Why we made Barkat
Live your life with Barkat · ਬਰਕਤ · برکت
Barkat is the Punjabi and Urdu word for blessing, or abundance.
A cycle tracker for understanding your body
We wanted a fertility app for anyone who wants to understand their own body. That includes people trying to conceive and people trying to avoid pregnancy, and it also includes the many people who are neither and are simply curious.
Maybe you've noticed you feel different in different parts of your cycle. You might be more social one week and want quiet the next, sleep differently, crave different food, or feel sharper some days than others. Barkat lays those patterns out where you can see them, month after month, so you can plan around them instead of being surprised by them.
The moon and the stars, if you want them
We also wanted a way to live in step with more than a calendar. Barkat shows tonight's moon, the lunar day and your Vedic birth chart beside your cycle, and each day has a card, a small quest and an intention.
If the mystical side isn't for you, that's fine. Leave it be. The cycle tracking stands on its own, and we think it's the best there is.
Private by design
Your cycle is yours. What you log stays on your phone unless you choose to sync, and sync is locked on your device with your own six-word phrase before anything leaves, so we can't read it. There are no accounts, ads or trackers.
We will never sell your data. Not to data brokers, not to Palantir, not to the government, not to anyone, ever, for any reason. Barkat exists to give you insight into your own body, and that only works if you can trust it completely. Here's exactly how privacy works.
What it costs
Barkat is free. Premium adds your birth chart and dashas, your full cycle history, and extra wallpapers and card backs, and it's free for everyone through the end of 2026. If you start using Barkat before then, Premium stays free for you for good.
From January 2027, Premium will be $9, paid once. Buy it and it's yours, with no subscription. An iPhone app is coming in 2027 too, and anyone with Premium gets it there at no extra cost. If we ever make another app, it will work the same way. Understanding your body shouldn't come with a monthly bill. Hear when the iPhone app is out.
What this blog is for
We'll write here about cycles, fertility signs and women's health in plain language, checked against medical sources. A good place to start is the four phases of your cycle.
Next: Knowing yourself: noticing your patterns and naming your feelings