GLP-1 medicines
A calm reminder app for weekly GLP-1 injections
One injection a week, a dose that changes as you step up, and a box of pens you can't afford to run out of.
Free with one medicine · No account · Nothing leaves your iPhone
GLP-1 medicines break the assumptions ordinary pill apps are built on. The dose is weekly rather than daily, so a daily reminder is worse than none — you learn to dismiss it. The amount changes over the course of treatment as your prescriber steps it up, so a schedule you set in month one is wrong by month three. And the supply isn't tablets in a bottle, it's pens in a fridge, each holding a set number of doses, ordered on a cycle that doesn't always cooperate. Kounts Dose treats all three as first-class: a weekly schedule that stays on your day, a dose amount you can change without losing your history, and a supply count that tells you how long your pens will actually last. It does this for whatever your prescriber has you on — Mounjaro, Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, Saxenda, Trulicity or anything else — because to the app it's a medicine, a schedule and a count.
What actually goes wrong: Weekly medicines fail differently from daily ones. Miss a Saturday and there's no second cue for six days; get the pen order in late and the gap isn't hours but a week or more. The thing you need on a Wednesday isn't a reminder — it's an answer to “did I do Saturday, and will the pens I have get me to the next prescription?”
Setting it up in Kounts Dose
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Set your injection day, not a daily ping
Add the medicine and choose either “specific weekdays” with your one day selected, or “every N days” set to 7. Both give you a single reminder on the day it's due, and the Today screen shows whether that dose is still outstanding — no daily notification to train yourself out of reading.
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Record the dose you're actually on
Each scheduled time carries its own amount, so put in the dose your prescriber has you taking now. When you step up, edit the amount: everything logged before keeps the old figure, everything after carries the new one, so your history shows what you took and roughly when it changed rather than rewriting the past.
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Count pens, not tablets
Supply is just a number and a unit, so count in whatever you have — four pens, or the number of doses in the box. Log a weekly dose and it goes down by one, and Dose turns the remainder into “about N days left”, which for a weekly medicine is the number that actually tells you something.
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Set the low warning to your reorder time
Set the low threshold in days rather than units, and make it as long as your pharmacy or clinic realistically takes — two weeks, three, whatever yours is. You get one nudge when you cross it, with an “Add supply” action on the notification for the day the new box arrives.
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Make the reminder one you'll actually hear
Mark the medicine as critical and its reminder rings through Silent mode and Focus, which matters more for a weekly dose than a daily one — there's no second chance later that day. When it's due, a Lock Screen Live Activity carries a Take button, and the Home Screen widget logs it in one tap. Critical alarms and Live Activities are free at every tier.
Please read this part
Kounts Dose is an organiser, not a clinician, and GLP-1 medicines are prescribed and monitored individually. It does not tell you what dose to take, when to step up or down, how to inject, where to rotate sites, how to store a pen, or what to do about a late or missed weekly dose — and the rules for a missed dose differ between these medicines and by how late it is. Take any of that to your prescriber or pharmacist, and follow the leaflet that came with your pen. Dose also performs no interaction checks and records no weight, blood glucose or side effects.
Why it suits this routine
Weekly is a real schedule here
Specific weekdays and every-N-days are proper schedule types, not a daily reminder with most days ignored. That's the difference between a notification you read and one you swipe. If your regimen ever moves to a different day, change it and the run continues from there.
It knows how many pens are left
This is the half most reminder apps skip. Because Dose holds both your schedule and your count, it can say “about 21 days left” and warn you once, early, while there's still time to get the next prescription moving. Tap “I refilled this” when the box arrives and the count goes back up.
Nobody else sees any of it
There's no account, no server of ours and no ads, which for a category of medicine people are often asked intrusive questions about is the whole point. Your medicine names, doses and history sit on your iPhone; optional sync uses only your own private iCloud, which we cannot read. Name the medicine whatever you like — the widget shows what you tell it to.
Questions, answered
Is there an app to track my weekly GLP-1 injections?
Yes — Kounts Dose handles a once-a-week medicine as a real schedule: pick the weekday, or an every-7-days interval, and you get one reminder on the day it's due rather than a daily notification you learn to ignore. Log it in a tap from the Today screen, a widget, the Lock Screen Live Activity or the notification itself, and the history shows every week you've done since you started.
How do I keep track of how many pens I have left?
Enter your current stock in the unit you count in — pens, or doses — and Dose subtracts as you log each weekly injection. It shows roughly how many days that leaves you, and nudges you once when you cross the low threshold you set. Set that threshold in days and make it as long as your prescription realistically takes to arrive, so the warning lands while you can still do something about it.
Does it track GLP-1 shortages or what my pharmacy has in stock?
No, and it's worth being clear about that. Dose tracks the supply that is in your fridge, because that's the number it can know from your own logging. It has no connection to pharmacies, manufacturers or supply news, and it cannot tell you whether a medicine is available near you — that's a question for your pharmacy.
What happens when my prescriber increases my dose?
Edit the amount on the medicine and carry on. Doses you've already logged keep the amount they were taken at, and everything from then on records the new one, so your log stays a truthful account of the regimen rather than being retroactively rewritten. Each medicine also holds a note if you want the reason or the date written down. What Dose will not do is suggest a step-up or a timeline — that's your prescriber's call, entirely.
Can it remind me about a medicine I can never spell?
A medicine's name in Dose is just text you type, and you can rename it whenever you like — Mounjaro gets typed “Monjauro” and “Manjaro” about as often as it gets typed correctly, and the app doesn't care. Autocomplete offers names as you type, and “Scan a pack” can read the name and strength off the box with the camera, all on your iPhone, so you can skip the spelling entirely.
Does it record my weight or blood sugar too?
No. Dose tracks medicines — schedules, doses taken and supply — and nothing else. If you want weight, glucose or side effects logged alongside, Apple Health already stores measurements on your iPhone, and MyTherapy is free and includes a symptom diary. Using one of those next to Dose is a perfectly sensible setup, and we'd rather say so than pretend to be a weight-loss coach.
Can I track injections for two people on one phone?
Yes — since version 1.2, Dose keeps a separate list of medicines for each person you look after, with a switcher on Today, Medicines and History, and reminders that always cover everybody and say whose dose it is. Everyone lives on the same iPhone: there is no remote monitoring, so you cannot watch someone else's doses from your own phone. A second person is part of the one-time Dose Plus unlock.
Is my weight-loss or diabetes medication private?
It stays on your iPhone. There's no account to create, no server of ours holding a medication list, no ads and no data collection; if you switch on sync it goes to your own private iCloud database via CloudKit, which we cannot read. Analytics are anonymous feature counters and never include medication names or doses.
Never miss a dose. Never run out.
Free with one medicine, and a single $9.99 purchase for the rest — no subscription, no account, no ads.
See also: How supply tracking works · Weekly and fortnightly injections · Privacy by architecture