Glow: Track. Shop. Conceive. Reviews

When I decided to move from Eve (for period tracking) to this app (for TTC) I thought “yay! They’re by the same developer and they already have all the detailed tracking I’ve been putting in for over a year. This should be super accurate!”. Guess again. They don’t attach ANY of your period data or symptoms to your account, so you have to manually enter it. I’m even on their annual subscription to get access to better “predictions”. You know what would help predict stuff? All that data I spent over a year adding into Glow you have under the SAME subscription umbrella that I paid for.
You know what DOES transfer form app to app and shows *in my public profile*? The comments I leave on their “articles”. Cool. Glad we got those priorities straight guys.
I even emailed support because I was certain it must be a glitch. This is the whole reason these apps exist. Why would they not attach my date to my profile? Or at least give me the option to transfer it from app to app within my phone? Nope. They know, they don’t care. They told me to add my last few cycles in manually to get started.
Don’t waste your money.
They also have a horrific track record for privacy and safety which I found out while googling to find a work-around. Go ahead. Google them and enjoy the horror of the fact that they let any person with your email address pair themselves to your account. Lovely. What a stalker’s paradise.

I have been using Glow for about 7 months. We have been trying to have a baby and I can never keep up when I last had my period unless I look at my BC pack. Obviously, now that I’m off of them I needed something to help track it as well as ovulation. It’s been pretty good with some exceptions but I think that is mainly because of some issues I’m having and not because of Glow . I have found some great support and advice among the members. It’s also just nice to have a place to go and join specific groups that are similar to your situation or interests. That has been a very positive experience. Women lifting people up. The last few days Glow hasn’t been able to open. I’m not sure if it has something to do with the latest update but I have never had this issue until this week. I hope it gets fixed ASAP because I have really come to rely on Glow for logging all of my information.

Can you please fix Glow so it’s not incredibly slow? Syncing takes too much time. It should be not more than couple of seconds instead it takes almost a minute. And it happens every time you open Glow or you want to see old data. And then, all these popping calendars and log charts. It takes time to close them because guess what? It’s still syncing. Then I open a different app while this one is syncing hoping it will sync and I can look up what I needed but I go back and it’s syncing again.
If I didn’t input any data why is it syncing and taking my time?

I’ve been using Glow for a few years already for period tracking. Recently I decided to try the premium but it charged me for the full year without giving me the trial period. Any app you try always gives trial before charging but it didn’t happen with this app. Another thing Glow is very slow. Whenever I open it starts syncing and takes some time so I just sit and stare at the screen. You can’t really do anything while it’s syncing because if you try to click somewhere else it freezes for a few seconds. I wish Glow allowed me to customize what I see on my page besides my health data. I’m not that interested in community Some pages have too many unnecessary for me stuff that is distracting me. Overall, I liked Glow before but now I don’t even more for being charged without getting trial.

Glow is pretty good. Not only can you track your periods, track ovulation, track your pregnancy, and keep track of your babies growth and development, but you also have a community of people where you can find a group for anything. There are groups for baby names, breastfeeding, labor, trying to conceive, relationships, etc. Glow would be perfect, if I weren’t for some of the women on there. They really aren't the nicest people and they try so hard to enforce the rules that they sound very rude towards any new person that makes a simple mistake. It isn’t even their job to attack people like they do. Just report it to the admin or politely let the person know and move on. You don’t need 5 women repeating the same thing on one post. Another thing I don’t like is when you make an anonymous posts, why cant you comment on your post and still remain anonymous?? That just doesn’t make sense to me. All in all, it’s a good app. I’m on it constantly. EDIT: THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM. There are underage teenage girls on here trying to get pregnant. People are encouraging them and giving them advice. The admins are aware and so far have done nothing about it. They have not deleted the groups of underage teens planning pregnancy. That’s ridiculous.

I can’t tell you how frustrating Glow is. 1st of all the Admins take down post for no reason that fall into the guidelines but keep homophobic, racist, transphobic posts up no matter how many times you report them. Some of the woman on Glow are nasty and they do absolutely nothing about it… but make a post on how terrible they are doing at their job they put a target on your back and take down everything you post. When you challenge them they send you the same generic email and all of a suspended your suspended. *update*

Lan from this app messaged me extremely rude accusing me of having “multiple accounts”. I asked him to kindly clarify because in no way is that true. I reported an other user for name calling and my account is permanently banned and the only excuse they can hand me is that I have multiple accounts with ZERO proof! Then told me pretty much the decision was final and not to email them anymore. Their community is TOXIC and the admins act as if they are god and pick abs choose certain users to turn a blind eye to! Deleting this horrible app from my phone and encouraging others to do the same! I just got a few girls from my job to sign up and pay for their premium package.. explained what happened and they are requesting a refund and deleting Glow as well after I showed them the email. Glow is a disgrace!

