Meds Ahead: Supply Tracker

Meds Ahead is a private medication organizer designed around the question other reminder apps miss: what will run out next?

Scan printed labels and barcodes on device, review exactly what was recognized, and fill in only what is missing. When a label prints its NDC, or a package barcode carries one, Meds Ahead looks it up in a bundled copy of the FDA's National Drug Code Directory and fills in the exact product: name, brand, strength, and form. It does so only when the rest of the label agrees, and every field is still yours to confirm. Create flexible schedules, log taken or skipped doses, add refills, make inventory corrections, and see an understandable supply forecast for each medication.

Already tracking medications in Apple Health? On iOS 26 and later you can choose which ones to share, and Meds Ahead brings each one over for the same review. The doses you logged there in the last 30 days come along, so an as-needed medication has a usage rate from day one. It reads only what you choose and never writes to Health.

Key features:

- On-device medication label and barcode scanning
- Exact identification from the label's NDC, matched offline against the FDA directory, and printed on the shareable medication list
- Import from Apple Health on iOS 26 and later, read-only and one medication at a time
- Human-confirmed medication records
- Daily and selected-day schedules
- As-needed medication support
- Consolidated dose reminders that avoid same-time notification spam, with privacy-safe Taken and Skip actions when an alert represents one medication
- Taken and skipped dose history
- Dose and low-supply refill reminders
- Refill and inventory adjustments
- Explainable low-supply forecasts, with a "Why this date?" view of each run-out date
- Courses with a last day, after which their reminders stop
- Scan bottle after bottle, and add a second bottle of a tracked medication as its refill
- An optional second reminder for a dose that isn't logged, and a weekly count check
- Private local storage with no account or advertising
- Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, dark mode, and reduced-motion support
- An optional, non-recurring tip jar; every app feature remains free

Meds Ahead is free. Every feature is included, there is nothing to unlock, and there is no subscription. An optional tip in Settings supports development and unlocks nothing.

I built Meds Ahead because my mother was managing more than a dozen medications and refills for my brother through his transplant care, and every app we tried was built around reminders rather than the question she actually needed answered: what runs out next?

Meds Ahead is an organization tool. It does not provide medical advice, recommend dose changes, or determine prescription refill eligibility. Always follow your prescription label and clinician's instructions.

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