Medication & Injection Tracker alternative: every medicine, or every vial

A medicine cabinet, or a protocol ledger

Medication & Injection Tracker'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.

Sync and sharing: the clearest thing Pinned cannot do

Medication & Injection Tracker's listing describes iCloud sync across your Apple devices and sharing your schedule and compliance history with family members, caregivers or partners in real time.

Pinned has neither. 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. For someone managing medication with a partner's help, or wanting a caregiver to see whether a dose was taken, that is disqualifying, and no amount of privacy argument changes it.

The trade is that nothing about your protocol is stored anywhere you do not control. Whether that is worth losing sync and shared visibility depends entirely on who else needs to see the record.

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 and nasal sprays, so it is not injection-only — but it will not organise a household's full medicine schedule, and it is not trying to.

Which to pick

Pick Medication & Injection Tracker if you take medicines in several forms, if someone else needs visibility on your schedule, if you want the record on more than one device, 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, if reconstitution arithmetic is the part you actually want solved, and if you would rather no server held it.

FAQ

Can Pinned track pills as well as injections?

It tracks oral medications and nasal sprays alongside injectables, so simple oral compounds fit. It is not a general medication manager — no topicals, no household schedules, no caregiver sharing.

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. Medication & Injection Tracker's listing describes iCloud sync and family sharing; if you need either, choose it.

Which app is better for IVF or a chronic condition?

Medication & Injection Tracker names both as situations it is designed for, including cyclic schedules and caregiver sharing. Pinned is built around self-directed injectable protocols and makes no claim to serve clinical treatment schedules.

Do both apps rotate injection sites?

Yes. Medication & Injection Tracker's listing describes customisable body maps with history. Pinned records injection-site rotation so you do not double up on the same spot.

Can I get my data out of Pinned?

Yes — the full record exports as CSV or PDF from inside the app, as part of Pinned Pro. Since there is no cloud copy, that export is also your only backup route.