Refill Reminder App — Days of Medication Left

Name: Kounts Dose - Meds & Refills
Author: Kounts

Ask people what actually went wrong last time their medication routine failed, and it's rarely a forgotten dose — it's the Sunday evening they reached for the bottle and it was empty. Running out is a worse failure than forgetting, because it can't be fixed in the moment: the pharmacy is closed, the repeat prescription needs a doctor, and you're facing several days without something you're meant to take daily. It's also completely predictable, which is what makes it so frustrating that most apps ignore it. Kounts Dose treats your supply as a first-class number, counts it down as you log, and tells you in the unit that actually helps: days.

How it works

It counts down as you log

Log a dose and your supply drops. Nothing to maintain by hand — the count stays accurate because it's a by-product of the logging you're doing anyway.

Weighted by how much you actually take

“Days remaining” is amount-weighted, so a medicine you take twice a day at two tablets a time depletes four times as fast as a single daily pill. That's why the estimate is useful rather than decorative.

A threshold you set, in units or days

Decide what “low” means for each medicine — under 10 tablets, or under 7 days — because a repeat prescription that takes a week to arrive needs more warning than something you can buy on the way home.

One nudge, not a nagging campaign

The refill warning fires once when you cross the threshold, and there's an “Add supply” action right on the notification. It doesn't re-alert every day until you comply, because that's how people learn to ignore an app.

The details that matter

“I refilled this”, in one tap

The refill sheet steps by 1, 5 or 10, has presets, and offers “+1 pack” for the common case of picking up exactly what you got last time. Topping up the count takes a second, which is the only reason people keep it accurate.

Visible before you need it

Days remaining shows on every medicine in the cabinet list and on the detail screen with a supply bar, and there's a supply-gauge widget for the Home Screen. The information is ambient rather than something you go looking for.

Honest about being an estimate

The app says “about 5 days” because that's what it is — a projection from your schedule and your count. If you take an as-needed medicine irregularly, the estimate moves around, and Dose would rather show you a rough number than a falsely precise one.

What this costs

Supply tracking and refill nudges work on the free tier for your one medicine. Tracking supply across unlimited medicines is part of the one-time $9.99 Dose Plus unlock.

Questions, answered

How does the app know how much medication I have left?

You tell it once — the number of tablets, patches, pumps or capsules you have — and from then on it subtracts each dose you log, weighted by the amount taken. Tap “I refilled this” when you collect a prescription and the count goes back up.

Will it remind me to order a repeat prescription?

It nudges you when your supply crosses the low threshold you set, expressed as either a number of units or a number of days left. Set the days threshold to however long your pharmacy or surgery realistically takes, and the warning lands with enough time to act.

What does “about 5 days” actually mean?

It's your remaining supply divided by how much your schedule consumes per day, so two tablets twice daily burns four units a day. For as-needed medicines it's necessarily rougher, since the app can't predict how often you'll need one.

Does Apple Health track medication supply?

No. Apple Health's Medications feature handles schedules and reminders but has no concept of how much you have left, so it can't warn you before you run out. That gap is the main reason people add a dedicated app on top of it.

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