My pals over at Snailed It Development have shipped a new iPhone app that I have really come to appreciate over the last several months I’ve had access to the beta. It’s called Capsule, and it’s a medication tracking app built with the attention to detail only a group of indie developers could deliver.
For years, I’ve used Due to remind myself to take my medication. Due’s flagship feature is its ability to remind you over and over until you mark an item done. While that’s a fantastic feature, Due is a general-purpose to-do application, not a medication tracker.
When Apple added medication tracking to Health, I gave it a shot and quickly realized I liked having my medications listed and tracked separately, but that I also needed the nagging notifications from Due.
Capsule takes the best of both and puts them into an iPhone app that’s lightweight, modern, and flexible. In addition to the ability to have repeating notifications, Capsule offers lots of customization at the medication level. This means that if you take one medication every 6 hours, but another just once a day, it can handle that. You can also set a dose interval for medications that have a minimum amount of time you must wait between taking doses.
Capsule supports tagging medications, which is great if you use the app to keep track of medication for more than one person. It also ships with flexible and handsome widgets, robust Shortcuts support, alternative icons, and more.
Capsule is $14.99/year or $1.99/month, but if you sign up before July 25, you can get an annual subscription for $12.99/year. It is in the App Store today..