There are downsides with downloading their app just to input bad data, but it’s a fun thought.

I posted in [email protected] to collect recommendations for better apps

The post: https://lemmy.ca/post/32877620

edit, while we’re at it we might as well offer an alternative app to people

Leading Recommendation from the comments

The leading recommendation seems to be Drip (bloodyhealth.gitlab.io)

Summarizing what people shared:

  • accessible: it is on F-droid, Google Play, & iOS App Store
  • does not allow any third-party tracking
  • the project got support from “PrototypeFund & Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Superrr Lab and Mozilla”
  • Listed features:
    • “Your data, your choice: Everything you enter stays on your device”
    • “Not another cute, pink app: drip is designed with gender inclusivity in mind.”
    • “Your body is not a black box: drip is transparent in its calculations and encourages you to think for yourself.”
    • “Track what you like: Just your period, or detect your fertility using the symptothermal method.”

Their Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@dripapp

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
      101·
      3 days ago

      The Shelter app (on F-droid) gives you simple access to Android work profiles, allowing you to install multiple copies of apps.

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          To be honest, I don’t completely know. I never used work profiles before Shelter, so I’m not 100% sure.

        • Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Shelter uses the Work Profile. With android 15 you can enable Private Space, which is about the same, for a third instance of an app. Work profile requires an app that manages it like Shelter, private space just works.

        • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
          31·
          3 days ago

          AfaIk, Shelter is using the built in work profile of Android, as not every UI/ vendor has made it available to the users. (There is no visible button or option in the settings menu.)
          E.g. Samsung smartphones have a “work mode”, but the last time I’ve used it (It may be different in current models), it only allowed for second accounts of selected apps like WhatsApp and hence, was a crippled implentation of the Android feature. My Android 11 Samsung tablet has complete multi user support, not only “work mode”.

          • The Octonaut@mander.xyzEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            If you are required to install something like InTune by your company, that’s what controls what apps you can install in Work mode. It’s a good trade off because it enforces good separation for them - clipboard is blocked between profiles, data too - but also for me. One little toggle and those apps and the profile are disabled entirely until I care again tomorrow.