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Download on Google PlayWith medication management you keep track of your intakes: you record each medication with its dosage and intake schedule, check off every due dose, and get reminded to reorder in time. Whether a medication is taken daily, only on certain weekdays, monthly, on a fixed day or hour interval, or simply as needed – the app reflects your plan and automatically keeps track of stock and remaining supply.
Open the Medications list and tap the plus button (+) to add a new medication. The only required field is the name – everything else can be filled in as needed. To edit or delete a medication later, simply tap it in the list.
In the form you can set:
You only enter dosage and schedule in the form when adding a medication. Later you change them via Change dosage in the detail view, so the app knows from when the new dosage applies – see Changing or stopping a dosage.
By default you record the dosage using the familiar morning – noon – evening scheme. For each time of day, enter how much you take – tablets, drops or puffs, depending on the dosage form. You can also enter fractions such as 0.5. Leave any time of day at which you take nothing at 0.
Example: 1 – 0 – 0.5 means one tablet in the morning and half a tablet in the evening. In the overview this dosage is shown compactly as 1 - 0 - 0.5.
Each time of day has a fixed default time (morning 08:00, noon 12:00, evening 18:00). These determine when a dose becomes due and when a reminder is sent. Custom times and up to two additional slots are available in expert mode.
The intake schedule defines on which days the medication is taken:
Two further schedules are available in expert mode:
Use the Expert mode switch to unlock advanced options when the simple scheme isn’t enough:
Expert mode only changes the input form; your existing doses are kept. You can switch it off again at any time.
When you enable the As needed switch, you can record intakes that are not part of a fixed plan – for example a painkiller taken as needed or an extra unit on top of a fixed dosage. A fixed dosage is optional here: you can combine “as needed” with a fixed schedule, or keep a medication purely as needed (in which case all slot doses stay 0).
Via Record as-needed dose you enter how many units you took and when – the current time is filled in for you. If you didn’t record an intake right away, simply set the date and time back: for example, today you can add the ibuprofen tablet you took last night. The amount is deducted from the stock, so irregular intakes are also reflected correctly in the remaining supply. If an intake you add later lies before the day you last entered your stock, nothing is deducted – it is already part of the stock you counted.
If you take a medication only as needed, its detail view shows “Only as needed” as the dosage. If you leave the Stock field empty (and, when adding the medication, the pack size too), the app keeps no stock and the stock section is left out entirely. A stock you did enter that drops to 0 shows “Stock used up” instead. You’ll find every recorded intake in the intake history, where you can also remove one recorded by mistake.
On the home screen the “Next intake” tile shows the currently due doses as soon as their time is reached – each with the number of tablets and the time. Tap “Taken” once you’ve taken a dose; it then disappears from the list.
If a due dose is still open after a short grace period, it is highlighted in red as “Overdue” – so you can see at a glance what you should catch up on. Overdue doses stay in the tile until you check them off.
In the Settings you can also enable “Show next dose in advance”. The tile then shows the next upcoming dose even when nothing (more) is due today – handy for infrequent schedules. For daily intake, tomorrow’s dose is deliberately not shown in advance, so the tile isn’t permanently filled.
The “Intake history” link in the detail view opens every scheduled dose since “Intake from” and every as-needed intake, newest first. For each dose you can see whether it was taken (checkmark), missed (time plus a short grace period passed without being checked off) or is still open. The filters All, Taken and Not taken narrow down the list.
Using the checkmark you correct single doses in both directions. If you took a medication for a while without checking it off, tap a missed dose: the app asks “Mark as taken?” and then marks all missed doses up to and including that day – older ones too.
A dose checked off or unchecked later only affects the stock if its day lies after the day you last entered the stock. Older doses are already part of the stock you counted back then.
Scheduled doses only appear in the history when “Track intakes” is enabled for the medication. As-needed intakes always appear there.
Each dosage applies from a certain day until the day before the next one. That keeps a record of what applied when, and the app calculates every day with the dosage that applied on it – in the history, the stock, the remaining supply and the reminders.
Four rules explain every case:
You take 1 - 0 - 1; from the 10th you should only take the morning dose. Today you change to 1 - 0 - 0 with “Applies from” 10th. Nothing changes up to the 9th. From the 10th there is no evening dose, and the remaining supply counts one tablet a day from then on. Until then the change is shown as “planned” in the detail view.
On the 1st the dosage changed from 1 - 0 - 1 to 1 - 0 - 0, but you only enter it on the 4th – with “Applies from” 1st. Out of habit you still checked off the evening dose on the 1st, but not on the 2nd and 3rd. Result: the checkmark from the evening of the 1st stays (rule 3). The evening doses of the 2nd and 3rd were “missed” before and now disappear (rule 2).
