Love it
This a fabulous app for med management. Especially for people like myself who take many different meds...and tend to easily forget exactly which ones we take when we need to tell a doctor or pharmacist. It’s just so easy to forget the names of one or two, or the doses, when you take it p different pills throughout the day and night. This app keeps track of every medicine you take, what the pill looks like (color and shape), the strength of the dose, and how big of a dose you are prescribed. Also, this app will send you reminders each time of the day you are to take your meds. I have a morning pills reminder, an afternoon, and an evening reminder. One of the best features is that it keeps track of how many pills you have left in each bottle and will send you a refill reminder 5 days before your refill is due (by default, but you can change the number of days when it reminds you). This app also keeps your Doctors names and contact information along with all of your physical/mental conditions that you suffer with as well as what conditions each individual pill treats. Overall it is an amazingly useful and very helpful app!
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Response from developer
Hi @L.A.Y.N.E thanks for taking the time to leave a review, we appreciate the great feedback and are pleased to hear that Medisafe is having a positive impact on your life! Thanks again - The Medisafe Team
Keeps Reminding Until Pill Taken !!!
What good is a single reminder that you don’t hear because you are temporarily separated from your smart phone?! And then you don’t see the notice on phone’s screen because you are busy with with some task, watching TV, etc. This pill reminder app keeps reminding audibly & visually every few minutes until you pick up phone & manually tap “snooze” or “taken”. “Snooze” lets you set how long you want the app to wait before it reminds you again! One suggestion for improvement is a louder audible reminder for people watching TV or poor hearing or both. Perhaps let user set volume. A defect that could cause confusion that results in patient taking wrong dosage is as follows. For one of my prescriptions I am supposed to take 2 pills at same time once per day. But reminder says: “2 pills: take one”. Some one not mentally sharp might take only one pill, which depending upon the medication & the medical condition for which it is taken could have serious negative consequences!
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Essential and Non-essential Meds/Supplements
I'm taking this in conjunction with other supplements which I may or may not take. I would like to be able to mark something as non-essential such that if I miss it, it wouldn't count against my % score. There are some supplements that are nice to have if I get the time and I think my body can take on the extra dosages. Also, can you add food and beverage category so that I can ensure I take the right diet with the meds/supplements. Also, the ability to move schedule based on dependencies. If I wake up late, and two meds need to be taken two hours apart, then all notifications are going to be irrelevant. This app is really good but if you have those three features, this is really heaven of a situation.
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Different options for scheduling
This app has actually been working great for me, but I have one issue. I would like the option to schedule for specific times in between doses instead of at specific times of day. I take stimulants for ADHD and need to take them 4 hours apart. I don’t always wake up at the same time every day to take the first dose at the “regular” time, so I constantly have to remember that my next reminders are going off too early so I don’t take it too early (and then need to remember later when to actually take it on time. Very hard for an ADHD brain.) This could potentially be dangerous, like today I took my first dose 1.5 hours late, forgot about it, then took my next dose “on time” according to my alarm, which means I took my next dose 1.5 hours too early (and now my head hurts). It would be great if I could schedule how many doses a day, how much time in between, and when I’d like to start them in the day. That way if I take my first dose later than scheduled, all the next reminders are pushed back by that same amount of time too.
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Helpful app for sure!
I've just started using this app and find it very helpful. I love the reminder tone, "pills shaking" lol.
You can choose the shape and colour of your meds...
You can choose the shape and colour of your meds...
Wonderful App!
EDIT: I’ve raised my rating from a 4 to a 5, as the wonderfully responsive customer service team has informed me that there are options to resolve the issues I presented, and that I simply missed. It’s nice to see a company being so active with helping its users!
I’ve been using this app for about a week, and so far, I think it’s great! There seems to be a tool for just about anything you could think of, and it’s really helpful! The interface is beautiful, and everything is totally customizable.
The only thing I would change is that there isn’t (from what I could find) an option to turn off the notifications it sends you every five-or-so minutes reminding you to take your pill. While I can understand that this may be helpful for some (and should, perhaps, remain the default setting) the medication I take isn’t going to harm me if I take it a few minutes late or even forget a dose entirely (although I obviously try to avoid this). As a result, I find myself getting annoyed with the constant notifications about my medicine when I already have the little red badge notification on the app icon reminding me that I have a pill to take. I wish there was an option to turn these off.
It also would be nice to have a setting for those of us who only take a fraction of a pill as a dose. :)
Overall, though, I’d highly recommend this if you have a difficult medication regiment, of if you’re simply a forgetful person, like myself!
I’ve been using this app for about a week, and so far, I think it’s great! There seems to be a tool for just about anything you could think of, and it’s really helpful! The interface is beautiful, and everything is totally customizable.
