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MedicineShots

A gentle, insistent nudge — until it’s taken.

Reminders you can’t swipe away — with photo-proof accountability for the people you care about. Each dose fires a full-screen, un-dismissable alarm; a caregiver can require a photo of the taken medicine, then confirm or re-nag remotely. It also works purely for yourself — offline and free.

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Sideloaded .apk · Android 8.0+ · Not on the Play Store, by design.

How it works

Set it once. It won’t let a dose slip.

A Nagger is a reminder you configure. A Nag is one fired occurrence — a full-screen alarm that holds a wake lock, loops at forced-max volume and vibrates, and keeps re-alerting until it’s resolved.

  1. 1

    Set a Nagger

    A Nagger is one reminder: a medicine, a schedule, a dose, and who it’s for — yourself or a loved one.

  2. 2

    It fires a Nag

    At dose time a full-screen alarm holds a wake lock, loops at forced-max volume, vibrates, can say the reminder aloud — and re-alerts every minute until it’s resolved. Offline, and even before the phone’s first unlock after a restart.

  3. 3

    Prove it

    For yourself, tap “Taken ✓”. For a loved one, photograph the medicine strip so a caregiver can review it.

  4. 4

    Confirm or re-nag

    The caregiver approves (dose recorded) or re-nags (the alarm resumes). A dose missed for ~20 min is recorded MISSED and the caregiver is alerted.

Every reminder in one calm list — tap a segment to switch Naggers and Medicines.
When the dose is for someone else, the alarm asks for a photo of the strip.

Metformin · Dad

You review the proof and approve (dose recorded) or re-nag (the alarm resumes). The photo is deleted the instant you decide.
Amoxicillin · 500mg
12 left across naggers
Latanoprost · 0.005%
4 left across naggers
Insulin
Every day · 07:30, 19:30
for @mom19 leftNext · Today 19:30Missed · 2
The cards, up close — Medicine (left tone) and Nagger (ochre tone) surfaces.

More than reminders

Built for the people you care about — and the phone they actually have.

Everything below runs on Android 8.0 and newer, works offline, and keeps its data on the phone. Pro items need the caregiver link.

  • Emergency card, without unlocking

    Blood group, allergies, conditions, implants, medicines, and who to call — as big emoji tiles anyone can read. Reachable from the lock screen, painted onto the lock-screen wallpaper if you like, and there even before the first unlock after a restart.

  • Says it out loud

    Any reminder can be spoken — “Time for Calpol, one tablet after food” — every few seconds over the tone, or play a message you recorded in your own voice.

  • The strip, on the alarm

    Photograph a medicine once; the alarm shows that photo big, so the right box gets picked up without reading a label.

  • Streaks and a weekly report card

    Consecutive perfect days on the Home screen, and one calm notification on Sunday evening: doses taken, misses, and the streak.

  • Water, journal, cycle, Throne Log

    Gentle water nudges with a pinned countdown, a symptom journal, private cycle tracking (awareness, not diagnosis), and the goofy Throne Log with poop cards for the people you choose.

  • Doctor visit modePro

    Hand over the phone: a large-type 90-day summary — adherence, each medicine’s dose line and interactions, allergies, notable events — plus a PDF to send.

  • Live status and “Are you okay?”Pro

    See a loved one’s last taken, next due, and the week’s tally. Two silent misses in a row offers Call, WhatsApp, or a check-in they answer with one tap.

  • Schedules that change over time

    Tapers and titrations in steps, exact calendar dates, or a repeating pattern with rest days — each time of day with its own dose. The alarm, the supply count and the widget all follow the plan.

  • Alarms that never get lost

    The notification re-posts itself if swiped, the takeover re-appears if you pressed Home, a kill switch sits on every screen, and a 2-minute self-test proves your phone will actually ring — with brand-specific battery advice when it won’t.

  • A family of widgets

    Medicines with a month/week adherence calendar, water with a “+1 glass” button, the emergency card, cycle, the Throne Log, and loved ones for caregivers — all in the same warm style.

For the doses that must not slip

Tapers, titrations, exact dates — the schedule your doctor actually wrote.

Psychiatric and neurological courses rarely mean “one tablet, every day, forever”. The dose steps up over weeks, or down at the end; an injection lands on specific dates; some days are rest days. Version 3.1 lets a nagger follow that plan exactly, with a different dose at each time of day if needed.

