DoseOrganizer Lite vs Pillbeat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DoseOrganizer Lite
Organize your medications with timely reminders and flexible scheduling. Capture drug images, customize dosage instructions, and track your medication history. This app helps ensure you take your medicine on time.
- Timely dose notifications
- Flexible scheduling options
- Snoozable reminders
- Drug image capture
- Customizable dose amounts and instructions
- Dose history logging
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> DoseOrganizer is the most flexible and easy-to-use app for the iPhone, and iPod Touch to help users organize their medications to be able to take them on time. > DoseOrganizer is the top paid Medical app in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait Stores (6 th October 2011). > Features: - Today's Doses: DoseOrganizer shows notifications about doses that are supposed to be daily taken with a simple interface that ease on the user to take their medications. - Flexible Scheduling: DoseOrganizer helps users to subscribe drugs and specify the schedule of their doses based on time intervals or scheduled times. -- by using time intervals user can only set the start date and the time interval between doses. -- by using scheduled times user can set specific times to take his medication. - Snoozable Reminders: user can snooze a reminder before it goes off. - Auto Skipping Old Doses: Doses are marked as missed when passing its due time with more than 1 hour. - Capturing Drug Image: DoseOrganizer enables user to capture photos of the subscribed drug or select an image from photo gallery, which prevent drugs from being mixed with each others. - Customizable Dose Amounts and Instructions: user can set the drug name, dosage information, and instructions given by the doctor, these instructions will appear in the reminders that show up for each dose. - Multiple Drug types: DoseOrganizer supports tablets, capsules, syrups, injections, inhalers, drops, ointments, creams, and patches. The type of the drug is specified when subscribing it, or can be edited afterward. - Private and Secure: No personally identifiable information is collected when using DoseOrganizer. - Local Notifications: DoseOrganizer sends dose reminders without an internet connection. (Note: local notifications are only available on the following devices running iOS 4.0 or later: iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3rd generation or later, and iPhone 4.) - Dose History: DoseOrganizer logs the date and time of user taken and missed doses, so he can review or email his history at any time. - Lite Version: all features are allowed but for a limited number of drugs (only 1 drug)
Pillbeat
This app ensures you never miss a medication dose with persistent, full-screen alarms that function like a standard alarm. Easily mark doses as taken directly from the alert without unlocking your device. It offers flexible scheduling, detailed adherence history, and works offline.
- Persistent full-screen alarms
- Mark doses from alert
- Flexible scheduling options
- Adherence history and streaks
- Offline functionality
- Local data export and backup
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Pillbeat is a medication reminder and tracker built around one promise: reminders that actually go off. Doses fire like alarms — full-screen and persistent, breaking through Silent and Focus — so a reminder isn't a banner you might miss. Mark a dose Taken right from the alert, without unlocking your phone. FREE — AND FULLY USABLE • Add medications with name, dose, form, and an optional photo • Flexible schedules: fixed daily times, every X hours, specific weekdays, every X days, or cyclic (for example 21 on / 7 off) • A clear Today view — due, upcoming, and overdue at a glance, with no pop-up blocking your list • Log a dose late or retroactively — a missed dose is never hidden • Adherence history with a calendar and streak • Works fully offline, no account required • Local export and backup so your data survives reinstalling the app • Your medication list is never capped PILLBEAT PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Automatic iCloud sync and cloud backup across all your devices • Care — share your medication list with a family member on their own Apple ID; they see it and change nothing • For a medication that matters, they can ask to be alerted when a dose is still unconfirmed after a waiting time they choose Pillbeat keeps your medications, schedules, and history on your device. Premium adds automatic sync through your own private iCloud, and shares your list only with the person you invite — we run no servers and cannot read your data. Designed to be easy to read and simple to use, for caregivers and older users too. Pillbeat is a personal reminder and tracking tool. It does not provide medical advice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DoseOrganizer Lite at 71% against Pillbeat's 0%. DoseOrganizer Lite also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 26.0). Pillbeat's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, ads 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. Pillbeat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DoseOrganizer Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
DoseOrganizer Lite ships an update every 3 months, Pillbeat monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DoseOrganizer Lite | Pillbeat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mahmoud Adam | Arkadiusz Zembrowski |
Customer experience
DoseOrganizer Lite
Pillbeat
In-app purchases
DoseOrganizer Lite
No in-app purchases
Pillbeat
- Pillbeat Pro$9.99
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