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On a taper? It steps down with you
Each step changes the dose, the alarm text and the count on the day it starts. Every other day, set weekdays, weekly and 21-on-7-off work too.
8:00 AM · Thursday
The medication reminder that actually goes off
It rings when a dose is due and rings again if you ignore it. It writes down the minute you really took it, and tells you a week before the box runs out.
- Free, no cap on medicines
- No account
- No ads
- Works offline
On an iPhone? Not yet. Pillbean is Android only for now.
Ignore it, and it rings again
Each medicine gets its own alarm level. The vitamin can nudge you once while the one you can’t skip keeps ringing until you answer.
GentleFor the vitamin
One reminder. It will wait on your lock screen.
- 8:00
- waits on the lock screen
InsistentThe default
Rings, then twice more, ten minutes apart. Then it waits on your lock screen, unanswered.
- 8:00
- 8:10
- 8:20
- then waits, unanswered
CriticalFor the one you can’t skip
Full screen, sound through Do Not Disturb, and it keeps asking until you answer. Turn it down is always one tap away.
- 8:00
- 8:10
- 8:20
- 8:30
- …
- until you answer
“Did I already take it?”
Pillbean writes down the minute you press Took, not the time the dose was due. So when you can’t remember, the record can.
Due8:00 AM
12 min after the alarm
Took8:12 AM
No streaks. No score. Just what happened.
Running low? It tells you first
The count drops with every dose you log, half tablets too. You hear about it a week before the box is empty, not the morning of.
Metformin · twice a day14 left
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7heads-up
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14runs out
Heads-up Wed, Oct 7Runs out Wed, Oct 14
Can’t spell it? Snap the label
Point the camera at the pharmacy label. The name, strength and times are read on your phone and nothing is uploaded. Or type “the little white one”.
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Mom’s meds too, on the same phone
Each person gets their own medicines, times and alarms, and every profile stays armed, not just the one on screen.
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When the doctor asks, show them this
One page: what was prescribed, what actually happened, and every skipped dose with the reason you gave.
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New phone? Your record comes too
Back up to your own Google Drive. It is locked with your passphrase on this phone before a byte leaves, and we never learn who you are.
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LAST TEST 9:41 PM · RANG ON TIME
Test it before you trust it
The 60-second self-test sets a real alarm a minute away, through the same path your doses use. Lock the phone, put it down, and wait for it.
- Restarts and updates
- Every alarm is rebuilt the moment the phone comes back on.
- Battery saver
- If your phone adds its own limits, Settings shows the switch and opens it for you.
- Your medicines
- Nothing about a medicine, not a name, a dose or a time, reaches our servers.
- No account
- No sign-up, no email. Your record stays on your phone.
We treat three things as bugs, not missing features: an alarm that doesn’t ring, a record that isn’t true, and a box that runs out without warning. If Pillbean does one of them to you, write to us and we’ll fix it.
Every alarm is free
Reminders, the record and refill warnings stay free forever. Unlock the four extras whenever you like.
$0forever
- Every alarm, every escalation
- Medicines, with no cap
- The 60-second self-test
- Timestamped history
- Refill warnings and counts
- The whole record, CSV export
No trial to run out and no cap to hit. The free part stays free.
Unlock the four extras, either way
Monthly$3 a month3 days free, then cancel anytime in Google Play
No subscriptionLifetime$19 oncePay once and keep it. Nothing renews.
- Everyone else you look afterTheir own medicines, alarms and record.
- The one-page visit reportReal times and skip reasons, on one page.
- The awkward schedulesTapers, cycles, weekly doses, half tablets.
- Backup to Google DriveLocked on this phone first. A new phone gets the record back.
Prices in US dollars. Google Play shows yours before you pay.
Questions people ask before they install
Something else? Write to [email protected].
Will it ring if my phone is on silent?
Reminders play at your alarm volume, the way an alarm clock does. Do Not Disturb holds them like any other app, except the medicines you mark Critical, which ring through it.
My Samsung keeps killing reminder apps. Will this one ring?
Pillbean sets each dose the way an alarm clock does, and rebuilds them after a restart or an update. If your phone adds its own battery limits, Settings shows which switch is off and opens the right screen.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up and no email. Your medicines stay on your phone.
Can I keep my mother on here too?
Yes. Each person gets their own medicines, own times and own alarms on this one phone, and a dose is always filed under whose medicine it is. Profiles are part of the paid unlock.
Can it tell me if I took the wrong pill?
No. Pillbean knows only the names and times you typed in. It has no medical knowledge at all, and a pharmacist answers that in a minute.
Is there an iPhone version?
Not yet. Pillbean is on Android today.
On a computer? Scan to get it on your phone
Two minutes to set up
Free on Google Play. No account to make.
On an iPhone? Not yet. Pillbean is Android only for now.