Context
When labour begins, people need to know two things fast: how long contractions last, how far apart they are — and when it's time to go to hospital. Existing contraction timers are cluttered and cognitively heavy, which is exactly wrong for the moment they're used in. The user is mid-contraction: in pain, anxious, one-handed, and unable to focus.
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Existing timers demand attention at the exact moment the user has none — in pain, one-handed, often in a dim room at 3am.
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Raw numbers with no interpretation. Users were left doing mental arithmetic mid-contraction to work out whether a pattern was forming.
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No clear signal for the only decision that actually matters: when to call a provider or leave for the hospital.
Solution
A one-tap timer that does the thinking for the user. Tap to start a contraction, tap to stop — the app records duration, intensity and interval, reads the pattern back in plain language, and tells you when it's time to call.
A 0→1 feature designed end to end: one tap to start, one to stop, the pattern read back in plain language, and a clinically-based labor alert raised automatically so the user is never interpreting data in a crisis.
Copyright @ 2026 Zara soltani
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One enormous, unmissable action. Start and stop in a single tap, sized and placed for a shaking thumb.
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Glanceable patterns over raw data. Contractions per hour, average duration, average interval, and a live timeline that answers "are they getting closer?" without reading a single number.
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Guidance built into the logic. The 5-1-1 rule runs continuously in the background and surfaces a plain-language labour alert when contractions reach the threshold, so the user is never interpreting data in a crisis.