TaperMate vs Juno
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TaperMate
This app helps users gradually reduce medication dosages as recommended by their doctor. It creates personalized tapering schedules, tracks user-reported feelings, and generates reports for prescribers. It supports various methods for creating custom doses and offers resources on withdrawal.
- Personalized dose-by-dose tapering schedules
- Daily mood and symptom tracking
- Multiple methods for creating custom doses
- Exportable reports for prescribers
- Resources on withdrawal and support services
- Dose reminders and tracking
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Many medicines don't need to be taken forever. When your doctor recommends stopping or cutting down, TaperMate helps you taper slowly and track how you feel. Try it free. Most people are told to halve their dose and stop. TaperMate turns the taper you agree with your prescriber into a dose-by-dose schedule and tracks how you feel, so you can come off or cut down with your prescriber instead of on your own. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add your medication and the taper you've agreed with your prescriber 2. TaperMate works out each dose and how to make it with the medication you have on hand 3. Log how you feel and share it with your prescriber when deciding what's next I'M THE PHARMACIST WHO BUILT THIS "I've seen first-hand how hard tapering can be, I wanted to make it easier." Alicia Martin, Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours, two pharmacist-of-the-year awards in 2024, and a telehealth tapering clinic for Australian patients. WHAT'S INSIDE • Built on clinical guidelines. Follow a Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines or RELEASE Toolkit plan recommended by your doctor, or build your own at any pace. Drop by a set percentage or number of mg, as often as you choose, for example 10% reductions every 4 weeks. • Five ways to make a dose that isn't sold. Tablet cutting (great for Valium), capsule combinations (great for compounding), liquid (great for microtapers), and weighing or bead counting (great for Cymbalta and Efexor). We show you how to make each dose with the medication and equipment you have. • Know exactly what to take, every day. Dose reminders, mark each dose taken or missed, or put a dose on hold. • Understand your windows and waves. Daily mood and symptom check-ins to make sure you're not tapering too fast, with graphs over time. • Hand your prescriber a report they can use. Export a PDF with your dose history, diary, and mood and symptom graphs. • Find your exact brand. Search by brand or active ingredient, or add your own. • Resources on withdrawal, hyperbolic tapering and support services. Made for medicines that cause withdrawal when stopped suddenly, like antidepressants (SSRIs, SNRIs, TCAs), benzodiazepines, sleeping pills, gabapentin and pregabalin, opioids, mood stabilisers, stimulants and other psychotropics. WHAT PEOPLE SAY "This app does what the other three on the app store do not. Actually schedules the taper! Best app for this purpose, hands down." Jason "So easy to use, with tons of options to plan your tapering. I'm very impressed with the functionality and ease of use. I highly recommend this." Lacey "Incredibly helpful, I'd recommend to anyone undergoing deprescribing." Chloé-Jayne B "This app is a HUGE help to me!" N. Holm 1,000+ downloads Try TaperMate free. A subscription unlocks every feature, with monthly and yearly options. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: https://tapermate.com.au/privacy-policy https://tapermate.com.au/terms-of-use Connect with TaperMate: Website: tapermate.com.au Instagram: @TaperMateApp Facebook: @TaperMate Quick single-dose taper calculator at calculator.tapermate.com.au Please note: Any decision to stop taking a medication should be made in conjunction with your prescribing doctor. TaperMate is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Questions or feedback? Email support@tapermate.com.au, we read every message. Thanks, Alicia and the TaperMate team
Juno
This personal health assistant simplifies managing chronic illness through conversational symptom and medication tracking. It offers energy pacing, health insights, and community support without demanding extensive data entry.
