MEDS: Pill & Injection Tracker alternative: every medicine, or every vial
MEDS is a general medication app — pills, capsules, liquids, topicals and injections, built for chronic conditions, IVF and household schedules, and its record is kept locally on your device. Pinned is narrower: it centres on injectable protocols and vial arithmetic, though it also models oral and topical routes, and it also uses local storage. If your primary focus is managing a broad household medicine cabinet, MEDS is built for that breadth, whereas Pinned focuses deeply on injectables.
A medicine cabinet, or a protocol ledger
MEDS's listing describes tracking injections, pills, capsules, liquids and topical creams, with schedules flexible enough for daily and weekly routines, specific weekdays, cyclic schedules such as birth control, and as-needed medication. It names chronic conditions and IVF cycles as the situations it is built for, and it has a visual body map for injection-site rotation.
That is a genuinely different product from Pinned, aimed at a genuinely different person. Pinned assumes you are running a self-directed injectable protocol — peptides, TRT, HRT, GLP-1s — and that the hard part is not remembering to take a pill but working out what to draw and keeping a clean record of what you drew.
The overlap is real but partial: both log injections and both rotate sites. Everything either side of that is built for someone else.
The numbers, as of 30 July 2026
4.39 is at the lower end of this comparison set, but it is also the app serving the widest range of situations, and 443 people rating it is 443 more than have rated Pinned. Ratings move — check the current figures before deciding.
The iOS row goes against Pinned too, if only narrowly: 17.6 against 18.0. The gap is one minor release rather than the years of extra reach some apps in this category offer, but it is still a device or two where the other app installs and Pinned does not.
| Fact | MEDS | Pinned |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | 4.39 | No rating yet |
| Ratings | 443 | 0 |
| Price | Free to download, in-app purchases | See App Store listing |
| Minimum iOS | 17.6 | 18.0 |
| Download size | 86 MB | 38 MB |
| Built around | General medication tracking, with injections as one case among many | Peptides, TRT, HRT and GLP-1 in one ledger, with reconstitution maths |
Privacy and local storage: common ground
MEDS's listing explicitly states that health data stays entirely on your device, with no account required and no server uploads.
Pinned takes the same approach. There is no account, no server, and no sync — the record exists on the device it was entered on, behind an optional Face ID lock, though you can explicitly export it as a CSV or PDF.
For both apps, the trade is that there is no automatic cloud backup or real-time sharing. If you need a caregiver or partner to see your schedule in real time across devices, neither app provides that out of the box.
Where the arithmetic lives
A pill has a dose printed on it. A vial of lyophilised powder does not — the number you draw depends on how much diluent went in, and that number has to be computed before it can be logged.
That computation is Pinned's centre of gravity: vial strength and bacteriostatic water in, syringe units out, or the reverse; concentration, remaining volume and discard date carried per vial so the figure stays tied to the thing it describes. A general medication app has no particular reason to solve that, because most medications never pose it.
Pinned also covers oral medications, topicals, and nasal sprays, so it is not injection-only — but its focus is not on organising a broad household medicine schedule.
Which to pick
Pick MEDS if your primary goal is managing a broad variety of medicine forms across a household, or if you want an app whose App Store listing is published in far more languages than Pinned's four.
Pick Pinned if your record is injectable protocols, and if reconstitution arithmetic is the part you actually want solved.
These pages compare software, not treatments. Pinned records and converts what you enter, does not recommend compounds, sources, doses, or protocols, and is not a medical device. Nothing here is medical advice — consult a licensed clinician before starting or changing anything.
Common questions
- Can Pinned track pills as well as injections?
- It tracks oral medications, topicals, and nasal sprays alongside injectables. While it can handle multiple forms, its focus is on injectable protocols rather than broad household schedules.
- Does Pinned sync to my iPad or share with a partner?
- No to both. Pinned runs on iPhone and iPad but each device keeps its own local record, and there is no way to share it with someone else in real time. MEDS is also explicitly local-only with no server uploads; if you need real-time sharing, neither app provides it.
- Which app is better for IVF or a chronic condition?
- MEDS names both as situations it is designed for, including cyclic schedules. Pinned is built around self-directed injectable protocols and makes no claim to serve clinical treatment schedules.
- Do both apps rotate injection sites?
- Yes. MEDS's listing describes customisable body maps with history. Pinned records injection-site history and time since use.
- Can I get my data out of Pinned?
- Yes. Pinned provides CSV and PDF copies of your own records from inside the app, and it writes an AES-encrypted backup file. There is no cloud copy either way — the backup is a file you keep, not a server record.