TakeMyPills
Medication reminders that actually work.
Even when your phone doesn’t.
The private medication reminder built for families and caregivers. Reminders are sent from our server, not scheduled on your phone — so a reboot, an overnight OS update, or the battery-saver killing the app doesn’t make you miss a dose.
Coming to the App Store & Google Play. Public listing arriving soon.
Why other reminders fail
Most medication reminder apps schedule notifications locally on your phone. When the phone reboots, updates itself overnight, or force-closes the app to save battery, the reminder just doesn’t fire — and you miss a dose. The app never tells you.
TakeMyPills sends every reminder from our own server. Your phone doesn’t need to remember anything — it just needs to be on and connected at delivery time. Reboot the phone right before a scheduled dose? The reminder still arrives. Force-closed the app during your daily cleanup? Still arrives.
See it in action
A calm interface. Nothing to configure before you can use it. Everything the app does is on these five screens.
Today
30-day adherence
Family sync
Flexible schedules
Settings
Built for households, not solo users
Family sync — one code, everyone in sync
Create a family, share an 8-character code, and every device stays synchronised in real-time. A parent can log a child’s antibiotic while the other parent sees the same information from work. A caregiver can help an elderly relative from another city. No account, no email, just a code.
Multi-profile household
Track medications for yourself, your kids, your parents — each profile has its own schedule, history, and adherence stats. Perfect for a family where everyone takes different things at different times, or a caregiver managing several relatives.
Medication names never leak
Push notifications say “Time for your medication”, never the name of the drug or the dose. A glance at your lock screen, a smart-watch mirror, or a notification-relay app on someone else’s device reveals nothing about what you take. Health data is treated with the same care the law requires — no ad trackers, no AI training on your information.
Schedules that fit real prescriptions
Daily at fixed times, every X hours, specific weekdays only, with or without food, time-limited courses (“10 days, then stop”) or ongoing. Whatever your prescription looks like on paper, there’s a shape that fits.
Questions we get
How does TakeMyPills keep working when my phone reboots or updates overnight?
Reminders are not scheduled on your phone — they're sent from our server as push notifications. So a phone reboot, an overnight OS update, or the battery-saver killing the app doesn't break anything. As long as the phone is on and has network at delivery time, the reminder arrives. This is the single biggest reason people miss doses with other apps.
Can I set it up remotely on my parent’s phone?
The app itself lives on the parent's phone (they install it, they grant notification permission). Once they've done that, they share the 8-character family code with you and you join the family from your device — no visit needed. If they get stuck at install, a short phone call is usually enough because there's no account or login to configure.
What happens if the phone breaks or gets replaced?
Data is stored locally by default, so a broken phone with no family sync means the history is gone. If the person is part of a family, the other family members still have the profile and its full history on their devices — reinstall on the new phone, re-join the family with the same code, and everything comes back within seconds.
What appears on the lock screen when a reminder fires?
Just “Time for your medication”. The medication name and dose are never in the push payload, so a bystander glancing at your lock screen, a smart-watch mirror, or a notification-mirror app never sees what you take. The name only appears once you open the app.
Does it handle complex regimens (empty-stomach, every-3-days, time-limited courses)?
Yes. Schedules can be daily at fixed times, every X hours, specific weekdays, with or without food, or time-limited (“10 days, then stop”). Multiple doses per day are supported per medication. If your regimen is more complex than that, tell me — the app grows with the household patterns it needs to serve.
One dev, one server, one honest tool
TakeMyPills is built by a solo developer inside TrainRBoost, the same shop that ships Puna, Cactus and Doudou. There’s no VC, no ad department, no data broker contract. The app is free to use because there’s nothing to monetise — data stays on your phone unless you invite specific people into a family. If you leave the family alone, no server anywhere knows it exists.