Vitamins & supplements
A calm reminder app for vitamins and supplements
The expensive part of a supplement shelf isn't buying it. It's the half-full bottles you stopped taking in March.
Free with one medicine · No account · Nothing leaves your iPhone
Supplements have a different failure pattern from prescriptions. Nobody's health collapses because a magnesium tablet was missed on a Tuesday — the problem is drift. You buy something with real intent, take it diligently for two weeks, then the routine dissolves, and six months later there's a shelf of half-used bottles representing money and good intentions. The other awkwardness is arrangement: some things go with food, some are better at night, some you'd rather not take together, and a single daily reminder for “vitamins” flattens all of that into a prompt you ignore. Kounts Dose treats each one as its own medicine with its own time, colour and count — and quietly shows you what you're actually keeping up with.
What actually goes wrong: A stack of five supplements at different times of day is a scheduling problem, and one blanket reminder doesn't solve it. Neither does an app that charges a monthly subscription to remind you about vitamin D.
Setting it up in Kounts Dose
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Split them by when they actually go
Morning-with-breakfast, midday, with-dinner, before-bed — add each supplement with its own time rather than lumping them together. Today then groups them, so the morning block is one glance and one set of taps.
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Use as-needed for the occasional ones
Magnesium on hard training days, electrolytes when it's hot, something you take a few times a month — set them as as-needed and they'll never nag. You just log them when you take them, and they still count down your supply.
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Give each one a colour you'll recognise
Colour and icon per supplement makes a five-item morning block readable in a second instead of a list of similar words. It's the same trick a well-organised pill organiser uses.
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Enter the bottle count
Sixty capsules, ninety tablets, whatever the bottle says. Dose turns that into “about N days left” and nudges you before you run out — handy for anything you order online, where a gap means a week of waiting.
Please read this part
Supplements aren't harmless by default: some interact with prescription medicines or with each other, some have upper limits worth respecting, and “natural” doesn't mean inert. Kounts Dose does no interaction checking and gives no dosing guidance — it only reminds and records what you tell it. Run your stack past a pharmacist or doctor, especially alongside prescription medication or during pregnancy.
Why it suits this routine
It shows you what you're actually taking
History is a plain, honest record — no streaks, no score. Look back over a month and the pattern is obvious: the vitamin D you never miss, the fish oil you've taken four times. That's genuinely useful information for deciding what to stop buying.
One purchase, not a subscription
Paying monthly for a vitamin reminder is a poor trade, and it's the main reason people abandon these apps. Dose is $9.99 once for unlimited medicines, the full scheduler, widgets, sync and export — or free if you only track one thing.
Prescriptions and supplements in one list
Most people's morning is a mix of both. Dose doesn't care which is which — each is a medicine with a schedule and a supply — so you get one accurate picture of the morning rather than a prescription app plus a vitamin app.
Questions, answered
Is there a supplement tracker without a subscription?
Kounts Dose is a one-time $9.99 purchase for the full app — unlimited medicines, the full scheduler, widgets, iCloud sync and CSV export — with a free tier that covers one item. There's an optional $1.99/month plan if you'd rather pay monthly, but nothing forces you onto it.
Can I track supplements and prescriptions in the same app?
Yes, and that's usually the point — one morning block containing your tablet and your vitamin D, grouped by time, each with its own colour. Dose makes no distinction between the two internally.
How do I handle things I only take sometimes?
Use the as-needed schedule. Those medicines never generate reminders; you log them when you take them, and they still count down from your supply so the bottle count stays accurate.
Will it remind me to take something with food?
Put the instruction in the medicine's note so it's visible at the moment you're logging, and schedule the dose at a time you actually eat. Dose doesn't know your mealtimes — it reminds you at the times you set.
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: Why one purchase, not a subscription · Running out, solved · All the schedule types