Comparison

GentleBirth Contraction Timer vs HYM

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GentleBirth Contraction Timer

This app helps track labor contractions with real-time monitoring, editing, and manual entry. It offers individualized audio labor coaching, background sound options, and visual charts to analyze trends. The app also provides notifications for when to go to the hospital or contact a care provider.

Highlights
  • Real-time contraction tracking
  • Manual contraction editing and addition
  • Individualized audio labor coaching
  • Customizable background sounds
  • Labor trend charts and statistics
  • Email surge history to care providers
  • Hospital arrival and care provider contact notifications
Features
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***THE BEST CONTRACTION TIMER APP FOR A POSITIVE BIRTH EXPERIENCE*** The GentleBirth Contraction Timer app combines guidance from the Award Winning GentleBirth Program with a beautiful interface to make tracking contractions/surges easy, effective and stress free. Created by Positive Birth expert, author, midwife and Founder of GentleBirth, Tracy Donegan.  GentleBirth has guided tens of thousands of parents around to world through their own positive birth experience. WHAT’S INCLUDED Track contractions in real time, edit contractions previously recorded, manually add contractions or delete when necessary. GentleBirth Guidance provides individualized audio labor coaching based on your reported experience as you track each contraction. Using mindfulness, focus and breathing significantly effects pain perception. Separate background sounds allow you to play sounds in the background of the GentleBirth Guidance, background sounds only, or no audio at all. All easily controlled from one screen. Beautiful and easy to read charts and statistics allow you to see trends over time. You can change the timeframe to view the information that is most important you at any point during your labor. Email your surge history and release of water data to yourself or your care-provider directly from the app. The GentleBirth Indicator analyses the duration and frequency of surges and will notify you when it’s time to go to hospital or if there are patterns of contractions that indicate you should contact your care-provider. WE’D LOVE TO CONNECT We want to hear about about your GentleBirth Contraction Timer experience. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on social media if you have any feedback or questions about pregnancy, birth, the GentleBirth program or the Contraction Timer app. Email us at team@gentlebirth.com or contact support within the Contraction Timer app. NOTE This app does not provide medical advice. Our recommendations are based on standard indicators. Your labor may occur differently. Always consult your care-provider to orient yourself in terms of contraction frequency and duration. TERMS OF SERVICE https://gentlebirth.app/terms/ PRIVACY POLICY https://gentlebirth.app/privacy/

About

HYM

Features
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You do not see your own body change. You look at it every day, and every day it looks the same. HYM fixes that with one habit: one photo a day, your weight beside it. WHAT YOU DO Open the app. Take today's photo. Enter your weight, one tap per half pound, no keyboard. That is the whole thing, and it takes fifteen seconds. WHAT YOU GET • A wall of every day you tracked, newest first • Your weight over time, next to the goal you set • Before and after, side by side, from your own photos • Day count, days tracked, weeks left on your target WHAT IT IS NOT There is no streak to break. No six rules to check off. No community feed. HYM asks for one photo and nothing else, if you miss a day, nothing is lost and nothing scolds you. YOUR PHOTOS They live on your phone first, and the app works without an account. Sign in and they are backed up to a private EU bucket that refuses unsigned access. Delete a photo and the copy is erased too. Delete your account and everything goes, server, storage and phone. HYM PRO Free shows the last 15 days. HYM Pro shows everything you have tracked. Nothing is ever deleted: if you subscribe six months from now, every older day comes back intact. • Weekly = $8.99 • Yearly = $59.99 Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.bcp-momentum.com/hym/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

GentleBirth Contraction Timer4 screens
HYM3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: HYM at none against GentleBirth Contraction Timer's shown. GentleBirth Contraction Timer's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. GentleBirth Contraction Timer sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and HYM sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
GentleBirth Contraction Timer versus HYM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGentleBirth Contraction TimerHYM
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (91 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews94.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings91 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPositive Birth App DevelopmentBCP Momentum

Bugs and requests

GentleBirth Contraction Timer

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Pop-ups won't close without submission
  • Pop-ups reappear after submission
  • Buttons on bottom bar unresponsive or hard to hit
  • Text doesn't fit screen
  • Audio pauses when screen times out or app switches
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  • Guidance and background music shuts off when phone screen locks

Requested features

3 requests
  • Dark mode feature
  • Option to live share with someone
  • More varied coaching after 16 hours

HYM

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

GentleBirth Contraction Timer

One-time4
  • Contraction Timer Premium$0.99
  • Premium - One Time Offer$0.99
  • Premium - Discount Offer$0.99
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  • Contraction Timer - Email Data$0.99
2 purchases

HYM

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$8.997 Days
  • Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is GentleBirth Contraction Timer free?
GentleBirth Contraction Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HYM free?
HYM is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GentleBirth Contraction Timer or HYM have ads?
GentleBirth Contraction Timer shows ads; HYM does not.

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