ShotPlot

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ShotPlot logs every shot and dose, shows where you injected on a body map, and suggests the next site to help you rotate. It also tracks pills, inventory and refills, reminds you when doses are due, and exports a report for your doctor. Your records stay on your phone unless you back them up or send them.

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Contact

Email hello@shotplot.io — we answer within two business days. The quickest way is inside the app: Settings → About → Send feedback or Report a problem; the second one drafts the email with your app version, phone model, OS version and the app's recent error list, all visible in the draft so you can delete anything before sending. Never include medical details you'd rather not email.

Your data and backups

Where is my data?

On your phone. There's no account and no ShotPlot server. If you turn on automatic backup, a copy also goes to a hidden folder in your own Google Drive, which ShotPlot can't read; on iPhone, the phone's own iCloud backup includes ShotPlot's records too. Settings → Backup & export → Export backup (JSON) makes a copy you control.

Automatic backup: what exactly happens?

(Free, on Android and on iPhone — the same hidden folder, so a backup made on one restores on the other.) Whenever something changed — and at most once an hour — ShotPlot writes its backup file into a hidden app folder of your Google Drive — no other app can read it; Google's Drive service holds it like any file of yours. One file per day for each phone: each phone keeps its 2 newest copies, and ShotPlot Plus keeps a copy for each of the last 30 days. A new phone never removes an old phone's copies, and Restore a backup lists the copies by the phone that made them. If no copy gets through for two days while you log doses, Today says so and how to fix it. We never see the files: there is no ShotPlot server. In Restore a backup, the ⋯ beside a phone's name removes that phone's copies from your Drive and Delete all removes every copy; Disconnect signs the app out of Google on that phone. Your Plus purchase is not in the backup — it comes back through the store on any phone signed in to the same Google or Apple account.

Is my data backed up if I don't pay?

Yes, if you switch it on: Settings → Backup & export → Back up to Google Drive automatically keeps your 2 newest copies in your own Drive; Plus keeps 30 days. Export backup (JSON) makes a file you keep wherever you like (Drive, Files, email — anywhere), and Restore a backup reads either back; all of it is free. On iPhone the iCloud device backup includes ShotPlot's records as well; on Android ShotPlot opts out of the device backup (everything stays on the phone unless you back it up or export it).

I got a new phone

Three ways, pick one. (1) If you had Back up to Google Drive automatically on, install ShotPlot, tap Had ShotPlot before? Restore a backup on the empty Today screen (or Settings → Backup & export → Restore a backup), sign in with the same Google account and pick the most recent copy under your old phone's name. (2) Export a backup on the old phone (Settings → Export backup (JSON)), send it to yourself, then Restore a backup → Choose a backup file on the new one. (3) On iPhone, setting the new phone up from an iCloud Backup or Quick Start brings ShotPlot's records along too. On Android, ShotPlot stays out of the phone's own device backup and transfer entirely (records and settings alike), so use (1) or (2) — export a backup before you wipe or hand in the old phone. Your app lock and its PIN never travel: set them up again on the new phone.

Reminders

Reminders aren't firing

Allow notifications for ShotPlot in your phone's settings, turn off battery optimization for the app on Android (Settings → Apps → ShotPlot → Battery → Unrestricted), and keep the app installed — reminders are scheduled locally.

Reminders arrive a few minutes late (Android)

Android 12 and later only fire a reminder at the exact minute if "Alarms & reminders" is allowed for the app, and Android 14 turns it off for new installs. In ShotPlot open Settings → Reminders → Exact timing and tap Allow, or go to Android Settings → Apps → ShotPlot → Alarms & reminders. Without it reminders still come, but the system may hold them back to save battery.

I don't want the medicine's name on my lock screen

Switch on Settings → Reminders → Discreet reminders. Reminders then show the app's name and, at most, a cadence word such as "Weekly dose due" (when two kinds of dose fall at one minute) — never a medicine, dose, route, site or instructions — and their buttons read "Done", "Later" and "Skip" (a reminder that can only be opened reads "Open" and "Later"). On Android, how much of any notification a locked phone shows follows the phone's own lock-screen setting ("Sensitive notifications"); ShotPlot's reminders are marked private so that setting applies to them. The app lock (Settings → Privacy lock) protects what the app shows: a "Log taken" tap on a reminder still records the dose without opening the app, and only the confirmation waits for the unlock.

My next shot on the home screen (widgets)

With ShotPlot Plus on Android: Settings → Home-screen widgets → Add a widget to the home screen, or long-press your home screen, then Widgets → ShotPlot. There are three: Next shot, Coming up (the next few on a small map) and a one-line Strip. With the app lock on, widgets show only the time of your next dose until you turn on Show names and sites on widgets; with Discreet reminders on they always do. Log shot appears when a shot is due — from half an hour before its time — and records it at the site the widget shows, without opening the app, after the same checks as the reminder's button. Widgets show dates and clock times rather than "today" or "tomorrow", because Android redraws them only every half hour or so; a phone that puts ShotPlot to sleep (Samsung's Sleeping apps) can hold that back longer — open ShotPlot and every widget catches up. iPhone widgets come with the iPhone release.

Medicines and sites

I'm on a GLP-1 — how do I add it?

