Pillbean: Pill Reminder Alarm

The pill reminder that actually goes off — and remembers what you really took.

Most medication reminder apps go quiet the moment your phone tries to save battery. Pillbean is built around three promises, and breaking any of them is treated as a bug:

1. The alarm always fires — through restarts, updates, Doze and battery saver
2. Your record is always true — every dose keeps the real time you took it
3. You'll know before you run out — a week of warning, never the morning of

A PILL ALARM YOU CAN TRUST
• Real alarm-clock scheduling — the same mechanism your morning alarm uses
• Survives reboots, app updates, timezone changes and aggressive battery savers
• Three levels per medicine: gentle nudge, insistent, or a full-screen critical alarm
• A critical alarm escalates until you answer — and "Turn it down" is always one tap away
• Doubt it? Run the 60-second self-test and watch the whole alarm path fire for real

A MEDICATION TRACKER THAT TELLS THE TRUTH
• Took, snooze or skip — straight from the notification, without unlocking your phone
• Every dose is logged at the real time you pressed, never the time it was scheduled
• Medicines due together group into one alarm: "Take all 2", not three alarms in a row
• Skip with a reason, undo mistakes, and browse an honest dose history and medication log

NEVER RUN OUT
• Your pill count moves with every dose — half-tablet taper steps count exactly
• See the day each medicine runs out and get a refill reminder a week ahead
• Top up in the pack sizes a pharmacy actually hands you

SCHEDULES DOCTORS ACTUALLY WRITE
• Tapering courses — each step changes the dose, the alarm text and the count
• Every other day, set weekdays, weekly, 21-on / 7-off cycles
• As-needed (PRN) medicines with your daily ceiling and spacing stated — never blocked
• Quiet hours hold routine reminders; critical medicines still ring
• Your medication schedule belongs to your doctor — Pillbean follows it exactly

ADD A MEDICINE IN SECONDS
• Point the camera at the pharmacy label — name, strength and schedule are read on your phone
• Label scanning works fully offline; nothing is uploaded, ever
• Or type it in with your own nickname — "the little white one" works fine

FOR FAMILIES AND CAREGIVERS
• Separate profiles for the people you care for — everyone's alarms stay armed, not just the profile on screen
• A home-screen widget shows today's doses and logs them in one press
• A clean report for the next doctor visit: the medication list, what was prescribed, what actually happened, and every exception with its reason
• Export the whole record as a CSV, free

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account. No ads. No cloud copy of your medication record.
• Nothing about a medicine — not a name, a dose or a time — ever reaches our servers
• Optional backup to your own Google Drive, encrypted on your phone before a single byte moves
• The extras are optional — a monthly plan, or pay once and keep it forever

GOOD FOR
• Daily medication, birth control, antibiotics, vitamins and supplements
• Seniors who want a simple medicine reminder — and the family caring for them
• Chronic illness, ADHD medication, tapers and complicated schedules
• Anyone who ever slept through a silent "reminder notification"

Pillbean is a pill tracker, pill organizer, dose tracker, medication log and refill reminder in one — built by people who know what an alarm that must fire looks like.

Download Pillbean and stop wondering whether the alarm will ring.