- Log symptoms via text or voice
- Medication management and reminders
- Energy pacing and activity planning
- Health data integration
- Chronic illness community
- Symptom pattern analysis
- Medical appointment preparation
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Meet Juno, your personal health assistant for life with chronic illness - trusted by over 250,000 users globally. Text Juno the same way you would message a friend. Say, “My migraine is 7 out of 10 and started after lunch,” and Juno can log the symptom, severity, and context for you. Prefer talking? Use voice instead. Juno brings compassionate support, symptom tracking, medication management, energy pacing, health insights, and community into one place—without making you complete another exhausting form. LOG SYMPTOMS BY TEXT OR VOICE Too tired for forms? Simply describe what is happening in your own words. Use Juno to: - Log symptoms, pain, mood, energy, and health notes through conversation - Record symptom severity and useful context without navigating long forms - Talk through a difficult symptom day or 3 AM flare - Remember details from your health journey - Prepare questions and talking points for medical appointments Juno personalizes support using the conditions, symptoms, and routines you choose to share, so you don’t have to explain everything again each time. No toxic positivity. No judgment. No pressure to “push through.” Juno meets you where your energy is today. TRACK SYMPTOMS AND SPOT PATTERNS Build a simple health diary that works even through fatigue, pain, and brain fog. - Review your symptom history and explore trends - Compare symptoms with activities, medication, and cycle information - See how symptoms change across days and weeks - Create PDF symptom reports to share with your care team MANAGE MEDICATIONS Keep your medication routine in one place. - Add scheduled and as-needed medications - Set medication reminders and mark doses as taken - Review your medication history and consistency - Share an organized medication list when needed PACE YOUR ENERGY Juno understands spoon theory and the reality of post-exertional crashes. - Set your energy level - Plan tasks around your available spoons - Estimate the energy cost of activities - Build routines that respect your changing capacity CONNECT YOUR HEALTH DATA Bring supported health and wearable data including Apple Health, Oura, Garmin, Bearable, Visible and CareClinic into Juno for a more complete view of your day. Review sleep, steps, heart rate, and activity alongside the symptoms and context you record. FIND PEOPLE WHO GET IT Join a chronic illness community shaped around real lived experience. - Discover posts from people with similar conditions - Join condition-based groups - Share experiences, questions, and photos - Connect through replies, profiles, and private messages BUILT FOR CHRONIC AND INVISIBLE ILLNESS Juno supports people living with fibromyalgia, POTS and dysautonomia, ME/CFS, Long COVID, endometriosis, EDS and hypermobility, MCAS, FND, lupus, arthritis, migraine, IBS, MS, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, autoimmune conditions, neurological conditions, rare disease, and other chronic or invisible illnesses. PRIVATE, SECURE, AND IN YOUR CONTROL Your health data is private and secure. We take privacy seriously and do not sell your personal health information. Juno is a supportive health and wellness assistant, not a doctor or medical service. It does not diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical advice. If you may be experiencing an emergency, contact local emergency services. Join over 200,000 people using Juno to feel more understood, more organized, and less alone. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://junocompanion.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Juno at 4.8 against TaperMate's 3.4. Juno also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 33%) and ratings volume (11K vs 5). On price, update cadence, 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. TaperMate sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Juno sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Juno holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Juno has 11K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of TaperMate's written reviews are positive against 70% of Juno's.
TaperMate ships an update every 2 weeks, Juno weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TaperMate | Juno |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) | 4.8 (11K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 69.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 11K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #136 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 290 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | TaperMate | SharedGenes, Inc. |
Customer experience
TaperMate
Juno
Bugs and requests
TaperMate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Juno
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inability to save profile details
- Paid features not working as expected
Requested features
2 requests- Improve free access and pricing model
- Fix bugs and stability issues
In-app purchases
TaperMate
- TaperMate Pro Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- TaperMate Pro Weekly (Referral)1 Month trial$3.997 Days
- TaperMate Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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- TaperMate Pro Monthly (Referral)1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- TaperMate Pro Monthly NY20261 Month trial$9.991 Month
- TaperMate Pro Yearly7 Days trial$59.001 Year
- TaperMate Pro Yearly NY20261 Year trial$59.001 Year
- TaperMate Pro Yearly (Referral)1 Month trial$59.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime Early Bird$129.99
- Pro Lifetime Trial Ending$149.99
Juno
- Juno Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
- Juno Pro Weekly$6.997 Days
- Juno Pro Monthly Discounted$9.991 Month
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- Juno Pro Monthly2 variants$14.991 Month
- Juno Pro Monthly$19.991 Month
- Juno Pro Yearly Discounted7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Quarterly3 Days trial$44.993 Months
- Juno Pro Yearly3 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Juno Pro Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year









