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Step-by-step instructions for getting the most out of Red Tent PMDD — from your first cycle log to exporting a report for your doctor. 89 guides, synced from the app’s Resources tab. Looking for FAQs instead? Visit Support.

Getting Started

Set up, sign in, and find your way around.

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Getting Started

What is Red Tent PMDD?

Use this article to learn what Red Tent PMDD is for and where cycle tracking, Reports, Resources, and logging live. The app helps you self-…

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Getting Started

Signing in with Apple

Sign in with Apple is the only way into Red Tent PMDD—there is no separate app username or password. Use this article for the welcome-scree…

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Getting Started

Accepting Terms and Conditions

Right after you sign in with Apple, Red Tent PMDD shows the legal documents you must accept before profile setup. You will read and accept…

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Getting Started

Setting up your profile

After you accept the Terms, Red Tent walks you through profile setup. This is what we need to show your cycle, phases, and tracking correct…

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Getting Started

Entering your first period date

Your first period date is the anchor for everything else — phases, cycle day, and predictions all calculate from it.

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Getting Started

Navigating the app

Red Tent has five places along the bottom: four labeled tabs plus a center + for quick logging. Each preview below shows what that main tab…

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Home & Daily Use

Your day-to-day with Red Tent.

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Home & Daily Use

Understanding the Home screen

Find your way around Home—the default tab after profile setup. This article maps each section top to bottom: date header, cycle context, da…

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Home & Daily Use

Changing the date

Change which calendar day Home and Daily Tracking show using the date header, weekly strip, Select Date calendar, or cycle ring. Tap Go to…

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Home & Daily Use

The circular cycle tracker

Home's circular cycle tracker shows your estimated cycle day, current phase, and next ovulation or period timing for the selected calendar…

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Home & Daily Use

The hormone levels chart

Home's hormone levels chart shows simplified educational curves for LH, FSH, Estrogen, and Progesterone across your cycle—not lab results.…

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Home & Daily Use

Adding a log entry (plus button)

The center + on the tab bar opens a quick menu from Home, Reports, Resources, or Community. Pick Track Period, Track Symptoms, or Add Notes…

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Home & Daily Use

Resource suggestions on Home

Home surfaces education articles and research papers under Recommended for You—separate from the in-app help spotlight row. See how items a…

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Home & Daily Use

Help tips on Home

Home shows one in-app help article under Get the best out of Red Tent PMDD inside Recommended for You. The app chooses it on your device—ta…

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Home & Daily Use

Completing daily check-ins

Daily Check-in is the guided carousel flow—not the Daily check-ins tracking rows above—that walks you through incomplete cards for the date…

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Tracking Symptoms & Daily Log

Log how you feel, day by day.

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Tracking Symptoms & Daily Log

Tracking symptoms for a day

Each calendar day has its own symptom and life-factor log in Red Tent. Log from Home or Track Symptoms on the + menu—everything saves to th…

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Tracking Symptoms & Daily Log

Tracking life factors

Log daily context—stress, travel, medications, social triggers—for the calendar date in the header. Log from Home or via Track Symptoms on…

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Tracking Symptoms & Daily Log

Understanding intensity levels

Many symptoms use a six-point intensity scale from Not at all through Extreme; life factors and some cycle items use yes or no instead. Thi…

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Tracking Symptoms & Daily Log

Managing what you track

You can extend Daily Tracking with custom categories and items from the Symptom or Life factor view. Use the Add Item control at the end of…

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Tracking Symptoms & Daily Log

Writing daily notes (journal)

Add Notes on the + menu opens My Journal—a free-text space separate from symptom and life-factor cards. You can save multiple notes per cal…

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Tracking Symptoms & Daily Log

Editing or updating a past day

Each calendar day keeps its own log. To catch up or fix yesterday: set the date first, then edit symptoms or notes for that day only. Date-…

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Tracking Symptoms & Daily Log

Logging your cycle

Log each new cycle start date after your first cycle is set up so Home can update cycle day, phases, and next-event estimates. This article…

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Reports & Insights

Read your patterns over time.

