I also wanted to affirm people STILL do care about this information! I watched this when it came out, and I have just experienced my first cycle since having my IUD removed this month. In an effort to refamiliarize myself with my body, I wanted to track. And I KNEW this video was here to rewatch to give me the best information, saving me so much time and headache. Thank you and everyone for everything you did to make this video!
As a male who’s been trying to conceive with their spouse for years with miscarriages, it’s so important to have an inside look into trying to at least understanding basics of fertility and ovulation and advice. Than you so much for sharing this.
Wow, the app developers will really love this detailed feedback with all the benefits and ideas annoyances. This is the great user data everyone wants! Also many things, life colours or commas, are easily changed.
As someone with complex chronic illness, I started using Read Your Body almost two months ago. The full customisation ability is something I have been searching for for ages! It means that I can track not only the symptoms of my cycle, but also my chronic illness symptoms, and I can see how they interact. I've learnt so much about my body in only two months that I have never been able to pick up on otherwise! Something that always baffles me is that symptom tracking apps never seem to have cycle tracking capabilities, especially when something like 70% of people with chronic illnesses are people who also menstruate (I'm getting that figure from somewhere in my memory, please someone correct me if I am wrong)! Your cycle has so much impact on your other symptoms that it seems so silly not to have it included. So because of this, Read Your Body has me super chuffed.
I’d like to request that the Hormone Diaries theme tune be made a bit quieter in future videos. I love that the series has a theme tune, but it is always sooo much louder than your speaking, so my eardrums get blasted every time!
I only use Clue to track my period and it has saved my marriage. LOL, why? Because what I needed the most was a notification on my phone warning me "PMS is coming." I have PMDD so I go through a severe depression for about 2 days every month before I start bleeding -- and for 20+ years I wasn't tracking and it wasn't until I started bleeding I was like "oh. that's why i've felt so awful mentally the past two days" (you figure I would get a.... clue before that - sorry bad pun). Now I can be like "ok, this is just PMS" and me and my husband are much happier for it. :D PS. WE CARE ♥
Me too! I genuinely believe Clue has saved my marriage. Being able to warn my wife that PMS is coming, and be aware of it myself, was a gamechanger for our relationship. Beforehand I was tracking the bleeding by the terrible mood hahahah
@@carolinpurayidom4570 I use the free version. Disclaimer, I know nothing about the fertility side of the app which is I think a benefit of the paid version. I'm 40 years old and am approaching peri-menopause years so I really just track the periods & PMS for hormonal reasons.
This has been my situation totally! It's so much easier to deal with the depression and emotions (and imennse water retention) knowing that it's not forever and will soon pass with a period!
So weird how the calendar type stuff shows periods as green so often and ovulation as red. I am not having kids, but I'd like ovulation to be green because I associate fertility with green and periods with red. This video is super useful for me, because I like to track my cycles as a backup backup birth control. 🎈
I love how complex and thorough this video is - this is why I'm your Patron. ❤️ Because I want someone to do this work and have it available and you do such a good job at it. I can imagine (just a guess) that for many creators it would be super tempting to make the video shorter, less thorough, etc. So I super appreciate you not doing that, you've created a proper recourse video that will be so useful to so many different people. I also hope that the creators of these apps will watch this video and fix at least the most obvious issues; I've only been using Clue (loved the mention of the "tomorrow is your period" over and over) but I'll try to put it somewhere in there as a suggestion. The video was also quite entertaining, especially some of the glitches and annoyances - like the green period! 🤣It made me laugh and I would make a guess that must have been decided by a cis-male, I just can't imagine anyone else to do that. 🤦♀️ (Yes, I'm stereotyping, sorry). 🎈🎈🎈 Thanks again, loved it, you really do some great work.
I am at the end of my fertility journey. I have two kids with a husband that has a vasectomy. I still care and am watching the whole video. Also I love that you are able to break down the episode into sections for your viewers. Not that I need that, love that it is there!
🎈 This video is just glorious. I absolutely loved it. I'm not ever planning on getting pregnant, but I would love to come off the pill at some point, and this makes it feel less daunting to me. Such an interesting video. Also...I would love to see a full video with you and Naomi - she seems brilliant!