Meds → Add, start typing the name — Ozempic, Wegovy (pen or tablets), Mounjaro, Zepbound, Rybelsus, Trulicity, Victoza, Saxenda, Foundayo, Byetta, Bydureon BCise, or a compounded semaglutide / tirzepatide — and pick it from the list (typos are fine). The type, route, unit, first dose and the weekly or daily schedule fill in, with the label's common doses as chips. Answer Does your prescription go up in steps? once and the US label's escalation becomes a step plan (for example 0.25 mg × 4 weeks → 0.5 mg, then stays) on the same weekday each week; every step is editable, and nothing steps up unless you say so. Your prescriber's plan always wins — the presets are conveniences from the public prescribing information, not advice; if your doctor gave you different steps, use those.

Compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide, dosed in units?

Pick the (compounded) entry and enter the vial strength printed on the label (mg/mL). ShotPlot then shows your units as milligrams, offers the usual doses in units for that vial (2.5 mg/mL → 0.25 mg is 10 units on a U-100 syringe), and prints the mg equivalent next to each dose on Today. Change the strength when the pharmacy sends a different vial.

Can I track more than one injectable?

Yes — every medication has its own schedule, and site rotation counts every injection of the same route (subcutaneous or intramuscular) across all of them. Sites → Coming up plans a site for each of your next shots, every medicine together, so two shots due the same evening get two different spots — and Today, the reminders and the log screen name the same ones.

The site suggestion is wrong for me

Tap a zone on the Sites tab and choose Avoid for a while, adjust the rest period in Settings, or just pick a different zone when logging — the suggestion is a convenience, not medical advice. Ask your clinician about where and how to inject.

Weight

What is the "trend" line?

The scale moves a pound or two a day with water and food; the trend smooths that out (the same idea as Happy Scale's moving average, with a slope so it doesn't lag a steady change). Weigh at the same time each day, log every reading — several on one day are fine, the trend uses the lowest — and read the line, not the dot.

The projected goal date changed

It follows your trend over the last couple of weeks, so it moves as your rate moves. Set a commitment pace in Weight → Goal & settings if you want a fixed plan instead. ShotPlot does not recommend a goal or a pace; ask your clinician.

Readings from my scale

With ShotPlot Plus, switch on Import weight from Apple Health / Health Connect in Weight → Goal & settings. It reads weight only and the readings stay on your phone. ShotPlot checks for new readings when you open the app, when you come back to it and when you open the Weight tab (and on Import now); a new reading shows up as a short note at the bottom of the screen. A second switch, Write weigh-ins to Apple Health / Health Connect (Settings → Weight), sends the weigh-ins you type into ShotPlot the other way; readings that came from Health are never written back. On Android you need Health Connect installed (built into Android 14 and later).

Bringing in the history from my old scale app

Export your weights from that app as a CSV or Excel file (most scale apps have Export data in their settings), save it on the phone, then open Settings → Weight → Import weigh-ins from a file. ShotPlot finds the date and weight columns itself, shows how many readings it found and over which dates, lets you fix the unit if the file doesn't say, and skips anything already in the app — so importing the same file twice adds nothing. Imported readings are marked "from file" in the logbook. This is free.

Only my most recent weight came in from Health Connect

Health Connect shows an app only the last 30 days of readings until that app is allowed to read past data. ShotPlot asks for that when you switch the import on; if you skipped it, tap Import now on the Weight tab — the summary says what Health Connect returned and offers Allow past data — or open Health Connect → App permissions → ShotPlot and allow past data there, then import again. If Health Connect itself only holds recent readings (some scale apps sync only new measurements to it), check the scale app's Health Connect setting — and if the app has a Health Connect switch but only started syncing recently, export its history as a file and use Import weigh-ins from a file for the rest.

ShotPlot Plus and purchases

What is free and what is ShotPlot Plus?

The core tracking and reminder tools are free and stay free: logging, reminders, the body map, the next site and the Coming up plan, unlimited medications, your full history, the free doctor report (your medicines, every recorded dose and your notes), weigh-ins with the smoothed trend chart and logbook, automatic backup to your own Google Drive (each phone's 2 newest copies), backup files and export, the app lock and a running-low note on Today. We don't move a feature that has shipped free behind Plus. ShotPlot Plus is a one-time purchase — not a subscription — that adds the dose curve (an estimate of how your logged doses add up, with a band for how much people differ; history only), your shots and each dose change on the weight chart, the goal projection with milestones, weight from Apple Health / Health Connect, a copy for each of the last 30 days in your own Google Drive, home-screen widgets on Android, seasonal looks, and the full doctor-visit report (every injection with its site, reaction and notes, for any date range), plus the insight features we add later at no extra cost. The price: a launch special of US $14.99, once — 40% less than the $24.99 Plus moves to after launch. The stores show it in your currency.

I bought Plus on my iPhone. Why is it locked on my Android phone (or the other way round)?

Plus is sold separately on iPhone and Android, because ShotPlot has no accounts to tie a purchase to. A purchase unlocks Plus on every device signed in to the same Apple Account (Family Sharing included) or the same Google account.

How do I get Plus back on a new phone?

Install ShotPlot, sign in to the store with the same Apple Account or Google account, then open Settings → ShotPlot Plus → Restore purchases. Restoring a backup brings back your records, not the purchase — the store does that.

Refunds

Purchases are billed by Apple or Google and refunds go through them: on iPhone, reportaproblem.apple.com; on Android, the Google Play order history or play.google.com/store/account. We cannot issue App Store refunds ourselves. Email us anyway if something went wrong — we want to know.