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I'm the developer of Pillbean, an Android medication reminder. The part I wanted to solve was changing schedules. "Take one tablet every morning" is straightforward. A taper that goes from two tablets to one to half a tablet needs the dose, the alarm text and the remaining stock to change along with it. What's free, forever: The alarm engine. Unlimited medicines, three escalation levels per medicine, Took/Snooze/Skip straight from the notification. As-needed (PRN) medication: tracks your configured daily ceiling and minimum spacing, states them, and never blocks you from logging a dose anyway. If you took a fifth one, the record needs it written down, not refused. The record: dose history with the real press time, skips with reasons, undo, and a refill warning a week before you run out. CSV export of the whole record. What's in the paid tier ($2.99/month, or $19 once and nothing renews): Taper ladders: each step updates the dose, the alarm text and the pill count, including half tablets. Hold a rung when the doctor says wait, and the ladder re-anchors instead of losing the days. Day patterns: every other day, selected weekdays, weekly, and a 21-on/7-off cycle. These change what actually gets armed, not just a label — a weekly methotrexate that rings daily is the failure I was most worried about. A one-page visit report: what was prescribed, what actually happened, every exception with its reason. Printable or save-as-PDF. Extra profiles, for managing someone else's medication on the same phone. Every profile stays armed, not just the one on screen. Encrypted backup to your own Google Drive. One engineering detail I care about: the app uses Android's alarm-clock scheduling path (setAlarmClock, the same one your morning alarm uses, which is exempt from Doze batching), re-arms after reboot, app update, timezone change and clock change, and ships a 60-second self-test in settings that fires a real alarm through the real code path so you can check it yourself rather than take my word for it. Medication records stay on your phone. There's no Pillbean account, label scanning runs fully on-device, and the optional Drive backup is encrypted on the phone with your passphrase before a byte moves — into your Drive, not a server of mine. Nothing about a medicine ever leaves the device. The app does send anonymous usage counts and crash reports (screen names, counts, stack traces — never a medicine name, dose or time), and there's no opt-out toggle for that yet. Google Play — Pillbean I'd be interested to hear which part of managing a changing medication schedule still ends up in a spreadsheet or a handwritten note for you.   submitted by   /u/riazosama [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/22 17:02:35