u/nicemokkup

Most pregnancy apps track everything and store it on their servers. Some sell it to advertisers. All of them ask you to create an account and trust them with some of the most personal data you'll ever generate.

I'm a product designer and I was pregnant. I got quietly furious with how the industry works.

So I built Zorya. iOS, one-time payment of €24.99, no account, no cloud, no server.

It tracks pregnancy weeks, fetal kicks, and contractions. It includes a dignified archive that honors your record no matter how your pregnancy ends. Everything stays on your phone by design, not by policy.

Your data cannot leave your device because there is nowhere for it to go.

https://getzorya.app

Most pregnancy apps track everything and store it on their servers. Some sell it to advertisers. All of them ask you to create an account and trust them with some of the most personal data you'll ever generate.

I'm a product designer and I was pregnant. I got quietly furious with how the industry works.

So I built Zorya. iOS, one-time payment of €24.99, no account, no cloud, no server.

It tracks pregnancy weeks, fetal kicks, and contractions. It includes a dignified archive that honors your record no matter how your pregnancy ends. Everything stays on your phone by design, not by policy.

Your data cannot leave your device because there is nowhere for it to go.

getzorya.app

URL: https://getzorya.app/

I surveyed 53 mothers earlier this year. 96% had used a pregnancy or fertility app with documented privacy violations. 70% said local-only data storage was extremely important to them.

Then I looked at what was actually available. Every major pregnancy tracker has a backend. Your symptoms, your weight, your bleeding patterns, your mental health notes, all of it going to a server you have no visibility into.

So I built Zorya. Zorya is a local-only iOS app. No account, no cloud, no server. Everything you log stays on your device and only your device. You can log symptoms, it has contraction timer, kick counter and ability to PDF export your symptoms and backup your data.

It helps expecting moms to keep track of pregnancy, securely and privately.

Happy to answer questions and receive feedback on the website, and the app itself.

I am a product designer, not a developer. I built Zorya, a pregnancy tracker, with the help of AI tooling. But all the product decisions were mine, and I want to talk through two of them because they shaped everything.

**Local only storage.** No backend, no accounts, no cloud sync. All data lives in expo-sqlite on the device. This was not the easy path. It means no cross-device sync, no server-side backups, and a harder sell in a market where "sync across devices" is expected. But pregnancy apps have a documented history of selling health data to third parties. I ran a survey of 53 mothers before building, and 70% said local only storage was extremely important to them. That made the decision easy.

**One time purchase.** 24.99 EUR, lifetime access. Pregnancy lasts nine months. Charging a subscription for something finite felt wrong. The math also works against you as a solo founder. The unit economics on a one time purchase are not forgiving, but the trust you build with users who have been burned by recurring charges is worth it IMO.

The app is live.

Happy to answer questions about the product decisions, the AI assisted build process, or the App Store submission. I had a rejection on the first build due to iPad compatibility and an IAP not submitted for review.

Disclosing upfront: I built this app.

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I am a product designer, not a developer. I built Zorya, a pregnancy tracker, with the help of AI tooling. But all the product decisions were mine, and I want to talk through two of them because they shaped everything.

Local only storage. No backend, no accounts, no cloud sync. All data lives in expo-sqlite on the device. This was not the easy path. It means no cross-device sync, no server-side backups, and a harder sell in a market where "sync across devices" is expected. But pregnancy apps have a documented history of selling health data to third parties. I ran a survey of 53 mothers before building, and 70% said local only storage was extremely important to them. That made the decision easy.

One time purchase. 24.99 EUR, lifetime access. Pregnancy lasts nine months. Charging a subscription for something finite felt wrong. The math also works against you as a solo founder. The unit economics on a one time purchase are not forgiving, but the trust you build with users who have been burned by recurring charges is worth it IMO.

The app is live.

Happy to answer questions about the product decisions, the AI assisted build process, or the App Store submission. I had a rejection on the first build due to iPad compatibility and an IAP not submitted for review.

Disclosing upfront: I built this app.

No account. No subscription. No data leaving your device. Built it because I could not find one that worked this way.

I built this because I'm currently pregnant and I wanted to try to build something that would help me track my pregnancy but without super expensive subscriptions or apps that collect and sell every single symptom I log.

There's definitely more to come, not done building this and expanding with new features.

Search for Zorya - Pregnancy Tracker in the AppStore.