Since the 2nd you take 1 - 0 - 1 instead of 0 - 0 - 1 and change it on the 4th with “Applies from” 2nd. The morning doses of the 2nd and 3rd appear as missed because they were never checked off. If you took them, tap the morning dose of the 3rd and mark both as taken. Careful: this marks all missed doses up to that day. If older ones you really missed are among them, better check off the new ones one by one.
Since the 1st you take half a tablet in the morning instead of a whole one and enter that retroactively on the 4th. The morning doses already checked off from the 1st to the 3rd then show 0.5 in the history (rule 3). The stock, however, counted the whole tablet saved when you checked them off (rule 4). If the stock shown is off, enter it once more.
You entered 1 - 0 - 1 from the 10th but meant 1 - 1 - 1. Open Change dosage, pick the 10th again and correct the values. The app shows “Replaces the entry from 10th”. No second entry is created.
The change from the 1st was a mistake. Delete the entry with a long press – the current or a planned dosage in the detail view, an earlier one under Dosage history. From the 1st the previous dosage applies again, and the history recalculates those days – rules 2 and 3 apply just the same.
You added the medication on 1 September but have been taking it since 15 August. Open Change dosage, leave the dosage as it is and choose “Applies from” 15 August. Since nothing but the date changes, the start moves forward without a second entry. The days from 15 to 31 August appear as missed in the history; one tap on the 31st marks them all as taken. The stock stays the same, because these days lie before your last stock entry.
You last took the medication on the 2nd and stop it on the 5th with “First day without intake” 3rd. From the 3rd there are no scheduled doses, so missed ones disappear from the history. If you still checked off a dose on the 3rd by mistake, that checkmark stays; untick it using the checkmark.
If you switch Track intakes off and later on again, the app assumes you kept taking the medication during the break. When you switch it back on, it marks every scheduled dose from the day you switched it off up to and including today as taken – including today’s doses that aren’t even due yet. The stock does not jump, because the app already counted it down by plan during the break. If you didn’t take it during the break, untick those doses in the history and re-enter the stock if needed.
For tablets, capsules, suppositories, patches, injections, syrup, spray and inhalers the app counts the stock, because pack and dose are measured the same way: units, millilitres for syrup (a 100 ml bottle, 5 ml per intake), puffs for spray and inhalers (an inhaler with 200 puffs). Enter the pack size and the current stock; the unit the app counts in is shown in the heading of the card, for instance “Stock (puffs)”. The stock is counted down automatically with every scheduled intake and every as-needed intake. You can also set it manually at any time, for instance after opening a new pack.
Below the stock the app shows the remaining supply – “Lasts until …”, or “Stock used up” when nothing is left. When the supply lasts only about a week or less, the “Reorder medication” tile on the home screen reminds you in time to get more before you run out.
For drops, ointment and other a dose is measured differently from the pack: 20 drops cannot sensibly be deducted from a 30 ml bottle, nor one application from a 50 g tube. For these forms, pack size and stock cannot be entered: the “Stock” card shows only a note about this, both when editing and in the detail view. The app shows no remaining supply and does not remind you to reorder.
If you switch a medication with stock to an uncounted form, the stock is kept but no longer shown. If you switch back, it reappears and becomes the new starting value from the day you switched back. Ticked intakes and the history are kept and are shown with the word of the new form.
In the Expiry card you enter the expiry date from the pack. For forms that get opened – injection (e.g. an insulin pen), drops, syrup, spray, inhaler, ointment and other – there are also Opened on and Use within after opening, for instance “4 weeks” as stated in the leaflet; you give the period in days, weeks or months. Remove an entered date with the cross on the field.
The medication can be used until the earlier of the two ends. Example: opened on 1 October and usable for 4 weeks means use by 28 October inclusive – if the expiry date is earlier, the expiry date applies.
One week before, the app warns “Expires soon” so you can get a new pack in time; from the day after it shows “Expired” in red. The warning appears on the card in the medication list, at the top of the detail view and on the home screen in the “Expiry” tile. You can hide the tile in the settings under Dashboard. The details are also included in the PDF export.
The app keeps one date per medication, not per pack: when you open a new bottle, enter the new opening date (and the new expiry date if needed) yourself.
You can be reminded by push notification at each intake time. You’ll find the “Medication reminders” switch in the Settings. At the due time the app notifies you with “Time for your intake”; tapping the notification opens the matching medication directly.