What’s new in Kounts Dose

A course countdown on Today, limits for as-needed medicines, and a Focus filter

• The course countdown, where the dose is. The “12 days left” line from 2.0.2 now shows on the dose itself, as “Course · 12 days left” or “Course · last day”. You’ll see it on Today, on the small Next dose widget, the Lock Screen widget and the large Today widget when there’s room, and on Apple Watch. Nothing shows before a course starts or after it ends, and there’s no praise and no nudge to extend it.
• Limits for an as-needed medicine. Set your own rule under Your limits: at least so many hours between doses, and at most so much in any 24 hours. Both are off until you switch them on, and Dose never suggests a number. The medicine’s page and its row on Today say where you stand, like “Next dose from 14:30 · 6 of 8 tablets in 24 hours”.
• Logging is never blocked. If you log a dose outside your rule, Dose asks once and records it when you tap Log it. The record has to say what happened. Free.
• A Focus filter. In Settings → Focus, pick a Focus, tap Add Filter and choose Kounts Dose to get Quiet dose reminders. While that Focus is on, reminders arrive in Notification Center with their Take and Skip buttons, without sound. It’s off by default. Critical alarms still ring.

How long a course has left, and a refill date in Calendar

• A course countdown. A medicine with an end date now says how far along it is on its page, under Schedule: “Day 16 of 28 · 12 days left”. Before the start it reads “Starts Tue 4 Nov · 28 days”, and afterwards “Course ended Tue 4 Nov”. Days only, with no streaks.
• For 4 weeks. When you add a medicine, the course section offers 7 days, 10 days, 2 weeks, 4 weeks and 3 months, and fills in the last day for you. You can still change the date.
• A refill date in Calendar. On the Supply card, tap Add a refill reminder to Calendar and choose how many days ahead. Dose hands an all-day event to Calendar. It needs no permission, and the title is just “Refill reminder” unless you switch on Include the medicine’s name.
• Sixteen labels that were only in English, like the Mac menu items, are now translated.

How much you took, feedback in the app, and Dose for Mac catches up

• How much you took. On the History week grid, a day with a taken dose now shows the amount under the check: “2”, “½”, “1¼”. A missed or skipped day keeps its dash or cross.
• Send feedback from the app. Settings → Kounts Dose → Send feedback opens a short form with a message of up to 500 characters. Your email goes only if you switch on Can we contact you? Nothing about your medicines, doses or appointments is ever sent with it.
• Rate Kounts Dose now opens Dose’s own App Store page. It used to open nothing.
• Dose for Mac catches up with everything from 2.0. Apple Calendar sync now works on the Mac, and Add to Calendar opens Calendar’s import sheet. The permission messages say macOS.
• Ready for iPhone Duo. The camera and prescription guide fit a wide screen, and the undo bar no longer leaves a gap above a tab bar that isn’t there.

Appointments, and a calmer look

• An Appointments tab. A visit, a test or a regular clinic appointment, with a reminder the day before, help to prepare, and a prompt after the visit asking how it went. Appointments show on Today and in History, and in widgets, on Apple Watch, in a Live Activity and in Siri.
• Apple Calendar sync. Optional. Each person’s appointments appear in a calendar of their own, kept up to date when anything changes.
• Care team, prep templates and appointment settings. Appointment limits are part of Dose Plus.
• A calmer look. Today, History, Medicines, prescriptions, Settings, people, onboarding and Plus are restyled. Text is a little larger and darker, and Today reads as one line through the day.
• Pack for an appointment opens with its period already chosen. Refill remembers what a pack usually takes and can save a pack size.
• Apple Maps place search when you add an appointment.

A follow-up reminder, and a check when your clock moves

• One follow-up reminder, if you ask for one. Settings → Reminders has a switch. Turn it on and pick the gap: 15 minutes, 30, an hour or two. If you haven’t answered a dose by then, Dose reminds you once more. There is never a second follow-up, it comes quietly, and answering the dose anywhere cancels it. It’s off until you turn it on. Free.
• A check when your clock moves. When you open Dose in a new time zone, one card says when your next reminder is and what that is at home, like “Tuesday 16:00 · 08:00 at home”. It shows once. Clocks changing for daylight saving don’t trigger it.
• Keep a medicine on home time. Turn it on for all your medicines in Settings → Travel, or for one in Edit medicine. A birth control pill can stay at 08:00 at home while a vitamin follows you. Dose never changes your home on its own. Free.

