How to use GLPMGR

There’s no account to create. Open GLPMGR and a short walkthrough asks how you take your medicine (injections, tablets or both) and shows you around. You can see it again any time from Settings → About → Replay Walkthrough.

Three things are worth doing first:

1. Set up your dosing schedule so GLPMGR knows when your next dose is due (see Your dosing schedule). Set up your medicine on Today asks a few plain questions, one at a time, from wherever you are on your journey: about to start, partway through your dose steps, on your maintenance dose or taking a break.
2. Allow notifications when asked, if you’d like reminders. You can change this later in your iPhone’s Settings.
3. Log your weight if you want to see your progress. It’s entirely optional.

The app has four tabs along the bottom (or the top on iPad): Today, Journey, Symptoms and Settings.

Switching from another app? Bring your doses with you: see Import Doses From Another App. Or tell Set up your medicine how many doses you’ve had and GLPMGR carries on from there.

Today is your at-a-glance page. Next Dose counts down to your next dose, shows where and when you injected last time, and has Log Injection right there.

Quick Log is a row of one-tap buttons. A glass of water or a serving of protein is added straight away, using your own glass and serving sizes, with Undo for a few seconds if you didn’t mean it. Weight and Check In open their short forms. Protein is part of Premium.

The other tiles each show one thing, such as Your Journey (how your weight has moved, with each dose marked), your goal, water or your last injection site.

• See more: tap the small arrow on a tile to open it up, and tap again to close it.
• Change a tile: touch and hold it for options to make it smaller or larger, move it, hide it, or View Trends for a page of charts.
• Arrange everything: tap the grid button at the top right (Customise Today). Drag tiles to reorder them, tap the eye to hide or show one, and use ··· to change a tile’s size. Reset to Default puts everything back.

When a dose is due, the Next Dose tile moves to the top and stays there until you’ve logged it.

On iPad in landscape, Today fits on one screen: Next Dose beside Your Journey, Quick Log under them, then your goal, water, your week, when each injection site was last used and your recent entries.

On iPhone Duo, open it and Today is laid out the same way, on one wide screen. Stand it half open on a table, with the fold across, and the top half shows your next dose, goal and water while the bottom half has Log Injection and Quick Log. When you log a dose like that, the top half shows where you’ve injected before and the bottom half has the buttons for each site. Closed, the outer screen works like any iPhone.

Tap Log Injection on the Next Dose tile on Today, or on Journey. Everything fits on one screen.

1. Check the medicine and dose. If you have a schedule, the dose is filled in for you, including the right step if you’re stepping up.
2. Choose the injection site from the areas your medicine’s manufacturer lists (see Injection sites).
3. Change the date and time if you’re logging it later, add any notes, and tap Save.

You can also log your weight at the same time with Log weight with this injection. If you take a tablet, logging works the same way, just without an injection site.

Made a mistake? Open the entry from Journey → Timeline to change or delete it.

Go to Settings → Dosing Schedule and tap to add or edit a schedule.

• Medication and dose: the dose you take. If you use dose steps, your current dose is the dose of the step you’re on, and this dose is used once the steps are done.
• Frequency: how often it Repeats (for example Weekly), the date you’re Starting and your Reminder time.
• Dose steps: most GLP-1 medicines start low and step up over a few weeks (doctors call this titration), and some people step down later. Turn on Use dose steps, then add each step’s dose and choose how many doses you take at it. GLPMGR moves you to the next step as you log doses. Always check it against what your doctor, nurse or pharmacist told you.
• Supply: turn on Track pen/vial supply and enter how many doses you have. Each logged dose counts down, and GLPMGR lets you know when you’re running low. Tap Refill Now when you get more.

Journey Setup. The easiest way to set up your medicine: Settings → Dosing Schedule → Set Up With Help, or Set up your medicine on Today. It asks a few plain questions, one at a time: which medicine, where you are on your journey (about to start, going up in dose steps, on your maintenance dose, coming down, or taking a break), your dose steps and which one you’re on, how often you take it and when your next dose is due. At the end it shows everything in sentences before saving.

