# Smart Pill ID - Identify Drugs — user reviews > 116 indexed App Store user reviews of Smart Pill ID by BuildLoop, rated 3.50/5 from 1,199 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smart-pill-id-identify-drugs/id1510826946/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smart-pill-id-identify-drugs/id1510826946.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 644 · 4★ 81 · 3★ 64 · 2★ 49 · 1★ 361 ## What do users think of Smart Pill ID? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Easy to use - 👍 Helpful for identifying medications - 🚀 Quick identification **Cons** - 🐛 Inaccurate identification - 🔒 Privacy concerns with subscription - 💰 Expensive subscription - 🐛 Camera issues - 🐛 Distorted pill images **Commonly reported bugs** - Unable to identify common medications - Crashes and freezes - Incorrect identification of pills **Most requested features** - Free version without subscription - Improved accuracy in identification ## Newest reviews (14 of 116) ### 4/5 — Medication identify *2025-10-03, version 2.9.4* When you have several meds a day that you sort for weeks at a time some look like other meds it’s essential they can be identified! This app is great! ### 4/5 — Great but… *2024-12-23, version 2.8.2* Fantastic app. Worthy of five stars when the camera app takes a picture of the pill without distorting it. ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2024-08-11, version 2.7.0* Camera function doesn’t work, only the gallery function. ### 1/5 — No pill found *2024-08-09, version 2.7.0* Identifier has no option for 2 color, no imprint capsules. Sent a picture but was not able to identify. ### 4/5 — Goodnuff *2024-07-16, version 2.6.3* Works! ### 1/5 — Maybe useful for some, but failed on two over the counter drugs *2024-07-15, version 2.6.3* I tried to identify two over the counter drugs (a sleeping pill and a second, unidentified pill). In both cases it couldn’t identify the pills. Maybe I’m just unlucky, but for me the app was useless. ### 1/5 — Not legit *2024-07-08, version 2.6.3* I didn’t buy the $50 subscription it kept pushing, so I couldn’t get the app to do anything but crash repeatedly. The pictures of the pills came out skewed and it wouldn’t accept one from my gallery. Is there anything less than one star? ### 1/5 — Barely works *2024-07-08, version 2.6.3* I had to edit not only the text, but the color multiple times on a very common allergy medication. Does not function as advertised, not worth the subscription in the least. ### 1/5 — Beware! I don’t know how it automatically signed me up for a subscription *2024-06-29, version 2.6.3* Now I have to check my subscriptions everyday to make sure they don’t charge me 50 dollars for a app I had for 10 minutes. It doesn’t show that I have any subscriptions at the moment but I’m sure on exactly the 7th day they are going to charge me money. It’s scummy behavior from the developers ### 1/5 — Google was faster *2024-06-28, version 2.6.3* Rather than trying to get a clear picture and clarify what the app thought it saw, I simply searched google for the color and imprint and the top result was correct. This app seems worthless to me. ### 1/5 — Pill identifier *2024-06-09, version 2.6.3* I took picture. It didn’t give me a clear answer of the kind of pill. I was not satisfied at all. ### 1/5 — Not satisfied with pill identifier *2024-06-03, version 2.6.3* Won’t be using this app because it wasnt helpful identifying the pill I took a picture of . :( ### 1/5 — Difficult to use *2024-05-05, version 2.6.3* I found this app difficult to use and way too easy to get charged for. ### 4/5 — Thank you. *2024-05-01, version 2.6.3* This app helped me immensely get my sons medications straightened out after opening and dropping 3 bottles. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Waste of time. *2026-04-17, version 2.9.5* Do not bother downloading any of these pill identifier cause none of them work it’s a complete waste of time and it’s sad because years ago they did work, but but so many people were trying to identify medication’s. They started charging money and they don’t work your best bet. Take the pill and find out how you feel and if you think what that’s what you wanted then that’s what you got, but don’t waste your time with these identifier. None of them work. ### 1/5 — No luck *2026-02-28, version 2.9.5* Took a pic didn’t work, tried several more pics of front and back and it showed me 56 mostly capsules and the pill was a square tablet. ### 1/5 — I just can’t believe the poor *2026-02-18, version 2.9.5* THE WORST ### 1/5 — Wrong every time *2025-11-29, version 2.9.4* This app is dangerous. Misidentified the pills I scanned. I tested it on exceptionally common meds & it gave me a list of a dozen wrong suggestions every single time. It’s not just that several options on the lists were wrong, every single suggestion was wrong every single time. It failed to even suggest the correct med as a possibility 100% of the time. DO NOT USE TO IDENTIFY MEDICATION, because it definitely can’t. ### 1/5 — Didn't work *2025-11-11, version 2.9.4* We gave it an easy single pill assignment and it came back with 52 choices and none matched and most had no visual along with them. Quite decidedly unhelpful. ### 1/5 — Inutile *2025-05-28, version 2.9.1* (1) Quand j’en ai eu besoin, je n’ai pas réussi à avoir d’identification pour le médicament que je devais prendre. (2) A 2 reprises. (3) De plus la langue affichée est je crois de l’Espagnol. Je ne comprend ni ne parle l’Espagnol. En résumé: ceci est complètement inutile. ### 1/5 — Useless *2025-02-21, version 2.8.3* Every time I scanned, it would give me 29 possible medications. That does not help at all. ### 1/5 — Blatant cash grab *2025-02-06, version 2.8.3* Horrible, to put it mildly. I’m not wasting anymore time than necessary on this as it should be criminal to market garbage apps, which this app absolutely is. ### 1/5 — Wildly inaccurate. *2024-09-16, version 2.7.0* Wildly inaccurate. ### 1/5 — Incorrect photo ID *2024-08-16, version 2.7.0* I would not recommend this because it does not correctly identify a drug when you give it the correct description ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app!!! *2025-02-25, version 2.8.3* Works perfectly! I just can’t afford it. Found the pill I was trying to identify when nothing else worked! ### 5/5 — Great *2024-06-09, version 2.6.3* Great for finding specific medications and what they do. ### 5/5 — Didn’t work correctly *2024-06-04, version 2.6.3* It changed the shape of pill. I took several picture images. Did not identify correctly ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-05-28, version 2.6.3* The photo feature is just way too easy as a way of identifying pills. ### 5/5 — Thoroughly legitimate and accurate *2024-05-19, version 2.6.3* Photo scans are thoroughly researched and you can see the matches yourself for accuracy. ### 5/5 — Great *2024-04-21, version 2.6.3* Great for my to look up pill I forgot what they were for this really peeped me a lot ### 5/5 — Pill scanner *2024-03-14, version 2.6.0* I loved using this app and it was so easy to use.i loved it ### 5/5 — Accurate *2024-02-22, version 2.5.5* Easy to use ### 5/5 — Mystery solved *2024-02-22, version 2.5.5* Great app to determine a mystery tablet ### 5/5 — enabling anyone knows a pill in an emergency *2024-01-20, version 2.5.5* Great app using this tool in case of emergency, could be very useful Knowing what has been taken and informing, paramedics and nurses and doctors information that would accelerate The process to preparedness on the fly --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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