Gleva vs Shotsy: Two Approaches to GLP-1 Tracking

The honest disclaimer first

Shotsy is a released, widely used GLP-1 tracking app with a large user base. Gleva is in development and has not launched.

So this is not a comparison of two products you can download and judge for yourself today. It is an explanation of how our approach differs from the most established app in this space, written by the people building the one that does not exist yet. Read it with that in mind, and treat the Shotsy description as a starting point for your own look rather than the final word.

Feature by feature

What Shotsy does

Shotsy is a comprehensive GLP-1 log. It covers shot history, dose tracking, injection site rotation with a body map, side effect logging, weight and nutrition tracking, reminders, home-screen widgets, and PDF export for appointments. Its estimated-medication-level charts are the most developed in the category.

It is built specifically for GLP-1 users rather than adapted from a general weight-loss app, it is available on both iOS and Android, and it has been doing this for long enough to have a substantial community behind it.

One correction worth making, because it circulates widely: core tracking is free. A lot of the criticism you will find in older forum threads concerns a hard paywall on dose estimation, and that is not an accurate description of the current app. If you formed a view on this a year or two ago, it is worth looking again.

If you want a thorough, proven place to record everything about your treatment, that is a real and well-established option, and the fact that it already exists is not a small advantage.

Where Gleva differs

Gleva is built around a narrower claim: that the hard part is not recording the data but seeing what it means.

By month three you have doses, side effects, weights and notes about food. The questions you actually have are relational — does the nausea track my dose increases or my meals? Is this a plateau or a normal flat fortnight? Did the last increase make things measurably worse, or does it just feel that way?

Answering those means holding several series against each other. That is what we are building toward: correlation and pattern surfacing as the primary feature, with logging as the thing that feeds it.

The trade-off

A tighter focus means a smaller product. There will be things Shotsy does that Gleva does not, especially early on. Choosing a narrower tool is a real trade-off, not a free upgrade.

There is also the obvious one: Shotsy is available now and Gleva is not. If you are starting treatment this month, that difference outweighs every design argument on this page.

Side by side

	Shotsy	Gleva
Available	Yes, iOS and Android	No — in development
Core tracking	Free	—
Dose charts	Most developed in the category	Planned, correlation-first
Site rotation	Body map	Planned
Export	PDF and CSV	Planned
Storage	Cloud sync	Local-first, planned
Focus	Comprehensive log	Correlation between series

The honest reading of that table is that one column describes a product and the other describes an intention. We are not going to pretend otherwise.

How to choose

Choose a comprehensive log if you want breadth, want it today, and are comfortable doing the interpretation yourself or with your provider. That is most people, and Shotsy is a reasonable default. Our full comparison of GLP-1 trackers covers the alternatives if it does not suit.

Look elsewhere specifically if your objection is subscriptions, cloud storage or a non-standard schedule — those are the three things most likely to make any given tracker the wrong fit, and there are apps positioned on each. If your schedule is not a clean weekly one, tracking a non-standard schedule covers what to test before committing.

Wait for Gleva if your frustration is specifically that you have plenty of data and no idea what it is telling you — and if you can afford to wait.

Try both eventually. Export exists for a reason. Any tracker worth using lets you take your history with you, and we would rather you leave with your data than stay because you cannot.

What we will not claim

We are not going to tell you that Gleva is better than an app that has shipped and helped a lot of people while ours is still being built. We think the correlation-first approach is the right one, which is why we are building it. Whether it works better for you is something you will get to judge when there is something to judge.

Shotsy is a trademark of its respective owner. Gleva is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by it.