Starting partway through. If you’ve already been taking your medicine, say which dose step you’re on and how many doses you’ve taken at it, and GLPMGR carries on from there. You can add your earlier doses too, one line for each dose you were on (for example 0.5 mg every week, 1 Aug to 29 Aug), or fill them in from your dose steps. Earlier doses show in your history and your doctor’s report, but don’t change your injection sites, supply or medication level.

Switching from another app? Choose I’ve been using another app in Journey Setup and add your earlier doses, so your history carries on where it left off. If your old app can export your doses as a spreadsheet (a CSV file), choose Import Doses From a Spreadsheet, or Settings → Data & Backup → Import Doses From Another App: GLPMGR reads the date and dose of each row on your iPhone, shows you what it found, and never adds a dose twice.

Something Changed? When your dose goes up or down, you reach your maintenance dose, take a break, start again or finish, tap Next Dose on Today and then Something Changed? (or find it in Journey’s + menu and on Dosing Schedule). It records the change on your timeline and, if you say so, updates your schedule. GLPMGR never changes your dose by itself.

Where you are on your journey. Next Dose shows your stage, for example Stepping up · since 3 Oct or Maintenance, from what you’ve told GLPMGR, or from your dose steps if you haven’t said.

Where you are on your steps. Each step in your schedule shows Done, Done · previous dose, Now · current dose (with how many of its doses you’ve logged) or Next. On a step you’ve just reached it says new dose, and from then on that step’s dose is filled in when you log a dose for this schedule, so check it the first time. Next Dose on Today says which step you’re on, for example Dose step 2 of 2, or Dose steps done once they’re all done.

Current and previous doses. Whenever your dose changes, by a dose step or by hand, and on Maintenance too, the new dose becomes your current dose from the first time you log it, and the older ones your previous doses. With Maintenance turned on, they’re your current maintenance dose and, for doses since you turned it on, previous maintenance doses. Your schedule lists them under Your Doses, Next Dose shows your current dose, and when you log a dose that’s different from your current one, GLPMGR says it’s a change of dose.

Opening your schedule from Today. Tap Next Dose on Today, then Dosing Schedule, to see and change your schedule and its steps.

Doses on set days. If you take your medicine on fixed weekdays, choose Repeats → On Set Days in your schedule and switch on each day, with its own time (for example Monday 08:00 and Thursday 20:00). Next Dose, reminders and the Apple Watch follow those days. A dose logged up to 12 hours early counts as that day’s.

When your treatment changes. If your dose is lowered, raised, paused, stopped or restarted, tap + on Journey and choose Log Treatment Change. It’s marked on your weight charts, your timeline and the report for your doctor. Saving it never changes your schedule; afterwards GLPMGR offers to open the schedule so you can update it yourself.

Not Logged. Settings → Dosing Schedule lists any dose your schedule expected in the last 12 weeks with nothing logged for it. Tap Add Dose if you took it, so your history and dose steps are right, or Not Taken to take it off the list. A dose taken late isn’t listed: it moves your schedule on.

GLPMGR never works out or recommends a dose. It only follows the schedule you enter.

GLPMGR can remind you about:

• Doses, at the reminder time in your schedule (turn on Remind me when due).
• Low supply, when your pen, vial or prescription is running low.
• Water, through the day if you like (Settings → Water → Remind me to drink). It stops once you’ve reached your goal.
• A weekly weigh-in, at the day and time you pick (Settings → Reminders). It never mentions your weight.

In Settings → Reminders you can also add a heads-up before each dose, a follow-up if it isn’t logged, a side-effect check-in and an evening protein reminder, and turn on Hide Medicine Names. Every dose reminder has Log Dose and Snooze buttons.

