Cycle Ally

Your first week ​

Three minutes on the first day is enough. Everything else can wait, and nothing is lost by waiting.

Day one ​

  1. Answer the questions in onboarding, or skip them. All of them are optional: whether a clinician has told you that you have PCOS or PMOS and how long since your first period, then whether you are pregnant, breastfeeding or postpartum, on hormonal contraception, or have no periods right now, and finally your periods.
  2. On the last step, give the day your last period started, and Add one more to see your cycle length for the one before it — or import them from Apple Health. Approximate is fine: the app marks such dates as approximate and never sends an approximate date to Apple Health. Later you can also tap days directly, in Calendar → Edit periods.
  3. That is it. You now have a cycle length showing, if you entered two or more starts.

If you have history in another app, do that instead — it is faster and more accurate: bring your history with you.

Every day after ​

One tap, on the Today screen:

  • Started or Ended when a period begins or finishes.
  • Spotting for light bleeding outside a period.
  • Symptoms to rate what you noticed.
  • Nothing today on a quiet day — this is an answer, and it counts.

Nothing is required. A day you skip stays “not logged”, which the app keeps separate from “nothing happened”.

In the first week the app speaks once a day at most ​

A short tip may appear when something happens for the first time — a period marked, a first week with no period yet — one a day, never a tour, and never after the first week. You can switch them off at any time: Settings → What you see → Tips in the first week.

After a week or two ​

Before your next appointment ​

Make the summary. It is a PDF of the last three months: your cycle lengths, the symptoms you logged most often with the number of days you logged, your medications with dose changes, and the questions you wrote down.