Anka: Period, Pregnancy, Baby

I built Anka for the things women are left to remember.

Like a lot of births, mine was hard, and afterwards I could barely look after myself. My partner and I kept a shared note on our phones for every feed, nap and diaper. It was so clumsy that we kept forgetting to fill it in, and kept rewriting it when we did. Friends were doing the same in notes apps and notebooks. So I started building a baby log in the only free time I had: my son's naps.

Then I remembered the end of my pregnancy. The app I had used for years put most of what I needed behind a paywall, right when I was anxious and close to my due date. When my periods came back, it showed an ad every time I opened it, with no way to close it.

Anka is the app I wanted instead. Your cycle, a pregnancy and your baby, held in one place. No ads. Nothing sold. Nothing you need at 3am is ever paid for.

YOUR CYCLE

Log your period in one tap, with how heavy it is. Add spotting, cramps, bloating, headaches, sore breasts, pain and mood. See it all on a timeline or a period calendar.

Your next period is shown as a date range worked out from your own cycles, with how many cycles it is based on. It gets narrower as you log more. You can turn it off.

After a birth, bleeding in the weeks after is not counted as a period, and your first cycles are counted from the birth.

Anka has no fertile window and no ovulation prediction, and it is not birth control.

YOUR PREGNANCY

Weeks and days, your trimester and your due date, worked out from your last period, a scan or an IVF transfer.

Each week: a drawing of the baby's typical size as a fruit or vegetable, what your baby is doing, what you might notice, and things worth knowing. Symptoms vary, and Anka says so.

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