Thanks for the comments. MedsLog for Mac was developed preciously because MedsLog for iPhone / iPod Touch is so popular. The likelihood of a person religiously logging into a mobile device and recording every dose of medicine they ever take and for how long is very high with MedsLog for iPhone / iPod. Just look at the AppStore reviews for MedsLog.

Furthermore, the integration with iCal works as the ideal reminder, because it works even when MedsLog is not running, and the alarms propagate to your mobile devices.

While I agree with you they might try at first, what I have observed about human nature leads me to believe that the majority will not follow through for any length of time, especially when large numbers of meds are involved. If only a few meds are involved what's the point as the mind is normally the best computer on earth. This is another instance where I defer to Occams Razor. A pill box and watch or small timer is inexpensive, uncomplicated, reliable and requires little setup or interaction with the user. Not to put your effect down but it just seems like overkill to me. Perhaps the effort you have put in to this could be redirected into something else that might prove to be more practical or useful, such as recording an exercise regimen.

What you say may be true, however, MedsLog was developed because people asked for it. Just look at the comments for PillBox.

Assuming that Pillbox is a software program, you probably are correct. However when I was referring to a pill box, I meant the old fashioned kind - the physical pillbox that has a compartment for each day of the week, with a flip top to hold the pills that you actually put in it.

Any pill tracking software that is presently available requires some sort of computer (yes the IPhone is a computer) and as such requires a religious discipline of entering each pill event into the system when it occurs. Otherwise it is useless. My experience along with independent research has demonstrated to me that very few individuals have this kind of discipline. In fact most studies show that a significant sector of the population has problems with just taking pills on a regular basis, much less spending the time and effort to record the event. The only setting I can imagine where such a product might be useful is a hospital, nursing home or athlete conditioning center where an independent person needs to record and monitor medication.

So while your program might be great in theory, its practicality for an individual unfortunately escapes me.

I agree that most people wouldn't want or need a program like this to track meds, but there are still hundreds of thousands (millions?) of us who take more than four sets of meds each day and find keeping track of it all more than a little bit daunting! Especially if you have other symptoms such as a little memory loss which makes it a challenge to remember which meds have been taken.

I need to take 10 different prescribed meds a day just to survive, more when I have an infection or some other acute problem. These 10 drugs need to be taken, variously, between 1 and 4 times per day. Some before food, some with food, some after food, some x hours away from food, some x hours away from certain other meds, some at bedtime. I track them with a spreadsheet at the moment, and alarms added to iCal by hand - I think this program will be a great improvement on that if it can deal with the issues I raised in my other comment.

So yes, there's a market. The size of it I can't comment on but there's definitely a need. :)