I was actually going to ask Patrons about this!! because we chatted FOR AGES! I could do a patron only releaes of the full convo if people are interested!
This video is AMAZING. I love the collaborations with other experts - I love how you never try to be something you're not or know things you don't, you reach out to specialists and learn along with us!! Great work, this looks like it would have taken a lot of time and effort to make and looking at the comments viewers really acknowledge and appreciate it! Super interesting, read your body stands out to me as something I've never heard of before but will now be giving a go!
I said this once and I’ll say it again, watching Hannah’s videos is just watching her get REALLY nerdy about different topics and I think that’s beautiful 😂🥰😂
Honestly, this is the content we want. I LIVE for the Hormone Diaries pt 2 series and I'm constantly eager for more. Thank you for sharing all of this with us! 🎈
🎈 Made it (full disclosure at 2x speed and while I was working). On month 1 of current TTC journey, and if this month doesn't take, I will be definitely checking out the read your body app. I'm loving all of the fertility content, but it is definitely very relevant to me now.
Back when I was trying to conceive I basically did the paper method, except I used a spreadsheet, and I did it in my Google drive because we spent a lot of weekends at the cabin so I could log it on my phone if I had to. I have something like 24 cycles tracked and it's fascinating data to look at!
A one hour video. I AM HERE FOR THIS! I find your channel so intriguing. I wish every school (year 9 and above) required and recommended this channel. I really value and am so grateful for all of your content and research and your passion to educate. I love your channel because I feel like I’m learning but also just adore you and your personality. ❤️❤️
Yes, yes I care. I care because I want to get pregnant in the next couple of years and this is soothing my anxiety about conceiving. YOU'RE DOING A BANG UP JOB MADAM! Keep it up!
I think clue is inaccurate because you've used it for years while you were on birth control. Old cycles (over ~6+ months) I always remove from the predictions. I feel like it helps to keep it more responsive to changes. 🎈!
It also explains the cycle variation discrepancies because it is a statistical variation, not a maximal variation. For example, if you have 6 28-day cycles, 5 30-day cycles, & 1 48-day cycle - you have a maximal variation of 20 days, but your statistical variation is much closer to 2 & would *typically* be much more useful.
🎈 that's an incredible video and I had so much fun watching it. I really hope it gets the attention it deserves, but seems like your patrons already really like it :) As someone with a background in software development it fascinates me what little things (not hard to fix ones) make such a difference when you use an application daily (decimal point, colour scheme, ...). An idea for that would be to leave a review in the Play Store - sometimes developers do read those and actual customer feedback is so valuable. That's the beauty about apps, too, they can be continuously improved. Besides the nifty technology I really appreciate you also showing the paper method, because I think it's so important to actually understand how everything works/why it happens/what it means. I don't want to be at the mercy of technology (as I know, and you showed, too, that programs are ... limited in their capacity to grasp the human condition), so I need to understand first, and after that I can use one of the apps as a tool. Thanks so much for the hard work you put into this. Proud to be one of your patrons! ❤️
🎈When I saw the lenght of this video I was like "well, maybe I'll just watch the interesting chapters". But somehow I ended up watching it all, although most of it was really not relevant information for me. I just really like how your enthusiasm for education shows through when your explaining stuff.
So I have only used Clue. My periods are SO irregular, so it’s hard to tell when I ovulate. So I used clue to mark whenever we got busy and was very on top of it. After trying for over a year, the last month kind of got to both of us and I took this month off of the trying aspects like marking the days and making sure to do it enough. We honestly did it MAYBE 5 times this past month. And what do you know, the one month that I don’t put pressure on ourselves and mark when we had sex, I got pregnant! Very early days but We are so excited and just here to tell someone it’ll happen. Don’t give up 💛
🎈absolutely enjoyed the video, gonna remember this one for when I need it! Especially loved the 'how are they using your data' part, I don't see people thinking of that very often!
“Oh. Your fertile window was back then” “Thanks. I know 🙃” 🤣 oh Hannah. Thank you so much for this series btw! Learning loads and wishing you so much good luck with ttc!