I like using Glow to track my cycle and find out more about my health.

However, I tried to utilize their community part of Glow and it was such a disappointment that I wanted to just get rid of the whole thing. I asked for advice and I just got a bunch of nasty rude and shaming comments. There aren’t any mods, and when I sent an email about feedback I was basically told that my email was pointless because they have too many boards to have moderators watching for those kinds of posts so I would have to individually report every single comment and/or person, and sending them an email was the “least effective way to get something dealt with.” What’s the point of offering a support email then? Why have so many boards if you’re not going to have anyone moderating them? Because clearly having some type of moderation is needed since I’ve seen MANY complaints about the rude comments. Obviously people are coming to your community boards to ask advice and it’s not helpful if they’re just getting nasty rude comments back. And it’s not helpful if the this app company themselves are going to take a “whatever” type of attitude themselves. Who wants to continue using a product from a company like that?

Very disappointing.

Glow is very easy to use. While not being over complicated it's still pretty thorough. Also by logging things every day it helps me be more aware and objective when it comes to what's going on with my body and my emotional state. Also your partner/ significant other can use it too. They can keep they're own log and can see some of what you log (it will tell you what they can and can't see) which can be very helpful. It can give them a heads up if you're having moody PMS day or let them know that it's a high fertility day or just keep them in the loop. Also there is a "this app community" if you want to post, create a poll, or view doctors, clinics, medications, etc. that other women have recommended. One thing that can be annoying: it will "notify" you that you 'should exercise' pretty much whenever you log that you haven't or "notify" you that you 'shouldn't drink alcohol when you're trying to conceive' whenever you log that you have and other things like that making it feel kinda like a nagging parent at times. However, some notifications do have useful info. All in all a pretty useful app.

REVIEW UPDATED AUG. 2020 - I literally only keep Glow because of how long I’ve been using it and how much data I’ve logged. It has gotten SO BAD! First I thought it was my older phone and chalked it up the that, but then I got a new phone and it’s the same.

It takes forever to load anything, it’s multiple clicks to do input data, and Glow interface is busy busy! The pop ups are too much, the little widgets are too much. There also used to be a lot more free tips and graphs, and for how much advertisement happens on Glow it should still have those things But mostly Glow is SLOW! this app used to be awesome, but now it’s just outdated. If you’re just getting started with tracking find a simpler app (not Eve because this app owns them I’m fairly certain) that’s simpler and works smoothly, like Clue. That app is actually made by women for women, unlike this app which I read was started by a bunch of men! That fact really started to show in the last couple years.

Also don’t be fooled by the pretty pictures you see here on Glow Store. Glow looks NOTHING like that at all! I contacted support and they told me the update was “rolling out slowly,” but that was almost a dozen updates ago...

I joined so I could track my periods, ovulation, and eventual pregnancy. Initially I thought the community was a great addition, where I could speak to other women for support and have good conversation. But it quickly turned into a nasty experience. Majority of the conversations turned political, even when the topic had nothing to do with politics. The mass majority were 99% liberal extremist views, and a witch hunt to attack any of the remaining 1% conservative views. Especially if you’re a Christian. Majority of the women were nasty, rude, threatening, and condescending. The “report” feature and “mute/block” feature are completely ineffective, as the admin never responded or removed any of the terribly mean and disgusting content. Basically it’s just an app for bullies to fester and feed their egos. I’ve been trying for days to delete my account because I’m consistently being attacked by users, but my account is still there. I’ve been emailing admin about it for days and there’s been zero response. Let’s not even mention the slew of underage children posting photos of their vagina and discharge and asking how they can get pregnant to trap their boyfriends! Glow is dangerous and legit has illegal underage activity and nudes. DO NOT get Glow!!

UPDATE: The community feature is nice but there are some very rude and nasty ladies on the forums. Post with caution.

I really do love this app, but there are a few things I wish Glow had. First of all, I wish that if you are using Glow to conceive a baby that after your “ovulation date” it showed “days post ovulation” instead of “days until next period”. I don’t know why but seeing “days until next period” makes me sad and most women are symptom checking after ovulation and I feel like that information would be more helpful. If you aren’t trying to conceive then by all means leave it as is. Also, when putting in symptoms, cervix position, BBT, CM consistency, etc, I wish there were more every day insights into how that matches up to where you’re at in your cycle other than just comparing to other this app users. I never know if what I’m logging is normal for where I’m at in my cycle and I never seem to match with the other users which makes me concerned. I do feel like the newest update is very helpful though and have learned a lot from this app.

