MyTherapy alternatives: simpler and stricter options

People leave MyTherapy in two opposite directions: they want less app, or they want a reminder that insists. Almost nobody wants the same thing in a different wrapper, which is why “the best MyTherapy alternative” has no single answer.

MyTherapy is genuinely good and completely free, with no paid tier. It tracks medications, symptoms, measurements and mood, reminds you when a refill is due, and generates a health report you can share with a doctor through a one-time code. If you use those, switching is likely a downgrade.

If you want less app

MyTherapy is a health journal with reminders attached. If you only ever wanted the reminders, the journal is overhead.

Apple Health Medications is free, already installed, and does the medication part without asking you to log a mood. It also has drug interaction warnings in the United States, an Apple Watch app, as-needed doses and PDF export.

PillSeal is narrower still: medications, doses, supply and a dose check-in, and nothing else. No symptoms, no measurements, no reports. That is a deliberate limit rather than a roadmap.

A pill organiser is the smallest answer of all, and for one or two medications on a simple schedule it is hard to beat.

If you want the reminder to insist

MyTherapy reminds you with a notification, and on iOS silent mode and Focus suppress a standard notification unless you have allowed that app through. MyTherapy does not document a way around that.

Apple Health Medications can, with Critical Alerts turned on per medication under Medications, Options. Apple’s documentation says these sound even when a Focus is on or the iPhone is muted. It follows up once, 30 minutes after a missed dose.

Dosecast describes repeat reminders for missed doses in its free edition, along with snooze, interval-based schedules and a maximum daily dose limit.

PillSeal schedules a real iOS alarm instead of a notification, so it rings by default, and it keeps returning until the dose is confirmed rather than following up once.

If you want to track more, not less

CareClinic goes considerably further than MyTherapy: symptom tracking with body mapping, standardised assessments such as PHQ-9 and GAD-7, nutrition, sleep, cycle and personal health records, plus caregivers and dependants and an Apple Watch app. If MyTherapy felt shallow rather than heavy, this is the direction.

Medisafe sits between the two, with more than 90 measurement trackers, drug interaction warnings and its Medfriend feature for telling someone when a dose is missed.

If you want to leave the phone out of it

Ask your pharmacist about a blister pack, sometimes called a dosette. Every dose pre-packed by day and time, with an obvious visual check of whether it was taken. For someone on several medications it solves more than any app on this page, and it is often free.

Where PillSeal fits

PillSeal is the strict end of this list and the narrow one. It is iPhone only, it costs money after a trial, and it does not track symptoms, produce reports, support as-needed doses or tell anyone else anything. What it does is ring like an alarm until the dose is taken and ask for a camera check-in rather than a tap. If the doubt afterwards is your actual problem, that is the trade it makes. The full comparison with MyTherapy sets it out in detail.

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Every claim here was checked against each product’s own App Store listing or website on 18 August 2026. Apps change. If something has gone out of date, tell us at hello@pillseal.app and we will correct it.