Keeping track of someone else's medications is a job.

The problem is two lists on one phone

Most medication apps assume one person, one list. So caregivers end up improvising: a second app, a second account, or one merged list where a parent's blood-pressure tablet sits next to their own antihistamine and every reminder is ambiguous. When the reminder fires you have to stop and work out whose dose it is — and that pause is where doses get missed.

The fix is structural, not a matter of trying harder. Each person needs their own list, their own reminder schedule, and their own history, all reachable from the one phone you actually carry.

Set it up once, per person

In GoodPill, each person you look after gets their own profile, and you switch between them in a tap. Medications, reminder times, adherence history and garden progress are kept entirely separate — nothing bleeds between profiles.

The fastest way to build someone's list is to photograph their prescription labels. The scanner reads the name, dosage and frequency, and Batch Scan will work through a whole bag of prescriptions in one go, which matters when you are setting up seven medications after a hospital discharge.

• Add a profile per person, name it, give it a colour so you can tell them apart at a glance.
• Scan their labels rather than typing — the scanner cross-references real drug databases, so a misread name gets caught.
• Set reminder times around their day, not yours. A dose at 08:00 with breakfast beats a dose at 08:00 because that was the default.
• Multiple profiles are a GoodPill Pro feature. Reminders and unlimited medications on your own profile stay free.

Plan for the missed dose, because there will be one

The dangerous pattern in caregiving is not the missed dose — it is the missed dose nobody can confirm. Did they take the evening tablet, or did they say they did? Redosing on a maybe is worse than skipping.

GoodPill is built around that reality. A 10-minute grace window means tapping Taken a little late still counts. Past that, a "Log Now" button back-fills the dose without wiping the streak. And any past day can be corrected from the calendar, so when you find out on Wednesday what actually happened on Monday, the record can be made true rather than left wrong.

Notifications deliberately never name the medication — they only say it is time. If your parent's phone sits on the table at a community centre, nothing on the lock screen announces what they are being treated for.

Turn up to the appointment with evidence

The hardest question at a clinic visit is "how has it been going?" — and the honest answer, from memory, is usually a guess. GoodPill Pro produces a printable PDF covering 30, 90 or 180 days: what they are currently taking, their adherence rate, which time of day gets missed most, and a section for the questions you want to raise.

It is a consumer record, not a clinical system — but it turns a vague conversation into a specific one, and it is far easier to hand a doctor one page than to reconstruct three months out loud. If the clinic wants raw data, the same history exports as CSV or an HL7 FHIR bundle.