OvaGraph - Official TCOYF App

I’ve been using this app for a few months per my acupuncturist and if this wasn’t her preference, I would dump this app yesterday! It’s annoying. It’s slow. It’s most used/common functions are all in separate places taking multiple clicks to access (i.e. the charts which show a summary of your BBTs—and is what you want to see most of the time—takes 3-4 clicks to get to from the landing page and takes long to load or won’t load at all many times). The main page has to “log in your credentials” first in order for you be able to access your chart summaries and that can take 10-30 seconds; I know that it’s a matter of seconds, but if this app didn’t have to connect all the time, meaning the most used functions are just stored locally, it would be a matter of a few seconds. NOW, the app unraveled my stores login, and when I try to login, it takes me to their webpage that is UNSAFE! They let their security certificate expire meaning their information—their USERS information—is now unsecured! This app hold highly sensitive HIPPA-like info! Are you kidding me?! How do you let that expire?! I am talking to my acupuncturists today to have her look into another preferred app for her patients. This is unacceptable!

I loved the book TCOYF, and I love fertility tracking. That part is great - 5 stars. However this app needs a little polishing. I have been using Kindara for years and have their wireless syncing thermometer (Wink). The Wink syncs with Kindara and Kindara syncs with Apple Health. If OvaGraph could read and write to Apple Health, that would save me from having to duplicately enter all of my information in both Kindara and OvaGraph. I have the OvaCue Mobile, so I need to keep my data in two different apps since they can’t get along with each other. Whichever app is able to bridge the gap first (also syncing cervical signs) will be the one I stick with. Having 3 sensors (Wink thermometer, OvaCue oral sensor, and OvaCue vaginal sensor) and 2 apps is a lot to manage every day. Also, the view my chart feature is super slow and glitchy on my phone. The bars move around and don’t line up sometimes, especially when first loading or when scrolling around.

I've been using this app for over two years after reading the book TCOYF. I'm very happy using the FAM method, and this app does what it needs to do. My main complaint with the app is that it tends to be slow...slow to log me in, slow to enter new data, and slow to pull up my chart. As soon as I save a new data point (BBT for example) the app shuts me out for a few seconds while it shows the dreaded "updating cycle information" progress bar and I can't enter additional info during that time. I wish that it would wait to do this until the app has been inactive for, say, five seconds so as not to interrupt me. It's especially problematic when I'm entering my BBT in the morning (before I'm fully awake), because I tend to fall asleep again while I wait to be logged in! To get around the sluggishness, I was hoping to create a shortcut using Workflow or Launch Center, but sadly ovagraph isn't compatible with these apps. It would also be nice if it could integrate with iOS's Health app. Overall I give four stars because I'm grateful for the app being free and without ads, and I do recommend it. These are just my suggestions for the developers to further improve. I know there are many similar apps out there, but I'd rather not switch away from ovagraph after having used it for so long. Thank you and please keep updating! :)