Something to hand your doctor, and room to see the whole day

• A printable medication list. For one person or for everyone: every medicine with its strength and form, the size of one dose, when it’s taken, how to take it, what it’s for, a dated supply count, and who prescribed it. You see the whole document before you share it. It’s laid out for a black-and-white printer, on A4 or US Letter depending on your region.
• An appointment pack. Choose the last 7 days, 30 days or 3 months, everything since your last pack, or two dates of your own. Dose tells you how many doses that covers before it builds anything, then adds a dated log for each medicine: when each dose was due, what happened, and the notes and side effects you recorded. A medicine stopped during the period stays in, marked “No longer taken”.
• A plain record. Neither document has an adherence score, a percentage or a streak, and nothing is worked out from what you logged. Every page carries the date it was made and a line saying Dose is an organiser, not medical advice. Both are made on your device, never include a photo, and go only where you send them. They’re part of Dose Plus.
• Dose on iPad. Medicines becomes a grid of columns, and Today puts the day’s summary beside the day’s doses. The rest of the app keeps to a readable column. In a narrow Split View, or at the largest text sizes, it goes back to the single-column layout. All four orientations work.
• Dose on Mac. A native Mac app with a sidebar for Today, Medicines, History and Settings, menu bar commands, and keyboard shortcuts (⌘N for a new medicine, ⌘1 to ⌘4 for the sections). It needs macOS 26 or later. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac, and with iCloud sync the Mac shows the same medicines as your iPhone.
• What the Mac doesn’t do. A Mac can’t ring a critical alarm, so it shows an ordinary notification instead; turning the alarm on from the Mac still makes your iPhone and iPad ring. There’s no camera, pack scanning, prescription reading or Apple Health import on the Mac, and no widgets or Lock Screen dose card. Photos don’t sync between devices, so a photo taken on your iPhone stays there.
• A large Today widget. The whole day on the Home Screen, with Take and Skip on each dose that’s due and a line about anything running low. Doses you’ve answered stay on it, and a short day fills the space with tomorrow’s. iPad gets an extra-large size, and iOS 27 a taller one that fits today and tomorrow.
• Four new widgets. Supply overview lists every medicine with whatever runs out first at the top, and takes a refill from its large size. Last 7 days is a plain record of the week, with no score and no streak. Household shows everyone’s day on one tile. Quick log records an as-needed medicine in a tap. Each can be drawn in the medicine colours or like a pill organiser, chosen in the widget’s own settings.
• Last 7 days and Household show on every tier. Supply overview, Quick log, and logging from Household or the large Today widget need Dose Plus.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

How to take it, and an icon of your own

• How to take it. When you set a medicine’s dose you can now note how it’s taken: with food, on an empty stomach, with water, before bed, or don’t crush. Dose repeats it under the dose on Today, as a line in the reminder, on the Lock Screen dose card, on Apple Watch and on the medicine’s own screen, always as a symbol beside the words.
• Only ever what you choose. Nothing picks an instruction for you: not the medicine’s name, not the pack scanner, not a prescription, not Apple Health.
• The medicine list you export has a “How to take it” column.
• Four app icons. Settings → Appearance → App icon offers the original, Night, Sage and Plain. Plain is a ring and a dot, with nothing on it that says “medicine” to someone glancing at your Home Screen. Every icon follows light, dark and tinted Home Screens, the picker is free, and the name under the icon still reads Kounts Dose.

Skip, refill and undo without opening the app

• Skip beside Take on the widget, the Lock Screen widget and the Lock Screen dose card. A skipped dose stays in the pack, because it was never taken.
• “I refilled this” on the supply widget, for a pack that’s running low. It says what it will add before you tap (“Adds 30 · your pack size”), and where there’s no pack size to go on it opens the refill screen instead of guessing a number.
• Anything a widget records can be undone for ten minutes afterwards, Take included.
• The Lock Screen dose card counts down the last fifteen minutes before a dose, and Take and Skip appear when it’s due. It says when that medicine is running low, and a late dose gets a clock, never a red card.
• Three more things to say to Siri: “Log my Metformin”, “I refilled my Metformin” and “How much Metformin have I got left”, which with no medicine named answers whichever runs out first. All three are Shortcuts actions too.
• Every screen was checked on the smallest iPhone and at the largest text sizes. Medicine names are never cut short, and every card in Medicines shares one layout with a supply gauge along the bottom.

