Small things that make a big difference. None of these need an app — but since most of you here use Doz, I've added where each one lives in the app.

1. Name by purpose, not by drug

"Metformin" means nothing in six months. "Metformin — blood sugar" tells you what it's for, and tells anyone helping you why it matters.

In Doz: just type it into the medication name field. The whole name shows on your Today screen, so you see the purpose every morning without opening anything.

2. Don't schedule as-needed medication

A painkiller you take twice a month, put on a daily schedule, shows up as 28 missed doses. A few months of that and your history is useless — which matters if you ever show it to a doctor.

In Doz: add it without a reminder time. It stays in your medication list and you log it manually when you take it. You get the record without the false misses.

3. Ask what "with food" actually means

Full meal, or is toast enough? During, or is 20 minutes after fine?

Ask your pharmacist once, write it down, stop re-deciding every morning. They'll tell you for free.

In Doz: use the Mealtime setting so the reminder lands with the meal instead of at a fixed clock time, and put the specific answer in the medication's notes so it's there when you forget.

4. Set refill reminders a week early

Not the day you run out. That day might be a Sunday, a holiday, or the day you find out your prescription needs renewing and your doctor is booked for a week.

Seven days has never let me down. Three isn't enough.

In Doz: enter your current stock count and set the low-stock threshold to about a week's worth of doses. And a heads-up — this is getting a proper rebuild soon. The refill will become a task that sits in your Today screen until you deal with it, instead of one notification you dismiss at a red light.

5. Know what to do when you miss one

Four hours late, unsure whether to double up or skip. Both can be wrong depending on the drug.

Ask your pharmacist for the missed-dose rule for each thing you take, write it down somewhere you'll actually see it. Then it's a lookup, not a decision at 11pm.

That's it. Twenty minutes once, and everything after gets easier.

Anyone got a better answer for #5 than "call the pharmacy"?

A — Answer

Hey everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Doz, a medication reminder app I originally built because I couldn't keep my own prescriptions straight. I've posted here before, and this community has been a big part of how the app got better.

Doz has now passed 2,000 active users with a 4.8 average rating. All of it is organic and word of mouth — I haven't spent a single cent on ads. I really appreciate that.

Here's the part that matters to me: roughly 40% of those users came from Reddit — from people here trying it, telling me what was broken, and telling someone else about it.

So I want to give something back: there's a 30% off offer code for Doz Pro at the bottom of this post. It works for everyone, it's good for 3 days, and you don't need to comment or DM me for it.

B — Better

Most medication apps I tried treat every pill as an isolated task: "take one at 8:00 AM." Real prescriptions aren't like that. Medications belong to the same treatment; they have food timing, they run out, they need refilling early, and they end.

Doz is built around prescriptions, not a flat list of reminders. You create a prescription, put the related medications and instructions inside it, and follow the treatment as a whole instead of decoding a long list of individual pills.

What's new since my last post — all of it built on feedback from people here:

Prescriptions now behave like actual prescriptions. This was the most-loved feature, so it got the most work:

• Prescriptions have a duration and an end date
• You can attach your doctor's name and contact details
• You can mark a prescription as completed and keep it archived

Notifications and refills:

• More reliable follow-up reminders for missed doses
• Improved low-stock and refill alerts so you're warned before you run out, not after
• Clearer at-a-glance stock levels

Plus the foundation from before: daily and flexible non-daily schedules, before/with/after-meal reminders, Critical Alerts that get through Silent and Focus modes, adherence insights, Home Screen widgets, iCloud sync with data staying on your device, eight languages, no ads, no account required.

Coming next, aimed at making it easier to actually take the dose rather than just be reminded of it:

• Apple Health sync
• Mark a dose taken straight from the notification
• Mark a dose taken from Apple Watch

C — Cost

Doz is free to use with:

• Up to 4 active medications and 1 active prescription
• All schedule modes
• Reminders and dose logging
• 7-day progress tracking
• Inventory tracking and low-stock alerts

Doz Pro is designed for people with more complex routines, helping you stay consistent, avoid missed doses, and manage everything with less effort:

• Unlimited medications and prescriptions so you can track everything in one place
• Critical Alerts and smarter follow-up reminders to reduce missed doses
• Detailed adherence insights to understand how well you’re following each treatment
• Full progress history for long-term tracking
• Meal-time synchronization for better timing accuracy
• Faster dose logging directly from Home Screen widgets
• Archived treatment management to keep past prescriptions organized
• Custom alert sounds for clearer, more noticeable reminders

Pricing:

• Monthly: $2.99
• Yearly: $9.99, 3-day free trial
• Lifetime: $19.99

All paid plans support Apple Family Sharing.

