Medication reminders for families, everywhere
Reminders that reach a person, not a badge on an icon.
DrBell reminds you of what your doctor already prescribed, in your own language — and tells someone who cares about you when a dose is missed. Built for a 74-year-old on eight medicines, and for the daughter in another city who worries.
Amma’s phone in Chennai shows a reminder for her 8:30 pm tablet, Metformin 500mg. She taps Taken, and a moment later her daughter Priya’s phone in London shows: Amma took her 8:30 pm tablet.
What is true of DrBell
- 46 languages, and growingReal translations, and a reminder template reviewed by a native speaker before it ships.
- Rings with no signalAlarms live on the phone, so a dead zone is not a missed dose.
- Someone is toldOn Plus and Family, a missed dose reaches the people you chose, in the order you chose.
- Never soldNo ads, no advertising SDKs. Anonymous usage stats only if you say yes.
Who it is for
One app, and everyone around the medicine
The person taking it, the family far away, a child learning to, and the nurse on the evening round each see exactly what they need.
For elders
One card, filling the screen, with a photo of the actual strip on it. 24pt type, two buttons and no gestures. It reads the dose aloud in the local language if you ask it to.
A reminder card: a photograph of the strip, Metformin 500mg, 1 tablet, after food, and two large buttons, Taken and Later. For families at a distance
When a dose runs late, you are told. When the window closes without it being taken, you are told urgently. You can say "I will handle it" so the others stop being nudged.
Two notifications: first that Amma has not taken her tablet, then, an hour later, an urgent one that she missed it. For children
A streak and a sticker shelf, and stickers are never taken away — a reward you can lose is a reason to say you took a tablet you did not. A grown-up countersigns what the child reports.
A shelf of five stickers filling in as a streak grows: a star, a rainbow, a medal, a rocket and a dragon. For care homes
Residents, wards, seats, shift handover and an audit trail of every record anyone read. Staff see the corridor they are working, and nothing else.
One wing’s evening round, room by room, each dose marked as given in turn.
For families at a distance
Know it was taken — or know in time that it was not.
- Late, you are told. Missed, you are told urgently.
- "I will handle it" — so your brother stops being nudged too.
- Her day, on her clock: 8:30 in Chennai is 8:30, wherever you are.
- A report for the doctor, and a link you can send before the appointment.
Chennai
London
How it works
Type it the way the doctor wrote it.
Step 01 / 04
Type the prescription the way it is written
TAB. GLYCOMET 500MG 1-0-1 A/F x 15 days becomes two doses a day, after food, for fifteen days. DrBell shows you what it understood before it saves anything.
The prescription TAB. GLYCOMET 500MG 1-0-1 A/F x 15 days typed in, and DrBell reading it back as two doses a day, after food, for fifteen days. Step 02 / 04
It follows your meal times, not a fixed clock
You tell DrBell when you usually eat, once. "After food" is then timed from your own breakfast and dinner — in the picture, half an hour after a breakfast at 08:00 — not from somebody else's clock. DrBell does not decide when a medicine should be taken: it shows you the times before it saves anything, and your doctor's instructions always come first.
Breakfast moved to 08:00, and the morning dose moving with it to 08:30. Step 03 / 04
Photograph the strip
It becomes the largest thing on the reminder. A name means little to someone on eight medicines; a picture of what is in the drawer means everything.
A photograph of the strip growing to fill the top of the reminder. Step 04 / 04
Choose who is told
Invite them by phone number. They have to accept. You can revoke them at any moment and it takes effect immediately.
Priya invited by phone number, her invitation accepted, and a Revoke button beside her name.
For care homes and hospitals
The evening round, in the order the corridor is walked.
- 01Ward scoping, so a nurse sees only her corridor
- 02Shift handover, ordered the way a corridor is walked
- 03Bulk resident import from a spreadsheet
- 04Outbound webhooks into an existing EHR
- 05Your own branding
- 06An audit trail of every record anyone read
In your own language
The button that matters most, the way you would say it.
DrBell speaks 46 languages, and more are coming. Real translations, and a notification template does not ship until a native speaker has reviewed it. Until one has, it goes out in English rather than guessed at.
