Glow Introduces Ruby, a Health and Sex App
31 July 2015 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
In response to user demand, Glow creates a
new, completely personalized product for young women
Glow, a data science company focused on reproductive health and
education, announced today the launch of Ruby by Glow – a
beautifully designed app that enables women to manage their sex
life, their cycle and their health.
Ruby aims to help women live their best, healthiest life –
starting with a happy and healthy sex life. With a strong education
component, the app provides women with knowledge about their sexual
health, leading to a better sense of self, better decision making,
and fewer unplanned pregnancies, and empowers women to take control
of their health and well-being.
Here’s how it works:
- Women track their sex and health
information in the app and Ruby’s data science enables women to
recognize correlations and patterns across their cycles.
- Information and resources presented in
Ruby come from Glow’s esteemed medical advisory board and
Bedsider.org – an online birth control support network operated by
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy –
guaranteeing women have the latest information about their health,
birth control and safe sex options.
- A unique visualized health feed makes
it easy to view current and upcoming cycles by swiping up or down,
allowing for the detection of unexpected patterns.
- The Ruby community offers a place
inside the app to ask any type of question and gather feedback and
opinions from other women going through similar experiences.
To celebrate the launch and empower women worldwide, Ruby is
partnering with Huru International – a nonprofit that provides
menstrual hygiene supplies and sex education to young women in the
developing world. All too often, women in developing countries lack
access to feminine products so they’re often forced to miss school
and work during their period. These missed days add up and result
in missed education, missed income and missed opportunity. Ruby is
proud to announce that for each mention of Ruby on social using
hashtag #TalkRubyToMe, we’ll give a young woman a day back – either
at school or at work.
“From launch, Glow has been focused on giving women more insight
and control over their reproductive health. Ruby continues that
mission, aiming to empower and educate women on a global scale,”
said Jennifer Tye, VP of Partnerships and Marketing at Glow. “We
designed Ruby to be the essential health and sex app that is 100%
focused on you. To offer young women a way to embrace their bodies
and better understand their health really drives us.”
Ruby by Glow is integrated with Apple’s Health App and is
available for free on iOS in the App Store worldwide starting
today.
About Glow
Founded by a team of technology veterans including Max Levchin,
co-founder of PayPal & chairman of Yelp, Glow is a San
Francisco-based data science company on a mission to redefine
health care. The original Glow app was launched in August 2013, and
Glow Nurture, its pregnancy tracking companion app, launched in
July 2014. Beyond the app offerings, the company aims to advance
scientific discoveries in the field of reproductive health. More
information about Glow is available at: www.glowing.com.
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