The thank-you offer — 30% off Doz Pro Lifetime

• Code: DOZREDDIT
• Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760699565&code=DOZREDDIT
• Works for everyone; no comment or DM needed
• Expires in 3 days
• The final price varies by country, since App Store pricing is regional

How to claim:

1. Open the redeem link on your iPhone.
2. Apply the code at checkout.
3. Enjoy Lifetime Pro! 🎉

If you manage medications for yourself or someone in your family, I'd really like to hear what still doesn't work for you. Every feature above came from someone saying exactly that.

And if you're already using Doz and it's been helping, a rating or a short review on the App Store would mean a lot. As a solo developer with no ad budget, reviews are pretty much the only way new people find the app — and honest feedback in a review tells me what to fix next just as well as a comment here does. Thanks for reading!!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565

Website: https://getdoz.app/

This is what's actually being built. Posting it publicly partly so you can argue with it, and partly so I can't quietly drop something and pretend it was never promised.

1. Apple Health sync — the most requested thing by a wide margin

Doz will write your medication log into Apple Health. Every dose you mark taken shows up there alongside everything else Health already knows about you.

The reason this matters more than it sounds: your medication history currently lives inside my app and nowhere else. That's a bad place for it to live. If you want to show a doctor six months of adherence, or correlate a dose with sleep or heart rate, or not have your health data trapped in one indie developer's database — you can't right now. This fixes that.

To be clear about direction: this is Doz → Health. Writing your log out. Reading medication data from Health is a separate, messier problem and isn't in this batch.

2. Backlog any past day from the Today screen

Right now, if you forgot to mark yesterday's dose, logging it is more work than it should be. You'll be able to go back to any day directly from Today and fill it in.

This one is less exciting and probably affects your daily experience more than anything else on this list. The gap between "I took it" and "the app knows I took it" is where adherence data quietly becomes fiction.

3. Refills that actually work in real life

The current low-stock warning is a notification. Notifications get dismissed at a red light and then cease to exist.

New approach, two parts:

• A persistent in-app refill task. When a medication is low, a refill task sits in your Today screen and on the medication's detail page and stays there until you deal with it. Not dismissible by accident. This part isn't optional — it's how the feature works.
• An optional reminder on top. Only if you tap "Remind me later" and pick a time. If you never ask for it, you never get a notification.

The principle is that a task you haven't done should be visible where you already look, not shouted at you once and then forgotten by the software.

4. Interactive notifications — mark taken, skip, or snooze without opening the app

Long-press the notification, tap Taken, done. Skip and Snooze in the same place.

Most of the friction in daily logging isn't the pill; it's the four taps after the pill.

5. Doz on Apple Watch

Take a dose from your wrist. Same three actions, no phone needed.

If your phone is in another room — which it is, for a lot of morning and bedtime doses — the current flow just doesn't happen, and then the log has a hole in it that isn't a real missed dose.

If something you rely on isn't here, say so. "Not on the roadmap" and "never" are different words, and this list has changed because of feedback before.

That one change fixed more missed doses for me than any alarm ever did.

Here's why. An alarm has to ask for your attention, and you can say no to it — usually while half asleep, usually while telling yourself you'll do it in five minutes. A bottle sitting next to your coffee machine doesn't ask. It's just there, in the middle of something you already do every single morning without thinking.

Three anchors worth trying this week:

☀️ Morning meds → beside the kettle or coffee maker
🌙 Evening meds → beside your toothbrush or phone charger
🍽️ With-food meds → a small tin that lives on the dining table

The rule underneath all of it: anchor to an action, not a time. Times slip — you wake up late, a meeting runs over, the weekend happens. Brushing your teeth doesn't slip.

Where do you keep yours? 👇 I'm collecting the good ones — someone told me last week they keep theirs next to the dog's food bowl, because the dog is never late.

Hi everyone, I’m the creator of Doz. I built Doz with a simple mission: to make daily medication and health tracking seamless, stress-free, and 100% private.

This group exists to be your safe space for sharing daily progress, finding encouragement, and giving feedback directly to me.

To get started, introduce yourself below!

• Where are you joining us from?
• What’s one health habit or routine you’re currently trying to master?

