Full Term - Contraction Timer Reviews

by L.Wink

Cool app to use to monitor and record you're contractions. The reason why I'm giving it a 3 star rating and not 5 is because I use FullTerm on my Apple Watch Series 1 and it is ALWAYS slow at starting up. I can press the 'start' button 8 times before it actually starts to work and by the time it does start my contraction has passed. I'm not quite sure if it's my watch that's slow or FullTerm , however, I don't have this issue with any other apps. Aside from the slowness, it's a fabulous app! I show my doctor at every visit and it helps him gain further insight into my pregnancy.

by MJK555

This worked great for timing my contractions when I went into labor. It’s easy to edit the start/end time if I missed hitting the button in time. ONE COMPLAINT that would be an easy fix: when my water broke, I hit the water button and made a note of the color. When I got to the hospital, I looked back to see what time my water had broken, and I realized FullTerm did not save the time!! I see now there’s an “edit” button at the top to add a time, but this was not obvious to me mid-labor in the middle of the night. What would be better is if a time automatically populates when the user hits the water button—with the option to edit it she needs. But not having a default time is a bummer.

At the end of the day, the hospital was happy with a rough estimate, but I was a little annoyed because I took the time to note it in FullTerm .

by SheWhoDaresWander

During my birthing classes it was recommended to find a contraction counter so started searching and, honestly, I must have gone through every app available and completely hated the majority. The kick counter available on FullTerm was a great bonus but the contraction counter is definitely the best free one out there.

During the first couple of hours of contractions when I wasn’t sure if I was going through “real labor” this made it very easy to track that my contractions were progressively closer together even tho it was a slower progression. Later, the large button to start the timer made it easy for me to hit the start and still accurately track my times even at the points when I didn’t want to look at my phone and break my focus.

Also to be noted, FullTerm is user friendly enough that I could hand my phone to either of my support persons who had never used it and they could easily understand how to read the information without me having to explain FullTerm over and again.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone and especially FTMs who aren’t completely sure what they are watching for with their first labor.

by Kmb668

Works well - I haven’t used a different App so I can’t compare, but I used this one for both of my labors. Allows you to track frequency (how often) and duration (how long it lasts) for contractions and gives you the average frequency (aka 5 minutes apart). You can also add how intense each one was but I didn’t use that feature often.

by Ivana.l

I love apps with graphs that are simple and show exactly the cut of data you need. This displays contractions in a way I would want to quickly see. The kick counter is a super cool bonus and so easy to use ! Thanks for creating a great app.

by Beachlover4123

Worked great to time my contractions during labor (which was mostly a quick one, primarily in the car!). It was helpful and easy to keep track of the duration and frequency and also helped keep me focused and breathing. I did not use any of the other app features.

by Em_B123

Absolutely loved the simplicity of FullTerm! Very easy to use while in labor, it does all the work and calculating for you! From how long they are, to how far apart, plus it’s FREE!!! FullTerm allowed me to focus on my breathing and relaxation techniques so I didn’t have to focus on the timing and how long and far apart they were. Highly recommend!

by KristinDelaware

We used this to time my second childbirth and it was a godsend. My kid was born in roughly two hours after I started having noticeable contractions and I’m not sure I would have been able to figure out timing without this. It was easy to do in a lot of pain, too.

by Bpagliarulo

It’s so important to time baby’s kicks towards the end of the pregnancy. My healthcare provider didn’t tell me about this but I did my own reading and it said that one of the first signs baby is in distress is decreased movement over time. I started using this counter to reassure myself the baby is ok

by Money Hoarding Dragon

I was using FullTerm to time contractions. I sent it off to my midwife and she thought I’d go into early labor soon, but looked like prodromal. Using this, I could see I had moved into early labor and then active practically at the speed of light. My midwife came when she saw the numbers and bam! 7 cm. Love FullTerm! Will use again if we have another baby:)

by Jasonnr92

This helped a lot!
First time experiencing this it’s very easy to understand. It’s most definite that you need this repetitively throughout the process so you get to know it more, & the little features it has to keep you informed of your baby! Thank you so much FullTerm helped me keep my wife’s mind distracted!

by Firehousemouse

Very grateful for FullTerm to track my daughter’s pregnancy with her. As her labor partner, the timer, which included a “time since last contraction” which was incredibly helpful during hard labor.