A Today screen that counts answers

• Today counts answers, not just doses taken. A skip is an answer, so the card now says how much of the day you’ve dealt with, with the detail underneath: “1 taken · 1 skipped · 2 still to take”.
• The dose Dose is waiting on says Due, in a word and a symbol as well as a colour.
• Later today. Doses more than an hour away fold into a quiet section that names their times, so a stray tap at breakfast can’t log the afternoon’s. The dose you’re behind on is never folded away.
• A dose logged by mistake can now be removed rather than re-answered: an extra dose on any day, a scheduled one while its day is still running.
• The Add button says Add.
• Easier to read: small text and status colours are darker against the background, Increase Contrast now changes the whole app, and at large text sizes the medicine’s name gets the full width of the row.
• Every Log button names its medicine for VoiceOver, every row says its time, and Today respects Reduce Motion.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Apple Watch, prescriptions, and a history you can correct

• Dose on Apple Watch. Today’s doses on your wrist, opening on the one you’re behind on with a Take button. Swipe a row to take it, or tap it for the amount and a Skip. As-needed medicines have their own section. The list is kept on the watch, so it opens with your iPhone in another room, and a dose logged then arrives later with the time you tapped. Adding medicines, changing schedules and buying Plus stay on the iPhone. The free medicine works on the watch too.
• Prescriptions, inside Medicines. Photograph the slip, as many pages as it has, and keep the prescriber, the dates, a note and the medicines it covers. “Valid until” is a date you set; Dose reminds you once, a week before, and a prescription with no date never reminds you. The photo is never synced, exported or sent anywhere. The free tier keeps one prescription; Plus keeps as many as you need.
• On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, a photographed slip can fill in the prescriber, the dates and the medicines for you to check. A date is only filled in when it can’t be misread.
• Put a dose right afterwards. Tap any row in History and say what actually happened: taken, and when, skipped, or missed. The pack count follows unless you’ve recounted the pack since, the change reaches your other devices if you use iCloud sync, and it’s free on every tier.
• Half a tablet, and a quarter. Written ½, 1½, 2¼ everywhere the amount appears: the schedule, the reminder, the widget, the watch and the export.
• Eighteen forms, the same list Apple Health uses, and strength as a number and a unit (mg, mcg, g, mL, %, IU). Drops count down from the millilitres on the bottle.
• One box, two people. Share a pack with someone you look after and one count serves you both. A refill tops up both, and the low-supply nudge arrives once.
• Note how a dose went. Twelve one-tap side effects and a free note on any dose in History. Dose doesn’t interpret any of it; it goes into your export for your next appointment.
• Take all. A time with several medicines gets one Take all button, and one Undo.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

A steadier pack scanner

• Scanning a pack no longer swaps cameras halfway through: the barcode read and the label photo now come from the same viewfinder, so capturing the label doesn’t fail after the code has landed.
• The handoff says what happens next. Once a code is read, scanning pauses so a neighbouring box can’t be picked up while you turn the pack, and the screen asks for the front label — name and strength sharp and filling the frame — with a Capture label button.
• An uncertain scan no longer fills in a medicine. If Dose isn’t confident about what it read, it says so and offers another photo, your photo library, or typing it in yourself.
• Prescriptions can be scanned too. A clear, single-medicine prescription can fill in the name, strength, form, quantity, prescriber and date when they’re printed on it. The prescription photo is never kept as the medicine’s picture, so a sheet of personal details doesn’t end up in your library.
• The wait after capture is shorter, and the loader now says what it’s doing rather than sitting still.
• Every “Take photo” button opens Dose’s own camera: one lens, one shutter and a flashlight you control — no inherited zoom or flash setting from elsewhere. Profile photos open front-facing.
• All the new scanner wording is translated into all seven languages.

