Updated July 21, 2026

OffRamp is an iOS app for the part nobody prepares you for: what happens after the GLP-1. It is built and maintained by one person, Abdul Manan, and it exists because the maintenance phase is where most of the result gets lost and almost none of the tooling is pointed.

Why the app exists

The trials are blunt about it. In the STEP 1 extension, participants who stopped semaglutide regained about two thirds of the weight they had lost within a year. SURMOUNT-4 showed the same shape after tirzepatide. The medication was never the part that failed. What failed was the handover: appetite comes back, lean mass has quietly gone down, and the weekly number starts drifting up before anyone notices it is a trend rather than a bad week.

Every mainstream tracker is built for the losing phase. They want a calorie target and a downward line. Neither is the right instrument for maintenance, where the job is to hold a range, protect muscle, and catch a drift early enough that it is still a small correction.

So OffRamp does four narrow things. It watches the weekly weight trend rather than the daily number, and tells you when the trend, not the noise, has turned. It sets a daily protein floor instead of a calorie ceiling. It gives returning appetite, the thing people call food noise, somewhere to be logged instead of just endured. And it keeps all of it on your phone, with no account to make.

What OffRamp will never do

This matters more in this category than in most, so it is written down rather than implied.

  • No dosing or taper guidance, ever. The app will not suggest a dose, a schedule, or when to start or stop. That belongs to your prescriber, and OffRamp is built to work around whatever they decide.
  • No calorie targets. A protein floor, and nothing that looks like a diet.
  • No ads, no analytics SDKs, no data sale. There is no account, so there is no profile of you to sell.
  • No open-ended AI chat about your health. The one AI feature estimates protein in a meal photo, and that is its entire scope.

Who writes the articles

Abdul Manan is the founder of OffRamp and writes everything on this blog. He is not a clinician, a dietitian, or a researcher, and nothing here is medical advice. He is a software engineer who built a tool for a phase that was badly served, and who reads the literature carefully enough to explain it in plain language without dressing it up as expertise he does not have.

Being explicit about that is the point. In a subject this crowded with confident claims, knowing exactly what someone is and is not qualified to say should be the first thing you learn about them, not something you have to infer.

How the articles are written

Primary sources, cited by name
Claims about regain, protein, or muscle are traced to the trial or paper they came from, listed at the foot of the article with a working link, usually to PubMed, JAMA, or NEJM. If a claim has no source, it is not stated as fact.
The mechanism, not just the number
A figure without the mechanism behind it is unusable. Articles explain why a result happens, so you can tell when it applies to you and when it does not.
No medical advice, no dosing, no protocols
The same rule that governs the app governs the writing. Articles describe behaviour, evidence, and what people report. They never tell you what to take or when to stop.
Corrections in the open
When something turns out to be wrong, the article is corrected and the update date changes. Email [email protected] if you find an error, and include the source, because that is the fastest way to get it fixed.

Contact

Press, partnerships, corrections, or a question about the app, all to the same inbox: [email protected].

Help with the app is on the support page. What we do with data is in the privacy policy, and it is a short answer: it stays on your phone.