I myself use the app flo for tracking my period. I like it because of its minimalist design, no flowers etc. and for me it's quite precise, but my cycle also doesn't change much. You can add symptoms and there is a pregnancy planning mode, which I haven't tried. Overall I like it a lot and thought I mention it, because it wasn't in the video 🙃
🎈i use clue just to track my cycle, nothing out of the ordinary, however it's interesting to see my periods getting lighter and less as time passes with my iud!
Am coming off the pill for a break after being on it for 8 years, didn’t know which app to get and knew you’d have something to help me understand all this stuff! 🎈 thanks Hannah!
Ok I'm only like 20 minutes in but your thing about Clue made me laugh - as a woman with PCOS, my Clue home page perpetually says "your period starts tomorrow!" and it NEVER does edit: 🎈 :)
🎈this was so good! An hour of passionate talk about anything is precisely my cup of tea but then you add data? *chef's kiss* I had a period tracker app that I loved that got discontinued (one of the saddest days of my digital life - rip pink pad) and I'm currently 3 months into a 3 app trial (including clue - so far it's the best at everything except predicting my irregular cycle *sigh*) trying to find my replacement. Don't know how you recorded data 6x every day - just plugging period data into 3 apps is exhausting me lol.
I always assumed when people tracked their fertility by taking their temperature they were taking their...downstairs temperature 🤦🏼♀️ now I feel very silly! Updated: 🎈
You can do that. Vaginal temps are considered more stable. Oral temps can be influenced by people breathing open mouthed, temp of room, talking before temping etc
I've now watched this multiple times and shared with friends. I love the level of detail in this video, especially the data privacy info right now!! Thank you for doing this!!
This is a monster of a video and super helpful! I track my periods using Apple's Health app since I like the Apple ecosystem and appreciate their privacy boundaries. I would consider switching to ones you recommended if I wanted to do more hefty tracking, but I only input sex and basic menstruation data. I'm hoping Apple will expand their options in the Health app - they've made some good leaps in the recent past.
So glad you did this video, love to see more education around the Fertility Awareness Method. As a user of the sympto-thermal method myself, it's great to see this knowledge being shared (it should be more widely available!). There can be a lot of misinformation around FAM especially with the rise of fertility apps. Some market themselves as birth control whilst only using temperature or predictions which can be really risky if you are wanting to avoid pregnancy. One thing my FAM teachers taught me from the get go is to always rely on daily observations and my own interpretations. Relying on predictions would be like relying on the weather forecast whilst practicing a researched FAM method is about stepping outside and checking the weather live to then make a decision. Stress is the main reason for delayed ovulation and our long cycles (I learned that periods are never late and that's it's ovulation that is delayed and so changeable). It has a massive impact on our hormones to the point where our body will protect us by shutting down ovulation until the right conditions are there to potentially sustain a pregnancy. The predicting apps don't collect information on our stress levels and therefore cannot account for the variability in our cycles. As much as they want to make things easy for users, there is a danger they miscommunicate about the science of FAM and mislead folks. I think they unconsciously circulate this idea that a full FAM method is too difficult to learn because our bodies are too complex and so we'd better use an app to tell us instead. So I'm glad you chose Read Your Body which is the one I use as well (before I used Kindara). With the option to turn off predictions and a system that empowers users to make informed decisions based on their own observations and interpretations, I think it's the most reliable FAM app out there so far.
Your videos have always been fantastic but over the last few months I’ve been totally blown away by the quality of your content! This must have taken so much time and effort from you and your team and we all appreciate it so much 💕
🎈 This is literally the perfect kind of video I've been wanting from someone for ages. The detail you go into is important and the information you're able to find out and provide for us by managing multiple apps and contacting the right people is incredible. Every time I watch one of your videos I go into it believing I know a good amount, but I always come out of it still learning something new, or having a different perspective on something I knew. :)
Thank you!! American here, luckily I live in Kansas and am not risking jail time for a loss of pregnancy on my fertility journey but it’s really important to me that I don’t use apps that could use my data to hurt other people in backwards places.
