Questions and answers

Balance Point is an iPhone app that turns irregular weigh-ins into a weight trend and shows the forecast as a range. It also keeps a log of treatments and doses and plans goals from a date or a pace.

Not yet. The app is still being built for iPhone and iPad (iOS 18 or later). Leave your email on this site for one message from Rival Bear when it reaches the App Store.

No. You never sign up for anything, and your data never reaches a server run by Rival Bear. Everything you log is kept on the device, and the full history exports to a file whenever you like.

A single weigh-in moves with water and meal timing, so it can swing a pound or two overnight. The trend is a smoothed estimate built from all your weigh-ins, with a range that shows how sure it is.

The trend keeps going across the gap, with a range that widens daily until you weigh in again. No made-up weigh-ins fill the empty days, either on the chart or in Apple Health.

Weight change slows and speeds up, so any single date would claim more certainty than the data has. Balance Point shows the range the weigh-ins support, and when recent weigh-ins are scarce it omits the date.

Yes. Once you grant access, it can read weigh-ins and dietary totals, along with body fat and waist. Health receives only numbers you entered yourself; trends, forecasts, plans, and other estimates never leave Balance Point.

Yes. Add the treatment once and log each dose against it; logging the same dose as last time takes one tap, and every dose gets a mark on the chart. Balance Point stores what you log and gives no dosing advice.

It keeps one total per day for calories and each macro, which you type in or pull from Apple Health. Food search and per-meal logging aren’t part of the app. From days marked complete, it estimates your daily energy burned.

No. The app keeps your numbers and computes trends from them. Diagnosis and prescribing are outside what it does, and decisions about medication or health belong with your clinician.

No. Optional notices appear only when the data changes, such as a long gap since your usual weigh-in or a change in direction, and each kind can be turned off. Balance Point never counts consecutive days.

Yes. Choose pounds or kilograms in Settings, and charts and goals follow that choice.

Yes. Save the sheet as a CSV file with a date column and a weight column, then open it from Import CSV or archive in Settings. Balance Point shows what it found, including duplicates, before adding anything.

No Android version is planned. Balance Point is only for iPhone and iPad.

Rival Bear, a small studio based in the Sierra Nevada of California. We started the app after eight years of tracking weight in spreadsheets, where gaps got filled by hand and goal dates swung from month to month.