Importing from Flo — when you're trying to conceive

Start anonymously — no email, no name

The useful answer fits in a paragraph, so here it is up front: Switching apps shouldn't mean starting from zero. Avoria imports Flo and Clue exports — periods, symptoms and moods land in place in a few minutes. TTC logging is the most sensitive data in the app — ovulation tests, sex logs, losses — and the most valuable to advertisers. Read on for the mechanism, the risks and the fastest way to test it.

Importing from Flo — when you're trying to conceive

When you're trying to conceive, importing from Flo carries extra weight: ovulation tests, sex logs, early symptoms and losses are the most commercially valuable and most personally sensitive data the app will ever hold. Avoria keeps TTC entries in the same encrypted store as everything else, with no pregnancy-intent audience export.

How it actually works

Request your export from the source app, then drop the file into Avoria's migration screen. The parser maps flow intensity, symptoms, moods and sex logs onto Avoria's schema and merges them with anything you've already tracked, without duplicating days. Avoria imports Flo and Clue exports (ZIP/CSV/JSON) directly into your encrypted log.

Why it matters

Data portability is a GDPR Article 20 right, not a favour. An app that makes leaving hard is telling you what it values. Framed for when you're trying to conceive, the practical consequence is that fewer parties end up holding a copy of a health record you never intended to publish, and the copies that do exist are harder to join back to you.

What Avoria does about it

Three concrete things. First, Flo and Clue supported, including GDPR export formats. Second, Merge is non-destructive — existing entries are preserved. Third, Import works on an anonymous account, no email required. None of that is gated behind an email address — the anonymous account is the full product, not a preview tier.

The AI part, without the hand-waving

Avoria's daily brief is generated by a language model that receives cycle context and nothing else: cycle day, phase, recent symptom tags and your stated goal. No name, no email, no device id enter the prompt, and responses aren't recycled into third-party training sets. The output is deliberately unexciting — an energy read, a focus window, a food angle and a movement suggestion — because a brief that shouts is a brief optimised for engagement rather than for you.

What you get besides privacy

Privacy on its own is a feature nobody opens an app for. Avoria pairs it with the working parts: a cycle calendar that models your own variance instead of a 28-day template, phase-aware nutrition and training guidance, symptom logging with 1–5 severity charted against cycle day, wearable sync scoped to the metrics the model actually uses, one-click imports from Flo and Clue, CSV and JSON export, and calm reminders you configure once. All of it available on an account with no identity attached.

Do this next

Log ovulation tests with a result value rather than a checkbox, and keep sex logs' protection flag accurate — both change what the prediction can do. Avoria is educational and is not medical advice. For diagnosis or treatment, please talk to a clinician.

Signals this applies to you

A short reality check: your notifications feel like nagging instead of support, your last two cycles missed the predicted window, and you can't remember the last time an insight actually changed a decision. When those stack, the app is costing you attention without paying it back. On importing from Flo (when you're trying to conceive) specifically, these signals show up faster than most people expect — usually inside two cycles, sometimes inside one. Write them down the moment you notice, because the memory of a rough day compresses fast and the log is the only honest record you'll have when you re-read the month at the end. If none of the signals apply and you're just curious, keep reading anyway — the plan below is a decent baseline for anyone tracking a cycle at all.

What the science actually says

Clinical guidance from ACOG and NICE both stress two things a good tracker should reflect: cycles under 21 or over 35 days repeatedly warrant a clinician conversation, and symptom severity — not just presence — is what actually informs care. A tracker that logs a headache but not its 1–5 severity is throwing away the signal your clinician would use. That's the reference frame Avoria's daily brief works from when it talks about importing from Flo (when you're trying to conceive), and it's why the answer for when you're trying to conceive rarely matches the answer for someone on a perfectly textbook 28-day loop. The corollary matters too: any advice that ignores your phase, your history and your logged variance is population-level advice being sold as personal advice. It might still be right for you, but you'll only know from your own two-cycle log — not from the marketing.

Your 7-day Avoria plan

A seven-day plan you can actually finish: Day 6 — turn off every notification except the daily brief. Day 7 — re-read the week's briefs together; the pattern will be obvious. Day 1 — log one mood + one energy score (1–5) at the time you already unlock your phone. Day 2 — export your last six months from your current app; keep the CSV somewhere you'll find it. Day 3 — read Avoria's daily brief once, in bed, no scrolling after. Day 4 — tag your workout with phase + energy; skip the heavy lift if energy is under 3. Day 5 — log skin, sleep and libido on the same screen; it takes under a minute. By day seven you'll have enough signal to see whether Flo — or any tracker — actually helps with importing from Flo (when you're trying to conceive), or whether it's just been logging around it. Nothing on this list takes more than five minutes. The point is not a heroic new routine; it's a small honest baseline you can compare against next month. Re-run the same seven days one cycle from now and the diff will tell you more than any single insight card ever could.

What not to do

Skip these three traps: opting into 'personalised ads' inside a health app (there's no version of that which is safe); relying on a single prediction date instead of a fertile window; and paying for a Pro tier before you've confirmed the free tier respects your data. If Pro is the only tier that hides you from advertisers, that tells you everything. The temptation with importing from Flo (when you're trying to conceive) is to add more tools; the fix is almost always fewer, better ones. A second app you check twice a week isn't a backup — it's a second surface leaking the same data, plus a second notification queue eating your attention. Uninstall the ones you don't open. None of this is about being perfect with tracking. It's about picking a tool that respects the effort you already put in — and giving you back a calm daily brief instead of a louder feed.

A quick self-check

A quick self-check before you commit to any tracker: does it show you the raw data, does it let you export the raw data, and does it explain — in one sentence — how a prediction shifted when it did? Three yeses means the tool respects you. One 'no' is a warning; two is a reason to move. Avoria answers yes to all three by design, and that's the standard worth applying to the rest of your health stack too — sleep, nutrition, activity. The specific answer for importing from Flo (when you're trying to conceive) will land in your daily brief; the pattern for when you're trying to conceive will emerge in the weekly recap. Don't optimise week one — just log honestly.

Avoria is not medical advice. For diagnosis or treatment, please talk to a clinician.