Beta tracker manual

Use the Cycle tracker

Record periods and observations, understand status and metrics, and distinguish saved history from predictions.

What Cycle tracking helps you see

The Cycle tracker connects period records, flow and observations, current-cycle context, and estimated future dates. Its most important distinction is between what you recorded and what BeFit Tracker predicts.

iPhone

The iPhone image shows the real Cycle entry workflow, not the general Trends screen.

iPad

iPad keeps current status, metrics, and the timeline visible together.

Mac

Mac provides a wider view of status, history, observations, and predictions.

Understand the Cycle workspace

Current Status

Current Status identifies the estimated phase and shows the current cycle day in relation to the cycle length calculated from available records. Move between weeks to inspect nearby context. This status changes as history changes and is not a clinical conclusion.

Cycle Metrics

• Period or cycle day locates the date within saved cycle history.
• Flow displays the recorded level when one is available.
• Estimated fertility likelihood reflects BeFit Tracker's prediction model, not a fertility test.
• Mood displays an observation saved with the record.

Recorded details and calculated context appear together, but remain different kinds of information.

Flow and timeline legend

The legend separates light, medium, and heavy flow records and identifies estimated fertile-window and ovulation markers. Use it whenever comparing calendar colors so a prediction is not mistaken for a recorded period day.

Prediction Calendar

The calendar can display the next predicted period, estimated fertile window, and estimated ovulation date. Recorded boundaries come from saved history; predicted boundaries are calculated from the history available at that time. Adding or correcting a period can change future estimates.

The calendar visually distinguishes saved period history from estimated future dates.

Use predictions for planning context only. They may change when the underlying history changes.

Trend and History

The trend summarizes history across Week, Month, 6 Months, or Year. History preserves the individual records behind those summaries. Review the record list when you need exact dates rather than relying on a chart.

Start and end a period as it happens

1. Open Trackers, choose Cycle, and select Start Period.
2. Confirm the actual start date and add supported details such as flow or an observation.
3. When the period ends, select End Period and confirm the end date.
4. Review the resulting range in History and the calendar.

Start Period records the beginning of an active period; it is different from the general Trends screen.

Log a complete period afterward

Use Log Cycle or the period-range entry when both the start and end are already known. Enter the complete range and review it before saving. This is clearer for older history because it does not create an active period that must immediately be ended.

A completed range preserves the actual start and end together when adding past history.

Review both boundaries before saving because they affect cycle calculations and future estimates.

Add observations

Supported observations add context to a date without replacing the period record itself. Use them for the details the tracker exposes, such as mood or flow. Correct an observation from History if it was attached to the wrong day.

Correct history safely

Edit the existing record when a start date, end date, flow level, or observation is wrong. Avoid creating an overlapping duplicate. Afterward, review Current Status, Cycle Metrics, the Prediction Calendar, and the trend because each may recalculate from revised history.

iPhone and iPad

iPhone keeps Start Period, End Period, and logging actions close to daily use. The shared iPhone and iPad app can read supported Cycle records from Apple Health when permission and source data are available. Landscape iPad makes the timeline and prediction calendar easier to compare. Imported data depends on what the originating Health source supplies.

Use the larger iPad workspace to compare individual records with status and predictions calculated from them.

Mac

Mac displays manual Cycle records and supported records reconciled through iCloud; it does not connect directly to HealthKit. Its larger view keeps prediction context and history visible together. Confirm synchronization before entering a missing mobile record again.

The Mac view makes it easier to compare saved dates with estimates derived from them.

Predictions are estimates, not guarantees.

Cycle is a Beta informational tracker. Fertile-window and ovulation estimates are not contraception, a fertility test, a diagnosis, or medical advice.