  • Steps

    Consecutive blocks of days, each with its own doses and its own rhythm — half a tablet for 7 days, then one, then every second day until you stop it.

  • Calendar

    Tap the exact dates on a month grid. Each date keeps its own times and doses; the nagger ends by itself after the last one.

  • Pattern

    A cycle that repeats from the start date: alternate days, 21 on / 7 off, a 2-1-2-1 rhythm. Leave a day empty for a rest day.

  • What follows the plan

    • The alarm says the dose for that occurrence — “0.5 tablets” on a taper day, “2 tablets” on a heavy one.
    • The supply count and the caregiver’s confirmation consume what that occurrence actually took.
    • A live “Next doses” preview shows the coming days before you save.
    • Works for your own reminders (free) and for a loved one’s (Pro).
Steps — half a tablet for a week, then one, then a maintenance rhythm every second day.
Calendar — tap the exact dates the doctor wrote down; each one keeps its own doses.

Advanced schedules are a tool for following a prescription, not for setting one. Enter the plan your doctor gave you; the app never suggests a dose.

Three journals, one private notebook

How you feel, your cycle, and — if you like — the Throne Log.

The Journal page is where the rest of your health lives, on the phone and nowhere else. Two of its tabs are opt-in, and only what you choose to share ever reaches a loved one.

Journal

Track a symptom on a 0–10 slider, as often as you like.

Add a tracker for anything — migraine, sleep, mood, a side effect — and drag the slider whenever it changes. Each drag is its own timestamped reading, so a mild morning migraine and a worse one at night are both kept.

  • Notes tagged Better / Worse / New symptom, and "See all logs" for the full diary.
  • "I saw the doctor today" marks a visit, so reports can cover "since last visit".
  • An optional, gentle 8 pm check-in reminder. It never nags.
  • A live "how are you now?" that loved ones you share with can see (Pro). It is never saved.

Cycle

Cycle awareness that stays on your phone.

Log the day a period starts and ends; the app predicts the next one, shows which phase today is in, and lays the whole cycle out as a colour bar and a planning calendar.

  • Phases named properly — menstrual, follicular, fertile window, ovulation, luteal — each with an ⓘ that explains it.
  • A daily check-in for mucus, discharge, basal temperature, LH tests and symptoms; every row saves on its own.
  • Optional reminders: period approaching, period late, fertile window, PMS.
  • Export to CSV to hand to a doctor. Kept out of the adherence report unless you include it.

This is an estimate for awareness, not birth control, and gives no protection from STIs — the app says so on the tab itself. The tab appears only after you set your gender to female and read that notice.

Throne

The Throne Log. Goofy on the surface, clinical underneath.

Turn on goofy mode and a third tab appears. Tap "I just pooped" and log colour, consistency on the Bristol Stool Scale, amount, odour and how satisfied you were — with a random bit of toilet trivia on top.

  • The colour swatches carry real flags: pale, black or red stools each get a plain-language note about when to see a doctor.
  • The Bristol scale is a genuine 1997 clinical tool; the log is proper bowel-health data.
  • Every entry can be sent as an ephemeral Pokémon-style poop card to the special people you choose. Nothing is stored in the cloud.

Around the app

The emergency card, water, the caregiver view, and the visit to the doctor.

Four screens that are not about the alarm at all, but end up mattering just as much.

Emergency card. Blood group, conditions, implants, allergies, medicines and who to call — as big emoji tiles a stranger can read. Reachable from the lock screen without unlocking, and there even before the first unlock after a restart. Tap a contact to call.
Water. A ring for today, "+1 glass" from the screen or straight from the reminder notification, an undo, and reminders every 45–120 minutes inside the hours you choose. All on the phone.

@mom linked · Pro

✅ Last taken: Metformin · 2 h ago

⏰ Next: Insulin · in 3 h

🌿 This week: 12 taken · 1 missed · 1 proof to review

📱 98765 43210 Edit

@mom linked · Pro

✅ Last taken: Metformin · 2 days ago

⏰ Next: Insulin · in 40 min

⚠️ This week: 9 taken · 3 missed

2 doses missed in a row, no reason given. Is Mom okay?