Thank you for being part of this community. Let’s make tracking health effortless together! 

A — Answer

Hey everyone,

About a month ago, I shared Doz here for the first time. I’m the solo developer behind it, and I originally built it after struggling to manage multiple prescriptions.

Since then, Doz has reached 1,200 users in its first three months, with an average rating of 4.7 stars.

More importantly, I’ve received messages from users saying it makes their medication routines feel calmer and easier to manage, for themselves and their families. Some even switched over completely from other apps.

As a solo developer, that kind of feedback means a lot and motivates me to keep improving Doz.

A lot has also changed since my first post. Based heavily on user feedback, I’ve added:

• Medication inventory tracking
• Custom low-stock alerts and easier refills
• At-a-glance stock levels
• Flexible non-daily schedules, including every-few-days and intake-and-pause routines
• Faster dose actions from the Today screen
• Full localization for German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Vietnamese

Thank you to everyone here who tried Doz, shared feedback, or encouraged me. Many of these updates came directly from your suggestions.

B — Better

Doz exists because most medication apps I tried treated every medication like an isolated task:

“Take one pill at 8:00 AM.”

But real prescriptions are often more complicated.

Some medications belong to the same treatment. Some need to be taken before or after food. Others follow non-daily schedules, require stock monitoring, or need to be refilled early.

Doz is built around prescriptions, not just a flat list of reminders.
Instead of a long, confusing list of individual pills, Doz organizes your meds into folders based on the actual prescription. It works exactly how real life does:

• You have a prescription (e.g., for hypertension or diabetes).
• You create a folder for that prescription.
• You put all related medications and instructions inside that folder.

It lets you keep related medications, schedules, instructions, progress, and stock together, so it’s easier to understand and follow the treatment as a whole.

Doz also includes:

• Prescription-based medication organization
• Daily and flexible non-daily schedules
• Before, with, and after-meal reminders
• Follow-up reminders for missed doses
• Critical Alerts through Silent and Focus modes
• Inventory, low-stock, and refill tracking
• Progress and adherence insights
• Home Screen widgets
• iCloud sync, with all data kept private and never leaving your device
• Eight supported languages (will have more in the near future)
• No ads and no account required

The goal is still the same: make medication routines feel less confusing, less stressful, and easier to trust.

C — Cost

Doz is free to use with:

• Up to 4 active medications
• Multiple schedule modes for your medications
• 1 active prescription
• Medication reminders and dose logging
• 7-day progress tracking
• Inventory tracking and low-stock alerts

Doz Pro is designed for people with more complex routines, helping you stay consistent, avoid missed doses, and manage everything with less effort:

• Unlimited medications and prescriptions so you can track everything in one place
• Critical Alerts and smarter follow-up reminders to reduce missed doses
• Detailed adherence insights to understand how well you’re following each treatment
• Full progress history for long-term tracking
• Meal-time synchronization for better timing accuracy
• Faster dose logging directly from Home Screen widgets
• Archived treatment management to keep past prescriptions organized
• Custom alert sounds for clearer, more noticeable reminders

Pricing:

• Monthly: $2.99 with a 3-day free trial
• Yearly: $12.99 with a 3-day free trial
• Lifetime: $24.99

All paid plans support Apple Family Sharing.

I’d love to hear what you think, especially if you manage medications for yourself or your family. Feedback and feature requests are all welcome. Thanks for reading!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565

Website: https://getdoz.app/

Hi everyone,

Doz recently just reached 1,000 users! It might not sound like a crazy number to big startups, but as a solo dev who has spent countless nights and weekends building this after my day job, it means the absolute world to me.

What motivates me even more than the numbers is reading the reviews and getting emails from users who say the app has genuinely brought peace to their daily routines. It gives me a lot of trust that Doz is solving a real, painful problem for people juggling medications.

The results speak for themselves - Doz has maintained an overall 4.8-star rating on the App Store. Thanks to the constant feedback and input from early users, I've been able to upgrade the app day by day, and it has evolved into a much more complete and polished tool.

If you are new to the app, I built Doz to completely rethink how we track pills. Here is what it can do for you:

• Organize medications by prescription
• Meal-based reminders (before/with/after meals)
• Understands real-world medication instructions input and turns them into reminder schedules automatically
• Follow-up reminders for missed doses
• Critical alerts for important medications
• Medication inventory tracking
• Adherence & streak tracking
• Home Screen interactive widgets
• No ads, no account required
• All data stays on-device

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565
Website: https://getdoz.app/ 

To celebrate this milestone and bring Doz to more people who might really need it, I want to give back to the community.