🎈this was genuinely so interesting that I watched the entire hour and it felt like a 20 minute video. Btw I’m not trying to get pregnant and the only app I knew before the video was Clue, which is the one I use for my period. 10/10, thanks for all this information! Edit: also, I was wondering that maybe Clue was giving you really different averages for your cycle because you mentioned you’ve been using it for years? So it has a lot more data to draw averages from, right?
🎈🎈🎈 I was praying for a video just like this as I typed in the search bar…really didn’t think anything would come of it. Especially not anything this thorough! I love the sections that you scored and REALLY love that this included business model & data/privacy. Thank you SO much for doing this work 😘
Hey, just want to let you know that in Read Your Body app, you can edit the fluid symbols to reflect different fluids instead of being dry, non-peak, and peak. You have to go to settings -> customize data -> fluid, then create new labels for them 😁
This was a longer video than I usually watch, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! It was really nice to see all of the information collected in one place instead of broken down into segments, and it was helpful how much information you gave on your own usage and needs to help me understand what the apps are good at and where they might not fit my own lifestyle and cycle. Thanks Hannah for all of your work providing such fantastic information!🎈
I thank you so much for reviewing all of these! Makes it so much easier to decide which one will best serve what I'm hoping for! A million times, thank you!
🎈Yesss have been looking forward to this video for so long! Love the longer-form content! Also as a non-binary bleeder, thank you discussing gender/sexuality in your analysis! 🎈
🎈 One of the reasons I love watching your videos Hannah is how thorough and nerdy and data-driven you are! I haven't had to track menstrual data in like six years because I've had an IUD, but A, I remember a lot of the annoyances you mention from trying to find an app that worked for me back then, and B, I'm hoping to get to a point soon where I switch to more of a fertility-awareness birth control method to get a better idea of what my body's normal is and to prep for TTC in the not-too-distant future. Thank you for all the work you put into making this video!
🎈Such an interesting video. At the moment I am not using any tracking due to being on the pill. But if I did I'd definitely take your advice on which to use. So thorough and I love it
Haven't even gotten a minute in and YES I do care! I've been anxiously awaiting this video as my husband and I have talked about TTC here in the next 6 months and you being so open in the Hormone Diaries about you going off of hormonal birth control was so informative. I really appreciate the work you put into your videos. Yes, there's a ton of content and information and you do an excellent job of presenting it and being super relatable! Thank you!
I live in Germany an I use Ovy, it has its own Bluetooth thermometer and is quite simple to use and seems to be always right about when I ovulate and when I get my period. However I haven't used for a big while now since I had cancer but not I'm starting again, having my first period after cancer right now
This is going to be really useful for me soon, my IUD is almost out of time and no healthcare after 26 in the US (Im working on it 🙃) Thanks for taking the time to research and create all of this data! Read Your Body looks great for me🎈
🎈I used Eve to track my period pre-pregnancy, but then I was very disappointed to find that the app doesn't let you tell it that you're pregnant! So for now, it's deleted. I mostly listened to this video like a podcast and then had to look over to see which emoji you were talking about :)
“Does anyone even care?” Yes. I don’t want children. Have had my tubes removed. And yet I clicked right away! If I care, people care! Have a wonderful day!!! And as always thank you for sharing. You are always so informative and educational.
Like some others here I’m not planning to have children any time soon, but I still watched and enjoyed this entire video. You have a way of presenting your videos that is educational, engaging and detailed in exactly the right way. Yes it was an hour but that time flew by. Thank you for taking the time to do all of this 🎈
Really appreciate such a long video! I've been a bit dissatisfied using clue for a little while and been interested in the paper method so I'm really excited to try read your body! ☀️
🎈🎈🎈 Time to download ReadMyBody and maybe also look up the paper method for bullet journals. I thought I knew a lot already but learned so much from your interview with Naomi
This was such an interesting video and even though I’m not tracking my fertility or interested in pregnancy it’s fascinating to look at the functionality of these apps and how they work on real people!! Thank you so much for such an in depth video, so much fun to listen to as I do my bullet journal🎈
It’s so great that you’re educating yourself about this at such a young age! I’m 29 and it took me a long time to start learning about fertility and my own reproductive health.