📞 CallWhatsAppSend check-in

📱 98765 43210 Edit

Loved-one status. Pro Under each person you nag: last taken, next due, this week's tally, proofs waiting for you. Two silent misses in a row turn the card red and offer Call, WhatsApp, or a one-tap "are you okay?" check-in they answer from their own alarm.
Doctor visit mode. Pro Hand over the phone: adherence for the last 90 days in large type, each medicine's dose line, interactions and misses, the facts from the emergency card, and anything the patient flagged as not suiting. One button sends the full PDF.

On your home screen

Your week at a glance — before you even open the app.

A resizable widget shows the next-dose countdown, an adherence calendar you can flip between month and week, and a timeline of the day. When a dose is due, the whole widget turns to alarm. It has company now: water with a “+1 glass” button, the emergency card, cycle, the Throne Log, and a loved-ones widget for caregivers — all in the same warm style.

Month view — each square is a day: green taken, red missed, amber-blend partial, ringed today.
Week view — a bar per day with per-dose dots and today’s elapsed fill.
Dose due — the widget reskins to terracotta and says it plainly.

Free vs Pro

Free for yourself. A little more to care for someone.

Standard

Free

Just you. 100% local, 100% offline, zero cloud.

  • Self-reminders with full-screen, un-dismissable alarms that keep re-alerting
  • Advanced schedules: tapers in steps, exact calendar dates, repeating patterns, a dose per time
  • Spoken aloud, or in a message you record yourself
  • A photo of the strip on the alarm, so the right box gets picked up
  • Emergency card reachable from the lock screen — no unlock needed
  • Adherence streaks, a weekly report card, and a family of home-screen widgets
  • Water reminders, health journal, cycle tracking, the Throne Log
  • Rings even before the first unlock after a restart; 2-minute alarm self-test
  • Nothing leaves your phone — the local database is the source of truth
For caregivers

Pro

₹100 per year in India · US$4.99 / year elsewhere

Link with the people you care about.

  • Everything in Standard
  • Link a loved one — nag and be nagged
  • Require a photo of the taken medicine as proof
  • Confirm or re-nag remotely; missed-dose alerts
  • Live status of every loved one: last taken, next due, this week
  • “Are you okay?” check-in after two silent misses — with a one-tap reply
  • Doctor visit mode and a shareable PDF adherence report
  • Shared journal summaries; a caregiver link needs Pro on both phones

A caregiver link requires Pro on both phones. Pro is ₹100 / year in India and US$4.99 / year elsewhere — as a yearly subscription or a one-year pass, paid through Razorpay. Standard stays free forever. Cancellation & refunds.

In India, pay by UPI AutoPay, card or a net-banking mandate. Outside India, by card or PayPal — international billing is being enabled and may not be available yet; the app tells you if so.

Download

Get MedicineShots for Android

Download the APK

Version 3.11Android 8.0+Sideloaded .apk

Compatibility

Android 8.0 (Oreo, 2017) or newer · Tested up to Android 16 (Samsung One UI 8)

  • The frosted-glass blur effects need Android 12+; older phones get a plain dim overlay instead.
  • Lock-screen “Emergency” shortcut slots are a Samsung One UI feature; every phone gets the lock-screen notification and wallpaper card.
  • Updating from 1.x, 2.0, 3.0 or 3.1: install over the old version — same signing key, your data is kept.
  • A loved one on 3.0 or older will not follow an advanced (steps / calendar / pattern) schedule you set for them — ask them to update first.
SHA-256
b6a81b6e982ea1a0d2d8411bc84301dad26769c695218155f8c70a5a1d210d80

Verify after download: sha256sum MedicineShots-3.11.apk

Scan with the phone you’ll install on.

How to sideload

  1. Tap Download the APK on your Android phone (or scan the QR).
  2. Open the downloaded file; Android will ask to allow installs from this source — enable it.
  3. Confirm the install. Grant the alarms & notifications permission so nags can fire.
  4. Open Setup in the app and run the 2-minute alarm test — it proves your phone will actually ring, and tells you which battery setting to change if it won’t.

Private & secure by design

  • Standard use is fully offline — nothing leaves your phone.
  • The emergency card, voice recordings, and journal live only on the device — never uploaded.
  • Proof photos are deleted the instant a caregiver makes a decision — images are never retained.
  • Not on the Play Store by design — a sideloaded APK, security-conscious throughout.