Medications in Apple Health is free, built into every iPhone, and good. If it does what you need, keep it. Here is where Yepdose is different, what Apple Health does that Yepdose doesn't, and how to bring your medicines across if you switch. Checked on 6 October 2026.
Side by side
| Yepdose | Apple Health Medications | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | The basics are free, with no limit on medicines. Family is $29.99 a year after a 14-day free trial, or $59.99 once. | Free, built in |
| When you don't answer a reminder | It comes back at 10, 30 and 60 minutes, then the dose is marked missed, after two hours by default | One follow-up reminder 30 minutes after the scheduled time, if you turn on Follow-Up Reminders |
| Critical Alerts | For medicines you flag | Per medicine, once Follow-Up Reminders are on |
| Logging a dose | One tap from the notification, the Home Screen widget, the Apple Watch app, or Siri and Shortcuts | From the notification, the Health app or the Medications app on Apple Watch |
| Someone else gets told when a dose is missed | Family: a push on their phone when a dose is missed or late. With permission to edit, they can log a dose for you. | You can share your medications with someone through Health Sharing |
| Several people on one iPhone | Unlimited profiles, free: a parent, a child, yourself | Your own Health data |
| Medicine information | Family shows FDA label information, for information only. No interaction checker. | Uses, side effects and drug interactions (U.S.) |
| Adding a medicine | By name, by pasting a list, or by importing from Apple Health or a Medisafe export | By name, or with the camera |
| Reports | Family: adherence for 7, 30 or 90 days as PDF or CSV | Export your medication list as a PDF |
| Where your data lives | On your iPhone and in your own iCloud. Nothing is collected. No account. | In Health on your iPhone, and in iCloud if you sync Health |
Apple Health details are from Apple's own pages: Add and log medications, the iPhone User Guide on Medications and medicine information. Apple may change them with any iOS update.
What Apple Health has that Yepdose doesn't
It is already on your iPhone, with nothing to install. You can add a medicine by pointing the camera at the label. In the U.S. it shows drug interaction information. And your medicines sit next to the rest of your health data. If one follow-up reminder is enough and nobody else needs to know when a dose is missed, Apple Health is a fine choice.
Why people add Yepdose
A reminder you swipe away is easy to lose. Yepdose asks again at 10, 30 and 60 minutes and writes the dose down as missed if you never answer, so your history shows what was missed, not only what was taken. You can answer from the Home Screen widget, your Apple Watch or Siri without opening anything. And with Family, the person who looks after you gets a push on their own phone when a dose is missed, instead of having to ask.
Bringing your medicines across
1. Import from Apple Health
On iOS 26 or later, open Yepdose, go to Settings → Apple Health → Import from Apple Health, and tick the medicines you want on Apple's permission sheet. Yepdose reads those medicines and the last 90 days of your dose log, on your iPhone, once. Nothing is saved until you review it and tap Import.
2. Check each schedule
The import works out from your dose log when you take each medicine: every day, certain weekdays, every few days or a cycle, and at what times. If the log is too short or too irregular to tell, the review marks it "guessed". Open each medicine once and make sure the days, times and amounts are what you take; an as-needed medicine needs setting to as needed. Keep Apple Health's reminders on until every schedule is right.
3. Then turn off the reminders you no longer need
Once every schedule in Yepdose is right: if you keep both apps, you will get two sets of reminders. In Health, go to Browse → Medications → Options and turn off Dose Reminders. That stops Apple Health's reminders for all your medicines at once and leaves your schedules and history in Health as they are; there is no per-medicine switch. Apple does not let apps write medication records to Health, so doses you log in Yepdose stay in Yepdose.
Questions
Is Yepdose a medical device?
No. It is a reminder and record-keeping tool. It does not give medical advice, check interactions for you, or replace your doctor or pharmacist.
Who sees the medicines I import from Health?
Never us. The import happens on your iPhone, and what you import is kept like the rest of your Yepdose data, on your device and in iCloud. If you import into a shared profile, everyone in that share sees it, the same as anything else in that profile: a profile you share with a caregiver stays in your iCloud, and a profile someone shares with you is stored in their iCloud. The App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected. Read the privacy policy
Coming from Medisafe instead?
See Yepdose vs Medisafe.