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Reports & Insights

Reports tab overview

Reports turn your daily symptom and life factor logs into cycle summaries and charts—not clinical diagnoses. Use Overview for range-wide av…

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Reports & Insights

Choosing a cycle range

Choose how many recent cycles—or a custom date range—Reports uses on Overview and Export Report. The pill row at the top of Overview filter…

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Reports & Insights

Cycle statistics and trends

Overview turns logged periods and cycle phases into averages and a trend chart for the cycle range you pick. Open Reports → Overview and sc…

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Reports & Insights

Viewing cycle detail

Cycle Detail drills down from Overview with per-cycle and range-scoped stats for your selected cycle range. Open Reports → Overview, tap Cy…

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Reports & Insights

Understanding phase details

Phase Detail explains what each of the four main cycle phases means and shows your personal phase lengths and tracking for the cycle range…

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Reports & Insights

Symptom and trackable item details

Tap any symptom or life factor in Reports history to open a detail screen with a history chart, phase breakdown, and symptomatic days for t…

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Reports & Insights

Symptomatic days

Symptomatic Days lists cycle days (Day N) where you logged symptoms at Moderate or higher—not calendar dates and not a PMDD diagnosis. Open…

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Reports & Insights

Custom Analysis

Custom Analysis plots the trackables you choose on shared timelines so you can compare severity or occurrence across a week, month, or cust…

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Reports & Insights

Exporting a report (PDF)

From Reports, you can build a PMDD tracking PDF from the cycles and symptoms you already logged, then save or share it through your device’…

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Reports & Insights

Understanding the report PDF

The PMDD Tracking PDF bundles your logged cycles and daily symptoms into pages you can review with a clinician—it reflects what you logged,…

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Reports & Insights

Correlation analysis in Reports

On each symptom or life-factor detail screen in Reports, scroll to Relation Patterns to see which other trackables tend to co-occur with th…

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Resources

Education, tools, and links.

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Resources

Resources tab overview

Resources is where you browse education, research, toolkit tools, and in-app help—not daily logging on Home or charts on Reports. Open Reso…

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Resources

Education content

Use Education to browse, open, bookmark, and search articles by topic. Content covers PMDD, symptoms, treatment, and daily life—for learnin…

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Resources

Research papers

Research under Resources is where you browse scholarly papers about PMDD and related topics from the bundled OpenAlex catalog. If you have…

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Resources

Toolkit overview

Toolkit under Resources brings in-app self-care: a Self-Care + Safety Plan you prepare ahead of time, guided Breathe and Grounding, and cat…

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Resources

App resources

The App sub-tab is Red Tent PMDD's in-app help library—popular questions, Browse by topic tiles, and Red Tent PMDD rows each open a help ar…

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Resources

Bookmarking resources

Bookmark Education articles and Research papers for later—the filled bookmark icon shows saved items when the same catalog entry appears ag…

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Resources

Crisis hotline

Use Hotline on the Resources screen when you need urgent mental-health support through Red Tent. This article covers where that button live…

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Resources

Searching resources

Use the Resources header search field on Education, Research, and Toolkit to find articles, papers, and toolkit links by keyword—not the Ap…

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Resources

Breathe sessions in the Toolkit

Breathe under Toolkit offers five guided breathing sessions with on-screen phase pacing when you want a short calm-down break. This article…

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Resources

5-4-3-2-1 grounding in the Toolkit

Grounding under Toolkit walks you through the 5-4-3-2-1 senses exercise when you want to anchor in the present. This article assumes you ca…

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Resources

Building your Safety Plan

Self-Care + Safety Plan under Toolkit is a seven-section coping plan you write ahead of time and read when symptoms feel overwhelming. This…

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Community

Connect with others, safely.