I've enabled a limited-time discounted offer for you guys:

🎁 40% OFF Lifetime Premium

• Code: DOZGIFT
• Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760699565&code=DOZGIFT

How to claim:

1. Open the redeem link on your iPhone.
2. Apply the code at checkout.
3. Enjoy Lifetime Pro! 🎉

If you try it, I'd love to hear your thoughts - what works, what doesn't, and what features you think are still missing from medication reminder apps.

And if the app ends up helping you, an honest App Store rating or review would mean a lot to a solo developer!

Thank you so much for reading!

Small win, but I wanted to share it.

I built Doz, a medication reminder and tracker, outside of my day job during nights and weekends.

After 77 days, it reached 1,000 downloads across 93 countries.

The hardest part hasn’t just been building features. It’s been earning trust.

Medical apps are different because people rely on them for something personal and important.

The most motivating part has been hearing from users: small compliments, detailed feedback, and feature suggestions that made the app better.

It’s still a tiny milestone, but knowing that people in different countries trust something I built to help manage their medication is something I’m proud of.

Small win, but I wanted to share it.

I built Doz, a medication reminder and tracker, outside of my day job during nights and weekends.

After 77 days, it reached 1,000 downloads across 93 countries.

The hardest part hasn’t just been building features. It’s been earning trust.

Medical apps are different because people rely on them for something personal and important.

The most motivating part has been hearing from users: small compliments, detailed feedback, and feature suggestions that made the app better.

It’s still a tiny milestone, but knowing that people in different countries trust something I built to help manage their medication is something I’m proud of.

Hey everyone,

I'm a solo developer, and I built Doz after getting confused by my own prescriptions.

I originally made it for myself. Somehow, 77 days later, it has reached 1,000 users across 93 countries.

I built it outside my day job, mostly at night and on weekends. A lot of that time wasn’t just coding either; it was talking to users, listening to their routines, and slowly improving the app around the messy reality of managing medication.

Some meds need to be taken before meals. Some after meals. Some belong to different prescriptions. I kept asking myself:

- Was this before or after food?
- Which prescription is this from?
- Did I already take it today?

I tried alarms, generic reminders, and a few medication apps, but most of them still felt built around fixed-time reminders like “Take pill at 8:00 AM.”

That works for simple routines, but real prescriptions are often messier.

That’s why I built Doz around prescription-based medication management, not just basic reminders.

With Doz, you can group medications by prescription, set meal-based reminders, track doses, manage inventory, get follow-up reminders for missed doses, and see adherence insights by medication or prescription.

Doz is free to use, with an optional Pro upgrade for people managing more complex routines. Pro unlocks unlimited medications and prescriptions, stronger reminder controls, deeper adherence insights, full progress history, meal-time synchronization, dose logging from widgets, archived treatment management, custom alert sounds, and more.

The goal isn’t just to remind you at a certain time.

It’s to help you manage medication closer to how prescriptions actually work in real life.

I’d love to hear your feedback, especially if you manage medications for yourself or your family.

I also created r/dozapp for updates, feedback, and discussion around Doz.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565
Website: https://getdoz.app/
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dozapp/

Hitting 1,000 users might not sound like a crazy number to big startups, but as a solo dev, it means the absolute world to me, after many nights & weekends building after my day job.

What motivates me even more than the numbers is reading the reviews and getting emails from users who say the app has genuinely brought peace to their daily routines. It gives me a lot of trust that this is solving a real, painful problem.

I originally built this app because I used to struggle with managing daily medications for two different conditions. Standard alarm apps gave me so much anxiety because I would blindly check off boxes and lose track of why I was taking certain pills. I just wanted to fix my own routine and reduce that mental load.

So, I created Doz. It’s a simple app that groups your medications into condition folders - exactly how real-life prescriptions work - rather than just dumping everything into a chaotic, confusing list of daily alarms.

Hope I could bring this value to more people who are stressed out by their current pill trackers. If you or a loved one is juggling multiple prescriptions, I’d really appreciate it if you could give Doz a try and let me know your thoughts:

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565

I'm currently working on the next update based on user feedback, so I would love to hear your feature requests!

Happy to answer any questions about the app, or share my indie dev learnings with anyone else building on the side. Thank you!

Last week, a Doz user emailed me with a simple request.

