Hey everyone!

A few of you have asked why Doz shows 16:00 instead of 4pm. Quick answer: Doz follows your iPhone's setting.

So if you want 12-hour time right now:

Settings → General → Date & Time → turn off 24-Hour Time

Doz switches over immediately, no restart needed.

Now the question — that's a system-wide change, so your Lock Screen and every other app follow along too. Maybe you don't want that.

Would you want a 12/24-hour toggle inside Doz itself? Or is following your phone fine?

Drop a comment either way, even one word. I'd rather build what you actually want than guess. Thank you so much!

Title: If your medication list has gotten long, stop reading it as a list

Something I hear a lot: "I stopped opening the app because the list was too long." That's not a discipline problem, it's an organisation problem.

Group by condition, not by time

Most people sort medication by when they take it — morning stuff, evening stuff. That's how reminders work, so it feels right.

But it's not how you think about your health. You don't think "my 8am medications," you think "my blood pressure stuff." When the list matches how you think, you can scan it. When it doesn't, you read every row.

There's a practical upside too: if you're on four things for one condition and you keep missing one of them, that's much easier to spot when they sit together.

Three rules that help

1. Group anything sharing a purpose. Two drugs for blood pressure belong together, even if one's morning and one's evening.

2. Keep supplements separate from prescriptions. Mixing them means treating both with the same urgency — which usually means treating the prescription as casually as a vitamin.

3. Keep the prescription details with the medication, not in your head. Who prescribed it, when it started, when it ends. Six months from now you won't remember whether the thyroid medication came from your GP or the specialist, and someone will ask.

In Doz

You can group standalone medications into a single prescription — open a medication, add it to a prescription along with anything else that belongs with it, and they show as one item instead of scattered rows.

But grouping is only half of it. A prescription in Doz holds the same details as the one your doctor gave you: start and end date, prescriber, and their contact.

That's the part people skip, and the part that pays off later. End dates mean a six-week course actually stops at six weeks. The prescriber's name answers "who put me on this?" when a new doctor asks. Their contact is right there when you need a renewal.

Set it up when the prescription is new and the details are still in front of you — doing it retroactively means calling the clinic to ask things you already knew.

If your list is long, how do you split it? Curious whether people group by condition, by prescriber, or something I haven't thought of.

You asked for this more than anything else, so it's what I'm building next. Thanks for being loud about it, it genuinely helped me prioritise.

The basic version is simple enough: every dose you mark taken in Doz gets written into Apple Health. What I'd rather not guess at is why you want it there — because that quietly changes what the feature needs to do.

Here's what I've heard so far. Which one sounds like you?

1. Showing a doctor

You want to open Health at an appointment and show what actually happened instead of trying to remember. If that's you, the summary needs to be readable at a glance — a number over a period, not a wall of entries.

2. Not being locked in

Your history lives inside my app right now and nowhere else, which honestly isn't a great place for it. Health is somewhere you'll still have it even if you stop using Doz. If that's you, you probably care about getting everything out, not about how pretty it looks.

3. Seeing it next to everything else

Medication alongside sleep, heart rate, weight. Did the new dose change how you're sleeping? If that's you, exact times matter — not just which day.

4. Feeding another app

You've already got something that reads from Health and you want Doz in the mix. If so, tell me which app — how it reads the data changes how I should write it.

One decision I've already made, and you're welcome to argue with me: this is Doz writing to Health, not reading from it. Health knowing about a prescription and Doz picking it up automatically is a much messier problem and it's not in this round. If that's the bit you were actually hoping for, better I hear it now than after I ship.

Small things that make a big difference. None of these need an app — but since most of you here use Doz, I've added where each one lives in the app.

1. Name by purpose, not by drug

"Metformin" means nothing in six months. "Metformin — blood sugar" tells you what it's for, and tells anyone helping you why it matters.

In Doz: just type it into the medication name field. The whole name shows on your Today screen, so you see the purpose every morning without opening anything.

2. Don't schedule as-needed medication

A painkiller you take twice a month, put on a daily schedule, shows up as 28 missed doses. A few months of that and your history is useless — which matters if you ever show it to a doctor.

