Looking for a Premom alternative?
Premom scans ovulation test strips with your camera and turns the results into a chart, which made strip testing much cheaper to do properly. MoodSwings is a different shape of app — and this page is an honest comparison rather than a pitch, so the table starts with what Premom does better.
Premom vs MoodSwings, side by side
| Premom | MoodSwings | |
|---|---|---|
| Known for | Premom scans ovulation test strips with your camera and turns the results into a chart, which made strip testing much cheaper to do properly. | A calm period tracker built around how you actually feel: next-period and cycle-phase estimates, mood and symptom logging in a few taps, PMS patterns over time, and optional partner sharing. |
| Genuinely better at | Reading real test results — strip scanning plus low-cost tests is hard to beat for pinning down ovulation. | MoodSwings is for the months when you are not testing: quick logging, estimated dates, PMS patterns and an optional partner view. |
| Day to day it feels like | The app is the readout for a device or test strips you buy — precise fertility data, but there is kit to keep using and replacing. | One screen, a few taps a day. Dates, mood and symptoms in the same place — and if you want, a partner view where you choose what is visible. |
Stay with Premom if…
…you are testing with strips and want them read and charted for you.
We would rather you kept an app that fits than switched and stopped logging after a fortnight. A half-used tracker cannot show you a pattern.
MoodSwings is a wellness tracker, not a medical device, and makes no clinical claims — its dates are estimates from your own logged cycles.
What you get if you do switch
- Predictions that learn your pattern. Next-period, cycle-day and cycle-phase estimates that adjust as you log, instead of assuming a textbook 28 days.
- Mood and symptoms next to your dates. Cramps, bloating, sleep, energy, cravings and how you felt — logged in a few taps, kept as history.
- Your PMS pattern, over months. The days before your period stop being a surprise once you can see them repeating.
- Ovulation and fertile-window estimates when you want them, from your own logged cycles.
- Optional partner sharing, on your terms. You choose whether to share at all and what a partner can see — it is off until you turn it on.
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MoodSwings is a wellness tracker, not a medical device — predictions are estimates, not guarantees, and nothing here is medical advice. Premom and other product names belong to their respective owners; this comparison reflects each app's publicly described focus and our own honest read of it. We deliberately quote no ratings, review counts or prices for other apps, because those change — check the App Store for current details.