Comparison

Cafeity compared with a spreadsheet or notes app

The most common GLP-1 tracker is not an app at all. It is a note on a phone, or a spreadsheet with a column for the date and one for the weight. It is free, completely private, and yours forever, and it deserves a straight comparison rather than a dismissal.

Where a spreadsheet or notes app is ahead

A spreadsheet genuinely wins on the things people care about most: it is free, there is no company between you and your data, and it cannot be discontinued. If it is working for you, there is no urgent reason to change.

Side by side

Cafeity's column describes our own product. The a spreadsheet or notes app column reflects common practice, checked 7 September 2026.
	Cafeity	A spreadsheet or notes app
Cost	Not announced yet.	Free.
Privacy	On your device and in your own account; never in iCloud, never sold, never used for advertising.	Entirely yours, wherever you put the file.
Setup	Ready to log immediately.	You design the columns, and redesign them when the record changes.
Cycle view	Estimated level across the week, derived automatically from your logged dose dates and the published half-life.	Possible, but you are writing the decay maths yourself.
Food logging	Offline database, with protein, fibre and hydration derived automatically.	Manual, and usually the first thing to be abandoned.
Appointment page	Visit Summary — one page, print-ready, built from a period you choose.	Manual formatting each time.
Longevity	Depends on a company continuing to exist.	Outlives any app.

Where the spreadsheet actually breaks

Rarely at the dose column — that part is easy. It breaks at the point where you want to see three things at once: what the level was doing, what you ate, and what you felt. That is a join across three tables and a decay curve, and it is the point where almost everyone stops maintaining the sheet, usually during exactly the week the record would have been most useful.

The appointment problem

A prescriber has a few minutes. Scrolling a spreadsheet on a phone is a poor way to spend them. The Visit Summary exists because a page you can hand over is worth more than a file you have to narrate.

Keep your data portable either way

Cafeity exports everything in one file and lets you delete the record entirely, precisely so that choosing it does not mean surrendering the thing that makes a spreadsheet appealing.

If you stay with the sheet

The columns worth having are: date, time, amount, medication, injection site, weight, protein, water, and a free-text symptom field with a 0–10 rating. That is roughly what a prescriber asks for, and it costs nothing to add today.

Where these claims come from

This page compares Cafeity with keeping your own file rather than with a specific product, so the points below are general properties of that approach rather than claims about any company.

Costs nothing, works offline, and stores data wherever you choose to keep the file.
No account, no vendor, and no possibility of a company changing the terms or shutting down.
Requires you to build and maintain the structure yourself.

Common questions

Is a spreadsheet good enough?

For dose dates and weight, often yes. It tends to fall down when you want dose position, meals and symptoms on one timeline, and when you need something printable for an appointment.

Can I import my spreadsheet into Cafeity?

Not at launch. It is on the list, and Cafeity's own export exists so the reverse is always possible.

Is Cafeity as private as a local file?

Nothing beats a file only you hold. Cafeity's position is per-record permissions in your own account, no health data in iCloud, no sale, no advertising, and full export and deletion at any time.

What should I track at minimum?

Dose date, amount, injection site, weight, protein and a symptom note with a severity rating. Anything beyond that is a bonus.

A note on what Cafeity is

Cafeity is a general wellness product. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate or prevent any disease or condition, does not provide medical advice, and never recommends, calculates or adjusts a medication dose or its timing. It is an independent product, not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any other company named on this page or any pharmaceutical manufacturer. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Other comparisons

Cafeity compared with MeAgain — The established GLP-1 companion app, and where Cafeity deliberately draws harder lines.
Cafeity compared with MyFitnessPal — A calorie-first food tracker versus a record built around the medication cycle.

What Cafeity actually records

GLP-1 dose tracker — Every dose, with the date, the amount and the site, and the week it produced.
GLP-1 side effect tracker — What you felt, when, and how strongly — recorded on the same timeline as your doses.
GLP-1 weight tracker — Weight as a trend rather than a daily verdict, in the context of the cycle.
GLP-1 protein tracker — Protein-first food logging for a smaller appetite, with fibre and hydration alongside.
Injection site tracker — A body map that shows where the last few went, so rotation is visible not remembered.

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