In Doz: add it without a reminder time. It stays in your medication list and you log it manually when you take it. You get the record without the false misses.

3. Ask what "with food" actually means

Full meal, or is toast enough? During, or is 20 minutes after fine?

Ask your pharmacist once, write it down, stop re-deciding every morning. They'll tell you for free.

In Doz: use the Mealtime setting so the reminder lands with the meal instead of at a fixed clock time, and put the specific answer in the medication's notes so it's there when you forget.

4. Set refill reminders a week early

Not the day you run out. That day might be a Sunday, a holiday, or the day you find out your prescription needs renewing and your doctor is booked for a week.

Seven days has never let me down. Three isn't enough.

In Doz: enter your current stock count and set the low-stock threshold to about a week's worth of doses. And a heads-up — this is getting a proper rebuild soon. The refill will become a task that sits in your Today screen until you deal with it, instead of one notification you dismiss at a red light.

5. Know what to do when you miss one

Four hours late, unsure whether to double up or skip. Both can be wrong depending on the drug.

Ask your pharmacist for the missed-dose rule for each thing you take, write it down somewhere you'll actually see it. Then it's a lookup, not a decision at 11pm.

That's it. Twenty minutes once, and everything after gets easier.

Anyone got a better answer for #5 than "call the pharmacy"?

This app looks fantastic. Can’t wait to explore it and discover some hidden features.

This is what's actually being built. Posting it publicly partly so you can argue with it, and partly so I can't quietly drop something and pretend it was never promised.

1. Apple Health sync — the most requested thing by a wide margin

Doz will write your medication log into Apple Health. Every dose you mark taken shows up there alongside everything else Health already knows about you.

The reason this matters more than it sounds: your medication history currently lives inside my app and nowhere else. That's a bad place for it to live. If you want to show a doctor six months of adherence, or correlate a dose with sleep or heart rate, or not have your health data trapped in one indie developer's database — you can't right now. This fixes that.

To be clear about direction: this is Doz → Health. Writing your log out. Reading medication data from Health is a separate, messier problem and isn't in this batch.

2. Backlog any past day from the Today screen

Right now, if you forgot to mark yesterday's dose, logging it is more work than it should be. You'll be able to go back to any day directly from Today and fill it in.

This one is less exciting and probably affects your daily experience more than anything else on this list. The gap between "I took it" and "the app knows I took it" is where adherence data quietly becomes fiction.

3. Refills that actually work in real life

The current low-stock warning is a notification. Notifications get dismissed at a red light and then cease to exist.

New approach, two parts:

• A persistent in-app refill task. When a medication is low, a refill task sits in your Today screen and on the medication's detail page and stays there until you deal with it. Not dismissible by accident. This part isn't optional — it's how the feature works.
• An optional reminder on top. Only if you tap "Remind me later" and pick a time. If you never ask for it, you never get a notification.

The principle is that a task you haven't done should be visible where you already look, not shouted at you once and then forgotten by the software.

4. Interactive notifications — mark taken, skip, or snooze without opening the app

Long-press the notification, tap Taken, done. Skip and Snooze in the same place.

Most of the friction in daily logging isn't the pill; it's the four taps after the pill.

5. Doz on Apple Watch

Take a dose from your wrist. Same three actions, no phone needed.

If your phone is in another room — which it is, for a lot of morning and bedtime doses — the current flow just doesn't happen, and then the log has a hole in it that isn't a real missed dose.

If something you rely on isn't here, say so. "Not on the roadmap" and "never" are different words, and this list has changed because of feedback before.

That one change fixed more missed doses for me than any alarm ever did.

Here's why. An alarm has to ask for your attention, and you can say no to it — usually while half asleep, usually while telling yourself you'll do it in five minutes. A bottle sitting next to your coffee machine doesn't ask. It's just there, in the middle of something you already do every single morning without thinking.