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Community

Community tab overview

Community is where you read and share posts with other members—not daily logging on Home or charts in Reports. This overview covers the Exp…

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Community

Exploring posts

Explore is the public feed of Community posts from all members, sorted newest first. This article covers browsing post cards on Explore—ref…

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Community

Creating a post

Share text and optional photos with Community from the compose sheet on Explore or Saved, or the inline editor on My Posts. This article co…

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Community

My Posts

The My Posts sub-tab lists posts you published and gives you an inline composer at the top. This article covers opening My Posts, using the…

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Community

Saved posts

Bookmark posts you want to read again and find them in Community's Saved sub-tab. This article covers saving, browsing, and removing bookma…

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Community

Comments

Use this article for comment threads on Community posts—reading replies, writing with CommentBar, and safety gates before publish. Open the…

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Community

Community rules

Community rules set the standards for posts and comments in Red Tent—what we expect, what is not allowed, and what can happen when guidelin…

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Community

Accepting Community Guidelines

Accept the current Community Guidelines so you can open the Community feed and publish posts or comments. This article covers the acceptanc…

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Community

Reporting posts and comments

Use the private report sheet when someone else's post or comment breaks Community rules. This article covers how to open the sheet, pick a…

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Community

Blocking users

Block someone when you want their posts and comments hidden from your Community feeds. This article covers the overflow menu on posts and c…

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Community

Community safety

Community safety tools include publish-time checks, Report, and Block. This article walks through what happens before your post or comment…

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Community

Community profile settings

Choose whether new Community posts and comments start as Anonymous User or with your Username from Settings. This article covers the Defaul…

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Community

Your submitted reports

After you report a post or comment, Red Tent keeps a private history you can review anytime. This article shows how to open Report Submissi…

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Understanding Your Cycle & PMDD

Phases, predictions, and medical context.

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Understanding Your Cycle & PMDD

Cycle phases explained

Red Tent PMDD groups your cycle into four phases—Menstrual, Follicular, Ovulatory, and Luteal—with definitions in Reports. Learn what each…

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Understanding Your Cycle & PMDD

Cycle day and phase on Home

Red Tent PMDD estimates cycle day and current phase on Home from your logged period starts and cycle length. Learn how Day 1 is counted, ho…

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Understanding Your Cycle & PMDD

Predictions (next period ovulation)

Red Tent PMDD shows estimated next ovulation or next period timing under the cycle ring on Home. These lines count down from your logged pe…

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Understanding Your Cycle & PMDD

PMDD and tracking

Tracking your cycle and daily symptoms in Red Tent helps you see premenstrual patterns over time—useful context for PMDD, not a diagnosis.…

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Understanding Your Cycle & PMDD

Medical disclaimer

Red Tent PMDD helps you track cycles and learn about PMDD—it does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Use this guide to se…

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Troubleshooting & Support

Sync, export, and getting support.

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Troubleshooting & Support

Syncing data on launch

After you sign in or open the app on a device without local data, Red Tent downloads your cycle, symptoms, and journal from iCloud before H…

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Troubleshooting & Support

iCloud or Apple ID errors

Red Tent needs a working Apple ID and iCloud on your device to sign in and keep your cycle and symptom logs in your private iCloud. Use thi…

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Troubleshooting & Support

Data not showing or missing

Home shows symptoms and life factors for one calendar day at a time. If cards look empty or yesterday's logs seem gone, check the date head…

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Troubleshooting & Support

Report or PDF will not generate

When Export Report gets stuck, shows an error, or never reaches Report Ready, start here—not the full export walkthrough. You must be signe…

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Troubleshooting & Support

Safety Plan or resource will not load

When a Safety Plan screen, Education article, or other Resources item will not open or shows an error, start with Retry and a connection ch…

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Troubleshooting & Support

Getting more help

Use this article when in-app troubleshooting did not fix your problem and you need to reach the Red Tent team—or when you are not sure whet…

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Account Privacy & Data

How your data is stored and protected.

