Photograph of the hands of a Natural Cycles user called Jane, aged 33. Jane’s hands are holding a phone displaying the Today tab in the NC° app, showing the text ‘not fertile’. Jane wears an Oura Ring on her left hand.

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NC° Birth Control powered by Oura Ring

Now measure your temperature trends overnight with Oura Ring and wake up to your daily fertility status.

Natural Cycles is the only FDA Cleared birth control app that uses body temperature to prevent and plan for pregnancy naturally.

How does Natural Cycles compare to other methods?

HORMONAL

HORMONAL

A package of contraceptive pills

93%

Contraceptive Pill

Illustration of NuvaRing

93%

Vaginal Ring

Hormonal IUD

99%

Hormonal IUD

NON-HORMONAL

Natural Cycles

93%

Natural Cycles°

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87%

Condom

Copper iud

99%

Copper IUD

NON-HORMONAL

Percentage of typical users who did not get pregnant with the method over 1 year of use. Read more.

How does the NC° algorithm work?

You can only get pregnant 6 days each cycle. The algorithm behind the NC° app uses body temperature to find these days.

The algorithm learns the pattern of your cycle, giving a daily fertility status, so you can prevent pregnancy hormone-free!

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NC° Birth Control: Fertility Status App Screen

NC° Birth Control

Natural Cycles is the only FDA-cleared and CE marked birth control app. The app finds your fertile window by analyzing hormone-driven temperature changes, so you know which days you are fertile and not fertile.

NC° Plan Pregnancy: Peak Fertility App Screen

NC° Plan Pregnancy

Find fertile days and conceive faster. Research shows that couples using Natural Cycles get pregnant in 3 cycles on average — that’s the power of knowing your cycle.


Source: Berglund Scherwitzl, E. et al. (2019), Short- and long-term effect of contraceptive methods on fecundity, Eur J Contracep Repr
NC° Partner View App Screen

NC° Partner View

With NC° Partner View you can share your fertility insights with your partner — because birth control should be a shared responsibility. If you’re using NC° Plan Pregnancy, your partner can also follow your predicted ovulation.

Frequently asked questions

You must be over the age of 18.Does not protect against STIs.

FDA Cleared

Natural Cycles is 93% effective with typical use, 98% effective with perfect use. No method of contraception is 100% effective. Natural Cycles does not guarantee that you cannot get pregnant, it only informs you whether and when you can become pregnant based on the information that you enter into the application.