WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cycle Technologies announced today that iCycleBeads™, the first iPhone application that enables a woman to plan or prevent pregnancy easily and effectively, entirely through information provided by her iPhone, is now available in Spanish.
“For more than 35 million people in the U.S. and 400 million people worldwide, Spanish is the primary language,” said Leslie Heyer, President of Cycle Technologies. “It makes sense for this valuable family planning tool to be accessible to Spanish speakers. We plan to make iCycleBeads available in additional languages and through other smart phone devices soon. Eventually this birth control option will be available to anyone, anywhere with a smart phone.”
The Spanish version of iCycleBeads will be presented at the Symposium for mHealth Strategy in Latin America in Lima, Peru, March 25-26.
iCycleBeads is based on the Standard Days Method®, a family planning method that:
- Was developed through analysis of reproductive physiology data, tested in large-scale clinical trials, and proven +95% effective at preventing pregnancy.
- Is the fastest growing natural family planning option available with +2.5 million women worldwide in more than 50 countries using the visual tool CycleBeads®.
- Was developed by the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University.
To use iCycleBeads a woman enters the starting date of her most recent period. The app shows where she is in her cycle and whether she is on a day when pregnancy is likely or not. The information is provided on a calendar or a virtual representation of CycleBeads. The user also receives alerts for fertile and non-fertile days, when her next period could start, and to remind her to enter her cycle data.
iCycleBeads is designed for women with cycles between 26-32 days long. It helps a woman track her cycles and identifies her fertile window as days 8-19. This fertile window takes into account the life span of the ovum, the viable life of sperm, and the variation in the timing of ovulation from one cycle to the next.
iCycleBeads is protected by patent. It is now available at the iTunes store and is compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. A portion of all proceeds is donated to expanding family planning options around the world.
Video demonstration and photos.
www.CycleBeads.com, www.CycleTechnologies.com