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What medication/pill tracking app do you recommend? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for an open-source medication/pill tracking app.

Requirements:

Android support
Ability to create custom medication/pill entries
Ability to set notification reminders for taking pills
Ability to arbitrarily create entries at any date/time

Nice-to-haves:

Data export/backup
Data-at-rest encryption
Data visualizations

Cross-posted at https://sh.itjust.works/post/23572613

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Your requirements are pretty strict, but I can suggest a few apps.

The list is under the spoiler

MedTimer
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.futsch1.medtimer
GitHub: https://github.com/Futsch1/medTimer

Android support (✓)
Custom medications (✓)
Notification reminders (✓)
Entries can be created only on the current day (×)
Data backup as .json and data export as .csv (✓)
Didn't get the encryption point, but backups are not encrypted (?)
Data graph (✓)

MediTrak
IzzyOnDroid: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/projects.medicationtracker
GitHub: https://github.com/AdamGuidarini/MediTrak

Android support (✓)
Custom medications (✓)
Notification reminders (✓)
Entries can be created on any date (✓)
Data backup as .json (✓)
Didn't get the encryption point, but backups are not encrypted (?)
No data visualization (×)

Home MedKit
IzzyOnDroid: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/ru.application.homemedkit
GitHub: https://github.com/pewaru-333/HomeMedkit-App

Android support (✓)
Custom medications (✓)
Notification reminders (✓)
Entries can be created only on the current day (×)
Data backup as .sqlite3 (✓)
Didn't get the encryption point, but backups are not encrypted (?)
No data visualization (×)

There are probably even more apps, but I haven't used them myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Your requirements are pretty strict

Ha, I honestly thought I was being pretty lenient with just requiring what I thought were, more or less, the base requirements for a pill tracking app.

Didn’t get the encryption point

If I understand you correctly that you mean that you don't understand the point of encrypting the data, the reason why I want that is to protect unauthorized access to the data if the device becomes compromised.

MedTimer

I've been using this one for a bit, and it does the job pretty well. It definitely is lacking polish and is somewhat buggy, but it's certainly usable.

MediTrak

I found this one's UI was rather cumbersome. I would choose MedTimer over it.

Home MedKit

I hadn't heard of this one! It looks well made. It's a shame one cannot input entries on any day though. I'm a little wary of a Russian app whose development history I cannot read, especially given that it's such a small app in terms of popularity, but it seems genuine. The development cadence is perhaps a little lacking.