# How to choose a peptide tracker app: a 10-point checklist

> Ten things to check before you pick a peptide tracker app, from logging speed and vial inventory to export and medical claims.

Source: https://peptidetracks.com/guides/how-to-choose-a-peptide-tracker-app
Last updated: 2026-10-08

The best peptide tracker app is one you will actually use every time. Look for **fast dose entry, vial inventory with expiry dates, injection site tracking, reminders, progress charts and a way to export your data**, and be wary of any app that tells you what to take. The ten checks below take about five minutes with any app.

## The checklist

### 1. Can you log a dose in under 15 seconds?

Open the app and time yourself. If logging takes a minute, you will stop doing it. Look for a prefilled date and time and quick picks for the names you use most.

### 2. Does it handle mcg and mg clearly?

The unit should be visible on every entry, and switching between mcg and mg should be one tap. Ambiguous units are how errors happen.

### 3. Does it track vials, not only doses?

A dose log without a vial record leaves out half the picture. You want strength, lot number, sealed or reconstituted status and how much is left.

### 4. Does it store expiry dates and storage conditions?

These belong on the vial record, where you will see them.

### 5. Does it record injection sites?

A body map is quicker and clearer than a text field, and it makes rotation visible.

### 6. Does it remind you?

Schedules with notifications are the main thing an app can do that paper cannot.

### 7. Can it track outcomes?

Weight, measurements and how you feel, charted over time, put the dose log in context.

### 8. Can you get your data out?

Check for an export before you put months of history into anything. CSV is the most portable format.

### 9. Is it clear about what it is?

A tracker is a record-keeping tool. An app that recommends doses or protocols, or sells products, is doing a different job. Read the description and the disclaimer.

### 10. Is it maintained?

Check the "updated on" date on the store listing and read the privacy policy linked there.

## How PepVault measures up

| Check | PepVault |
| --- | --- |
| Fast dose entry | Prefilled date and time, quick-pick names |
| mcg and mg | Toggle on the entry screen |
| Vial inventory | Strength, lot number, cost, status, remaining supply |
| Expiry and storage | Stored per vial |
| Injection sites | Front and back body map |
| Reminders | Your own schedules with notifications |
| Outcomes | Weight, body fat, waist, check-ins, side effects |
| Export | Dose history as CSV |
| Clear about its role | Record keeping only; no dosing advice |
| Platforms | Android, iPhone, iPad and Mac |

PepVault is free to download. [Get it here](https://peptidetracks.com/download), read the [feature overview](https://peptidetracks.com/features), or see it [next to ten other tracker apps](https://peptidetracks.com/best-peptide-tracker-apps).

## Common questions

### Should a tracker app calculate doses for me?

Doing unit arithmetic on numbers you provide, such as converting a volume to syringe units, is a calculator's job, and there is a [free one on this site](https://peptidetracks.com/tools/peptide-reconstitution-calculator). Deciding what the dose should be is a medical decision for your prescriber.

### Do I need a tracker for a once-weekly injection?

Weekly doses are easy to mistime and it is easy to forget which side you used last. A reminder and a site record solve both.


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## About PepVault

PepVault is a free peptide tracker app for Android, iPhone, iPad and Mac. It keeps a personal log of doses, vial inventory, injection sites, schedules and reminders, body measurements and side effects, and exports the history as a CSV file.

- Website: https://peptidetracks.com
- Android (Google Play): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pepvault.peptide.tracker
- iPhone, iPad and Mac (App Store, listed as PeptideMate - Peptide Tracker): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/peptidemate-peptide-tracker/id6814232280

PepVault is for personal record keeping. It does not give medical advice or recommend doses.