Table 2:
MCTA | Primary Motivation for Use | Location of Users in Publications | Data Availability/Privacy | Additional Information of note for research |
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Clue | T rack cycles [16, 26] | United States [16] | Authors were employed at company that produced Clue, so they had access to data. [26] | Is gender inclusive [16, 38] Has a lot of features for tracking behavior [43, 16, 26] Most users do not log pregnancy test or other biomarker-test predictive of pregnancy [26] |
CycleBeads | Prevent pregnancy [29] Observe Cycle [30] |
Egypt, Ghana, India, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, and Rwanda [29] Kenya [30] | Signing up for the app allows for de-identified user data to be utilized for research for these specific researchers [29] Required in-app recruitment for research [30] |
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DOT | Prevent pregnancy [51] | United States [51] | Requires in-app recruitment for research [51] A written consent for was required after enrollment [34] |
Effective for women with longer and shorter than average cycle lengths [45] |
Kindara | Promote pregnancy [13] | Mostly United States [13] | N/A | |
LunaLuna | Plan pregnancy [22] | Japan [22] | Authors were employed at company that produced LunaLuna, so they had access to data. [22] | |
Natural Cycles | Prevent pregnancy [5–9, 23, 48] | Sweden and Switzerland [7]; UK, United States and Sweden[6, 23]; Sweden [5,8,9] | Signing up for the app allows for de-identified user data to be utilized for research [8] | Certified in Europe [46] and the United States [28] as a form of contraception |
Ovia | Plan pregnancy [20,25] | United States [20,25] | Signing up for the app allows for de-identified user data to be utilized for research [20,25] | More representative of a subfertile population [20] |
Sympto | Prevent pregnancy [13] | Mostly Europe [13] | N/A |