Leaving Ovia: alternatives and how to move your data

The short answer

The standalone Ovia Pregnancy app closed in March 2026. If you migrated to Ovia Cycle & Pregnancy Tracker and want something different, the three main options are Flo for scale and community, What to Expect for a large free community on either platform, and myCocoon for an iPhone user who wants pregnancy Health data to stay on the device. The choice usually comes down to platform, privacy posture, and whether peer community matters to you.

Four apps evaluated. This is how to get your data out and how to pick between them.

Last reviewed: 12 July 2026.

What changed in March 2026

Ovia Health discontinued the standalone Ovia Pregnancy & Baby Tracker app at the end of March 2026 as part of a product consolidation. The announcement on Ovia Health’s Facebook page stated: “We’re saying goodbye to the Ovia Pregnancy app at the end of March 2026, but you can continue with the same experience you know and love with the Ovia app.” (Ovia Health, Facebook, 2025) The standalone app had been removed from the App Store in June 2025 and had not received updates since.

This was a consolidation, not a company closure. Ovia Health by Labcorp is still operating. The separate pregnancy and cycle-tracking apps were merged into a single product: Ovia Cycle & Pregnancy Tracker, available on iOS and Android. Users who sign into the consolidated app with the same email and password they used for Ovia Pregnancy can access their existing profile and tracked data. (Ovia Help Center)

If you kept using the standalone app until it stopped working, you are now in the same position as someone who chose to leave: the standalone app is gone and the question is what comes next.

How to take your data with you

You can export a full copy of your Ovia data before you delete your account. In the Ovia Cycle & Pregnancy Tracker, tap More, then Settings, then “Export my data.” Ovia sends a link to a .zip file to your registered email address within 48 hours. The file contains several .csv spreadsheets covering your logged symptoms, cycle data, articles viewed, and any photos you uploaded. (Ovia Help Center, data export FAQ)

Three things to know before you delete:

• The export covers the last year of logged data. Older history is not included.
• None of the major alternatives, Flo, What to Expect, or myCocoon, offer an import tool that reads Ovia’s .csv files. The export is a personal archive, not a migration file.
• To delete your account entirely, go to Settings and select “Delete my account and data.” Ovia states that your primary database entry is deleted immediately or within 24 hours, with backup copies cleared within 35 days. (Ovia Health privacy policy)

Export first. Then decide.

What we compared

Four alternatives, five axes. Naming the dimensions before the table is the difference between a comparison and a hit piece.

• Platform availability. Which devices you can install it on.
• Apple Health. Does it read your Health app data, write back to it, or neither.
• Privacy architecture and record. Where the data lives and the documented track record.
• AI features. What ships, where it runs, and what it can see.
• Community. Is there a peer feed.

Four apps, five axes. The table comes first, then the longer read on each.

Ovia, Flo, What to Expect, and myCocoon at a glance

Should you stay on Ovia Cycle & Pregnancy Tracker?

Staying on Ovia Cycle & Pregnancy Tracker makes most sense in two situations. Your employer or health plan is paying for the premium coaching, which is the one feature no other app here replicates. Or you want the rare tracker that writes your pregnancy data back into Apple Health, rather than only reading from it. If neither of those applies, you are using a free pregnancy tracker whose data model has a well-documented employer side to it.

A 2019 Washington Post investigation found that employers and health plans with Ovia partnerships could see aggregate data on their workforce: how many workers were in high-risk pregnancies, the top medical questions users had looked up, and when new mothers planned to return to work, all drawn from de-identified Ovia user data. (Washington Post, 2019) Ovia’s privacy policy still permits selling de-identified or aggregated data, and Mozilla lists the app with a Privacy Not Included warning. (Mozilla Ovia Pregnancy review) The data does not leave as your name attached to your cycle entries. It leaves as a statistic. Whether that sits right with you is a personal call, and the policy is the place to read it.

Flo: the natural migration if you want scale

Flo is the largest consumer pregnancy app, available on iPhone and Android, with a 5,000-plus article library reviewed by over 100 medical experts, an AI assistant called Ask Flo, and an anonymous community. (Flo About) It is the most direct migration for a former Ovia Pregnancy user who wants content depth and a peer community, and needs the app to work on both platforms. The premium subscription is optional; the free tier includes pregnancy mode. Ask Flo is available at the premium tier; it runs on fine-tuned models hosted by Databricks, with the base model not publicly disclosed. (Databricks, 2025) Flo reads Apple Health data but does not write back, and is scaling that sync back further. (Flo Help)

The privacy record is what it is and should be read before you install. A 2021 FTC order followed Flo sharing users’ health data with Facebook, Google, and analytics firms, and now requires affirmative consent, user notification, and independent privacy review. (FTC, 2021) In August 2025, a California federal jury found Meta liable under state wiretap law for collecting Flo user data through its SDK; Flo settled related claims before the verdict, with amounts undisclosed. (CNBC, 2025) Mozilla lists Flo with a Privacy Not Included warning. For the full Flo head-to-head, see myCocoon vs Flo and Flo vs Ovia.

What to Expect: the community-first option

What to Expect is a free app, on iPhone and Android, built around its Birth Clubs community and a large content library. (App Store) The Birth Clubs let you join a group by due date and post questions to other parents at the same stage. The app covers week-by-week development, symptom logging, a kick counter, and a contraction timer. There is no published premium tier, no AI assistant disclosed, and no Apple Health integration documented in the App Store privacy label.

