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Floriva vs Glow: On-Device Privacy vs Cloud Fertility Tracking

Floriva vs Glow compared on privacy, data storage, and features. Glow is cloud-based with a 2016 security vulnerability disclosure. Floriva stores everything on your device.

Glow is built for people actively trying to conceive. It has partner sharing, community forums, detailed fertility metrics, and the social infrastructure that makes fertility tracking feel less isolating. It's also a cloud based app that stores your most intimate health data on company servers — servers that had security vulnerabilities disclosed by Consumer Reports in 2016. Floriva is built for people who want their cycle data to stay on their device. No servers, no accounts, no data to subpoena. Less fertility specific depth, more architectural privacy. The Core Difference Glow is a cloud app. Your cycle data, fertility markers, symptoms, and partner shared information live on Glow's servers. You need an account. The company has access to your data. Floriva is an on device app. Your data lives on your phone. No account. No server copy. The company cannot access your data because the company doesn't have it. This is not a policy difference — it's an architecture difference. Glow could change its privacy policy tomorrow and your data would still be on their servers. Floriva couldn't access your data even if it wanted to. Data Architecture Glow requires an email account to start tra