Most apps bury their privacy practices in legal documents nobody reads. I wanted to do the opposite—explain clearly how Meds handles your data, in plain language, so you can decide if you trust it.

Everything you enter, your medications, your schedules, when you mark a dose as taken, gets stored locally on your device using SQLite. There's no server in the background. No cloud sync. No account to create.

This isn't just a policy I'm choosing to follow. It's how the app is built. I couldn't see your data even if I wanted to, so do other apps, because there's nowhere for it to go. It just lives on your phone.

You open the app. You use it. That's it.

There's no sign-up. No email to verify. No analytics watching which screens you tap or how long you spend on each one. The app doesn't make any network requests at all, you can turn on airplane mode and everything works exactly the same, because it genuinely doesn't need the internet.

I have no idea who uses this app, how often they open it, or what medications they're tracking. And I'd like to keep it that way.

iOS separates each app's data, which means other apps on your phone can't access what Meds stores. Your medication list isn't visible to your calendar app or your browser or anything else.

The data also isn't synced to iCloud or backed up to Apple's servers. It stays in a local, protected location on your device. Apple doesn't scan it. I don't have access to it. It's yours.

If you delete a medication from the app, all the tracking history tied to it gets deleted too. Gone.

If you delete the app itself, everything goes with it. There's no backup sitting on a server somewhere, no way to recover it, no ghost of your data lingering in a database. I think that's how it should be, your data shouldn't outlive your decision to stop using something.

Health data is very personal. And a BMJ study found that 79% of top medication-related apps share user data in ways that may violate privacy. You can read more about these here.

I wanted something simple: a way to remember if I took my meds today. That doesn't require surveillance. It doesn't require an account. It just requires a list and a checkbox.

So that's what I built.

The code is open source. If any of this sounds too good to be true, you're welcome to look through the source and confirm it for yourself.

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If you have questions, or if something here doesn't make sense, I'd genuinely like to hear about it.

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