Every routine
If you can say your schedule out loud, Dose can express it
Most reminder apps assume one pill, once a day. Real prescriptions are messier than that — and the moment an app can't express your actual routine, you start working around it, which is where routines break.
The schedule types, and what each is for
Once or several times a day
The common case, done properly: each time can carry its own amount, so one tablet in the morning and two at night is one medicine rather than two entries. Doses due at the same minute are grouped into a single notification.
Blood pressure tablet · contraceptive pill · thyroid medication
Every N hours
An interval, not a set of mealtimes. Pick “every 8 hours” and a first dose time, and the spacing the prescription asked for is preserved — including the awkward overnight one.
Antibiotics · painkillers on a strict interval
Specific weekdays
Only the days that matter, so you never train yourself to dismiss reminders on the five days a medicine isn't due.
Twice-weekly HRT patches · weekly methotrexate
Every N days
A rolling interval that tracks from the last dose, so a dose taken a day late shifts the next one instead of leaving you guessing.
Weekly or fortnightly injections · patch changes
Cycles — 21 on, 7 off
An on-phase and an off-phase that repeat. Reminders run through the active days, go quiet for the break, and restart on the right date without monthly rebuilding.
Combined pill packs · cyclical progesterone
Fixed-length courses
A start date and an end date. The course reminds you while it runs and then stops by itself — no orphaned notifications a month later, and the history stays intact.
A week of antibiotics · a tapering course · IVF stimulation
As needed
Log-only, with no reminders at all. You record it when you take it, and it still counts down your supply so the remaining number stays true.
Rescue inhaler · migraine medication · occasional painkiller
Critical, on any of the above
Any medicine can be marked critical, so its reminder rings through Silent mode and Focus, full-screen. Free at every tier, including the free one.
Transplant medication · anti-epileptics · trigger shots
The free tier covers one medicine on a daily or as-needed schedule. The full scheduler — multiple times a day, intervals, weekdays, cycles and courses — is part of the one-time $9.99 Dose Plus unlock. Critical alarms are free at every tier.
Guides for specific routines
Each of these walks through setting up that particular routine — and each says plainly what the app won't do for you, because a medication app that oversells itself is a genuinely bad thing to own.
How the app helps, feature by feature
One thing to be clear about
Kounts Dose organises the routine somebody qualified gave you. It doesn't recommend doses, doesn't check interactions, doesn't advise on missed doses, and isn't a medical device. Every schedule described above is something you set up because your prescriber told you to — the app's job is remembering it, not deciding it. And because reminders depend on a phone that's charged, on and allowed to notify you, anything where a missed dose would be dangerous deserves a second, independent alarm too.
Questions, answered
What kinds of medication schedules can Kounts Dose handle?
Once or several times a day, every N hours, specific weekdays, every N days, cycles like 21 days on and 7 off, fixed-length courses with a start and end date, and as-needed medicines that are logged without reminders. Each scheduled time can carry its own dose amount, and any medicine can be marked critical so it rings through Silent mode and Focus.
Can I set a reminder every 8 hours?
Yes — the every-N-hours schedule takes an interval and a first dose time and works out the rest, which is genuinely different from choosing three fixed mealtimes. It's part of the one-time Dose Plus unlock.
Does it handle a 21 days on, 7 days off cycle?
Yes, cycles are a first-class schedule type. Reminders run through the active days, stop for the break, and resume on the right date — no rebuilding the schedule every month.
What about a medicine I only take occasionally?
Set it as as-needed. It never generates reminders; you log it when you take it, and logging still counts down your supply so the remaining count stays accurate.
Will reminders survive daylight saving and travel?
Schedules run on wall-clock time and are DST-safe — the engine is table-tested for exactly this. Reminders follow your device's local time, so a scheduled 8am stays 8am where you are. Whether you should shift a dose time when you travel is a question for your pharmacist.
How many reminders can it schedule at once?
iOS limits an app to 64 pending local notifications, so Dose maintains a rolling 14-day window and tops it up in the background. That's why a complicated regimen with many medicines doesn't quietly stop reminding you a few weeks in.
Set your routine up once.
Then let your iPhone carry it — including the part where it tells you to reorder before you run out.
