Health logs are personal. If you would rather not hand your shot history, weight and side effects to a company’s server, here are your options.
Option 1: paper
A calendar or notebook works. Write the date, dose, site and a word on how you feel. Free, private, and you cannot lose it to a phone update. The downside: no reminders, no charts, and patterns are hard to see. Our free injection site rotation chart prints with your dates filled in.
Option 2: a notes app
Quick to start, always with you. Hard to turn into anything more than a list.
Option 3: a spreadsheet on your device
Date, dose, site, weight, notes: one row per day. You can chart your weight and average your check-ins. It takes some setup, and it is easy to stop filling it in. See GLP-1 tracker vs notes app vs spreadsheet.
Option 4: an app with no account
Some apps store your logs on your phone instead of their servers.
- Embera (ours, iPhone): no account and no sign-up. Logs stay on your iPhone and sync through your own private iCloud if you use it. The dose log, site rotation, estimated medication level, weight, reminders, check-ins, widget and CSV export are free.
- Other apps: some trackers say on their website that your data stays on your device on iPhone. Check each app’s App Privacy section and its privacy policy.
What to check before you trust an app
- App Privacy on the App Store. What is collected, linked to you, used to track.
- Account or not. If there is a sign-up, your logs are probably on their servers.
- Export. Can you get your data out, free, any time? A CSV export means you are never stuck.
- What is free. Look at which features are paid, not just the price.
Sources
- Apple, App privacy details on the App Store.
- Embera privacy policy.