Comparison

DoseKeep vs Last Dose

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

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About

DoseKeep

This app helps you track medications for your entire household, including pets. It offers customizable reminders and detailed adherence history, all stored privately on your device. Never miss a dose with its intuitive interface and flexible scheduling options.

Highlights
  • Multiple profiles for family and pets
  • Customizable medication reminders
  • Adherence tracking and history
  • Home screen widgets and Lock Screen support
  • Flexible scheduling options
  • Offline functionality
  • Data export (PDF/CSV)
Features
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DoseKeep is the private way to remember every medication in your house and prove they were taken. One list for parents, kids, and pets. No account. No ads. No subscription. Everything stays on your iPhone. Most medication apps cap the free tier, charge monthly for a second family member, or send health data to the cloud. DoseKeep does the opposite: unlimited medications, every reminder, and your full history are free forever, and nothing ever leaves your device. ONE LIST FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE • Profiles for the people and pets you care for, all on one phone • Each profile has its own medications, reminders, streak, and history • Pets get a paw icon and reminders in their own voice: "Buddy needs Carprofen" • Two profiles are free; a one-time Plus unlock adds more. Never a monthly family plan IF YOU'RE LATE, IT KNOWS THE RULE • Set a rule per medication: more than a few hours late means skip, never double • Today and the reminders say so when it happens, and offer Skip instead of Taken • Confirm the right window with your pharmacist; DoseKeep never guesses for you YOUR SKY, ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • The next dose on the night sky in your chosen palette, with a one-tap Taken button when it is due • Today's doses, your streak, and the constellations you have lit, in every widget size and on the Lock Screen • Every dose you log lights a star. A missed dose never dims anything REMINDERS THAT DON'T GIVE UP • Every dose time, even offline, with Taken, Snooze, and Skip right on the notification • Follow-ups at 10, 20, and 30 minutes, and hourly nudges if you ask for them • Time-Sensitive reminders that break through Focus and silent mode • Discreet mode keeps medication names off your Lock Screen SCHEDULES FOR REAL LIFE • Every day, specific weekdays, every few days, or as-needed with a spacing rule • Days-on, days-off cycles, and courses that end on their own • A taper ladder: step a dose down every few days until it reaches zero, reminders following each rung • Multiple reminder times per day, with different amounts per time TRACK EVERY DOSE • Your day at a glance with the next dose up front and one tap to log it • Forgot to log it? A catch-up lets you answer honestly after the fact • A streak that forgives: honest skips keep it, and two shields a month cover chaotic days YOUR RECORD, DOCTOR-READY • A calendar of your adherence and a percentage over 7, 30, or 90 days, per medication • Export your full history as a PDF summary or CSV spreadsheet, free NEVER RUN OUT, NEVER LOST • Optional refill tracking with a heads-up before you run out • Land in a new time zone and DoseKeep asks once: keep local times, or shift every reminder • Free backup and restore: your whole history as one file you control TRULY PRIVATE • 100% on-device. No account, no server, no tracking, no ads, no data sharing DOSEKEEP PLUS (optional, one-time) Everything you need to never miss a dose is free, forever. Plus is a small one-time thank-you that unlocks more than two profiles, history beyond 90 days, and three more night skies (Aurora, Dusk, Ember). No subscription, ever. DoseKeep helps you remember. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Always follow the instructions from your doctor and pharmacist.

About

Last Dose

Features
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Last Dose answers one question: when did I last take it? Open the app and the answer is the first thing on screen, in large type — what you took, how long ago, and whether another dose is possible yet. Paracetamol, ibuprofen, an antihistamine, a migraine tablet: anything you take on demand rather than on a fixed schedule. FREE TO DOWNLOAD. ONE IN-APP PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION. Last Dose is free to download. A single optional in-app purchase, paid once, unlocks the full version — and that is the only payment there will ever be. No subscription, no trial that turns into a bill, no recurring charge, no advertising. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE Last Dose collects no data at all. There is no account to create, no email to hand over, no cloud to sync with. The app makes no network requests of any kind — none — so your medication record cannot be transmitted anywhere, to us or to anyone else. No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifiers, no tracking. It asks for no system permissions: not your contacts, not your photos, not your location, not Health data. Your record is written to your device's private storage and is removed with the app. WHAT IT DOES • Record a dose with one tap. The time stays on screen: "2 h 15 min ago, at 12:45". • Set optional limits per medication — a minimum time between doses, and a maximum number of doses per 12 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours or 7 days. • The status tells you when the next dose is possible, and which limit you are waiting on. • Forgot to log one? Record an earlier dose at the time it was actually taken. • Undo any action: recording a dose, removing one, deleting a medication. • A history for each medication, day by day, so you can see the pattern of a bad week. It is a record, not a scheduler. There are no alarms and no notifications. You write down what you took and when; the app does the arithmetic you should not have to do while you are in pain. BUILT TO BE READ • Luciole throughout — a typeface designed with and for low-vision readers. • Status is never colour alone: an icon, a sentence and a colour, every time. • Every control is at least 48 points. Nothing important hides behind a gesture. • Full VoiceOver support; recording a dose announces itself. • Dynamic Type to the largest sizes without losing a word off the screen. • A high-contrast mode, in light and in dark. • iPhone, iPad and foldables: on a wide window the list sits beside the detail. IMPORTANT Last Dose keeps a record; it does not give medical advice and it is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or recommend a dose. The limits it counts against are the ones you type in yourself, from your own prescription or package leaflet. Follow the instructions of your pharmacist, your doctor or the leaflet. Typeface: Luciole, by Laurent Bourcellier and Jonathan Perez, designed for low-vision readers. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Screenshots

DoseKeep4 screens
Last Dose4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DoseKeep at none against Last Dose's 1. Last Dose's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. Last Dose sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DoseKeep asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
DoseKeep versus Last Dose: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoseKeepLast Dose
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNICHOLAS DANIEL MINIERILinosec

In-app purchases

None

DoseKeep

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Last Dose

One-time1
  • Full Version$3.99

Questions

Is DoseKeep free?
DoseKeep is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Last Dose free?
Last Dose is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DoseKeep or Last Dose have ads?
Neither DoseKeep nor Last Dose shows ads.

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