People, pill photos and Identify

• People. A separate list of medicines for everyone you care for. A switcher at the top of Today, Medicines and History moves between one person and Everyone, where each row is tagged with whose it is. Add, rename, recolour and reorder them in Settings → People. A one-person library looks and behaves exactly as it did before.
• Reminders never scope. Switching the screen to one person doesn’t quiet anyone else: reminders, critical alarms, refill nudges and the Live Activity always cover everybody. What changed is that they now say whose dose it is — “Mum · 500 mg · 8:00 AM”.
• Widgets, Siri and export know people too. Each widget can be set to one person or left on everyone, Siri takes “log Mum’s dose”, and the history export can be scoped to one person — because an export for an appointment is about one patient.
• Everyone can have a photo, used as their avatar wherever their name appears. Like every other photo in Dose, it stays on the device it was added on and is never uploaded.
• Medicines can be moved between people from the medicine’s own menu, and their history goes with them. Upgrading changes nothing you can see: existing medicines join a profile called “Me”. Adding a second person needs Plus; the People screen itself is never locked, and lapsing never deletes anyone.
• A photo of the pill, not just the box. A medicine now holds two photos, and “Show as” offers Colour, Box or Pill.
• Identify — a grid of every medicine as a picture, reached from the Medicines header. Medicines with no photo still appear as their colour and form, so it’s a complete index of the cabinet.
• The pack photo opens. Tap it on a medicine’s detail screen and it fills the screen, pinching, double-tapping and panning — and swiping between the box and the pill.
• Who prescribed it, and when. Two optional fields, collapsed until filled in, that complete from prescriber names you’ve already typed. Both are now columns in the CSV export.
• A medicine imported from Apple Health arrives with its whole history, not just its name — and those past doses leave your supply count alone, because a count is a statement about today. The first Health read after updating reaches all the way back once for everything you’ve already shared.
• What’s new. A release now introduces itself once, on the first launch after updating, and lives in Settings afterwards. Cards that have somewhere to go are doors: tapping one opens the feature it describes.
• The first medicine is no longer compulsory — “I’ll add one later” drops you straight into the app.
• If you said “Not now” to notifications during setup, saving a medicine asks once more — at the moment reminders start to matter.
• Fixed: “Restore purchases” now always tells you what happened instead of quietly doing nothing; tablet and capsule icons were wearing each other’s glyphs; and a couple of dozen settings labels that had never been translated now are.

Tapers, Live Activities, Siri — and a 14-day trial

• Tapering schedules for plans written as “4 tablets for 5 days, then 3 for 5 days, then 2…” — steroid tapers, antidepressant step-downs, anything that ramps. Each step carries its own length and amount, a step of 0 is a rest step, and the editor shows the total length and finish date before you save. Days-of-supply averages across the whole plan, so “will this pack see me through?” stays right.
• A Live Activity for the dose window. When a dose comes due, a Lock Screen card and Dynamic Island presence show the medicine, the amount and the time, with a Take button that stays until the dose is actioned. One card at a time — four medicines at 8am shouldn’t mean four stacked cards. Free, like reminders and critical alarms.
• Siri, Shortcuts, the Action Button and Control Center. “Log my dose” now works, as does asking what’s next, and there’s a Control Center control that logs the next dose without opening anything. They work out which dose you mean: a forgotten 8am wins over a due 1pm, and tonight’s 8pm is never logged by accident.
• Scan a pack. Photograph a medicine’s box and have the name, strength, form and pack size filled in for you to check, reading the barcode live in the viewfinder as you frame the shot. Everything runs on your iPhone, nothing is uploaded, and it only ever transcribes what’s printed on the box — never a schedule, never advice.
• The doses you logged in Apple Health come back too. Settings → Apple Health brings them in on demand, or automatically each time you open the app. It costs no new permission, and the bridge still only runs one way — Dose never writes to Health.
• Dose Plus now starts as a 14-day trial, and the free tier’s limits arrive after it rather than during setup. You get a fortnight of the full app and are asked at the end, holding your own filled-in library.
• Nothing is ever deleted when a trial ends. Medicines past the free limit keep their schedules and their full history and simply stop accepting taps, and which ones stay unlocked is just the top of your own Medicines list. Reminders set up during the trial keep running.
• The widgets are no longer locked — the next-dose and Today widgets now render for everyone, read-only. One-tap logging from the widget is the upgrade.
• Fixed: the widget’s Take button now always clears the slot it logs, even when the widget had gone stale.
• An accessibility and performance pass throughout: full Dynamic Type support, a VoiceOver sweep where status is never colour alone, 44pt tap targets everywhere, and a noticeably lighter Today screen.

History, three ways

• History gained a view switcher: the month calendar, a new week grid showing every medicine against every day at a glance, and a new log — the full chronological history grouped by day, with per-day totals.
• The medicine filter applies to all three, and the view you chose is remembered. It stays a log: no percentages, no streaks, no score.

The first release

• Today, Medicines and History; a six-step add-medicine wizard with offline name autocomplete; one-tap logging with undo.
• A flexible scheduler: once or several times a day, every few hours, specific weekdays, every few days, cycles like 21 on and 7 off, fixed-length courses, and as-needed medicines — each time carrying its own dose amount.
• Supply tracking that says about how many days you have left, with low thresholds in units or days and a one-tap “I refilled this”.
• Reminders with Take, Snooze and Skip straight from the Lock Screen, and per-medicine critical alarms that ring through Silent mode and Focus — free at every tier.
• Home Screen widgets and Lock Screen accessories, a month-calendar history and CSV export.
• Optional iCloud sync through your own private iCloud database, off by default. No account, no ads, no data collection.
• A supportive nudge when the same dose is missed repeatedly — shown in the app, never as a push notification.
• Seven languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), German and Russian.