How getbased compares

getbased is a free, open-source Personal Health Intelligence app that runs entirely in your browser. Here's an honest look at how it stacks up against InsideTracker, SelfDecode, Macromo, a DIY spreadsheet, and pasting your labs into ChatGPT — including what each of those does well.

This table reflects each product's general model rather than a feature-by-feature audit. Commercial services evolve — check their own sites for current details.

getbased vs InsideTracker

InsideTracker is a polished, well-researched subscription service built around its own blood-test panels and recommendation engine. If you want a turnkey provider that draws your blood and hands you a plan, it does that well. The structural trade-offs: it's a paid subscription, your results live on their servers, and it's closed-source. getbased doesn't sell tests — it's a free, open-source tool for lab results from any provider you already use, and everything stays on your device.

getbased vs SelfDecode

SelfDecode is genetics-first — DNA analysis is its core, and it goes deep there. getbased also imports raw DNA and mtDNA, but treats it as one of five lenses alongside your labs, wearables, lifestyle, and environment, with the AI reasoning across all of them together. SelfDecode is a closed subscription with your data on their servers; getbased is free, open source, and local-first.

getbased vs Macromo

Macromo sells its own blood and DNA tests through partner labs and pairs them with an AI health coach in its app. Like InsideTracker, it's a paid testing service with your data in its cloud. getbased isn't a testing company — it's a free, open-source tool for the results you already have, wherever they came from, kept on your device. If you want someone to sell you the tests, Macromo does that; if you want to make sense of results you already hold, that's getbased.

getbased vs a spreadsheet

A spreadsheet is free, offline, and entirely yours — which is genuinely valuable, and it's what a lot of people do. What it can't do: pull markers out of a PDF for you, flag a trend before you notice it, hold reference and optimal ranges, or reason about how your genes, sleep, and labs connect. getbased keeps the "it's yours, it's local" part and adds the intelligence.

getbased vs pasting labs into ChatGPT

Pasting a lab report into ChatGPT or Claude can be genuinely useful for a one-off question. But the chat has no memory of your history, no structured record, no reference ranges, and — critically — nothing grounding it beyond what the model happened to be trained on. getbased structures your data, keeps it across imports, feeds the AI your full context, and grounds every answer in your own research library. It's the same intelligence, with a harness around it. You can even connect getbased to an external agent and keep chatting from your messenger — with only a read-only summary shared.