The tablet was taken on time — and you know it
MyPills is a dispenser that hands out the right tablets on schedule, and an app that shows the family the dose was taken. And when it wasn’t, it keeps saying so until somebody acts.
The account is free. The app opens in a browser and installs onto a phone like any other — no app store needed.
“Did I take it?”
An empty compartment in a pill box does not answer that. It does not remember when it was emptied, or by whom.
$150–2000
What ready-made “smart” dispensers cost. Closed, bulky, and unable to talk to anything but their own app.
$30–40
The parts for a MyPills device. Schematics and firmware are open — you can build it and repair it yourself.
How it works
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Loading
Enter the medication and how it is taken — the app works out which cells to fill and shows what goes where. Nobody has to hold the layout in their head.
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Dispensing
At the right moment the device lights the cell, sounds, and pushes the container out. The schedule lives on the device itself, so it works without the internet.
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Follow-up
If the dose is not confirmed, the reminder repeats. After half an hour the family hears about it — in the app and in Telegram.
Who it is for
For the patient
One screen for the day: what has been taken, what is next, what was missed. No tables or calendars to work out.
For family and carers
You can see that your mother is fine without the daily “have you taken it?” call. One device serves several people — cells belong to different patients.
For the doctor
What actually happened instead of what was said in the consulting room, a prescription builder and reports. Access only with the patient’s explicit consent, and every view is logged.
Plans
| Feature | FREE | FAMILY | PRO |
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| Device control and the day’s progress | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud sync | — | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts to the family (push and Telegram) | — | Yes | Yes |
| Interactive drum layout | — | Yes | Yes |
| Doctor’s dashboard and prescription builder | — | — | Yes |
| PDF report export | — | — | Yes |
There is no payment yet: everything is free while the project is in open testing. Dropping to a lower plan will never switch off a critical reminder silently — we will say so in advance.
What is ready right now
The project is being built in the open, and it is fairer to say plainly where it stands.
Working
- Accounts, the family space, roles and invitations
- Schedules that respect the time zone and daylight saving changes
- Reminders, and a Telegram alert to the family when a dose is missed
- The drum layout and working out which cells to fill
- The Device API — the contract the firmware is written against
Being built
- A production device; for now it is a DIY build
- The doctor’s PRO panel
- Package barcode scanning
- Local mode without an account
Where your data will live
The servers are independent and nothing passes between them. Pick the one that applies to you — changing it later means starting a new account.
Cloud services are not offered in Belarus. The dispenser still works in full: it is set up straight from a phone or a laptop, with no account and no internet — the schedule lives in the device itself.
You can build the device yourself
The schematics, the firmware and the Device API contract — how the dispenser talks to the cloud — will be published openly. A machine that holds a record of somebody’s medication should not be a black box, neither for the person assembling it nor for the person trusting it.
The repository opens together with the first public build.
Start with the schedule
The app works without a device: set up the doses and connect your family now, and add the dispenser when you have one.
Create an account