The Shotsy alternative for the whole week, not just shot day

Shot day is easy. You tap the dose, check the countdown and close the app. It's Thursday that's hard: you've barely eaten since lunch yesterday, you feel a bit queasy, and you're not sure whether this is the dose, the food or just a bad night's sleep. Your shot log knows when you injected. It can't tell you much about the rest of the week.

A quick note: this page is written by the team behind Holt. Shotsy details come from its App Store page, website and Google Play listing, checked on November 1, 2026.

Why do people look for a Shotsy alternative?

Shotsy is a solid shot log. People who start looking around usually want the days between shots covered as well as the shots themselves. The reasons we hear most:

• Faster food logging. Shotsy's listing describes logging calories, protein and water, but not logging a meal from a photo.
• Side effects with a strength, not just a yes or no, so a bad day and a mildly off day look different.
• A clear summary for appointments, with questions ready to ask.
• An older iPhone. Shotsy's listing requires iOS 18; Holt runs on iOS 17.

Why people switch to Holt

Holt keeps what you rely on for shot day and fills in the rest of the week around it.

• Meals in one photo. Holt estimates calories, protein, fiber, carbs and fat from a picture of your plate, with a food log for search, recents, favorites and your own meals. It's the quickest way to check you're eating enough when appetite is quiet.
• Side effects you can measure. Slide nausea, constipation, heartburn, food noise, appetite or fatigue to a severity, or add your own, and see them lined up against your dose days.
• Shot day, still handled. The same essentials you're used to: an estimated medication-level chart over 7 or 30 days and a countdown to your next dose. Holt adds a Live Activity that puts "It's shot time" on your lock screen, and Otto suggests the next spot in your injection rotation.
• A report built for your prescriber. Holt turns 30 days, 90 days or your full history into a doctor-visit PDF, with suggested questions to bring along.
• Everything else, quietly. Weight trend, water, daily goals, widgets and Apple Health sync, in 15 languages.

What you keep, and what changes?

You keep shot and pill logging with reminders, a next-dose countdown, an estimated medication-level chart, injection-site tracking, weight and Apple Health.

What changes is everything between shots. Your meals come with five nutrients from a photo, your side effects carry a severity on the same timeline as your doses, your next injection site is suggested, and it all rolls up into a doctor-visit report.

What you'd leave behind is Shotsy's support for several medications on separate schedules, its Android app and its free core; Holt keeps some features in an optional subscription. Neither listing describes importing from the other app. Weigh-ins can come across through Apple Health, and most people start logging doses in Holt on their next shot day.

Stay with Shotsy if…

You're on Android, or you track more than one medication on different schedules. Shotsy lists both, and separate schedules for several medications aren't part of Holt today. If neither applies, Holt is worth a dose cycle.

What we'd track in your first two weeks with Holt

1. Every dose and site. Let Otto suggest the next spot and see whether the rotation sticks.
2. A photo of most meals for a week. It's the clearest test of what Holt adds, so watch protein and fiber on the two days after a shot.
3. Side effects with a severity, on shot day and the two days after.
4. Water and one daily habit, such as a short walk, so the timeline has context beyond doses.
5. One doctor-visit report before your next appointment, compared with what you'd normally bring.

Try Holt for your next dose cycle

Whichever app you use, it records what you were prescribed and how you felt. Questions about the dose itself belong with your prescriber or pharmacist.