Comparison

用药提醒 vs PillPetal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

用药提醒

Features
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简单易用的用药时间提醒,按时提醒防止忘记吃药 支持设置每周的某几天或者每个月的某几天作为用药时间

About

PillPetal

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PillPetal is a private medicine reminder and record-keeping app designed to make daily medication routines easier to organize. FLEXIBLE REMINDERS • Set multiple reminder times for each medicine • Schedule around breakfast, lunch, dinner, bedtime, or custom times • Create daily, selected-weekday, every-few-days, and interval schedules • Use standard notifications or optional audible alarms on iOS 26 • Open a reminder directly to the relevant medicine and scheduled dose CLEAR MEDICINE RECORDS • Mark doses as taken, skipped, or snoozed • Correct or undo an incorrectly recorded dose • Keep history after archiving a medicine • Track remaining quantities and record refills • Export history as CSV or create a local backup ON-DEVICE MEDICINE PHOTOS • Take a photo or choose one from Photos • Lift the medicine from its background using Apple Vision • Confirm the result or use the manual square crop • Use the saved image on medicine cards and notification attachments PERSONALIZE PILLPETAL • Choose English or Simplified Chinese • Select peony, hydrangea, delphinium, or mint themes • Use the widget to see the next reminder and record a taken dose • Choose Light, Dark, or System appearance PRIVATE BY DESIGN Medicine details, history, photos, text recognition, and subject extraction remain on your device. PillPetal has no account, advertising, analytics, cloud AI, or developer server. Data leaves the device only when you explicitly export or share a file. PillPetal is a reminder and record-keeping tool, not medical advice. Always follow instructions from your doctor, pharmacist, or medicine label.

Screenshots

用药提醒4 screens
PillPetal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: 用药提醒 at 3 against PillPetal's 1. 用药提醒 also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
用药提醒 versus PillPetal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter用药提醒PillPetal
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB25 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer超 马Sheng Hong Chen

In-app purchases

None

用药提醒

No in-app purchases

None

PillPetal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 用药提醒 free?
用药提醒 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PillPetal free?
PillPetal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do 用药提醒 or PillPetal have ads?
Neither 用药提醒 nor PillPetal shows ads.

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