Name: Kounts Dose - Meds & Refills
Author: Kounts

The headlines of Dose 1.2

A list for everyone you look after, a camera that fills in the box for you, and a way to tell two white tablets apart.

People

A separate list of medicines for everyone you care for — a parent, a child, a partner. Switch between one person and Everyone from the top of Today, Medicines and History. Reminders always cover everybody, and now say whose dose it is.

Scan a pack

Point the camera at the box. Dose reads the barcode live in the viewfinder, then the printed label, and fills in the name, strength, form and pack size for you to check. It all happens on your iPhone — nothing is uploaded.

Identify

Every medicine as a picture, three to a row. For the moment you’re holding a weekly organiser with four loose tablets in it and the boxes are in the cupboard — a question no list of names answers.

A photo of the pill

A medicine now holds two photos — the pack and the pill itself — and you choose which one stands in for its colour dot. At the size of a list row, the thing in your hand is far easier to recognise than its box.

Health history, in full

A medicine brought over from Apple Health now arrives with its whole dose history, not just its name — and those past doses leave your pack count exactly where it is. Dose still only ever reads from Health.

Who prescribed it, and when

The two things people write on the box in biro, now optional fields on the medicine — and columns in the CSV export, which is the point of having typed them.

Release history

Version by version, newest first.

Version 1.2.1 · Latest

A steadier pack scanner

Scanning a pack no longer swaps cameras halfway through: the barcode read and the label photo now come from the same viewfinder, so capturing the label doesn’t fail after the code has landed.
The handoff says what happens next. Once a code is read, scanning pauses so a neighbouring box can’t be picked up while you turn the pack, and the screen asks for the front label — name and strength sharp and filling the frame — with a Capture label button.
An uncertain scan no longer fills in a medicine. If Dose isn’t confident about what it read, it says so and offers another photo, your photo library, or typing it in yourself.
Prescriptions can be scanned too. A clear, single-medicine prescription can fill in the name, strength, form, quantity, prescriber and date when they’re printed on it. The prescription photo is never kept as the medicine’s picture, so a sheet of personal details doesn’t end up in your library.
The wait after capture is shorter, and the loader now says what it’s doing rather than sitting still.
Every “Take photo” button opens Dose’s own camera: one lens, one shutter and a flashlight you control — no inherited zoom or flash setting from elsewhere. Profile photos open front-facing.
All the new scanner wording is translated into all seven languages.

Version 1.2

People, pill photos and Identify

People. A separate list of medicines for everyone you care for. A switcher at the top of Today, Medicines and History moves between one person and Everyone, where each row is tagged with whose it is. Add, rename, recolour and reorder them in Settings → People. A one-person library looks and behaves exactly as it did before.
Reminders never scope. Switching the screen to one person doesn’t quiet anyone else: reminders, critical alarms, refill nudges and the Live Activity always cover everybody. What changed is that they now say whose dose it is — “Mum · 500 mg · 8:00 AM”.
Widgets, Siri and export know people too. Each widget can be set to one person or left on everyone, Siri takes “log Mum’s dose”, and the history export can be scoped to one person — because an export for an appointment is about one patient.
Everyone can have a photo, used as their avatar wherever their name appears. Like every other photo in Dose, it stays on the device it was added on and is never uploaded.
Medicines can be moved between people from the medicine’s own menu, and their history goes with them. Upgrading changes nothing you can see: existing medicines join a profile called “Me”. Adding a second person needs Plus; the People screen itself is never locked, and lapsing never deletes anyone.
A photo of the pill, not just the box. A medicine now holds two photos, and “Show as” offers Colour, Box or Pill.
Identify — a grid of every medicine as a picture, reached from the Medicines header. Medicines with no photo still appear as their colour and form, so it’s a complete index of the cabinet.
The pack photo opens. Tap it on a medicine’s detail screen and it fills the screen, pinching, double-tapping and panning — and swiping between the box and the pill.
Who prescribed it, and when. Two optional fields, collapsed until filled in, that complete from prescriber names you’ve already typed. Both are now columns in the CSV export.
A medicine imported from Apple Health arrives with its whole history, not just its name — and those past doses leave your supply count alone, because a count is a statement about today. The first Health read after updating reaches all the way back once for everything you’ve already shared.
What’s new. A release now introduces itself once, on the first launch after updating, and lives in Settings afterwards. Cards that have somewhere to go are doors: tapping one opens the feature it describes.
The first medicine is no longer compulsory — “I’ll add one later” drops you straight into the app.
If you said “Not now” to notifications during setup, saving a medicine asks once more — at the moment reminders start to matter.
Fixed: “Restore purchases” now always tells you what happened instead of quietly doing nothing; tablet and capsule icons were wearing each other’s glyphs; and a couple of dozen settings labels that had never been translated now are.

