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Uh, holy shit. Meta doesn't even make Flo. This is worse: the developers were specifically selling their users' menstrual data to Facebook.
Anybody have an open-source tracker they'd recommend?
A paper calendar.
Srs.
Drip. Local, open source, available on F-Droid, well funded, explicitly gender inclusive
Hell does gender inclusive mean?! If you have lady parts and menstruate, what does gender have to do with it?
According to the marketing, because it's not pink? Weird.
Transmen and non binary folk also still menstruate. Vulva does not mean it is attached to a woman.
I think what they meant is what's the difference between a gender-inclusive period tracking app and one that is not? None of the features should be gender related. The claim on the website is that what makes it gender inclusive is that it's not pink.
Yeah, I think I covered that.
They're not lady-parts if the person they're attached to isn't a lady.
They might be laddie parts, hence the need for a gender neutral option for period tracking.
Yes it is indeed design, things like colours and presumably use of images. I don't see what the problem is, clearly it's something that matters to the maintainers, so if you don't like it you can happily fork it and get rid of the gender inclusive branding.
I can't recommend one but there are a few on F-Droid. This came up previously when Roe vs. Wade was repealed, you might want to do a search for that.
Edit: here is Lockdowns take on this kind of thing (it's an iOS firewall and adblocker) https://lockdownprivacy.com/about
Note that I am not recommending their service (I use Android) only their blog post about this
A piece of paper
No app is going to take the place of a trained and licensed haruspex.