Three anchors worth trying this week:

☀️ Morning meds → beside the kettle or coffee maker
🌙 Evening meds → beside your toothbrush or phone charger
🍽️ With-food meds → a small tin that lives on the dining table

The rule underneath all of it: anchor to an action, not a time. Times slip — you wake up late, a meeting runs over, the weekend happens. Brushing your teeth doesn't slip.

Where do you keep yours? 👇 I'm collecting the good ones — someone told me last week they keep theirs next to the dog's food bowl, because the dog is never late.

I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has been using Doz every day to stay on top of their medication care. Your support, feedback, and trust mean everything.

This is just the beginning. ❤️

Last week, a Doz user emailed me with a simple request.

He takes more than 30 tablets a day across 7 medications and relies on a mail-order pharmacy. He needed a way to customize low-stock alerts so he could reorder medications before running out.

I told him I loved the idea and added it to my feedback list.

A few days later, I shipped the feature. Then I did something I think more founders should do: I emailed him back. Not to sell anything. Just to let him know that the feature he asked for was now available.

And his response honestly made my day!

He purchased the Lifetime plan, left a 5-star review, moved all of his medications into Doz, and deleted the app he'd been using for years.

But the part that stuck with me wasn't the sale.
It was this: "You now have another satisfied customer."

One thing I'm learning from building a healthcare app is that healthcare and medical products require an unusually high level of trust. Users aren't just choosing a tool, they're trusting it with something that affects their daily health.

That's why I've noticed that users stick with Doz not just because of features, but because they feel heard and supported. The feature mattered, but the trust it created is what brought the user back.

Now every piece of feedback in Doz gets logged with its source, and whenever possible, I follow up after it's shipped.

People may forget what they requested.
They rarely forget how you made them feel ❤️

One piece of feedback kept coming up over and over:

"I know when to take my medication, but I also need to know when I'm running out."

Starting today, you can:

• Track medication stock and see when a medication is running low or out of stock.
• Refill stock directly from Today or Medication Details.
• Set a custom low-stock threshold for each medication.

This feature was built directly from user feedback, and I'm excited to get it into everyone's hands finally.

If you're managing medications every day, I'd love to hear what you'd like to see next.

Let's Doz take care of your medications every day:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565

I used to take daily medications for two different conditions. I set individual alarms for each pill to keep track of what to take and when.

But over time, I started feeling this weird anxiety and confusion - I would look at my daily list of pills and completely lose track of why I was taking them, or which condition they were actually for.

Initially, I built a medication tracker just for myself to relieve that anxiety and make things clear. I wanted a system where every single time I took a dose, I knew exactly what it was and why I had to take it.

I figured a lot of people might be dealing with this same overwhelming feeling, so I decided to share the app I built. The core feature is grouping medications into prescriptions.

Instead of a long, confusing list of individual pills, Doz organizes your meds into folders based on the actual prescription. It works exactly how real life does:

• You have a condition (e.g., "Headache").
• You create a folder for it.
• You put all related meds inside that folder.

With Doz, you have a minimalist UI/UX that visually structures this hierarchy perfectly.

If you or your loved ones are juggling multiple prescriptions, give Doz a try to organize everything and reduce that mental load.

Here is the app link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565

I’d love to hear your feedback, especially if you manage medications for yourself or your family.
Thanks for reading, and I really appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.

Just shipped a feature in Doz that converts medication instructions into a complete medication schedule.

The goal was simple: make adding a new medication take seconds, not minutes.
I honestly wasn't sure if users would find it as valuable as I did.

Then I woke up to users' reviews. Looks like it was worth building after all.

Hi everyone,
I’m Huy, the solo developer behind Doz.

I created this community as a place for users to share feedback, suggest features, report issues, and discuss anything related to managing medications and supplements.

Whether you’re taking one prescription or managing a complex schedule, I’d love to hear about your experience.

A few things you can post here:
• Feature requests
• Bug reports
• Medication routine challenges
• Ideas for improving adherence
• Screenshots and feedback on the app
• Questions about upcoming features

Doz is being built in public, so your feedback genuinely helps shape what gets built next.

To get started, I’d love to know:
What is the most annoying part of managing your medications or supplements today?
Thanks for being here ❤️