This app is certified in the EU as a form of birth control. Is the US next?
August 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
Smartphone app Natural Cycles, the first app certified as a form of contraception in Europe, is setting its sights on the US next.
Though plenty of cycle-tracking apps exist, most of them don’t get the fertility window right. Natural Cycles uses a specially developed algorithm and other factors, including temperature, to determine which days a woman might be fertile. The certification is a “huge milestone,” says Natural Cycles co-founder Raoul Scherwitzl in an email.
The mobile health space is growing: about half of the 3.4 billion smartphone and tablet users will have downloaded mobile health apps by 2018, according to some estimates. And there’s no shortage of apps: there were 165,000 health apps available in 2015, according to…