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Account Privacy & Data

Your account and Sign in with Apple

Your Red Tent PMDD account is the Apple ID you used with Sign in with Apple—there is no separate Red Tent username or password. This articl…

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Account Privacy & Data

Data storage and iCloud

Your cycle, symptom, and journal logs live in private iCloud—not on Red Tent servers. Learn what syncs across devices, what stays on this d…

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Account Privacy & Data

Signing out

Sign Out ends your Red Tent session on this device without deleting your health logs. Your cycle, symptom, and journal data stay on this de…

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Account Privacy & Data

Switching Apple ID

Switching Apple ID means signing into Red Tent PMDD with a different Apple ID than your current session. The app clears the previous user's…

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Account Privacy & Data

Privacy and legal

Use this guide to open in-app legal documents and the privacy explainer—not as a substitute for the full policies. Your cycle and symptom d…

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Account Privacy & Data

Delete your account

Deleting your account removes your Red Tent profile and associated app data from this device and your iCloud private database. This is diff…

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Account Privacy & Data

Research data sharing settings

Use this guide to turn Research Data Sharing on or off and choose which anonymized patterns you contribute. Daily tracking still syncs thro…

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Settings & Preferences

Appearance, tracking, and notifications.

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Settings & Preferences

Where to find settings

Red Tent has no Settings tab. Use this article to open Settings from the gear icon on Home, or show and hide tracking categories from the s…

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Settings & Preferences

Managing tracking categories

Choose which symptom and life-factor categories appear when you log from Settings → Tracking Settings. This Settings path is separate from…

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Settings & Preferences

Notifications

Control Red Tent reminders and alerts from Settings → Notifications. When iOS blocks notifications, use the in-app banner to open iPhone Se…

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Settings & Preferences

Check-in configurations

Check-in Configurations in Settings controls which guided check-ins appear on Home, when reminders fire, how long each runs, and which card…

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Settings & Preferences

PMDD Diagnosis Tracker check-in

PMDD Diagnosis Tracker is the DSM-5-oriented guided check-in on Home—a separate continue panel from Daily Check-in, with a fixed clinical c…

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Settings & Preferences

Updating your profile in Settings

Update your display name, photo, birthday, diagnosis status, and health conditions anytime from Settings. This covers edits after setup — s…

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Settings & Preferences

Custom symptoms and trackable items

Add your own symptom and life-factor categories and items from Settings → Tracking Settings. Choose Yes/No or intensity scales for custom i…

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Data Management

Export, import, and delete your data.

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Data Management

Your data in Settings

Your Data in Settings is the hub for CSV export, import from Apple Health or a backup, and selective delete. Open it when you want backups…

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Data Management

Export your data (CSV)

Export builds CSV files from the data you select so you can keep a copy or share it with a clinician.

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Data Management

Delete tracking data

Delete tracking data removes selected logs from Red Tent on this device and from your iCloud sync. Take a moment to export first if you mig…

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Data Management

Import your data

Import adds data from another source into Red Tent. Use it after switching phones or when you want Apple Health cycle clues in the app.

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Data Management

Import from Apple Health

Import menstrual cycle history from Apple Health into Red Tent. Open Settings → Your Data → Import Data → Apple Health, allow period-flow r…

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Red Tent PMDD

Our story, feedback, and feature requests.

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Red Tent PMDD

Our story

Red Tent PMDD began with years of premenstrual suffering that too many clinicians dismissed—and with the relief of finally being heard by s…

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Red Tent PMDD

Feedback

Your notes go to the team through Contact Support in Settings—confusing screens, bugs, praise, and small fixes welcome. Community is for pe…

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Red Tent PMDD

Request new feature

Start your email subject with Feature request: and a short title so product ideas stand out in our support queue. Use the same Contact Supp…

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