Pill Alert Pro vs Take a Dose
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pill Alert Pro
Never miss a medication dose again with this comprehensive reminder and tracking app. It allows for multiple user profiles, customizable schedules, and detailed logging of taken or skipped medications. Features include refill reminders, picture attachments, and secure data backup.
- Customizable medication schedules
- Multiple user profiles
- Log taken or skipped doses
- Refill reminders
- Email pill logs
- Passcode and Touch ID protection
- iCloud and Dropbox backup
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Pill Alert is your full time secretary whose sole duty is making sure you take meds on time. It supports multiple profiles, so you can use it for both you and your family members. Just need to enter the schedules, Pill Alert will remind you takings meds on due time, and you can keep the pill taken logs, email them to yourself or your doctors. So you don’t need to always keep in mind that you should take those meds on those different times, it makes you stress relief in daily life. Here are the key feathers of this app: ⁃ Add schedules with frequency, dosage, time, times a day, and date range. ⁃ Calendar overview to check reminders or pill taken logs. ⁃ Check upcoming due meds. ⁃ Mark pill log as taken or skip. ⁃ Snooze reminder to make it alert later. ⁃ Turn ON or OFF schedule. ⁃ 15 free reminder sounds available. ⁃ Supports sound recording as a reminder. ⁃ Track quantity of each meds and remind when it’s time to refill. ⁃ Add Taken as Needed meds and check their logs separately with other meds. ⁃ Add pictures for each med. ⁃ Check logs by date or by medications. ⁃ Email pill taken logs by date or by mediations. ⁃ Email all the pills need to take info. ⁃ Customize unit, form and route. ⁃ Support multiple profiles and manager their data separately. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Supports Touch ID as passcode. ⁃ iCloud auto sync between iOS devices. ⁃ iCloud Backup and Restore. ⁃ Dropbox Backup and Restore. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch. ⁃ Adds 3D Touch function. ⁃ Supports universal version (available on both iPhone and iPad). If you have any question, please email to linklinksapp@tom.com.
Take a Dose
This app helps ensure you take your medications regularly, especially when managing multiple prescriptions. It accounts for specific timing and meal requirements, reducing the worry of forgetting doses.
- Medication regularity tracking
- Handles multiple prescriptions
- Considers meal timing
- Simplifies treatment adherence
- User-friendly interface
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Application „Take a Dose” is free and very simple application that can be extremely useful for our health. It will take care of the regularity of our treatment. Sometimes we don't remember about taking medications, especially when treatment requires many drugs. Various recommendations have to be followed for example: specific time of taking or connection with meals. Thanks to the application „Take a Dose” we don't have to be worry about these details any more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Take a Dose at 5.0 against Pill Alert Pro's 3.7. Take a Dose also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). Pill Alert Pro's advantage is ratings volume (80 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and update cadence 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. Pill Alert Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 6 months. Take a Dose asks for nothing beyond the download.
Take a Dose holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pill Alert Pro has 80 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pill Alert Pro ships an update every 6 months, Take a Dose every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pill Alert Pro | Take a Dose |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (80 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 80 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | LINKLINKS LTD | LekSeek Polska Sp. z o.o. |
Customer experience
Pill Alert Pro
Take a Dose
Bugs and requests
Pill Alert Pro
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes or freezes frequently
- Data disappearing or not syncing correctly
- Incorrect time/date shown for medication logs
- Reminders not triggering as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Add option to track supplements/vitamins
- Allow more customization of medication schedules
- Improve sync functionality across devices
- Provide better instructions or user manual
Take a Dose
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pill Alert Pro
- Premium - 6 months$2.996 Months
- Unlimited Profiles$9.99
- Remove Ads Forever$19.99
- Export Data$19.99
Take a Dose
No in-app purchases
Questions
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