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Ish there was a spot to note delivery, just as there is a spot for water breaking, and for placental delivery. Otherwise, awesome app.

by Chadwicktr

Just had our first baby yesterday. This has been great to track kicks during the last few weeks of pregnancy and it was just what we needed to time contractions. Glad to spend the 99 cents. Fair market price would be 3-5 bucks given how well it’s designed. Thanks so much for sharing this with us, developer!

by Nn457

Great job with FullTerm! It’s hard to keep accurate time between contractions in the middle of the night, which is what happened to me. Got to the hospital just in time to check in and have the baby because FullTerm gave me a solid idea of close I actually was! Thank you again! Get FullTerm, mommies!

by Betpena

I used FullTerm with my last pregnancy and now again with this one. I like how easy it is to just press the button when you’re having a contraction. Also the edit button when you miss clicking the contraction button on time.
This helped a lot with when it was time to go to hospital.

by MarDizzy

After reviewing so many different contraction timer apps we found Full-Term to be the best, hands down. Not only was the lite version very approachable and fully operational, with only a couple of ads, the full version is $.99 and so we were happy to pay for that just to support the further development of FullTerm!

The start/stop timer is incredibly easy to use, the ability to edit contraction times and even add contractions that I missed, plus all the other features really impressed us and if we have another child this will be the go-to app for contraction timing.
Big thanks to the Full-Term Team for providing such a useful app at such a reasonable price.

Happy Dad, Mom and Baby Girl!!!

by GirlGenX

Easy to use for for Mom, Dad and my 10 year old daughter. Simple. Knowing the contraction pattern from before I went to the hospital helped make clear that the pattern seems in hospital (or lack of) was consistent with what happened at home. This avoided Pitocin because it proved my inconsistent contractions were productive. I’d encourage everyone to us FullTerm and not rely on writing f it down! This is much better.

by Ummmleah

I am a birth doula and this is the tracking app I suggest all my clients use! It’s simple, easy, you can adjust times if you miss a ctx or dont get to the button in time. I do not like the other apps that tell you to rush to the hospital once you get to 5-1-1 and it can be scary! This one doesn’t do that, and won’t alarm you! It just gives you the proper tools to track and accurately report your progress to your birth team!

Hands down the best app!

by Melissa Watkins

FullTerm was so helpful for this first time mom! I had an irritable uterus so I was used to having a *lot* of contractions and FullTerm helped me figure out when things were moving toward labor as well as when it was time to go to the hospital. The stats were super helpful as my contractions continued, as was the summary list of contractions. A simply designed app that is highly functional and very easy to use (which is great when the pain starts to intensify!!!). Once I got to the hospital, I stopped using it and missed it a bit.

by Kickassbirth

I’m a veteran doula of 15 years. This is FullTerm I direct all of my clients to, and the one I use at every labor I join. Love the ease of use and the metrics to see patterns. The only addition I would love to see (but I totally understand that it hasn’t been a feature) is to share data between people. When a client is timing contractions at home, they will send me screen shots or sometimes PDFs of the data. But being able to sync together to see the overall pattern would be fantastic.

by Mile High Nerd

We pulled this down from FullTerm Store while my wife was in active labor. My only real complaint was that it not immediately intuitive on how to use FullTerm . It took us a few contractions to figure out how to use it correctly, but once we did it was great for explaining to the L&D nursing staff when we went into the hospital.

by Missus Gustafson

This will be the third time I’ve used FullTerm to track my progress and labor. It has always worked well. I love the ability to edit contractions and rate their intensity. I can’t think of anything I would change.

by Curlyjo17

So great for keeping track of contractions. I loved that you could see all the way back to the beginning when you started recording and that you have options like rating how intense the contractions are. This was a huge help to me in my labor! Thank you! :)

by Alex Coh

All I wanted was something to help track contractions and this was it. Easy to hit start / stop and shows the info you need in terms of contraction length and frequency.

Most importantly it doesn’t collect / sell your data!