Heel! vs Pet Med Reminder Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Heel!
Manage your pet's health with medication and feeding reminders. Connect with your veterinarian to receive prescription updates and track your pet's care schedule. Never miss a dose or appointment again.
- Medication reminders
- Feeding time schedules
- Exercise reminders
- Caretaker contact integration
- Veterinarian network
- Prescription updates
- Dosage tracking
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Pet parents can add reminders for medications, feeding times, exercise schedule, or anything else. Adding caretakers for your pet allows you to easily call or get directions to the office. If your veterinarian is in the Heel! network, they'll be able to add new prescriptions and dosage schedules for your pet. After you customize the reminder times, you're ready to go. We've created a network that allows all of your veterinary care providers to keep you up to date on your pet's medications. We even send reminders each time something is due! Just interact with the push notification to tell the system that you've given the medications and we'll store that information for you and your veterinary team to review. Never wonder again if you're giving the right dose or if you've forgotten to give medications! Heel! helps you take better care of your pets! See our explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxmJQFXnweQ Heel!, Heelapp, Heel app
Pet Med Reminder Tracker
Easily track medications, supplements, and treats for your pets on a schedule. Log doses with a single tap from notifications without opening the app. Generates vet-ready PDF reports for easy sharing.
- Schedule medications, supplements, and treats
- Log doses from lock screen notifications
- Multi-pet and multi-species support
- History log of doses given, skipped, or missed
- Vet-ready PDF export
- Pet photos for easy identification
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Pet Med Reminder is a simple tracker for everything you give your dog or cat on a schedule: medications, supplements, treats, drops, chews. Built for the human caregiver, not the pet. Tap a notification on your lock screen to log a dose. That's it. No app to launch, no account to create, no signup. WHAT'S ON THE SCREEN • A "Today" view showing every dose for every pet, grouped by time of day • A history log of every dose given, skipped, or missed • A vet-ready PDF export of any date range, useful at appointments • Photos on every pet card, so you know which pill goes to which animal at 6am • A frequency picker that handles daily, every-N-days, and specific days of the week • Multi-pet, multi-species, multi-care-item: dogs and cats together from day one WHAT'S NOT ON THE SCREEN • No account, no sign-in, no password • No drug interactions or dosing advice (your vet's job) • No vaccination calendars or grooming reminders (different app category) • No social features, leaderboards, or shareable pet profiles • No streaks, badges, or "you're doing great" notifications • No third-party advertising THE PHILOSOPHY The pet is the patient. You are the user. Every design choice flows from that. A medication tracker for animals is not a "Health app for pets." Pets cannot tap Taken, cannot report side effects, cannot read the screen. The caregiver does. Pet Med Reminder is shaped for the half-second between "the treat is in one hand and the dog is in the other" and "she swallowed it." One tap. No decisions. No friction. The history log makes adherence legible without effort, so the vet conversation can start with data instead of guesswork. DESIGNED FOR HANDS FULL Warm palette, large names, photos as disambiguators. The notification with action buttons means you usually won't need to open the app at all. Mark Given from the lock screen and put the phone back down. Your dog is still squirming. WHO IT'S FOR • Owners managing a long-term medication (allergies, thyroid, heart, seizure) • Short-course owners doing a 10-day antibiotic or post-op pain regimen • Supplement and wellness routines: joint chews, dental treats, probiotics • Multi-pet households where the pills look identical at first glance PRIVACY Pet Med Reminder does not require an account. We do not collect your email, your name, your contacts, your location, or any identifier that links to you. Pet data is stored locally on your iPhone and synced via your personal iCloud account using Apple's CloudKit framework. We have no server and cannot see your data. A small number of anonymous usage events (number of pets in the household, number of caregivers, frequency mode of the item being logged) help us understand whether features are working. No IPs, no user IDs, no names, no other identifiers. See the privacy policy for details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pet Med Reminder Tracker at 5.0 against Heel!'s 3.8. Pet Med Reminder Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Heel!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pet Med Reminder Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.
Heel! ships an update every 6 weeks, Pet Med Reminder Tracker every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Heel! | Pet Med Reminder Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Live Oak Veterinary Equipment and Software | Zen Space Labs, Inc. |
Customer experience
Heel!
Pet Med Reminder Tracker
In-app purchases
Heel!
No in-app purchases
Pet Med Reminder Tracker
No in-app purchases
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