Medication tracker: every pill with its dose, frequency, times and alerts

How to add a medication with dose, frequency, time and alerts

1. 1Create a free account and open the Stack screen — this is the list of everything you take.
2. 2Add a medication: photograph the label with the scanner, or type the name. The scanner reads the drug name and strength off the box or bottle and fills them in for you.
3. 3Set the dose: the amount per dose and the unit (mg, mcg, IU, ml, tablets).
4. 4Set the frequency: once daily, twice daily, specific weekdays, every other day, weekly, or a taper with dates.
5. 5Set the time or times of day for each dose, plus a with-food or empty-stomach rule if the label has one.
6. 6Turn on alerts for that medication — you get a notification at each dose time, and it stays outstanding until you mark it taken or skipped.
7. 7Repeat for every pill, injection and supplement, then check the whole list at once with the interaction checker.

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What you record for each pill

Each medication is one entry, and the entry holds everything a pharmacist or doctor would ask about it.

• Name and strength — read straight off the label by the scanner, or typed in.
• Dose per administration and the unit: mg, mcg, IU, ml, or a number of tablets or capsules.
• Frequency: daily, twice daily, three times daily, specific weekdays, alternating days, weekly, or a dated taper.
• Time of day for every dose, so a twice-daily pill has two separate alerts rather than one vague reminder.
• Food rule, form (tablet, capsule, liquid, injection, patch) and free-text notes such as the prescriber's instruction.
• Start date, and an end date or course length where one applies, so short courses stop reminding you on their own.

Alerts that survive a busy day

A reminder is only useful if it is still there when you finally pick up your phone. Each dose stays an open item rather than a notification that vanishes.

• One alert per scheduled dose time, on phone and, on iPhone, mirrored to Apple Watch.
• Dose stays outstanding on the Today screen until you mark it taken or skipped — no silently missed pills.
• Marking taken records the real time, which is what the adherence history and the doctor report are built from.
• Skipping asks nothing and judges nothing; it just records that the dose was not taken, so the record stays honest.
• Quiet windows, so a bedtime medication does not wake you at a time you would never take it.

Schedules that real prescriptions actually use

Most reminder apps only handle 'every day at 9'. Prescriptions rarely look like that once you take more than one.

• Twice and three-times daily with independent times for each dose.
• Weekly injections and weekly tablets pinned to a chosen weekday.
• Alternating-day and on/off cycles for hormones, peptides and cycled supplements.
• Tapers: a dated plan that steps the dose down, so the reminder changes with the plan instead of you rewriting it each week.
• Titration steps for GLP-1s, recorded as a schedule with the date each step starts.
• As-needed medications logged when taken, without an alert pestering you for a dose you may not need.

When you take several medications at once

The point of one tracker rather than several alarms is that the list can be checked as a whole.

• Interaction checking across every item in your list — prescriptions, over-the-counter medicines and supplements together — against 475+ compounds with the source attached.
• A single day view that groups everything due at the same time, so a morning with four items is one check rather than four alarms.
• Refill and supply tracking, so a pack running low is visible before the last dose.
• A one-page doctor report you can export as a PDF: what you take, the dose, the schedule and how consistently it was taken.
• A printable or shareable medication list for appointments, hospital visits and travel.

Adding a medication by photo

Typing a long drug name correctly is the reason most people abandon a tracker in the first week. Photograph it instead.

• Photograph a prescription label, a box, a blister pack or a supplement bottle and the scanner reads the name and strength.
• Every identification shows a percentage confidence and stays editable before you save it, so a wrong read is visible, not hidden.
• Barcodes on over-the-counter boxes and supplements are matched against a curated database first.
• Unsure what a loose tablet is? The pill identifier matches it by imprint, shape and colour.
• Measured scanner accuracy is published rather than claimed.