The amount of elements you can track in this app is very nice and detailed. It’s help me easily record lots of data so I can become familiar with how I feel at any given point in my cycle. Their predicted ovulation point is pretty generously late, which seems good if your goal is to abstain from pregnancy. However, Glow crashes all the time, and is very slow to use. The ads for this app Premium (I use the free version) are plentiful and annoying. I also would prefer a more streamlined, simple, refreshing platform, rather than the busy “girl talk” one they advocate for via cheesy discussion forums and “did you know” articles. In addition, for being a natural family planning app, most of the content of these writings are not very NFP at all - discussing use of condoms and so forth. Kind of discouraging, it’s like they don’t even have confidence in the very system they’re advocating women track! For now, the level of detail I can get in daily tracking is enough for me to continue using this app, but the overall ethos and reliability of Glow leaves much to be desired.

I had Glow for over a year and it was great. It gave me some scientific research facts, easy to use, excellent at keep notes and easily tracked my period. Until recently, the new update made it harder to log and re-log, it’s also harder for me to edit my notes when I need to add something. The cycle analysis is always in the way and it’s only promoting this app premium; I don’t mind the advertisement until it gets in the way of everything I need to do on Glow . The security lock on Glow is very good and convenient. The stories that every other this app user makes it feel like social media and it makes me want to stay on Glow explore and communicate with all the other women on Glow which makes me feel very warm and fuzzy every time I see women supporting each other on Glow . I’ll wait for the next update but if it’s really not giving me easy and quick access then sadly I have to find a more simple and easy to period app to use. Hopefully the this app staff and creator can do something about the new updates. Thank you very much for taking my opinion into account.

I used Glow until it became a bit of a heartache as nothing was working and I just don’t want to watch it anymore. However our little girl just started and I want to watch her cycle so I decided to download Glow again and keep track for her. Since there are no apps for a 10, almost 11, year old with no chat group or fertility tracker. I’d love a basic period tracker that she could download to her phone and get updates on when she’s likely to start so she can be prepared herself as well. I want her to still tell me and her mom but I want to give her more than I was given when I started and a couple weeks ago we had a very emotional moment when I found out she’d been bleeding for a day and was able to hide it from me. Just a suggestion this app. They don’t need anything except the tracker with moods and cramps and all that but kids are starting so young and I think many mothers would love to show their little girl’s how to track! I know I would at least!

I loved being able to track my dates, my symptoms and have all of my information in one spot to look back on. However I became turned off from Glow when I began looking through the community section. A lot of people seemed extremely rude. It seems like those who can’t get pregnant want to make those who are feel bad and those who can get pregnant easily want to brag about it and make those whole can’t feel bad. There’s a forum to see if pregnancy tests are positive and some people said no even though it was an obvious yes just to be rude while others didn’t have the positive line and the comments were so harsh. I felt like this was supposed to be a place for support, a place to get advice and a partnership of women who want people to understand what they’re going through. My jaw would drop reading comments and my heart would hurt seeing responses. If you use Glow , use the calendar and track your symptoms but avoid the community. There are some really nice and great people but there are more people who aren’t who ruin Glow.

I don’t know how well it works for fertility as I’m not trying to get pregnant, but Glow predicts my periods better than any other app I have used! That alone earns Glow 5 stars! It’s usually perfect or only a day off. The community can be fun but I agree that some of the ladies on Glow can be very rude, but that goes for any social based app so I won’t dock a star for it. Great app overall, just avoid the community if hash words get to you.
EDIT: I have been seeing bullying and rude comments in excess lately. I would suggest that there be harsher penalties for bullies and rude women than just having their comments removed. There are grown women on Glow who will literally stalk your profile and comment rude things on your other posts as well, just because you said something that they don’t agree with. I’m still leaving it at 5 stars, but as someone who is a strong advocate against bullying, this is very concerning to me.

I’d like to start off by saying that Glow is super helpful when it comes to keeping track of my period and fertile days. Probably the most accurate app of a lot of the ones that I see. I use Glow and Premom, which in my opinion are the BEST AND MOST ACCURATE APPS EVER. Most of the time the tests are accurate readings (I like to take several pictures of one test at a time to make sure they all read the same result) and it allows me to really see what type of day I’m on. My hubby adapted to Glow really fast and he even bought me a premium deal because it’s really easy and super inexpensive since we’ve been trying to get pregnant for a while now. Well worth it if you are having trouble keeping track of your cycle and trying to get pregnant. It also tells you a lot about your cycle and there’s many articles that you can read if you’re really questioning something.

