FemDays 1.2 FemDays for iPhone/iPod Touch

Installation and Update

FemDays for iPhone runs on any iPhone or iPod touch with at least iPhone OS 2.0.

Main view

FemDays main view is the month view. You can tap on each day to see a description of that day. Tap on the big white button to enter or change data for the selected date.

Purple rectangles symbolize period days and the heaviness of your flow on that date. The dashed hollow rectangles indicate the estimated future periods (up to six months in advance). In Preferences you can select whether you want to base that calculation on the average or the last cycle length. Small colored squares below a day indicated various PMS-related symptoms (the colors match the colors on the Edit view).

You can delete all data for a day on the Edit view by using the Reset button. To delete all data for a cycle, tap on the Remove icon in the Statistics view and select the cycle for which you want to remove data.

Symptoms

FemDays contains various cycle-related symptoms. You can adjust these symptoms according to your needs.

To edit the symptoms, tap on the Compose button in the lower right. You can change the title and order of all items.

Use the red minus button to remove a symptom (it will no longer be displayed in the calendar or on the Edit screen). To add a removed symptom back, tap on the green plus botton. Drag the grey horizontal lines to move a symptom to a different place in the list.

To reset all titles and the order of all symptoms back to the default, tap on the Reset button in the lower left.

Password protection

Due to the personal nature of your data FemDays offers a password function which (if used) safeguards the FemDays program from others which have access to your iPhone. You can set or clear the password in the Preferences view. If you've forgotten your password and cannot access FemDays anymore, please contact us and we'll send you an unlock code.

Statistics

FemDays offers a statistic view which shows you the minimum/maximum/average cycle lengths and period durations. Below is a list of your past (and current) cycle dates and length. A cycle starts on the first day of your period and ends on the day before the next period.

If you've missed to enter a period, the statistics may be wrong. In this case, just define a maximum cycle length in Preferences and cycles longer than the given number of days wil be ignored.

If you need your entered data somewhere else, e.g. in a spreadsheet on your desktop, use the Mail button to send your data in CSV (comma-separated values) format to an email account of your choice. The order of columns will match the order of the symptoms on the Edit screen.

Preferences

You can define whether you want to base calculations on the average or the last cycle length. The latter is useful if you feel your cycle length is currently changing due to some outside conditions.

Certain cirumstances like pregnancy or anomalies with your period show up in FemDays with an overly long cycle, thus spoiling the average cycle length calculation in the Statistics. To avoid this you can set any number of days here, and any cycle that exceeds this length will be ignored in the average cycle length calculation.

Version history

• 1.2 - editable symptoms, more fixes
• 1.1 - various fixes
• 1.0 - first public version