Good for tracking, but overall failed me. – Contraction Timer & Counter 9m Review

Using this app was a great improvement over notepad, but a few faults made things a little worse overall. I had contractions 2-4 minutes apart and 30-45 seconds long. I thought I had to listen to nurse and have them go up to 5 min apart consistently and last longer or else the hospital would send me home (she didn’t say 5 min or less) and I’d have to suffer multiple trips on the road. NOPE. I was in labor the whole time, almost had baby on couch and had to give birth without my epidural after suffering for over 16 hrs of continuous contractions. This app kept summing up my contractions as “you have time to take a shower, eat something small, gather docs” and “error irregular results” every time. Never head to hospital to get checked! Same with the human nurse though, I was unable to get ahold of a nurse after calling and waiting in the span of 3 hrs, had to beg for one to ask about these tear-streaming contractions! (as I’m totally clueless..thinking I’m just weak & dramatic as the first nurse had me believe it’s just irregular contractions that could last hours, or days, or stop...NOPE) The “Time” displayed in tiny, gray font is insanely poor user interface design. It was invisible to me during my pain as I couldn’t think or hardly function, but I kept wishing so badly the app showed the Time of contractions without having to purchase and only afterwards I realized it was there the whole time. Another thing with the advertisement to purchase full version popping up on accident constantly kept preventing me from hitting the start button in time. Free version should contain a delete single contraction button for this reason bc it messed up my count and analyzation with this pop up constantly and I couldn’t delete without wiping this whole log. Felt unfair and all this made the full app Not worth the money, so I wouldn’t purchase even out of desperation in my pain. **just noticed I must have purchased this on accident at some point during pain as it’s over now and all the buttons/taps work with no pop-up to purchase..ughhhh what luck now that I no longer need it. Thanks for the tracker though. The button made it easier than repeating the time on the clock in my head over and over until I can breathe & write it down so I guess it was worth looking back. Gotta delete ya now though bc the sight of app reminds me of the hours of pure agony and torture.
Review by MonsterManda on Contraction Timer & Counter 9m.