I used Glow for nine months before I got pregnant with my perfect little boy that’s one this month! Glow was a ton of help and I have told many people like me about it! We are trying again so I am using Glow once again and it’s just not the same at all! It is a lot more difficult to maneuver around and a year ago (without paying for prime) it was a lot more helpful. It really seems like Glow is now based on trying to advertise and get woman to get fertility help when they really don’t need it! That’s all that’s been popping up since I’ve used it now for the last three months. Vitamins, bbt, keep track of your fertile window (which you girls only have 12 hours really so make sure it’s every day if not more:) GNC has a his and hers vitamin pack...look at the label and buy each vitamin separate because it is “blend” if not! Vitamins will take around 4-5 montages to start helping so don’t give up! Best of luck

Glow’s purpose has helped me tremendously in regards to trying to conceive. It is extremely accurate as to when my period starts. this app helps with tracking my symptoms, logging my moods, and recording any changes my body goes through daily. After a loss, my body has changed drastically with my cycle, so the ability to have all my information in one easy to find spot is amazing. Though my cycle has had subtle changes, this app still does a pretty decent job of tracking my period start date. I also enjoy that I can connect with my fiancé so he can log items, too. We’re working on baby #1 and we’re excited that this app (along with my ob/gyn) is helping us through this process. It’s comforting knowing I can turn to Glow and find many groups of women who are in similar boats who can offer advice, and share their stories, and offer motivation. Great app!

It’s addicting!! I am constantly reading the community posts and getting sucked into the juicy stories! Besides juicy stories, the community can be quite a system of support and knowledge. They answer questions and offer kindness when and if you post about something that is bothering you. I also love how Eve/this app grows with you!! It starts as a period tracking app (Eve), then it’s a trying to conceive app/ovulation tracker (this app), then there’s a pregnancy version (this app nurture), and a version for when your baby is born (this app baby). It seriously is the best. I love the daily calendar where I can log important things and I love all the articles. They are so helpful and informative. I remember reading the articles daily when I was pregnant. Every article described how my baby was growing each day and what new sensations the baby was experiencing with growth. It was amazing. I highly recommend Glow!

I’ve used this app for years now. I got pregnant for the first time this year. I started using their sister app called Nurture, which is also an amazing app. Unfortunately, I experienced a pregnancy loss at 20 weeks. this app has an option to document if you’ve specifically had a pregnancy loss, (and not just that you’ve “had” the baby). Ever since my loss I’ve went back to using this app and all my insights and analyses are custom to my specific situation. It helps me understand what may be normal after a pregnancy loss. I can’t express enough how great and caring it feels to have an app that individualizes service in this way. It has helped me feel more in control and confident about what’s going on with my body; which, in turn, makes me more confident to get pregnant again in the future. I would recommend Glow to all females!

I was using a different app to track my periods and fertile window, and after much frustration —due to its inaccuracy- downloaded this app. Once I saw the interface i immediately knew i should’ve been using this all along. It’s gorgeous and very user friendly. i can’t dress how easy it is to track everything i.e. BBT, physical symptoms, CM and ovulation test results to name a few. One of the things I most appreciated was the notifications it will send you to remind you it’s time to take your prenatal. Cute, right? Another way it helped me was you can search for topics other women posted and see what the responses were. By doing so I was able to discover some things I could do to increase my chances of conceiving or as we say, getting that BFP! I highly recommend Glow and i am so happy i found it. You won’t be disappointed!!

The directions indicate to add my husbands name and email, then says “success, an email and notification will be sent” I’ve done this 4 times and although he’s checked his email, junk mail, spam box, etc he’s not received any of them. However it also says in the directions for him to sign in using his email to his own flow account. These are a bit contradicting directions, so is something wrong in Glow , or does he need to download and sign in and we won’t receive the email and instructions?? Please help as he’d like to be able to see my account as offered. Otherwise, A+ with Glow , I love everything about it and all the information. I would LOVE a pdf or something with a list of what all the acronyms mean, I have some of them down but I have to go to google and try and find each one if I cannot figure it out :) ... I’ll change my review to 5 stars and update once my hubby can link up and see my day to day entries as offered. Thanks!