- TakenEnglish
- ले लियाहिन्दी
- తీసుకున్నానుతెలుగు
- எடுத்தேன்தமிழ்
- নিয়েছিবাংলা
- घेतलेमराठी
- ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡೆಕನ್ನಡ
- കഴിച്ചുമലയാളം
- લઈ લીધુંગુજરાતી
Medicine names are never translated. A converted name may not be the medicine in the packet. If the label is in one script and you read another, you can add a second label yourself — your words, on purpose.
Plans
Free is generous on purpose.
Prices are inclusive of taxes.
Free
Freealways
Deliberately generous. Reminding someone to take a tablet should not be behind a paywall.
- Unlimited medicines
- Alarms that keep ringing
- Help centre and FAQ
- Photographs of every strip and tablet
- One caregiver, who can see the record
- Every language DrBell speaks
- For families at a distance
Plus
$3.99a month
For a family looking after someone at a distance.
- Reminders by email
- Tell 2 people when a dose is missed
- Your whole history, not just 30 days
- Share a report with a doctor
- Email support from a person
- Refill tracking and low-stock notices
Family
$6.99a month
When more than one person in the house is being looked after.
- Everything in Plus
- 6 people, 6 caregivers each
- Email support from a person
- The caregiver dashboard on the web
Organisations
Per residentcontracted annually
Care homes, retirement homes and hospitals.
- Every resident and every carer
- Handover notes and rotas
- Email support from a person
- Ward scoping, so a nurse sees only her corridor
- Shift handover, ordered the way a corridor is walked
- Bulk resident import from a spreadsheet
- Outbound webhooks into an existing EHR
- Your own branding
Cancel whenever you like. A full refund inside seven days, and a refund for any period our reminders did not work. Refund terms.
How do I sign up?
Open the app and enter your phone number. We send a six-digit code; type it in. There is no password to choose or forget.
What does "1-0-1 A/F" become?
One dose after breakfast and one after dinner, for 15 days — timed from your own meal times, which you set once, rather than a fixed 09:00 that suits somebody else. DrBell shows you the times before it saves anything. If your doctor told you something different, follow your doctor.
Do reminders work without internet?
Yes. The phone holds its own alarms, so reminders fire offline. Marking a dose taken while offline is saved on the device and sent when you reconnect — and the record keeps the time you actually pressed it, not the time it synced.
Why does the reminder look different on Android and on iPhone?
Because the two allow apps different things. On Android, DrBell takes over the screen with the photo of the strip and Taken and Later buttons. On iPhone, DrBell uses Apple's own alarm: it shows Later and slide to stop, rings with Apple's alarm sound, and sounds through silent mode and Focus. Apple allows no Taken button there, so after you slide to stop and unlock, DrBell opens on that dose and you press Taken in the app.
When are they told?
On Plus and Family. (On Free a caregiver can see the record, but nobody but you is told about your doses.) When a dose is running late, and more urgently when the window closes without it being taken. Critical medicines escalate faster. A caregiver can tap "I'll handle it" so the others stop being nudged — that does not record the dose as taken, and does not stop the missed alert, because a claim that did not end in a taken dose is exactly when everyone needs to hear.
Will she know I am watching?
Yes. Access is granted deliberately and is visible to her, and every read of her record is logged.
Can a DrBell report prove that a medicine was taken?
No. DrBell records what someone reported — a press of Taken — and what DrBell did about reminders and alerts. It cannot see whether a medicine was swallowed, how much, or whether it worked.
Why won't you translate my medicine names?
Because a translated medicine name may not be the medicine in the packet. Names differ between countries and a converted name can match a different drug.
What help comes with each plan?
On Plus, Family and organisation plans, a person answers your email about using DrBell. On Free, the help centre and these questions are there for you. On every plan, you can email hello@drbell.app about your account, your privacy or a complaint, and reach our Grievance Officer. Every email, on every plan, is acknowledged within 72 hours.
We run a care home. How does this work?
Sign up at org.drbell.app. Your organisation starts as pending and cannot hold resident records until we approve it. Once approved you add residents up to your contracted seats, invite staff, and can restrict a nurse to particular wards.
Your data
What we do with your data
We never sell it
Not to anyone, not in any form. There are no advertising SDKs in DrBell, and anonymous usage stats are collected only if you say yes — never your health data.
You can take all of it
One tap exports everything we hold as a single file. No request, no waiting.
You can delete all of it
Thirty days to change your mind, then it is gone — photographs, history, everything.
Someone who cares will know.
Look after someone’s medicines, from wherever you are.