privacy-in-practice

How to Export Your Period Tracker Data

Most period trackers let you export your data. Here's what the export actually contains, how to use it, and what changes when you switch apps.

What a Period Tracker Export Actually Contains Period tracker exports vary more than you'd expect. Before you trust an export as a complete record of your health history, it's worth knowing what's in it. Cycle start and end dates. This is the core data and every export should include it. The first day of each period, tagged by date. If you can verify this is in your export, you have your fundamental cycle history. Cycle length calculations. Usually derived from the start dates above. May or may not be included as a separate column. If not explicitly included, you can calculate it yourself: count the days from one period start to the next. Symptom logs. Whatever symptoms you tagged on each day, pain levels, mood, energy, physical symptoms, notes. This is where export quality diverges sharply. Flo's PDF export summarizes symptoms without always giving day by day granularity. Clue's CSV gives more granular per day data. Drip's export (open source app) gives a structured JSON file that's comprehensive. Custom notes. Free text notes you added. Usually included in exports but may be truncated in summary formats. BBT data. If you logged basal body temperature, this should appear as a date