Reminders are set up on your device, so nothing is sent from a server. Not getting them? Check that notifications for GLPMGR are on in your iPhone’s Settings → Notifications.

GLPMGR only offers the injection areas your medicine’s manufacturer lists for your region, taken from the official leaflet. Check or change your region in Settings → Injection Site Guidance.

With Premium, the body map shows those areas on a simple figure, shaded by how often you’ve used each one, so you can see your own history at a glance. Open it from the Injection Site tile or View Body Map when logging a dose.

GLPMGR never tells you where to inject next, and it isn’t medical advice. Your doctor, nurse or pharmacist can show you how and where to inject. See where each list comes from.

Tap Log Weight on Today or Journey. A quick card opens with your last weight: adjust it and tap Save, or Edit Details to add notes or change the date. Choose kilograms, pounds or stones in Settings → Units & Defaults.

If you’d like a goal, set one in Settings → Goal Weight. It’s yours to choose, and GLPMGR doesn’t suggest a number. Everyone’s body responds differently, and weight naturally goes up and down from day to day, so the trend over weeks tells you more than any single weigh-in.

Touch and hold the weight or goal tile and choose View Trends to see your weight over time with each dose marked. Once you reach your goal, Maintenance Mode can show your recent average next to a range you choose.

Side effects such as nausea, tiredness or constipation are common, especially after a dose goes up. They’re not a sign you’re doing anything wrong.

Go to the Symptoms tab and tap Log Symptom. Pick what you’re feeling, how strong it is (Severity), when, and any notes. Turn on Relate to most recent injection if you want to see it alongside that dose.

With Premium, Journey shows which days after a dose your symptoms tend to happen, from your own log. It’s a record to talk through with your doctor or nurse, not a diagnosis. If a side effect worries you, please speak to them.

Daily check-in. Appetite, energy and sleep from 0 to 10, and bowel movements: answer any you like. If it’s easier, choose Compared with Last Time at the top and answer Much lower, Lower, Same, Higher or Much higher; GLPMGR saves it as a step from your last answer, so your charts carry on as before.

Appetite by week sits under your weight on Weight Trends, with any treatment changes marked.

Water is free. Turn it on in Settings → Water, set a daily goal and glass size, then tap + Glass on the Water tile each time you have a drink.

Protein is part of Premium. Turn it on in Settings → Protein, set a daily goal and a usual serving, then tap + on the Protein tile to add a serving.

To find a food’s protein, open the Protein tile and tap Search or Scan a Food: search thousands of foods, pick a recent one, scan a barcode, or tap Scan a Nutrition Label. For a label, take or choose a photo of the nutrition panel, pick the figure that fits (per portion or per 100 g), say how much you had, check the total and tap Add. The photo is read on your device and isn’t kept.

Favourites. In Search or Scan a Food, swipe left on a food (or touch and hold it) and tap Add to Favourites. Your favourites are listed first next time, and come first when you search.

Photo, Voice or Text (iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence): take a photo of your meal, say what you had, or type it (for example two eggs on toast and a latte). Apple Intelligence names the foods on your iPhone, the protein comes from the food tables, and you check the list before anything is added.

If you check your blood glucose, turn on Settings → Blood Glucose. You can type readings in from the Blood Glucose tile, or read them from Apple Health if your meter or sensor saves them there (turn on Read Blood Glucose from Apple Health in Settings → Apple Health).

Choose mmol/L or mg/dL in Settings → Units & Defaults. With Premium you get blood glucose charts next to your doses. GLPMGR doesn’t label or comment on your readings. Talk to your doctor or nurse about what your numbers mean for you.

Your own range. In Settings → Blood Glucose → Your Own Range, type the range your care team gave you, in your unit. It’s drawn as a plain grey band behind your readings. GLPMGR never fills it in or colours a reading.

The Journey tab brings everything together: charts of your weight and doses, your photos and measurements, and a Timeline of every entry you can search. Use the time range at the top to look back over weeks or months.

