PearPetal

This one covers two releases. PearPetal can now bring your history in from another app, it keeps your cycle log out of anyone else's cloud, and it can reach your other devices even on networks that will not let two phones talk directly. New - Bring your history from another app. If you tracked somewhere else, you can now import your basal temperatures and period days from a file you export from that app. PearPetal reads Apple Health exports and the spreadsheet exports from apps like Samsung Health, Fitbit and Oura. The file is read on your phone and goes nowhere else, and anything you typed yourself is left alone. - Import straight from the Health app. You can pull your basal body temperature and period days directly out of Apple Health, with no file to export first. PearPetal asks only for permission to read. It has no permission to write anything back into Health. - A daily flower note. Switch it on and PearPetal sends one short line a day, written in the voice of the garden and matched to where you are in your cycle and to the flower you picked. It is off unless you turn it on, and Discreet mode softens it like every other reminder. - Connect anywhere. Some networks will not let two phones connect straight to each other, which could leave pairing or syncing hanging with no explanation. PearPetal can now pass the connection through a PeerLoom helper server, but only after a direct connection has already failed. Your cycle data stays scrambled the whole way and the helper cannot read any of it. It can only see that two devices are talking. This is on by default and you can switch it off under Settings, Connect anywhere. - Connection details. Under Connect anywhere you can see how your phone is really connecting: how many connections it made directly and whether the helper was ever needed. Privacy - Your cycle log is no longer part of your phone's automatic iCloud backup. It used to be eligible to be copied there. It no longer is, so your logged days, flow, symptoms, notes and temperatures stay on your own devices. Your settings still back up as before. - Settings now says so plainly. Under Backup & restore, PearPetal explains that the phone's own backup does not include your cycle log, and points you at the app's own password-protected backup, which is how to keep a copy you can restore from. Improved - A tidier Settings screen. Settings used to be several screens of scrolling with no clear order, and some things sat permanently open while more important ones were hidden. Everything is now grouped under Your cycle, How it looks, Alerts and connection, then Your data, and each group opens when you tap it. Your name and photo stay at the top. Fixed - Setting up no longer overfills your log. Telling PearPetal that your last period started a while back used to mark every single day since then as a bleeding day. It now fills in a normal period length instead. - The daily note and the dial no longer disagree. If you logged a flow for today, the note speaks from that rather than from the prediction. - On smaller phones, the Dial and Month switcher no longer covers the flower button and the information button at the top of the cycle card. Everything you track still stays on your own devices.