Embody was born as a direct result of the overturning of Roe v Wade. Many of the women in our company live in Atlanta, Georgia, and the visceral need for a truly private app is the anchor of our work. What we're doing right now is trying to protect women and people with cycles from their local governments.

Unlike traditional period trackers, Embody is private by default, meaning you don’t have to select an ‘anonymous mode’ or turn on a special setting to opt into your safety. Our app is offline first. You download the app, and it is stored locally on your phone. The data within the app is locally encrypted. The information you enter doesn’t touch a server without your explicit consent. Most apps collect data from users from the get-go, which as we’ve seen, leads to women’s data being sold to third parties or used against us in a court of law.

We are also planning to be entirely open source in the near future so that anyone can verify the level of security that we are promising.

At Embody, the privacy of your most private health information is paramount. While many other period trackers mean well, their user data is vulnerable to being shared, sold, misused, and even subpoenaed by law enforcement in the case of a suspected abortion. Embody cannot share your data with anyone, because we simply don’t have it.

No. Our app is offline, stored, and encrypted locally on your phone. Your personal data is saved locally on your phone’s storage, not uploaded to the cloud or a centralized server. Embody can’t and won’t share any user data with third parties because it is impossible for us to access it.

Maybe. Many people who use birth control experience cyclical symptoms. What may be incongruous is the expected symptoms for each phase of the cycle depending on which birth control method you are using, whether or not you have a cyclical bleed, and whether or not your birth control successfully suppresses ovulation. Many people find that keeping track of their bleeding and other symptoms is helpful when going on or off birth control, or experimenting with different types of birth control.

No. Many people choose to input 3-6 months work of past data into the Embody app when they make the switch so our predictions are effective from the get-go.