Biostacks: Supplement Tracker
What is Biostacks?
Tracks supplements and medications with cited research, dose reminders, and personal self-run trials.
Biostacks is a supplement tracker that does not tell users what to take. It shows research, sources, and interaction data for supplements and additives, and makes no health claims. Users can log doses, scan products by barcode, and run N-of-1 trials on their own metrics.
Pricing. Biostacks is free to download, with in-app purchases on the App Store.
Good for
- Checking interactions between supplements and medications
- Logging daily doses with reminders and streaks
- Running a three-week off and on trial for a personal metric
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Why this app is in A tier
A tier follows from that score within this list. The full explanation, as data.
Biostacks scores 84 out of 100: rating 100, rating count 40, App Store search rank 94, update recency 100. The four parts are averaged and A tier follows from that score within this list.
Description
Biostacks is a supplement tracker. It does not tell you what to take. It shows the research behind supplements, additives, and interactions, with sources, and lets you run your own experiments on your own numbers.
We make no health claims. Sources are research papers and meta-analyses on PubMed, NIH fact sheets, FDA and EU regulators, and the bodies that certify and license brands.
Stack Analysis and research
Read more
- Supplement and medication interactions, from NIH Office of Dietary Supplements fact sheets and PubMed studies, each with a link
- Synergies between supplements, from PubMed meta-analyses
- Research coverage for 18 health goals, from sleep to longevity: what the meta-analyses found and the doses they studied
- Upper limit warnings and RDA coverage for vitamins and minerals, from NIH and USDA reference values, with the harm NIH lists for going over
- Additives checked against FDA GRAS rules and the EU food additive regulation
- Brand records: NSF, USP, Informed Sport, Kölner Liste, NZVT, and Eurofins certifications, Health Canada licences, FDA warning letters, and FDA, UK, and French recall notices
- Nutrient overlaps between products
Experiments
- Daily check-ins on mood, energy, sleep, and focus
- Metrics: weight, sleep, resting heart rate, HRV, steps, or any custom number, with Apple Health sync
- Scan a lab report, blood test, body composition, or aging report from a photo or PDF, read on your phone, never uploaded
- Run an N-of-1 trial: three weeks off and three weeks on, alternating weekly. The result says whether a metric moved, or "no effect" when it did not
- Experiment results appear only after enough logged days
Supplement scanner and vitamin tracker
- Barcode scanner with your camera, for supplements, vitamins, pills, and medicine
- Search NIH DSLD and Open Food Facts, with popular brands available offline
- Enter supplements, medications, doses, and nutrients manually
- Ask Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro and newer)
- Use your own assistant like Claude, Grok, or Gemini to manage your stack with a copy-and-paste prompt
Supplement schedule, pill and medication reminders:
- Daily, specific weekdays, or on/off cycles like 5 days on, 2 off
- Multiple times of day, from multivitamin to magnesium
- Peptide tracker and peptide calculator: vial size, reconstitution, and draw volume
- Dose reminders, with smart tuning when you keep logging late
Dose log
- One tap per dose, mark a whole stack at once, long-press to skip and keep your streak
- Progress rings, streaks, and dose logging by asking Siri
- Taken, due, and upcoming groups, and a calendar with mood dots
- Search, filter, notes, reorder, and dark mode
- Adherence and Stack Analysis trends over 30, 90, or 365 days, with CSV export
- Monthly cost per supplement and per stack, and running-low refill alerts
On-device AI chat
- Review your routine, explain an ingredient, or change your stack by describing what you want
- Every suggested change appears as a review you accept or reject, with undo
Privacy first
- Works offline with no account
- Your health data stays private, on your device
- Optional backup and sync to your own iCloud
- Snapshots and version history to roll back any change
- Export everything as JSON or PDF, or share a stack as plain text
Everyday intake tracking is free: dose logging, streaks, reminders, check-ins with trends, the library and barcode scanner, export, import, and backups. Biostacks Pro, an annual subscription with a 7-day free trial, adds Stack Analysis insights, check-in correlations, experiment results, report scanning, Apple Health metrics, historical trends, cost tracking, smart reminder tuning, cloud sync, and the on-device AI assistant.
Whether you take vitamin D, omega-3, zinc, magnesium, creatine, collagen, or protein, or run a supplement stack with nootropics and peptides, Biostacks keeps the log, the research, and the experiments in one private place.
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Questions about Biostacks
Does the app tell me what supplements to take?
No. The listing says Biostacks does not tell you what to take. It shows research, sources, and interactions, and lets you run experiments on your own numbers.
Is the app free to use?
It is free to download. The App Store lists in-app purchases, but their prices are Not stated on the App Store.
Are scanned lab reports uploaded anywhere?
The listing says lab reports, blood tests, body composition, and aging reports scanned from a photo or PDF are read on your phone and never uploaded.
Is Biostacks right for me?
Biostacks is built for checking interactions between supplements and medications, logging daily doses with reminders and streaks, running a three-week off and on trial for a personal metric. It sits in the supplement tracking list on AppTierList.
Is Biostacks worth it?
Biostacks is A tier, ranked #3 of 15 supplement tracking apps with a score of 84 out of 100, from a 5.0 App Store rating across 1 ratings. It is in the list's top tiers; 2 apps rank above it.
How does Biostacks compare to SuppCo?
Biostacks is A tier at 84; SuppCo is A tier at 85. SuppCo ranks higher. Biostacks is free to download, with in-app purchases, SuppCo is free to download, with in-app purchases.
How often is Biostacks updated?
Biostacks was updated 4 days ago, which counts in its favour.
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All the facts
Ranking
- List
- Supplement Tracking (A tier, #3)
- Tier
- A (Excellent)
- Score
- 84 / 100
- Rank in list
- #3 of 15
- Ranking certainty
- early: few ratings or search ranks so far
Ratings
- App Store rating
- 5.0 out of 5, every App Store country
- Ratings
- 1
App
- Price
- Free + IAP
- App Store category
- Health & Fitness
- Current version
- (4 days ago)
- Size
- 71 MB
- Requires
- iOS 15.1 or later
- Age rating
- 17+
- Languages
- 17
- Runs on
- iPhone
Links
- Developer pages
- Website · Support · Privacy policy
- Maker
- not verified
- As data
- JSON · why it ranks here
App Store data read · ranking