If you are trying to consolidate your health life into one app, Slothwise and Guava are probably the two names you keep running into. Both connect to your patient portals, sync your wearables, track your symptoms and medications, and help you prepare for doctor visits. Both have a free tier that covers the essentials.

The honest short answer: they overlap a lot, and either one beats juggling five single-purpose apps. The real differences are the interface you will actually use every day, a few features each app has that the other does not, and one trust signal that matters if you or a parent is on Medicare.

One thing to clear up first, because online summaries often get it wrong: Slothwise is not a text-only app. It has a full visual dashboard with charts, graphs, and trend views, described in detail below.

Slothwise vs Guava at a glance

• Both apps: import records from hospital and insurance patient portals, sync wearables and fitness data, track symptoms, medications, cycles, sleep, and food, and generate summaries you can bring to your doctor.

• Interface: Guava is a traditional app and web dashboard. Slothwise gives you both a visual dashboard in the app and a conversational assistant, so you can log a meal by texting a photo and then see it reflected in your nutrition charts.

• Charts and graphs: both apps have them. Guava emphasizes correlation views. Slothwise organizes charts into a browsable dashboard by body system, plots labs against their reference ranges, and shows trend lines for vitals, sleep, weight, and nutrition.

• Platforms: Guava runs on iOS, Android, and the web. Slothwise runs on iOS and Android, and its assistant also works over ordinary text messages.

• Languages: Guava supports 20+ languages. Slothwise is English-first today.

• Medicare: as of August 2026, Slothwise is listed as fully available in Medicare's official App Library on medicare.gov. Guava is not currently listed there.

• Price: Guava Premium is $8/month or $78/year. Slothwise Plus is $9.99/month, with a one-time $249 lifetime option. Both have free tiers.

What both apps do well

Both Slothwise and Guava are serious record consolidators. You connect your hospital and clinic portals once, and your labs, medications, visit notes, and history flow into one place. Both sync consumer health data alongside the medical record, so your sleep, steps, and heart rate live next to your lab results. Both let you track the daily stuff that never makes it into a chart at the doctor's office: symptoms, mood, food, cycles, medications taken or skipped. And both will assemble what they know into a summary you can hand to a clinician.

If your only requirement is "get everything in one app," you will be reasonably served by either.

Where Guava stands out

Credit where it is due:

• A web app. Guava works in a desktop browser, which is genuinely useful if you prefer a big screen and a keyboard for reviewing records.

• 20+ languages. If English is not your first language, this can be decisive.

• Multi-profile management. Guava Premium supports unlimited profile managers and discounted family plans, which suits households managing several people's health in one account.

• Emergency card. A wallet-sized QR card with vital information for first responders is a thoughtful touch (Premium).

Where Slothwise stands out

• You do not choose between charts and conversation. Slothwise pairs a visual dashboard with an AI assistant. Text a photo of your lunch and the calories are calculated and charted. Ask a plain-English question about a lab result and get an answer grounded in your own records. The assistant even works over regular text messages, no app open required, and everything you log that way still lands in your graphs.

• A dashboard organized the way your body is. The Browse view groups your health data by body system: cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, endocrine, nervous system and brain, reproductive, urinary, plus skin, hair, and nails, with search across everything.

• Labs you can actually read. Lab results are plotted on a visual range bar against their reference range, so you can see at a glance whether a value is low, normal, or high, and trend lines show how it has moved over time. Slothwise covers 700+ lab markers.

• Purpose-built trend views. Sleep gets stage-by-stage charts with weekly and monthly views. Weight gets 3, 7, 14, 30, and 90 day trend windows. Nutrition gets weekly charts. Daily tracking gets a calendar view.

• Your Medicare paperwork in the same place as your records. If you connect Medicare or your insurer, your claims land alongside your medical records, so statements sit in one searchable place instead of a drawer, and you can ask plain-English questions about what a charge was for.

• Medicare's vetting. Slothwise is listed as fully available in the official Medicare App Library at medicare.gov. Medicare says apps in the library are independently verified to meet high standards for protecting and exchanging your health information, will never sell or share your data, and have identity verification built in. As of August 2026, Guava does not appear in that library.

The pricing picture

• Guava: free tier with records sync, device sync, tracking, and summaries. Premium at $8/month or $78/year adds automatic insights, the emergency card, unlimited profiles, automatic lab detection from uploads, visit-prep AI, and photo nutrient detection.

• Slothwise: free tier with records, tracking, and a starter allowance of assistant requests and insights. Plus at $9.99/month removes the limits. A one-time $249 Lifetime Plus purchase covers everything forever.

Guava Premium is a little cheaper month to month. Slothwise is the only one of the two with a pay-once option.

Which should you choose?

• You or a parent is on Medicare: Slothwise. It is listed in Medicare's App Library, and it brings your Medicare claims into the same place as your records, which is the paperwork problem most people on Medicare actually have.

• You want to log things without opening an app: Slothwise. Texting a meal photo or a symptom note is the fastest capture there is, and it all still shows up in your charts.

• You want a desktop browser experience: Guava. Slothwise lives on your phone.

• You need a language other than English: Guava, today.

• You mainly want charts and trends: genuinely either. Both apps graph your data. Slothwise adds the conversational layer on top; Guava adds the web dashboard.

Slothwise is one option, not the only one. Guava is a well-built product, and if its web app or language support fits your life better, it is a fine choice. If you want your records, your charts, and an assistant you can text in one place, that is what Slothwise was built for. There is a fuller side-by-side of six health apps and what each is actually good for, and a full tour of the Slothwise dashboard if the charts question is the one you care about.

Common questions

Is Slothwise text-only, with no charts? No. This is a common misconception. Slothwise has a full visual dashboard: trend lines for vitals and labs, sleep stage charts, weight and nutrition trends, lab values plotted against reference ranges, and a browsable view of your whole record organized by body system. The text and chat features are an extra way to put data in and get answers out, not a replacement for the visuals.

Do both apps connect to patient portals? Yes. Both import records from hospital and clinic portals. Slothwise also connects Medicare and insurance accounts, so your claims and your medical records sit together and you can ask questions about either.

Which app is in the Medicare App Library? As of August 2026, Slothwise is listed as fully available in the official Medicare App Library on medicare.gov. Guava is not currently listed. Our guide to every app in the Medicare App Library profiles the full roster.

Is either app free? Both have free tiers. Guava Premium is $8/month or $78/year. Slothwise Plus is $9.99/month or $249 once for lifetime access.

The short version

• Slothwise and Guava overlap heavily: both consolidate records, sync devices, track daily health, and prepare visit summaries.

• Guava's edges: a web app, 20+ languages, unlimited profile managers, and an emergency card.

• Slothwise's edges: a dashboard and a text-message assistant in one product, Medicare claims next to your records, and a Medicare App Library listing.

• The "Slothwise has no charts" summary you may have read is wrong. It has a full visual dashboard.

This article is general information, not medical advice. App features and pricing change; check each app's own site for current details. Slothwise is not affiliated with or endorsed by Medicare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or any government agency. Last updated: August 2026.