In development
Pet medication
“Did anyone give the dog his pill?”
Nobody's sure, so he either gets a second dose or none at all. TailDose holds the schedule, takes the log from whoever's home, and turns the whole month into something you can hand your vet.
The problem
Why pet medication schedules fall apart
One pill a day is easy. It stops being easy the moment there are three medications on three different rhythms — one daily at bedtime, one monthly on the first, one twice a day with food — and more than one person in the house.
Then the failure is never dramatic. Someone gives the evening dose early and doesn't mention it. Someone assumes it's been done because the bowl's been touched. The sitter has your instructions on a sticky note that's now under the sofa. Two weeks later the vet asks how he's responded to the new medication and the honest answer is that you're not entirely sure he's had all of it.
A shared calendar doesn't fix this, because a calendar tells you what was meant to happen. What's missing is a record of what actually did.
What it does
How TailDose keeps every dose on schedule
Set each medication up once. After that the app tells you what's due and takes one tap to confirm.
Today's doses, and nothing else
The home screen opens on one question — what still needs doing. A ring shows how much of the day is done, the doses still to come are grouped by when they're due, and each one has a Log button right there in the list.
Anything already given collapses into "1 done today" so it's out of the way but still checkable. There's a streak count too, which sounds trivial until it's the thing that makes you open the app on day forty.
- Doses grouped by morning, afternoon, evening and night
- One tap to log — no screens to dig through
- Reminders with two follow-ups and a 15-minute snooze
Every pet, with their whole history attached
Each pet gets a profile — breed, age, birthday, how long you've had them — with their medications listed underneath and the schedule each one runs on. Vaccinations sit alongside, with the date given and the date the next one falls due.
Documents live in the app too, so the discharge summary and the vaccination certificate are on your phone at the appointment instead of in a drawer at home.
Sharing
Sharing pet medication duty with a partner or sitter
The owner sends an invite link, and from then on everyone's looking at the same schedule and the same log. Your partner can see the evening dose is already done. The sitter can see what's due tomorrow without being briefed. Nobody has to text to ask.
There are two levels, and you choose per person: can log doses, or can log and edit medications. Your sitter almost certainly wants the first one. You can revoke an invite, remove a caregiver or stop sharing whenever you like, and your uploaded documents are never part of what gets shared. As the owner, you get a notification when a caregiver gives or skips a dose.
Caregiver sharing comes with TailDose Pro for the pet’s owner, and the people you invite join free. Each one needs their own Apple Account and TailDose on their own iPhone or iPad, and every invite link adds one person and expires after seven days.
At the vet
What your vet actually needs to see
Not "yes, mostly" — a document with dates on it.
A PDF that answers the questions you get asked
With Pro, pick 30, 60 or 90 days and TailDose builds a health report: adherence as a percentage, doses given against doses scheduled, current weight, and when the next vaccination is due.
Under that, every medication gets its own table — what was scheduled, when it was actually given, and who logged it. That last column is the one that settles arguments, and it's the reason a shared log beats four people's memories.
Export to CSV instead if you'd rather have the numbers.
Told before you run out, not after
Tell TailDose how many pills you have and it counts down as you log doses, working out the day you’ll run out. With Pro it also sends a low-supply alert about a week ahead (you choose how many days), while there’s still time to call the vet, rather than on the evening you find the packet empty.
Log a dose straight from the reminder, the Next Dose widget on your Home Screen or the Apple Watch app. Pro adds the Today’s Schedule widget, a Lock Screen widget and Apple Watch complications.
About 7 days of Dekker's medication left. Tap to view and refill.
Pricing
Free for one pet. $29.99 a year for the whole household.
One pet with up to three medications is free, along with everything you need to keep it on schedule. Pro is for more pets and medications, sharing, reporting, and everything that assumes more than one person is involved.
Free
- One pet, up to three active medications
- Pets shared with you don’t count against it
- Reminders with two follow-ups and a 15-minute snooze
- Log from the reminder, the Next Dose widget or Apple Watch
- Vaccination and weight records, and documents
- 30 days of history and the adherence calendar
Pro $29.99/yr · $59.99 once
- Unlimited pets and medications
- Caregiver sharing with a partner or sitter
- Refill and low-supply alerts
- Vaccine due-date reminders
- 90-day and all-time history
- PDF and CSV vet reports
- Medium and Lock Screen widgets
- Apple Watch complications
Also available monthly at $4.99. Subscriptions start with a 14-day free trial for new subscribers; the one-time purchase is $59.99 and never renews. People you invite as caregivers join free; only the pet’s owner needs Pro.
- Requires
- iOS 17.0 or later
- Devices
- iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
- Price
- Free · $29.99/yr or $59.99 once for Pro
- Pets
- 1 free, unlimited with Pro
- Sharing
- With Pro · caregivers join free
- Vet reports
- PDF and CSV, with Pro
TailDose is a record-keeping and reminder tool. It does not provide veterinary advice, and it can't tell you whether a medication or dose is right for your animal — that's your vet's job. Always follow the instructions on the prescription.
Know which doses were given.
TailDose is still in development. LeasePace and STRAXE are on the App Store now, if you want to see how we finish things.