Any tile with trends has a View Trends page, with averages by week or month. With Premium, the Estimated Medication Level chart shows roughly how much medicine may be in your body between doses. It’s an estimate from your logged doses, not a blood test.

Share Progress makes a picture of your starting and current weight and the injections you’ve logged, for you to share only if you want to.

Medication level: 7-day average. In Settings → Appearance, turn on Medication Level: 7-Day Average for a dashed line that averages the estimate over 7 days, so the general direction is easier to see through the weekly peaks.

Encouragement is off until you turn it on in Settings → Encouragement, and every part has its own switch:

• Celebrate Milestones for what you log and how long you’ve been on your journey, never your weight.
• Your Garden on Today: a plant that grows with the days you log, and never wilts.
• Streaks for logging, with A Rest Day Each Week if you like. Never for doses, and nothing is said when one ends.

With Premium you can add progress photos and body measurements from Journey (Add Photo, Log Measurements).

Photos are private: they’re stored encrypted on your device and stay hidden until you unlock them with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. They lock again when you leave the app, or straight away with Lock photos. You can turn the lock off in Settings → Lock Progress Photos.

Take a Photo uses the camera and shows your last photo of the same pose faintly over the view, so each one lines up; the first time, an outline helps you stand the same way. Choose Front, Side or Back for each photo, and Progress Photos can show one pose at a time.

To see how far you’ve come, tap Compare on your photos and pick two. Side by Side and Stacked show them next to each other; Slider puts them in one frame, so you drag across to wipe from the earlier to the later; Fade fades from one to the other, with the slider or on its own with Play. Each shows its date and the weight you logged nearest to it, and the button at the top right opens it full screen.

From Compare, the share button makes a before-and-after image on your phone: the two photos side by side, with the dates and, if you like, the weight change. Faces are blurred unless you turn that off. The film button in Progress Photos makes a timelapse of every photo of a pose. Nothing leaves GLPMGR until you share or save it.

The Apple Watch app shows how long until your next dose and your recent weight trend, and lets you log your weight or a drink of water from your wrist (a glass, or a 500 ml bottle). With Premium, its Protein page shows what you ate as well as how much. It updates from your iPhone automatically.

With Premium, add the Next Dose widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen (touch and hold an empty area, tap Edit, then Add Widget), and see a live countdown to your next dose on the Lock Screen.

Progress widget, free for everyone: your weight change since you started and how far you are towards your goal, on the Home Screen or the Lock Screen.

Next Dose in a watch face corner. With Premium, add Next Dose to a corner of a watch face such as Infograph or Modular Compact (touch and hold the face, tap Edit, swipe to the corners). Like the temperature in the corner, it shows the time to your next dose in large figures (days and hours, such as 1d 23h, then hours, then minutes, then DUE) with a gauge along the edge that empties as the dose comes closer. On full-colour faces it’s green until the last stretch (the final day of a weekly dose), then amber, and red once the dose is due.

With Premium, you can log and check things by voice on your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. Start with “Hey Siri” and end with “in GLPMGR” (or “in GLP Manager”):

• Log something: “Log a glass of water in GLPMGR”, “Add protein in GLPMGR”, “Log my weight in GLPMGR”, “Log my dose in GLPMGR”, “Log a symptom in GLPMGR” (or name it: “Log nausea in GLPMGR”) and “Log my blood glucose in GLPMGR”.
• Ask: “When’s my next dose in GLPMGR?”, “Where did I inject last in GLPMGR?”, “How much water today in GLPMGR?”, “How much protein today in GLPMGR?”, “How am I doing today in GLPMGR?” and “How’s my weight going in GLPMGR?”

Siri always checks with you before it logs a dose, so a misheard word never records one. It only tells you what you’ve logged, never advice. Anything about your dose, weight, symptoms or glucose needs your iPhone or Watch unlocked, and with Hide Medicine Names on (Settings → Reminders) Siri never says your medicine’s name.