I still use this app and value it, but the recent update is less good than the old style. In the old style, I could glance ahead to see exactly where I’d be in my ovulation cycle weeks down the line, which was helpful for scheduling vacations and scheduling life in general as someone who uses Glow for contraception. Now Glow is flashier looking but there is less information. I can still see the green ovulation window for future weeks by checking the “period calendar” but I can’t click on future dates re: chance of pregnancy or have as good of a total picture of my fertility. Basically my criticism is that it’s clumsier now to look ahead and that even within the current week, Glow has become much more geared towards something you have to look at look at every day to get all your information. I’m not quitting Glow or giving it a poor rating, but the new changes are less good and make for less effective family planning.

Got insulted by girls, from my looks to my intelligence to my relationship for giving a requested opinion. Retaliated with the same force these girls did and what do you know? I get suspended and they’re continuing on with their account like they did no wrong.

Feel free to hate, insult, berate and give improper information so long as you do it in a certain way. Otherwise, kiss your freedom goodbye. Never received an email, notification or explanation, just lost my account. I’ve been having problems for years. Girls saying I’m ugly, should be raped, etc, and me retaliating is what’s punishable without explanation. Yep, shouldn’t retaliate or use curse words, but they should have repercussions as well.

Nasty women, biased mods, one sided opinions being posted, incorrect medical information being posted by mods, bad communication and more I won’t even go in to. Reviewing every single one of your apps, and telling anyone who wants to know, how horribly this crap is run, and how horrible the mods and people here are. I hope your business and reputation comes crashing down, jerks.

Glow encourages bulling and this is a day in and day out constant problem and they have done NOTHING to resolve all the hate and underage drama all over Glow. It’s also encouraging young ladies to have sex post photos they shouldn’t be. Making comments on things they’re not even old enough to know anything about. If you end up with a stalker on your page they won’t do anything to help you resolve that either. They will however make a victim feel like they did something wrong and attack both people. Even the person who has been being verbally abused. You cannot get away from the abuse because “mute” as they put it is NOT the same as a block. So now I have a stalker on my page who will not leave me alone and they won’t do anything about it. If you download best beware of all of these issues.

So not only does Glow track your period but it also predicts your fertile window and when you ovulate. Glow is actually pretty smart because my other 2 apps predicted my period 9 days before I actually got it but this app was right on point with prediction and I wasn’t quite sure when I ovulated this month and it helped pick a date on when I should have based on my info I had logged. The best part about Glow is the community. Most apps just log everything Glow has a forum of different pages you can join and chit chat with other ladies, especially if your going through something you feel like you can’t talk to anyone about chances are someone on here has gone through it. I love it and it’s a nice escape from facebook.

I have been using several period tracker apps as I have been considering switching and am trying to find the one that is best for me. One thing that I would love to see change is more personalized content. More specifically, I am trying to avoid pregnancy. In my health profile I have selected never when it asks about when we will think about it. That may change, but it is where we are right now. We even just terminated a pregnancy, so it is definitely not on the table. So why does Glow show me things every day about fertility and trying to conceive? The poll a few days back was “have you told people you are TTC?” We’re not. That is what it says in my health profile. So my suggestion would be to tailor content to the goals listed in our profiles. Also, not a big community person, so it is annoying that everyday the little red dot is there alerting me to new content even though I have not subscribed to any groups.

After coming off BC, I began using Glow frequently to attempt to find a pattern in my irregular period. Although it did take a bit of time for this app to get the estimations correct (which seems expected), for months now my period has been arriving the exact day this app predicts. The estimated dates of ovulation match up with my symptoms as well and help you you in TTC or avoiding pregnancy. Once my boyfriend and I did began TTC, the ovulation predictions were successful in us conceiving, but we did lose our baby. this app was quite quick afterwards to correctly predict my period again. We’re giving our next go some time, but in the meantime, the this app community is a wonderful place to go for support, advice or just some fun. I also love that I can track daily symptoms, moods, CM, medications, flow and so much more. this app is a super simple app to use and I personally find it extremely helpful.

I love Glow and it’s accuracy with period tracking. It’s always somewhere within 24 hours of its predicted start date. I do have two pretty big irritations though. For one, it’s been a lot more cluttered and difficult to navigate, more so since the update. I have to go all over the place just to find what I’m looking for. It’s not streamlined at all. Another thing, I personally have no interest in the community aspect of it, but it too promoted. I’m not crazy about getting notifications on what’s going on with the community. I’m just trying to track my monthly cycle. It’s probably nice to have for other people who feel desperate for answers, but it gets such a prominent place in Glow , adding to the complication and clutter. For keeping track of symptoms and all the little things that are indicators of where you’re at in your cycle and adjusting accordingly for accuracy though, Glow is top notch.