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Everything you need to write about XtrkR — screenshots, founder bio, fact sheet, and the story behind why a sexual health tracker for gay and bi men needed to exist.

01. The pitch in one sentence

XtrkR is a private sexual health tracker for gay and bisexual men — the first app to combine both injectable PrEP regimens (Apretude every 2 months, Yeztugo every 6 months) with site-specific STI testing, exposures, and partner history — alongside daily PrEP, DoxyPEP, vaccinations, and encounter logs, primarily stored on the user's iPhone (encrypted iCloud backup is opt-in). No XtrkR servers, no accounts, no third-party analytics. Free tier covers core logging; premium is dual-path: $199.99 one-time (Core) or $49.99/yr (XtrkR+, adds Wrapped every year).

02. Fast facts

03. Why it exists

Most health-tracking apps were not built with gay and bi men in mind. PrEP doesn't fit cleanly into period trackers. Generic symptom diaries don't ask about exposure sites. And the apps that do serve queer health needs almost universally route data to a server — a server that could be subpoenaed, breached, or sold.

XtrkR was built around a simple constraint: data stays on the user's iPhone, not on servers I operate. As the developer, I do not have technical access to the health records users store in the app — it's an architectural posture, not a policy promise.

It also exists to close a gap the data keeps showing: only 37% of current PrEP users say their care visits always include the rectal swabs CDC recommends, and 35% of ever-PrEP users report never having had one (Chandra et al., Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020; n=3,259 HIV-negative MSM). XtrkR makes site-specific testing cadence visible and actionable.

04. What's tracked

• Injectable PrEP — Apretude (cabotegravir, every 2 months) and Yeztugo (lenacapavir, every 6 months), with injection history and refill reminders
• Daily PrEP, 2-1-1, and DoxyPEP with adherence streaks and condomless-encounter reminders
• STI tests by site (rectal, pharyngeal, urethral, blood) with due-date logic
• Vaccinations (HPV, Hep A, Hep B, Mpox, Meningococcal) with multi-dose tracking
• Encounters with partners, mood, location, and configurable activity categories
• On-device insights (streaks, patterns, testing reminders) — no AI cloud calls

05. Screenshots

Right-click any image to save. All screenshots are 1206×2622 PNG (iPhone 17 Pro).

06. Founder bio

Ed is a solo developer working through De Nihil LLC. A queer Latino man, he was a patient at a queer specialty clinic in San Francisco for years before he was a founder — multi-site STI screening, PrEP-aware testing rhythms, and the kind of queer-aware care a generic PCP couldn't model for him.

The clinical care — visits, shots, medicine — is available with any provider; what changed when he moved was the queer-aware framing around it. He tried other apps first; none captured what he needed. XtrkR keeps his own continuity intact across whatever clinician he sees next. It's meant to complement queer-aware clinical care, not replace it.

Not every app handles privacy the same way. He built XtrkR solo because he wanted user data to stay user data — and to make that structurally hard to walk back later. No investors to push for monetization, no team to grant data access, no servers to subpoena or breach. The full story is at xtrkrapp.com/about.

07. Talking points

• Built natively around both injectable PrEP regimens with site-specific STI testing on-device. Apretude (cabotegravir, every 2 months) and Yeztugo (lenacapavir, every 6 months), tracked alongside exposures, partner history, and daily regimens — primarily stored on the user's iPhone (encrypted iCloud backup is opt-in).
• Privacy by architecture, not promise. Data is stored on the user's iPhone, not on servers I operate. There's no XtrkR server holding records to leak.
• Built for gay and bi men specifically. Four-site STI testing (rectal, pharyngeal, urethral, blood), PrEP adherence, mpox/HPV vaccination workflow.
• Pride Wrapped — a private letter-to-future-self ritual for queer time-capsule keeping. Five short prompts each June, sealed for twelve months, opens the following June 1 alongside an eight-card watercolor deck of queer history for the user's cohort year. Pairs with Year-End Wrapped each December — each cohort year unlocks two paid Wrapped decks. Class of 2026 launches June 1, 2026; free for anyone who installs XtrkR by July 1, 2026. Full detail at xtrkrapp.com/pride.
• Closes the testing-cadence gap. Only 37% of current PrEP users say their care visits always include the rectal swabs CDC recommends (Chandra et al., 2020). XtrkR makes site-specific cadence visible.
• Zero third-party SDKs in the app. No in-app analytics, no automated crash reporting, no Firebase. Users can optionally share diagnostics from Settings. Verifiable with any network monitor.
• Encrypted backups are opt-in only. AES-256-GCM with a user-derived key.
• The clinical floor stays free for every user. Medication tracking (all PrEP regimens, PEP, DoxyPEP, ART), STI testing, vaccinations, symptoms, exposure windows, and the doctor visit PDF are free in the free tier — not on a trial, not until a usage threshold. Premium adds the analytics layer on top. Full breakdown at xtrkrapp.com/pricing-ethics.
• Solo founder, sustainable model. Dual-path pricing — $199.99 one-time Core (own it forever) or $49.99/yr XtrkR+ (adds Wrapped every year). Both paths always available, both anchored by a published guardrail page (one-tap cancel, monthly receipts, 7-day renewal reminders, pro-rata refunds, grandfathered pricing). Free tier for core logging, no investors, no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no advertising, no data sales.

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