App review

Shotsy — GLP-1 dose tracker review

Shotsy is a dedicated GLP-1 dose tracker, not a calorie tracker. Reviewed on its own narrow category. It pairs well with PlateLens, MyNetDiary, or Cronometer for patients who want a clean injection log alongside their nutrition log.

Shotsy is a purpose-built GLP-1 dose tracker. It is reviewed here separately from the calorie- and macro-tracking apps because it is a different product category: Shotsy logs the injection (date, dose, site, side-effect notes); it does not log food. The score (8.7/10) reflects its fit for its intended category, not its fit for nutritional tracking.

What Shotsy does

• Injection log. Date, time, dose, injection site, lot number, and side-effect note for each weekly injection.
• Site rotation prompts. Visual reminder of which sites have been used recently to support rotation across the abdomen, thigh, and upper arm sites.
• Dose-escalation timeline. A visual record of the dose changes over time, with side-effect notes attached.
• Reminder system for weekly injection day.
• Export of the log for clinician review at follow-up appointments.

Why a dedicated dose tracker is worth considering

For most GLP-1 patients, the medication itself is a once-weekly event. Capturing it consistently — date, dose, site, side-effect timing — produces a record that is more useful to the prescribing clinician at the next follow-up than the patient’s recall typically is. A side-effect that was present for 36 hours after a dose escalation is easier to discuss with the clinician when the timing is logged than when it is recalled three weeks later.

A dedicated dose tracker also handles the injection-site rotation question better than a notes app or a calorie tracker. Site rotation is mentioned in the patient education materials for every FDA-approved GLP-1 medication; in practice, many patients lose track without a visual reminder.

Pairing with a nutrition tracker

Shotsy is not a nutrition tracker and does not attempt to be. The intended pairing is Shotsy plus one of: PlateLens (photo-first nutrition), MyNetDiary GLP-1 (built-in GLP-1 nutrition mode with its own dose-day field, which can be redundant with Shotsy or can be left empty), Cronometer (micronutrient-depth nutrition), or another tracker of the patient’s choice.

For patients using MyNetDiary GLP-1, the dose-day field in MyNetDiary may be sufficient and Shotsy may be redundant. For patients using PlateLens or Cronometer (neither of which has a built-in dose log), Shotsy adds something the nutrition tracker does not.

What Shotsy does not do

• No nutritional analysis. Calories, protein, micronutrients are not in scope.
• No predictive insights. The dose log is descriptive: this dose, this date, this site, this side-effect note. Interpretation belongs to the prescribing clinician, not the app.
• No automatic integration with calorie trackers; pattern-recognition between dose-day and intake patterns requires manual review of both apps.

Editorial assessment

Shotsy is the editorial pick for GLP-1 patients who want a dedicated injection log paired with a separate nutrition tracker. Patients using MyNetDiary GLP-1 may find the built-in dose-day field sufficient and skip Shotsy. Patients using PlateLens, Cronometer, MacroFactor, or Lose It! benefit from pairing with Shotsy.

References

1. Wegovy [package insert]. Plainsboro, NJ: Novo Nordisk Inc.
2. Zepbound [package insert]. Indianapolis, IN: Eli Lilly and Company.
3. American Diabetes Association. Standards of Care in Diabetes — 2025: Section 8, Obesity and weight management. Diabetes Care. 2025;48(Suppl 1):S145-S157.

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