A lot of health apps want to finish the thought. They will score the morning, suggest the next bottle, or mark a dose taken because you let a notification sit. VitaSum® is built as a record with a short list of refusals. It records what you say you take. It shows the combined total. It places that total next to a published daily goal and, where one exists, an upper limit. Then it stops.
That stop is the product.
VitaSum does not recommend a supplement, and it does not sell one. It does not decide whether a total is right for you. A catalog entry, including a peptide or a blend, is not a statement about safety, effectiveness, or legal status. The app is a wellness log. It is not a medical device, and it is not your official medical record. Your provider decides what goes into their chart.
The day is a shelf, and the label is one serving
The number no bottle can print is the overlap. Two products can list the same nutrient. Each panel describes its own serving. VitaSum adds the servings you logged. On a paid plan, the total opens, and each product in it is named with its contribution. The free plan shows the combined total. The goal, the upper limit, and that breakdown are on a paid plan.
The math uses your amount. Edit dosage is how many you take and how often: every day, every other day, specific days, a cycle, or as needed. The label serving remains the reference for the printed panel. Take less than that serving and the total scales down. Take more and it scales up. The unit has to match the bottle. A tablet does not scale against a capsule.
Items you did not log do not count. A reminder does not count as a log. Products that share a reminder time send one notification, and that notification still waits for you. The record is the tap, on the date in the strip at the top of Today.
A seasonal supplement can leave the daily list without leaving your history. Pause it, and it drops out of Quick Log until you start it again. Past days stay past days. That is a small design choice with a large effect: the shelf can match the year you are actually having, including the months a bottle stays in the cupboard.
The reference belongs to a person
A percentage is only meaningful if you know whose percentage it is. VitaSum uses the country, gender, and life stage on the profile.
- United States and Canada: NIH, from the National Academies Dietary Reference Intakes.
- Europe: EFSA.
- Germany and Austria: DGE and ÖGE.
- Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden: Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023.
- United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, Japan, and India: their own loaded tables.
- Where a national table is not loaded: WHO/FAO, with a note on Account.
Age bands differ by publisher. The row on Nutrients names the group. Body weight is not used. These are population reference figures for healthy people in that group. They are not a 150-pound template applied to everyone, and they are not adjusted for illness or medicines.
A missing figure stays blank. That is unusual on purpose. Filling a gap with a neighboring country's number would make the screen look complete and the comparison false. Change your country and the logged amounts stay where they are. The goals and limits are what move. Each person in a family keeps their own country, so one profile never overwrites another.
A few nutrients follow the reference, including the awkward parts. The vitamin A upper limit in this view applies to preformed retinol. The magnesium upper limit applies to supplements. Calcium, magnesium, and potassium goals include food, so a supplement-only total below that goal is not marked low. Some nutrients have a goal and no upper limit. Some have neither, and the row says so. Status language stays narrow. Yellow is low. Green is at goal. Purple is above the goal and still under the upper limit. Red is only for a total at or over the limit.
A US % Daily Value is a label convention. It is not silently substituted for the NIH goal, or for the goal in another country. The report names the publisher behind its figures, the same one Nutrients is using.
Peptides are recorded as peptides
Vitamins and peptides are different kinds of entries, and they live on different lists. My Shelf switches to Peptides. Transdermal patch formulas sit in their own group there, with a photo when one is on file. You enter the amount you take. VitaSum does not suggest a dose. Milligrams listed on a blend or a patch are a label reference, in the same spirit as a Supplement Facts panel. They are not instructions.
You can record where you got it: a retail or specialty pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy, a clinic or practitioner, a research supplier, or that you are not sure. You can record the route you use. The choices follow the catalog entry, so a patch and a capsule are not offered as if they were the same object. Those fields describe your report. They are not advice about where to obtain anything, and they are not a legal conclusion.
A compound that is not in the catalog can be added with a photo of the vial or label. It stays private to your account.
On the Professional plan, a FHIR R4 export can carry patient-reported research compounds only after you turn inclusion on for that item. They appear in their own section, separate from prescription and clinical entries. A vendor name you typed is labeled as something you reported. The same separation is what a clinician sees on the clinical PDF.
A family is five people, not one merged cabinet
Household tools often solve sharing by collapsing everyone into a single list. VitaSum keeps the cabinets separate. A Family or Professional group has five seats: the admin, and up to four people they invite. Each person has an account, a shelf, and a log. Nothing is copied into the admin's record when someone joins.
Access is two-sided, and the lower choice wins.
- Off closes the record. Until both sides allow access, the admin can see a name in the group and cannot open the log.
- View lets the admin look at that person's shelf, log, and nutrients on Today, My Shelf, Nutrients, Goals, and Diary.
- Manage adds logging, editing, and a provider report for that person.
If you allow Manage and the admin sets View, the result is View. Either person can turn access off, and it closes right away. Leaving the group, or being removed, opens the seat. It does not delete the member's account or their history. Reminders stay on the phone of the person who set them. Opening someone else's record does not start alerting you about their bottles.
A banner names whose record is open, so a log written for a parent does not land on your own day by accident.
The file leaves when you send it
Share with provider builds a PDF for a period you choose, up to about six months. You type the email address, or you download the file. Multi-day reports use average daily intake. Consumer PDFs are watermarked. Family and Professional PDFs are clean. Professional can also export FHIR R4 to a file, or to email addresses and web addresses you have saved under FHIR destinations.
There is no feed of your shelf to a supplement brand. Anonymous analytics, if you turn it on, records things like which screens you open and whether a scan found a match. It does not include supplement names, doses, barcodes, stacks, nutrient totals, or reports. It stays off until you agree, and the app works the same if you leave it off. You can cover the app with a 4-digit PIN when you leave it, with Face ID or a fingerprint if the phone has them.
What the refusals protect
The refusals are specific. VitaSum will not suggest a peptide dose. It will not tell you whether a substance is legal to obtain. It will not predict a change in regulatory status. It will not fill a blank goal to make a row look finished. It will not mark a nutrient red to create urgency when the total is still under the limit. It will not log a dose because a notification went off. It will not absorb a family member's shelf into yours because you share a plan.
What it will do is hand you a sentence your log can support: this total, from these products, next to this published goal and this upper limit, for this person, on these dates. You can email that sentence, or download it, or keep it on the phone.
The bottom line
The unusual part of VitaSum is how little it tries to conclude. The total is combined. The goal and the limit are different lines. The reference follows a country and a life stage. The log belongs to the person who kept it, and it leaves the phone when that person sends it.
The figures describe the log. A daily goal is not a personal prescription, and VitaSum® is not a medical device.