The only thing I would change is that there isn’t (from what I could find) an option to turn off the notifications it sends you every five-or-so minutes reminding you to take your pill. While I can understand that this may be helpful for some (and should, perhaps, remain the default setting) the medication I take isn’t going to harm me if I take it a few minutes late or even forget a dose entirely (although I obviously try to avoid this). As a result, I find myself getting annoyed with the constant notifications about my medicine when I already have the little red badge notification on the app icon reminding me that I have a pill to take. I wish there was an option to turn these off.
It also would be nice to have a setting for those of us who only take a fraction of a pill as a dose. :)
Overall, though, I’d highly recommend this if you have a difficult medication regiment, of if you’re simply a forgetful person, like myself!
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Amazing App
I worked in health care for 15 years. This app is great as it helps me track my medication in my e-pill box and can add my wife to get notifications on her phone when I miss my dose, which is frequently. The scheduling portion is intuitive. The diary feature helps me keep track of my pain, especially post op and need to track feeling on your follow up. The last part is the pill counter, which really helps me know when I should ask for a refill. You can set the alert at whatever count you want. Something so simple can be so amazing sometimes. The only thing I would add is a forum where people can interact with others who are taking the same meds. That would be so freakin cool. Just s simple message board with posts. I would totally buy into that. That for me is the topper because you can then interact with others who are experience the same issues with the drug. I would take it a step further and add DRG forums. Then can search for posts with the med name. Just a thought.
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Only one thing missing...
This is a wonderful app, especially for those of us who struggle to maintain a medication schedule. When you forget to take (or log) a dose, it sends a notification to a user-determined contact (or multiple contacts) alerting them to your missed dose. This is great, BUT could be made perfect by allowing you to manually (or, preferably, automatically) send that same contact a second alert/notification when you end up taking the missed dose.
Sometimes I’m napping and miss an afternoon dose...my friend gets notified that I missed the dose and ends up worried about me...when I wake up I take the missed dose (maybe an hour or so late) and log it in to the app...but I have no way of telling that friend, “Hey, don’t worry, I just took that dose!”
Now, you might say that I could simply call or text that friend...but some people’s illnesses and/or disabilities are such that they avoid any direct social interaction some (or all) of the time...and this is why it would be amazing to allow the user to have an option (a simple button?) to notify their friend that the missed dose has been taken at the time the missed dose is logged. Otherwise, a perfect app! Thank you.
Sometimes I’m napping and miss an afternoon dose...my friend gets notified that I missed the dose and ends up worried about me...when I wake up I take the missed dose (maybe an hour or so late) and log it in to the app...but I have no way of telling that friend, “Hey, don’t worry, I just took that dose!”
Now, you might say that I could simply call or text that friend...but some people’s illnesses and/or disabilities are such that they avoid any direct social interaction some (or all) of the time...and this is why it would be amazing to allow the user to have an option (a simple button?) to notify their friend that the missed dose has been taken at the time the missed dose is logged. Otherwise, a perfect app! Thank you.
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Response from developer
@DominicF thanks for the great review, we appreciate the insightful feedback! We will definitely pass along your suggestion regarding the additional medfriend notification to our product and dev teams for consideration. Thanks again! - The Medisafe Team
So close, but wishing for one more function
Medisafe is perfect for me as it helps my obsessive behaviors and forgetfulness. I am busy and my mind sometimes wanders and I forget to take my medicine. The only problem I run into for me is not seeing a report of my past refill dates in conjunction with how much medicine (pills,etc.) I had left at the time of refill. Example, I have five pills left on the date I refill my 30 day supply making me have 35 pills as of the day I refilled. Why is this important for me? Because even with the refill button, refill reminders, and daily reminders to take medication, again I forget. So if I forget to notate that I did a refill, and I forget if I took my medication, I can look at the report and see what my last refill date was prior and how many pills I had as of that date. Then I can do the math and remember. It would also be helpful to see on the report how many pills I had left after I took my daily dose.
But I love the simplicity of this app. For 98% of the time it keeps me on track with my medication.
But I love the simplicity of this app. For 98% of the time it keeps me on track with my medication.
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Best App Ever
If you’re someone like me that has to take regular pills and often forgets then this is the app for you. I don’t think I could live without this app anymore. I’ve put all my regular medication on and if I have to have a course of antibiotics where it’s a one week course, I can add those and it spaces out the times for me to take them. I have recommended this to several friends who have now downloaded this app.
I recently went away for a week and forgot to take my meds with me. The local pharmacist at the place I was staying said he could get me some temporary meds but needed to know the names and dosage of everything I took. Without this app I wouldn’t have known but I pulled up the app and the list was there with all the details. Life saver!
I would give this app 10 stars if I could!
I recently went away for a week and forgot to take my meds with me. The local pharmacist at the place I was staying said he could get me some temporary meds but needed to know the names and dosage of everything I took. Without this app I wouldn’t have known but I pulled up the app and the list was there with all the details. Life saver!
I would give this app 10 stars if I could!
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