On Apple Watch you can log water, protein, your weight or your dose, and ask about your next dose, today’s water and protein, or your weight. Symptoms, glucose and your last injection site are on iPhone and iPad.

Every action is also in the Shortcuts app, including Doses Left, Snooze My Dose Reminder, Open My Journey and Open Trends, so you can add them to a shortcut, your Home Screen or the Action button, or find them in Spotlight. Settings → Siri & Shortcuts lists every phrase.

Your data stays on your device and isn’t included in iCloud or computer backups, so it’s worth making your own backup now and then. Go to Settings → Data & Backup:

• Back Up Everything (JSON) saves a complete copy, including photos and settings, locked with a password you choose. Keep the password safe: it can’t be recovered. Turn on Remind Me to Back Up for a gentle nudge.
• Turn On Automatic Backups saves that same locked backup by itself, daily or weekly, when you open GLPMGR and one is due. Choose a folder in Files (On My iPhone, iCloud Drive or a USB drive, say) and a password. GLPMGR keeps the newest five and removes older ones. The password is kept on this device so backups can run on their own; you’ll need it to restore on another device.
• Restore from a Backup (JSON) brings it back, on this device or a new one.
• Import Doses From Another App (CSV): choose the spreadsheet your old app exports and your doses come with you. It’s read on your iPhone, and a dose already in GLPMGR is never added twice.
• Export Doctor Report (PDF) (Premium) makes a tidy summary to share or print for an appointment.
• Export a Spreadsheet (CSV) gives your entries as a file that opens in Numbers or Excel.

You choose where every file goes, such as Files, AirDrop or email. Only the backup is password-protected, so keep the others somewhere private.

iPhone & iPad Sync. In Settings → iPhone & iPad Sync, tap Show a Code on This iPhone on one device and Scan or Type a Code on the other. From then on, whenever GLPMGR is open on both, on the same Wi-Fi or close together, they keep the same doses, weights, photos and everything else, both ways, and again after each change. They talk directly to each other: nothing goes to iCloud, GLPMGR or iSafeNet, and only your paired devices can read it. Settings such as reminders, units and goals stay each device’s own. Unpair stops it; entries already on a device stay.

Apple Health is off until you turn it on in Settings → Apple Health. You can save your weights to Health, and show nutrition (such as protein and water from a food-tracking app) on Today. Blood glucose can be read from Health too, with its own switch on the same page once blood glucose is on (see Blood glucose).

Muscle Support (on the same page) shows your average protein a day and your strength sessions this week, from Apple Health. Nothing from it is stored.

iPhone asks your permission the first time. To change it later, open the Health app, tap your picture, then Apps and GLPMGR.

GLPMGR is free to use with no time limit and no adverts: dose logging and dose steps, reminders and supply alerts, weight and symptoms, water, blood glucose, the Apple Watch app (without the dose alarm and the Protein page), the free Progress widget, and backups and spreadsheets.

Premium adds the estimated medication level chart, the injection body map, the doctor report, blood glucose charts, side-effect timing, symptoms around a dose increase, protein tracking, progress photos, the measurements history, body composition trends, widgets (all but the free Progress widget), the Lock Screen countdown, the dose alarm and Protein page on Apple Watch, and Siri and Shortcuts. It’s £4.99 a month, or £24.99 a year with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. See Settings → Premium.

Cancel any time in your iPhone’s Settings → your name → Subscriptions. On a new device, tap Restore Purchases in Settings → Premium.

Help is in the app too, with pictures: tap ? on Today, Journey, Symptoms or Dosing Schedule, or go to Settings → Help.

New to some of the words? Words explained sets them out in plain English (also in the app under Settings → Words Explained). Our questions and answers and Support page cover the rest, or email info@isafenet.app. We read every message.

GLPMGR is a personal tracking tool, not a medical device, and it doesn’t give medical advice. For anything about your treatment, your doctor, nurse or pharmacist is the best person to ask.