Contraction Timer & Counter 9m 4+

Well-designed, easy to use and I really like the advice function as I found it useful in my case. It will tell u when to keep monitoring (I forgot the exact message as I only saw it once!), and will alert u when the contractions are intense and frequent enough to go into hospital. Within my first 10 contractions, it already told me to go into hospital but I was managing the pain/intensity well with my home-use maternity Tens machine. Then next 3, it continued to tell me so. Finally around contraction 20, we went in and were officially admitted as already 4cm dilated so for us, this was super accurate and great tool.

I found this invaluable for labouring at home during early labour with my first baby. The hospital were very clear on how far apart and long my contractions needed to be before I could be admitted, so even though the advice on the app didn’t match up, it was great to have all the data handy. The best feature is that my screen didn’t lock or need to be woken when in the app. This meant I could just leave it open and tap when I wanted to. It sounds basic but it made the world of difference, if I’d left it open on another app my phone would lock and I’d have to wait for it to unlock before I could log my contraction, whereas this app kept my phone awake the whole time - ideal! Only not 5* because ads were annoying and interrupted logging my contractions.

I didn’t have the payed version but the free one was easy to use and understand. It was simple for me to just press start/stop and not have anything else to think about. Being able to look back at the contractions at how far apart they were and how long they lasted helped both me and my partner and the hospital know when I should be going in. They told me based on the contractions I should come in which was earlier than I would have done as I felt I could labour more at home but turns out I was only a few hours away from giving birth so I’m glad I had this app. Definitely recommend it.