Pill Bug vs CountingPills
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pill Bug
Easily manage your medication schedule with this tool. It helps you log what you take and when, ensuring you never miss a dose. Designed for simplicity and reliability in your daily health routine.
- Medication tracking
- Time-based reminders
- Log medication intake
- Simple interface
- Reliable tracking
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An app for people to track what medicines they take and at what time of day.
CountingPills
This application uses your phone's camera and AI to quickly count pills from a single photo. It visualizes detected pills with dot markers and offers a simple workflow for capturing and retaking images.
- Camera-based pill counting
- AI pill detection
- Detection visualization with dots
- Fast retake functionality
- Simple and clean user experience
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CountingPills is a camera-based app that quickly counts pills from a single photo. When you tap capture, the frame is frozen and AI detects pills, marks each detected position with dots, and shows the total count. Key Features - Capture-based counting: stable counting from a captured frame instead of noisy live updates - Detection visualization: dot markers on detected pill positions - Fast retake flow: quickly retry with one tap - Clean, simple UX: capture, review, and retake in a straightforward flow This app is designed to assist with general counting and does not replace medical advice or medication instructions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CountingPills at 5.0 against Pill Bug's 3.0. On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CountingPills holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Pill Bug | CountingPills |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Travis Ratliff | ChanSol Shin |
Customer experience
Pill Bug
CountingPills
In-app purchases
Pill Bug
No in-app purchases
CountingPills
No in-app purchases
