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Medication reminders that follow your meals

Set breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime once. Tie any dose to a meal, before, with or after it, and Cadence reminds you at the right time. Free on iPhone and Apple Watch, with no account.

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Dinner moves.
Your reminders follow.

Change a mealtime and every dose tied to it moves too.

Before, with or after.

Choose how each dose fits around a meal.

Your schedule. Your rhythm.

How it works

  1. Set your usual breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime once, in Settings under Reminders.
  2. When you add or edit a medication, pick a meal for any dose time and choose before, with or after.
  3. Today shows the meal beside each dose, such as "With breakfast" or "Before dinner".
  4. Eat later on weekends or after a shift change? Move the mealtime and every dose tied to it moves too.

What it does

Before, with or after

"Before" reminds you about half an hour ahead of the meal. "With" and "after" follow the meal itself.

One change, every dose

Change dinner from 6:30 to 7:30 and each dose tied to dinner moves with it. No editing medications one by one.

Clock times still work

Tie only the doses that go with food. Everything else keeps its own set time.

Lock Screen actions

Take, snooze or skip from the reminder without opening the app, and a follow-up if you miss it.

Add it in plain words

Type or say "Metformin 500 mg twice a day with breakfast and dinner" and smart add fills in the meal timing for you to check.

Free

Meal-timed doses are part of the free app. New in 1.9.32.

Free, and what Pro adds

Free

  • Unlimited medications and reminders
  • Smart add, meal-timed doses and the missed-dose question
  • Lock Screen actions, follow-ups and supply tracking

Cadence Pro, paid once

  • Insights dashboard and trends
  • Apple Health integration and water tracking
  • PDF report for your doctor
  • No subscription

There is no account and no sign-up. Your medications and history stay on your iPhone.

Not medical advice

Whether a medication should be taken with food, before it or on an empty stomach is on the label or comes from your pharmacist or doctor. Cadence reminds you at the time you choose. It does not decide it for you.

Guides worth reading

Add medications from a list, a photo or your own words A pill reminder app for iPhone Free medication schedule maker How to remember to take your medication How to manage multiple medications

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