Fertility apps

The self tracking movement uses technology to measure your body and how it is performing. Until now this has tended to focus on your activity levels; how many steps you've made, how far you've run or biked, calories burned versus calories consumed, and your heart rate and blood pressure too. But a woman's menstrual cycle, and how this can be tracked by technology to maximise a woman's fertility, has been a largely neglected area. That's changing fast though, and Moira Weigel has been looking at the latest fertility apps on the market.