• Flexible schedules: every few days or hours, plus on/off cycles
• Prescription details: prescriber, pharmacy, Rx number & refills
• Export your full dose history as a CSV
• Apple Watch complication + snooze from your wrist
• A new gentle reminder sound, and more reliable reminders
Medication Reminder+ is the calmest, most private way to remember your medications, pills, vitamins, and supplements. Gentle, reliable reminders help you and your family stay consistent and never miss a dose — with no clutter, no ads, and no tracking.
• Simple reminders for every medication, pill, and dose
• Refill alerts before you run low
• Track your adherence and see your progress at a glance
• A calm history of every dose — taken, skipped, or snoozed
Forgetting doses is the most common reason treatments underperform, and it is mostly a design problem rather than a discipline problem. Note: this is general information, not medical advice — questions about your own medication belong with your doctor or pharmacist.
Because taking a pill is a small, unremarkable action with no immediate consequence. Research on treatment adherence consistently finds that a large share of doses are missed, and that the biggest predictors are how complex the schedule is and how many times a day it requires.
Anchoring the dose to something you already do without fail — brushing your teeth, making coffee — works better than trying to remember a time.
They can, through habituation: a notification that looks like every other notification stops registering. People swipe it away automatically and later cannot recall whether they took the dose.
Two things help. A distinct alert that does not blend in, and logging the dose as taken rather than just dismissing the alert — the log answers the "did I?" question that dismissal cannot.
This genuinely depends on the medication, and there is no safe general answer — for some, taking it late is fine; for others, doubling up is dangerous. The instructions that came with your prescription cover it, and your pharmacist can answer it in a minute.
What an app can do is make the pattern visible, so you and your clinician can see whether misses cluster around particular days or times.
Because you will be asked for it — at appointments, in emergencies, and when a new prescription might interact with an existing one. Recalling names and doses under stress is unreliable.
A current list including doses and timing, on the phone you carry, is one of the more useful things you can keep.
Yes. Medication Reminder+ is a free download on the App Store.
Medication Reminder+ runs on iPhone and iPad and requires iOS 17.0 or later.
The download size is 15 MB.
The current version is 1.1.1, released on 2026-07-27.
Medication Reminder+ is available in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and more.
Medication Reminder+ is built by BIR (Build Intelligent Reality), an independent software studio founded by Birkan Aksoy. BIR has 44 apps on the App Store.
