OB Wheel iPhone App Review

Sometimes an app does not have to be overly flashy or feature-rich in order to be a useful download at the OB Wheel for iPhone is probably the perfect example of such an app. It does not have the same extensive list of features that many of our other pregnancy app reviews have, but by the same token it is also quite true that this is a useful piece of software that will serve you well down the road.

Manually enter LMP

In order to make the features for OB Wheel iPhone app work, all you really have to do is enter the value of the Last Menstrual Period or LMP. If you do this, you will unlock everything that this app has to offer. For reference, the LMP is usually defined as being the first day of the menstrual period that you had prior to conception. Use that date as the working date for LMP entry and make sure that you double-check it before picking it from the wheel of dates that comes up for LMP selection. This wheel feature is also probably what gives the OB Wheel iPhone app its name.

Get estimate date of delivery

One of the reasons that the LMP value is so important is that it is used as the primary criterion for calculating the estimated date of delivery (EDD). The EDD will allow you to effectively plan ahead throughout the pregnancy because based on that date you can calculate trimesters and get a general idea of what will be going on within the pregnancy process at certain times.

Get gestational age

Another quantity that you can derive from the LMP value is the gestational age of the fetus that is growing inside you. The gestational age will help you determine exactly what is going on in terms of progression within the pregnancy and you can actually get that age updated daily until the 40-week mark when the baby is going to be born.

Final Score

Overall, we’ve decided to give OBWheel app for iPhone a final score of 8 out of 10. It is great in terms of giving you some basic calculations that you can use with a very cool wheel interface that lets you easily input information. However, it loses marks because it does not have as many solid features as other apps that have scored higher. In the end though, OB Wheel iPhone app still deserves a positive recommendation for download.