What are the best apps and online gadgets for when you’re tracking your cycles and trying for a baby? Here’s a round-up of our favourites.

Can a mobile app help you get pregnant? It may, at first, sound like an odd question - how can an app help you get pregnant?

However for lots of people, it’s not quite as easy as you’d initially expect to conceive, and the journey towards parenthood can be a longer and more involved journey.

And this is where apps can help. If you’re tracking your ovulation cycles, noting fertile periods and even taking daily temperature readings, then apps are handy to record information, analyse data and suggest the optimum times for you to try - all from the privacy of your mobile handset.

Here are some useful online tools and apps for when you’re trying to get pregnant:

A relatively new player on the market, Clue is a free fertility monitoring app that uses an algorithm to track your cycle and pinpoint your 'fertile window'. It's based on data you input around your periods, mood, ovulation signs and sexual activity. Instead of a typical grid / calendar format, it's designed as a sleek circle with a simple and incredibly intuitive interface. For something which performs a quite clinical function, it looks modern and beautiful (with definitely no subtle flowers or hints of pink). Find out more at www.helloclue.com. It's available for iPhone, and an Android version coming soon

A relatively new player on the market, is a free fertility monitoring app that uses an algorithm to track your cycle and pinpoint your 'fertile window'. It's based on data you input around your periods, mood, ovulation signs and sexual activity. Instead of a typical grid / calendar format, it's designed as a sleek circle with a simple and incredibly intuitive interface. For something which performs a quite clinical function, it looks modern and beautiful (with definitely no subtle flowers or hints of pink). Find out more at www.helloclue.com. It's available for iPhone, and an Android version coming soon The Fertility Friend website is a huge online resource for fertility planning and tracking. You can create various charts including a temperature tracker (your body temperature rises and falls depending on where in your cycle you are, and you can use this as a guide to your own fertility). There's also the Fertility Friend Mobile App, which is a menstrual calendar, a period tracker, ovulation chart and an advanced fertility chart interpretation and temperature tracking tool

website is a huge online resource for fertility planning and tracking. You can create various charts including a temperature tracker (your body temperature rises and falls depending on where in your cycle you are, and you can use this as a guide to your own fertility). There's also the Fertility Friend Mobile App, which is a menstrual calendar, a period tracker, ovulation chart and an advanced fertility chart interpretation and temperature tracking tool The Free Menstrual Calendar , also from the Fertility Friend site, is an iPhone, iPad and Android app that allows you to track your periods and work out. It's fairly simple and functional, but does the job

, also from the Fertility Friend site, is an iPhone, iPad and Android app that allows you to track your periods and work out. It's fairly simple and functional, but does the job Another free app is Period Tracker , which has been described as the 'ultimate menstrual monitor'. It allows you to track your periods and cycles by inputting information including a whole host of symptoms and moods. It works out your cycle length based on an average of your last three periods, so you do need to use it for a while for it to become more accurate

, which has been described as the 'ultimate menstrual monitor'. It allows you to track your periods and cycles by inputting information including a whole host of symptoms and moods. It works out your cycle length based on an average of your last three periods, so you do need to use it for a while for it to become more accurate The Baby Website also has a free ovulation calendar, as well as a wealth of information around trying for a baby

also has a free ovulation calendar, as well as a wealth of information around trying for a baby If you’d rather track your fertility online rather than on your phone, various websites also offer simple versions of online ovulation trackers. These include Emma’s Diary and Bounty.

Many thanks to Chloe from Sorry About the Mess and @Pickypickle for their suggestions.

Gillian blogs over at A Baby on Board about London life as a new mum, covering everything from baby clothes to beauty products and breastfeeding. She lives with her nearly two year old daughter Eliza and husband Alex in south London.