It’ll be a great tool for avoiding pregnancy, and then help you conceive when you ARE ready. Plus you can bust some myths/misconceptions along the way too.
Great video! I’ve been using fertility friend because I heard it was good for data privacy. I came off the pill in August 2020 after 13 years and my cycles are still averaging about 60 days. It’s a confusing and frustrating time but it’s comforting to know I’m not the only one dealing with this ❤️
Ooo I loved this video! I used clue for a while and found the whole thing completely frustrating. I’ve switched to Flo and really love it but the video has encourage me to look a little deeper and maybe even explore some others!
🎈 🎈 🎈 SO interesting to see all of this data!!! I've been using Clue for almost a decade now (they have A LOT of my data) and I too noticed that they're really bad at tracking my periods. I might give RYB a try now honestly!! you sold me on them!!
🎈I have been on and off trying for like 5 years, with no success, but only last year decided to really get serious about it.This video, and your journey is definitely helping me muddle my way through it! So thank you 🎈
I sat down to watch maybe 20 minutes or so today and watch the rest bit by bit over the next week - ended up watching all in one go! So interesting and informative as always 🎈
This is EXACTLY the video I needed right now. Would have also watched a 2h version! So much great information, thank you so much for sharing all of it with us!! :-)
Thank you so much for going through all the hassle to make this video and give us the information. Your efforts aren't going unnoticed and are helping me and my friends. Thank you 💖
Thank you for making this video! It is long, but it's really helpful to have a detailed comparison like this, so people can make informed decisions. I had seen Clue heavily advertised and wasn't aware of a lot of their competitors, so this is good info to have if I ever wanted to try cycle tracking. Thank you! Balloons!
I love your way of reviewing all these apps and methods and it's made me want to tune in with my body more and start tracking more closely. Seeing all those charts and graphs was like a party for my brain 🎈🧠
this is my favourite video you've ever made. I loved this so much! I'm not even tracking my fertility as I'm on the mini pill for endometriosis but I'm now genuinely considering pursuing treatment for my endo to hopefully be able to cope without hormones someday, I miss fertility tracking!
I loved this. I used to use clue a few years ago and really liked the ability to track mood and all that as well as systems. I also loved how you included data policies cause that can be something i forget to think about when getting apps. Side note- love your earrings
🎈 i dont use any apps or anything like this and ive got no interest in having kids or anything, i just love to see a detailed look at something and the organization of this video is so satisfying to watch
🎈 I loved this video! As someone with a graphic design degree that is hoping to become a user experience / user interface designer for apps, I LOVED hearing your perspective on the different functionalities of these apps. It allowed me to learn a lot about what works for users and what is too confusing. Seriously such a great video; I learned a lot as someone who is interested in fertility/periods and also app design! Thank you Hannah!!!
🎈 thanks for this detailed video. I track my temp as body awareness rather than fertility centred but didn't know about read your body so that's really useful!
🎈 I have been using natural cycles for nearly a year as BC to prevent pregnancy so a 'green period' made sense to me as green days were safe as you weren't fertile. I see myself switching to plan pregnancy mode when the time is right and it baffles me to hear the colour system will still be the same! Good luck on your journey Hannah, it's really interesting to be following
I'm so happy about this video!! Been wanting to try a menstrual tacking app for soo long. I have Clue but im not sold on it, thanks for going into so much detail :D 🎈
Thank you so much for making this video!! I am coming off hormonal birth control, have health issues I'm trying to figure out and need to track, and am considering FAM in the future. This is the video I needed!!
🎈always wondered how clue worked for other people and i was so happy to see that you have the same experience: great for tracking your period and not working for fertility! also very interesting to see what the apps do with the data! Thanks hannah!
I have an irregular cycle and I've been thinking about getting a tracker recently so I could start to understand my body a bit better but I had no idea where to start. So this was super helpful for me! Thank you for the depth!! 🎈
I didn't watch this when it came out because it wasn't relevant to me then but I'm just noting that I watched it now because the resource is valuable to me 🎈 thank you for your content Hannah
I found it a very insightful and informative video, I watched it in 3 batches, but I really know what the use of these apps are now. And yes, we do care, I love you being so thorough 🎈
