Is Your Health Data For Sale?

If you are using a standard cloud-based period tracker, the answer is likely yes. Most popular menstruation tracking apps are not primarily health companies; they are data brokers. When you log your intimate health details—ovulation cycles, moods, symptoms, and sexual activity—into a cloud-based app, that data is often anonymized (poorly) and sold to third-party advertisers or insurance aggregators.

What is the Risk of Cloud-Based Health Apps?

In the current legal landscape, digital footprints can be used as evidence. If an app stores your data on a server, that data can be subpoenaed. "End-to-end encryption" is often a marketing term that doesn't apply to the metadata your app generates.

What is a "Local-First" Period Tracker?

A "Local-First" app, like Dot, stores data exclusively on your device's physical storage (the iPhone's encrypted file system or Android's Sandbox). It does not sync to a developer's server. There is no "Forgot Password" link because there is no account.

Why Switch to Dot?

• True Anonymity: We physically cannot see your cycle because we don't have the key. The database exists only on your phone.
• Offline Reliability: Works perfectly in airplane mode, subway tunnels, or without a data plan.
• Data Ownership: You own your body, and you should own the data about it. You can export a JSON file of your data at any time, but we can never access it.

Take back control. Download Dot today for the only truly private tracking experience.