About
Local Cycle is built for people who want useful tracking without handing over their reproductive health story.
Local Cycle is published by Dahlia Enterprises LLC and founded by Dahlia, a privacy-focused software builder who wanted cycle tracking that respects sensitive health data by default.
Why I built it
Most cycle trackers are designed around accounts, cloud profiles, analytics, ads, or subscription growth. Those choices may be common in consumer apps, but reproductive health data is not ordinary consumer data. A period log can reveal pregnancy, pregnancy loss, sex, perimenopause symptoms, fertility context, and medical conditions. Local Cycle starts from the opposite premise: collect less, keep records local, and make sharing user-directed.
The goal is practical privacy, not a blank notebook. Local Cycle supports period tracking, irregular cycle prediction windows, PCOS and condition context, perimenopause symptoms, pregnancy milestones, pregnancy loss logging, postpartum recovery, encrypted backups, and doctor-ready reports without a Local Cycle account.
What local-first means here
- No Local Cycle account.
- No app-owned server for cycle entries, symptoms, notes, pregnancy loss history, or perimenopause logs.
- No advertising, analytics, crash-reporting, or profiling SDKs.
- Encrypted local database for health records.
- Encrypted local backups and private doctor reports when you request them.
Who this is for
Local Cycle is for people who want a calmer alternative to ad-funded or account-based tracking. That includes people managing PCOS or irregular cycles, people entering perimenopause, people rebuilding a record after pregnancy loss, and people in postpartum who do not want their health timeline treated like marketing data.
Editorial and medical policy
Articles on this site are written to explain tracking choices, privacy tradeoffs, and practical health-record workflows. They are educational and are not medical advice. For symptoms, diagnosis, medication, pregnancy concerns, or urgent warning signs, talk with a licensed clinician.
Health articles are written from a product and privacy perspective. When medical review is added for specific articles, the reviewer name and credentials will appear on the article and in its structured data.
Contact
Questions about the app, privacy policy, press, or security reports can be sent through the contact page.