertility App 1/5 · US Misleading Subscription Renewal Date & Refund Refusal: I had a very disappointing experience with this company’s subscription renewal process. I received an email stating that my membership would renew on May 21, so I canceled my subscription on May 21, believing I was doing so at the renewal date. However, I later discovered that my payment had actually been processed on May 20, one day earlier
18. [R79] Natural Cycles Fertility App 1/5 · US Scam: Don’t bother jumping through the hoops of trying to get this covered through insurance, you will get denied and NC Support will not help make sense of this for you. This is a total money grab
19. [R86] Natural Cycles Fertility App 5/5 · US BEST OUT THERE: Hands out best period tracker I have owned. So many benefits and when I had a problem with setting up a device, I emailed support and in less than a DAY they contacted me back fixing my problem. If you’re looking for help tracking ovulation, periods, etc this is the app. Super accurate and budget friendly. Thank you NC :) <3
20. [R27] Birth Control Pill Reminder 3/5 · GB Used to be great but you now have to pay for better features: They used to be a function where if you had accidentally clicked that you had taken your medication then you could undo this and reset the reminder for later in the day. They changed this and moved this functionality to the paid version which is putting profit before people’s health and making it more likely that you would accidentally
21. [R30] Birth Control Pill Reminder 3/5 · GB Not free snooze reminder: It could have the snooze reminder for free as this way it’s doing half the job reminding you.
22. [R69] Natural Cycles Fertility App 3/5 · US Too expensive now: I’ve been using this app for YEARS and fell in love with it. Now it’s wayy too expensive and I refuse to go from paying the $84/year to a WHOPPING $139 I believe?! So so sad to leave this app behind but something like this should be affordable or at least have affordable options. Was nice while it lasted!
23. [R75] Natural Cycles Fertility App 3/5 · US Is good but too pricy: The app offers good stuff but other apps do as well, unfortunately is the only e one that works with Oura, but iswayyyy too expensive for what’s offered
24. [R81] Natural Cycles Fertility App 3/5 · US Expensive… Doesn’t Really Work: You’ll come to realize Natural Cycles is expensive - around $15 a month plus the price of the Oura ring and its membership. Meanwhile, unfortunately despite all of the helpful data it collects - when it says it prevents 98% of pregnancies when used perfectly, that 2% is more real than it seems. I used perfectly, measured every night and had no s*x on red days. My
25. [R63] Natural Cycles Fertility App 3/5 · US Was Perfect: This app was great until the most recent update. Now it takes forever to sync with my Oura Ring. I have to reload it several times before it actually does anything. I never had this problem until they updated the app.
26. [R65] Natural Cycles Fertility App 4/5 · US Glitchy app: I have been using Natural Cycles as birth control for almost 2 years and while I have had a positive experience, my only complaint is how glitchy the app is sometimes. I have to open my Oura ring app to load my data for the day over and over and for some reason the Natural Cycles app struggles to communicate with my oura app. It’s very frustrating. Today I have tried to get the Oura a
27. [R73] Natural Cycles Fertility App 1/5 · US Scammy: I bought a subscription hoping to use it after getting off my current birth control. What the app didn’t tell before it prompted me to buy a subscription (I couldn’t go any further into the app without one) is that 1. I cannot use it while still having an IUD (I was trying to get ahead of tracking the cycle so I knew where I was at when it was removed). And 2. My Apple Watch apparently isn
28. [R97] Natural Cycles Fertility App 1/5 · US Never Syncs with Oura Ring App: This app sucks if you’re buying it to sync with your Oura ring app. You log into your NC account and it has you open your Oura ring app to sync, tries to load, and then does absolutely nothing. I’m lucky if I can get it to sync after multiple days of trying which defeats the purpose of tracking things every day for your health. Would NOT recommend wasting your money
29. [R19] Birth Control Pill Reminder 1/5 · US Okay: It never reminds me anything . No alarm goes off , nothing .
30. [R31] Birth Control Pill Reminder 1/5 · US Not a helpful app: This app gives you one very quiet reminder and if you don’t see it right away it just goes away. I have missed the reminder more times that I’ve seen it. Switching to a good ‘ole phone alarm instead.