Mozilla lists What to Expect with a Privacy Not Included warning and flags data practices that include sale of data to advertisers. (Mozilla What to Expect review) For a reader leaving Ovia who wants a free, community-forward app on either platform, What to Expect is a clean fit. For a reader leaving Ovia partly because of its data practices, the Mozilla flag is worth reading first.

myCocoon: the privacy-first option

myCocoon is an iPhone-only app, live on the App Store for iOS 26 or later, built around keeping pregnancy Health data on the device. Sleep, resting heart rate, and steps are read from the Apple Health app and watched each against your own rolling baseline on the phone. A quiet nudge fires when any single signal drifts on its own: a run of short nights, an elevated resting heart rate, a stretch of unusually high activity. A separate rule watches for a sustained run of declining-mood entries. Reading those signals jointly, as one correlated picture, is on the roadmap, not a shipped trigger. The HealthKit-derived readings live in a local-only store that is never synced to any company server.

The core AI, journal prompts, photo captions, and in-app chat, runs on Apple’s on-device Foundation Models. Cloud AI is off by default. Turn it on and your typed or spoken question goes to Google’s Gemini with a structured briefing: your pregnancy week and trimester, your first name and baby’s name if you have set them, recent symptom names and counts, your mood and sleep trends, and a daily read of your sleep hours, resting heart rate, and steps. What is never sent in either mode is your journal text, your bump photos, your voice recordings as audio, and your full Health history beyond that daily summary. There are no ads and no data sale. The myCocoon privacy policy at trymycocoon.com/privacy has the complete list of what does and does not travel.

The honest losses are real and should be the first thing you read in this section. iOS only. No Android. No peer community. A smaller content library than Flo or the Ovia apps. Privacy claims that are self-asserted and not yet independently audited. For a reader who came to Ovia on an iPhone and cares most about where pregnancy data ends up, the architecture was built around that question. For everyone else, the limitations above are the relevant facts. For the full privacy comparison across the category, see Pregnancy app privacy: where your data actually goes.

Which should you pick?

Stay on Ovia Cycle & Pregnancy Tracker if your employer or health plan pays for the premium coaching, or if you specifically want a tracker that writes data back into Apple Health. Read the privacy policy first.

Switch to Flo if you want the largest library, an AI assistant, and a peer community, and especially if you or your partner uses Android. The FTC order and 2025 Meta verdict are the trade-off to read before you install.

Switch to What to Expect if community by due date is the main thing you want from a pregnancy app, you want it completely free, and you are on either platform. Read the Mozilla review before installing.

Switch to myCocoon if you are on an iPhone running iOS 26 or later, want Apple Health signals watched against your own baseline, and prefer the data to stay on the phone. The lack of community, smaller library, and iOS-only floor are real constraints and not minor ones.

Common questions

Did Ovia Pregnancy shut down? Yes. Ovia Health discontinued the standalone Ovia Pregnancy app at the end of March 2026 as part of a product consolidation. The replacement is Ovia Cycle & Pregnancy Tracker. Sign in with the same email and password, and your tracked data, kick counts, and symptom logs carry over automatically.

How do I export my data from Ovia? In the Ovia Cycle & Pregnancy Tracker app, tap More, then Settings, then “Export my data.” You will receive an email within 48 hours with a link to download a .zip file containing .csv spreadsheets of your logged data. The export covers the last year of tracked information.

What is the best alternative to Ovia Pregnancy in 2026? It depends on what you valued about Ovia. For the largest content library and community on both iPhone and Android, Flo is the natural migration. For community plus a large free library, What to Expect is a strong option. If you are on iPhone and want pregnancy Health data to stay on your device, myCocoon is the privacy-first alternative, though it is iOS only and has a smaller library.

Does the new Ovia app still share data with employers? The employer data-sharing model is central to how Ovia Health by Labcorp operates. Its privacy policy permits selling de-identified or aggregated data, and the model reported in a 2019 Washington Post investigation has not been publicly discontinued. Read the current policy at oviahealth.com before continuing.

Is myCocoon available on Android? No. myCocoon is iOS only and requires iOS 26 or later. If you are on an Android phone, Flo or What to Expect are the more practical alternatives.

Can I import my Ovia data into another app? Not directly. The .csv export from Ovia contains your raw logged data in spreadsheet format, but none of the major alternatives offer an import tool that reads Ovia’s export files. Your data is yours to keep as an archive, but re-entering it into a new app is manual. Most people who switch start fresh.

Bottom line

The Ovia Pregnancy shutdown was a consolidation, not a disappearance. If the employer coaching or Apple Health writes were the reason you were on Ovia, the new consolidated app is where those features live. If they were not, you are holding a free pregnancy tracker whose data-sharing history you now have reason to read carefully before continuing.

The three main exit paths carry honest trade-offs. Flo offers the most scale and the best AI assistant, paired with a federal consent order and a recent adverse jury finding. What to Expect offers the biggest free community, paired with a data-sale-permitted policy flagged by Mozilla. myCocoon offers the tightest privacy architecture, paired with iOS-only availability and a smaller library. No app here is without trade-offs. The question is which trade-offs match your situation.

Export your Ovia data first. Then pick.

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