Pills In privacy policy

Version 1.0 | Effective: 29 July 2026

In short: Pills In keeps your medication data on your phone. There are no accounts, no tracking, no ads and no server. The app never sends anything to us, because there is nowhere for it to send it to.

Who are we?

Pills In is made by Phil Morton, an independent developer based in the United Kingdom.

If you have any questions about this policy or your privacy, email us at philip.morton@gmail.com.

What does Pills In collect?

Nothing about you. There is no account and no sign-in, so we never ask for your name, your email address or any other personal details.

To be completely clear, Pills In does not:

• track you, anywhere, ever;
• show ads or work with advertisers;
• use analytics or any usage-tracking tools;
• run a server that holds your data;
• sell or share your data with anyone, for marketing or for anything else.

We also do not read your Apple Health data. Pills In keeps its own record of your medications and does not look at anything Health holds.

Does anything leave your phone?

The app itself makes no internet connections at all. There is no server behind Pills In, no third-party code inside it, and nothing it does causes your medication data to be sent to us or to anyone else.

Three things are worth explaining properly, because "it all stays on your phone" is not quite the whole story.

1. Calendar sync, which you turn on yourself

Pills In can add your reorder and run-out dates to a separate "Pills In" calendar, so you can see them alongside everything else in your diary. This is off when you install the app, and only ever happens because you switch it on.

When it is on, each event carries, in its notes: the name of the medication, its reorder-by date, its run-out date and the number you have left.

Two things to be aware of:

• The "hide medication names" setting hides the event title, not the event. With it on, an event reads "Reorder a medication" instead of "Reorder Rivaroxaban". The notes still contain the medication name and your current count, because an event with nothing in it would be no use to you.
• If the calendar is one of your iCloud calendars, Apple syncs it. Pills In adds its calendar to your iCloud account where you have one, so the dates reach your iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. That means Apple's servers and all of your devices hold those events, in the same way they hold the rest of your calendar. That is Apple handling your calendar under Apple's privacy policy. Nothing goes to us.

You can turn calendar sync off at any time in Settings, and Pills In removes the calendar it created.

2. Your iPhone's own backup

If you have iCloud Backup switched on, your iPhone backs up Pills In along with every other app on your phone, and the backup includes the medications, schedules, counts and history the app holds. This is Apple's backup of your device, it is encrypted, and it is entirely under your control in iOS Settings. We cannot see it and we are not sent a copy.

We have deliberately left it that way. If we excluded Pills In from your backup, setting up a new iPhone would leave you with an empty app and no way to get your medication history back.

3. Reminders on your lock screen

A Pills In reminder never names a medication in the text you can see without unlocking your phone. It says something like "Time to log your 08:00 medications" and how many are due. The names appear only when you expand the reminder, which needs your phone unlocked.

Diagnostic logs

Like most apps, Pills In writes technical notes about what it is doing to your iPhone's system log. Medication names, counts and any notes you have written are marked as private, so they are hidden there.

Those logs stay on your phone. They only ever go anywhere if you choose to send a diagnostic report to Apple or to us yourself.

What stays on your phone?

Everything else stays on your device:

• your medications, their strengths, forms and schedules;
• how many you have left, and every restock or correction you have made;
• your record of doses taken, skipped and snoozed;
• your reminder times, snooze setting and other preferences.

All of it lives on your phone and is deleted when you delete the app. You can also erase it at any time using Reset app in Settings.

One exception. If you had calendar sync turned on and you delete Pills In without first switching sync off, the "Pills In" calendar stays in your Calendar app, because a deleted app cannot tidy up after itself. You can remove it in the Calendar app like any other calendar.

A note on security

Your Pills In data is protected by your iPhone in the same way as your other apps' data, and by your passcode. So that you can log a dose straight from a reminder on the lock screen, the app's data is readable by the phone without unlocking it first, exactly as your calendar and reminders are. Anyone with your unlocked phone can see your medications, as they could see any other app.

Your rights

Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to look up, change or delete. If you have any question about your privacy, email us at philip.morton@gmail.com. If you live in the UK and are unhappy with how we have handled a privacy matter, you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

Medical disclaimer

Pills In is a reminder tool and does not provide medical advice or dosing. Always follow your doctor and pharmacist's instructions.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the version number and the date at the top and publish the new version here. Previous versions are kept in our source history.

Contact us

Questions about this policy or your privacy? Email us at philip.morton@gmail.com.