Version 1.1

Tapers, Live Activities, Siri — and a 14-day trial

Tapering schedules for plans written as “4 tablets for 5 days, then 3 for 5 days, then 2…” — steroid tapers, antidepressant step-downs, anything that ramps. Each step carries its own length and amount, a step of 0 is a rest step, and the editor shows the total length and finish date before you save. Days-of-supply averages across the whole plan, so “will this pack see me through?” stays right.
A Live Activity for the dose window. When a dose comes due, a Lock Screen card and Dynamic Island presence show the medicine, the amount and the time, with a Take button that stays until the dose is actioned. One card at a time — four medicines at 8am shouldn’t mean four stacked cards. Free, like reminders and critical alarms.
Siri, Shortcuts, the Action Button and Control Center. “Log my dose” now works, as does asking what’s next, and there’s a Control Center control that logs the next dose without opening anything. They work out which dose you mean: a forgotten 8am wins over a due 1pm, and tonight’s 8pm is never logged by accident.
Scan a pack. Photograph a medicine’s box and have the name, strength, form and pack size filled in for you to check, reading the barcode live in the viewfinder as you frame the shot. Everything runs on your iPhone, nothing is uploaded, and it only ever transcribes what’s printed on the box — never a schedule, never advice.
The doses you logged in Apple Health come back too. Settings → Apple Health brings them in on demand, or automatically each time you open the app. It costs no new permission, and the bridge still only runs one way — Dose never writes to Health.
Dose Plus now starts as a 14-day trial, and the free tier’s limits arrive after it rather than during setup. You get a fortnight of the full app and are asked at the end, holding your own filled-in library.
Nothing is ever deleted when a trial ends. Medicines past the free limit keep their schedules and their full history and simply stop accepting taps, and which ones stay unlocked is just the top of your own Medicines list. Reminders set up during the trial keep running.
The widgets are no longer locked — the next-dose and Today widgets now render for everyone, read-only. One-tap logging from the widget is the upgrade.
Fixed: the widget’s Take button now always clears the slot it logs, even when the widget had gone stale.
An accessibility and performance pass throughout: full Dynamic Type support, a VoiceOver sweep where status is never colour alone, 44pt tap targets everywhere, and a noticeably lighter Today screen.

Version 1.0.1

History, three ways

History gained a view switcher: the month calendar, a new week grid showing every medicine against every day at a glance, and a new log — the full chronological history grouped by day, with per-day totals.
The medicine filter applies to all three, and the view you chose is remembered. It stays a log: no percentages, no streaks, no score.

Version 1.0

The first release

Today, Medicines and History; a six-step add-medicine wizard with offline name autocomplete; one-tap logging with undo.
A flexible scheduler: once or several times a day, every few hours, specific weekdays, every few days, cycles like 21 on and 7 off, fixed-length courses, and as-needed medicines — each time carrying its own dose amount.
Supply tracking that says about how many days you have left, with low thresholds in units or days and a one-tap “I refilled this”.
Reminders with Take, Snooze and Skip straight from the Lock Screen, and per-medicine critical alarms that ring through Silent mode and Focus — free at every tier.
Home Screen widgets and Lock Screen accessories, a month-calendar history and CSV export.
Optional iCloud sync through your own private iCloud database, off by default. No account, no ads, no data collection.
A supportive nudge when the same dose is missed repeatedly — shown in the app, never as a push notification.
Seven languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), German and Russian.

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