He takes more than 30 tablets a day across 7 medications and relies on a mail-order pharmacy. He needed a way to customize low-stock alerts so he could reorder medications before running out.

I told him I loved the idea and added it to my feedback list.

A few days later, I shipped the feature. Then I did something I think more founders should do: I emailed him back. Not to sell anything. Just to let him know that the feature he asked for was now available.

And his response honestly made my day!

He purchased the Lifetime plan, left a 5-star review, moved all of his medications into Doz, and deleted the app he'd been using for years.

But the part that stuck with me wasn't the sale.
It was this: "You now have another satisfied customer."

One thing I'm learning from building a healthcare app is that healthcare and medical products require an unusually high level of trust. Users aren't just choosing a tool, they're trusting it with something that affects their daily health.

That's why I've noticed that users stick with Doz not just because of features, but because they feel heard and supported. The feature mattered, but the trust it created is what brought the user back.

Now every piece of feedback in Doz gets logged with its source, and whenever possible, I follow up after it's shipped.

People may forget what they requested.
They rarely forget how you made them feel ❤️

Last week, a Doz user emailed me with a simple request.

He takes more than 30 tablets a day across 7 medications and relies on a mail-order pharmacy. He needed a way to customize low-stock alerts so he could reorder medications before running out.

I told him I loved the idea and added it to my feedback list.

A few days later, I shipped the feature. Then I did something I think more founders should do: I emailed him back. Not to sell anything. Just to let him know that the feature he asked for was now available.

And his response honestly made my day!

He purchased the Lifetime plan, left a 5-star review, moved all of his medications into Doz, and deleted the app he'd been using for years.

But the part that stuck with me wasn't the sale.
It was this: "You now have another satisfied customer."

One thing I'm learning from building a healthcare app is that healthcare and medical products require an unusually high level of trust. Users aren't just choosing a tool, they're trusting it with something that affects their daily health.

That's why I've noticed that users stick with Doz not just because of features, but because they feel heard and supported. The feature mattered, but the trust it created is what brought the user back.

Now every piece of feedback in Doz gets logged with its source, and whenever possible, I follow up after it's shipped.

People may forget what they requested.
They rarely forget how you made them feel ❤️

Last week, a Doz user emailed me with a simple request.

He takes more than 30 tablets a day across 7 medications and relies on a mail-order pharmacy. He needed a way to customize low-stock alerts so he could reorder medications before running out.

I told him I loved the idea and added it to my feedback list.

A few days later, I shipped the feature. Then I did something I think more founders should do: I emailed him back. Not to sell anything. Just to let him know that the feature he asked for was now available.

And his response honestly made my day!

He purchased the Lifetime plan, left a 5-star review, moved all of his medications into Doz, and deleted the app he'd been using for years.

But the part that stuck with me wasn't the sale. It was this: "You now have another satisfied customer."

One thing I'm learning from building a healthcare app is that healthcare and medical products require an unusually high level of trust. Users aren't just choosing a tool, they're trusting it with something that affects their daily health.

That's why I've noticed that users stick with Doz not just because of features, but because they feel heard and supported. The feature mattered, but the trust it created is what brought the user back.

Now every piece of feedback in Doz gets logged with its source, and whenever possible, I follow up after it's shipped.

People may forget what they requested.
They rarely forget how you made them feel ❤️

Hi everyone, indie dev here!

I used to take daily medications for two different conditions. I set individual alarms for each pill to keep track of what to take and when.

But over time, I started feeling this weird anxiety and confusion - I would look at my daily list of pills and completely lose track of why I was taking them, or which condition they were actually for.

Initially, I built a medication tracker just for myself to relieve that anxiety and make things clear. I wanted a system where every single time I took a dose, I knew exactly what it was and why I had to take it.

I figured a lot of people might be dealing with this same overwhelming feeling, so I decided to share the app I built. The core feature is grouping medications into prescriptions.

Instead of a long, confusing list of individual pills, Doz organizes your meds into folders based on the actual prescription. It works exactly how real life does:

• You have a condition (e.g., "Headache").
• You create a folder for it.
• You put all related meds inside that folder.

With Doz, you have a minimalist UI/UX that visually structures this hierarchy perfectly.

If you or your loved ones are juggling multiple prescriptions, give Doz a try to organize everything and reduce that mental load.

Here is the app link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565

I’d love to hear your feedback, especially if you manage medications for yourself or your family.
Thanks for reading, and I really appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.