Switching from another app
Switching from another medication app
Changing apps shouldn't cost you a dose. Here's the order to do it in.
People usually switch medication apps for one of three reasons: the price changed, the app stopped working, or the app never quite fitted. Whichever it is, the risk is the same. For a day or two nothing is reminding you properly. This page is the order we'd switch in, including what Kounts Dose can't do yet. There's no direct import from another app's file today. If your medicines are already in Apple Health, Dose can bring that list across, and for everything else the add wizard takes under a minute per medicine.
How it works
1. Save what the old app will let you take
Before you delete anything, export whatever your old app offers: a PDF report, a medication list or a spreadsheet of history. Dose can't read those files yet, but they're your record, and your doctor may want them. Some apps need an internet connection or an active subscription to export, so do this first.
2. Bring across what's in Apple Health
If your medicines are in Apple Health (some apps put them there, or you may have added them yourself), open Dose and choose Import from Apple Health. It copies each medicine's name and form, plus the doses you logged in Health. It only reads from Health and never writes anything back.
3. Add the rest, and set the schedule yourself
Neither Apple Health nor any other app shares a schedule Dose can read, so the times are always yours to set. The wizard offers offline name suggestions, and on iPhones that support it you can scan the box. Enter how many tablets you have left, so Dose can warn you before you run out.
4. Run both for a day, then switch the old one off
Keep the old app's reminders on until you've seen Dose remind you through a whole day. Then turn them off, or delete the app, so you don't get two alerts for every dose and end up logging in the wrong place.
The details that matter
What doesn't come across
Your dose history from another app, unless it was logged in Apple Health, as well as notes and adherence charts. Keep the export from step 1 for those. Dose begins keeping history from the day you add each medicine.
If your old app has disappeared
Round Health, for example, is no longer on the App Store. If you can't open an old app to export from it, check Apple Health first: it may already hold your list. Otherwise, the labels on your packs have everything the wizard asks for.
Nothing to sign up for
There's no account to create and no data to upload. Everything you add stays on your own devices, and optional iCloud sync uses only your own private iCloud.
What this costs
Moving one medicine across is free. More than one needs Dose Plus, $9.99 once, and every new install starts with a 14-day trial of everything.
Questions, answered
Can Kounts Dose import my Medisafe or MyTherapy data?
Not directly yet. There's no import of another app's export file today. If your medicines are in Apple Health, Dose can import that list, along with the doses logged in Health. Anything else you add by hand, and the wizard takes under a minute per medicine.
Will I lose my history?
Your old app's history stays wherever that app keeps it, so export it before you leave. Doses logged in Apple Health against an imported medicine do come across into Dose. From the day you switch, Dose keeps a full history on your iPhone that you can export as CSV.
How do I avoid double reminders while I switch?
Run both apps for one full day so you can see Dose's reminders arrive, then switch off the old app's notifications or delete it. Logging a dose in one app doesn't log it in the other. The exception is Apple Health: Dose reads the doses you log there for medicines it imported.
Do I need to pay to switch?
Not to try it. Every install starts with a 14-day trial of Dose Plus, and one medicine is free for good, with reminders, logging, supply tracking and critical alarms. Keeping more than one medicine after the trial is $9.99 once.
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See also: What each app costs, dated · After Round Health · Dose and Apple Health together