What is new in ChronoPill
Release notes for the public app. Earlier internal builds are folded into the v1.3 entry below.
v1.5.9 - Optimized for iPhone Duo, clearer sign-in and purchases
2026-10-11
Version 1.5.9 uses the whole screen of iPhone Duo, says what went wrong when you sign in or buy, and hides medication names on more screens in Discreet mode.
New
Optimized for iPhone Duo New
ChronoPill uses the whole screen and adapts when you fold, unfold or turn your iPhone.
Improved
Clearer sign-in Improved
Sign-in, sign-up and password reset now say what went wrong: wrong password, no connection, too many attempts.
Clear purchase results Improved
Purchases end clearly: confirmed, cancelled, waiting for approval, or failed with Retry and Restore.
Add Medication form Improved
The form checks each number as you type and keeps a button to close the keyboard above it.
Small screens Improved
The Today header scrolls with your doses, the tab bar is easier to read and long medication names fit on two lines.
Export Improved
Passwords up to 128 characters and a clearer choice of format.
Discreet mode Improved
Medication names are now also hidden in the Apple Watch dose list and in Siri's answer.
Fixed
Apple Watch Fixed
Only the doses due today are listed, the Take button always shows in full, and snoozing from a reminder uses the length set in Settings.
v1.5.8 - New icon, official French text, AI key points card
2026-10-09
Version 1.5.8 brings a new app icon, shows the official ANSM text word for word on French medicine sheets, adds official label sections and makes the AI key points and search clearer.
New
New app icon New
The ChronoPill mascot, redrawn and sharper on every screen.
More official label sections New
Official label sections now include precautions, overdose, driving and breastfeeding.
Improved
Official French text, word for word Improved
French medicine sheets now show the official ANSM text word for word.
AI key points in their own card Improved
AI key points sit in their own card, titled “Key points, summarized by AI”, and the third reading level is now called Expert. When no AI summary is shown, the app says why.
Medicine search Improved
Search finds medicines whatever the accents, capitals or punctuation you type, and doses in micrograms are read correctly.
v1.5.7 - Support form fixed
2026-10-06
Version 1.5.7 restores the support form of the app: requests sent from Settings reach our help desk again. The help portal was fixed the same day.
Fixed
Support requests sent from the app Fixed
A missing setting in the previous versions stopped the requests sent from Settings > Support from reaching our help desk. They arrive again; if your message did not go through, please send it again, we will answer.
Help portal Fixed
On help.chronopill.com, My Tickets now lists your requests, the form no longer zooms in on iPhone, and we are notified of every new ticket.
v1.5.6 - Download progress, larger text, support form
2026-10-05
Version 1.5.6 shows the progress of a medication database download, makes icons and rows follow the largest text sizes on iPhone and iPad, and adds a notice to the support form.
New
Download progress for medication databases New
Settings > Medication Database shows the download progress, with a percentage, while a database is downloading.
Improved
Icons and rows at the largest text sizes Improved
Icons next to text grow with your text size, and rows keep their spacing at the largest sizes, on iPhone and iPad.
Notice on the support form Improved
The support form reminds you not to type medical details and says how long your message is kept.
More reliable connections Improved
Connections to ChronoPill services are more reliable.
v1.5.5 - Accessibility on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
2026-10-03
Version 1.5.5 is about accessibility: controls are named and announce their state to VoiceOver, screens adapt to the largest text sizes, and text colors were reviewed for contrast, on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The interaction lookup shows the flag of each result's country database.
New
VoiceOver, larger text and contrast New
Every tappable row is a button for VoiceOver and Voice Control, collapsible headers announce whether they are expanded, layouts stack at the accessibility text sizes, and text colors reach the contrast level recommended for readability.
Improved
Country flag in the interaction lookup Improved
Each result of the interaction lookup starts with the flag of its country database, as on Android.
v1.5.4 - Interaction lookup fixed, Premium Lifetime
2026-10-03
Version 1.5.4 fixes the interaction lookup, which found nothing with the French database, and the Premium Lifetime purchase is now available on the Premium plans screen: one payment, no subscription.
Improved
Look up an interaction Improved
The search now finds medications in every installed country database, like the name completion when you add a medication.
Premium Lifetime New
A one-time purchase that unlocks Premium for good, next to the yearly and monthly plans. Not shareable with Family Sharing.
v1.5.3 - More in the free version
2026-10-02
Version 1.5.3 gives more to the free version: prescription scan and the Emergency Card are now free, and your history goes back 30 days for free. It also makes the plans screen clearer and adds a reminder before a free trial ends.
New
Free trial reminder New
A reminder two days before a free trial ends.
Improved
Prescription scan and Emergency Card, now free Improved
Prescription scan and the Emergency Card are now free. The free version still holds up to 3 medications.
30 days of history for free Improved
Your history goes back 30 days for free, up from 7. Older doses stay on your device, and Premium shows your full history.
Plans screen Improved
A clearer plans screen, with the plan for what you were doing already selected.
No upgrade screen after a dose Improved
The upgrade screen no longer appears after you take a dose.
Fixed
Today stays up to date Fixed
Today updates its greeting and doses at midnight and when you come back to the app.
v1.5.2 - Encrypted backup, Key points (AI), Reminder health, Discreet mode and more
2026-10-01
Version 1.5.2 adds an encrypted backup file and two optional online features, which run only when you use them. It also adds Reminder health, Discreet mode and a section on doses not recorded as taken, brings the weekly recap to Android and uses neutral wording in statistics, on iPhone and Android.
It also adds a stock battery with Records to confirm, status days, dose notes and visit preparation, and brings My Pharmacy to Android.
It also groups the doses of one time into one notification, and adds calm mode, a 24-hour day dial, a reminder pause inside a status, check-ins, more Siri actions and app icon shortcuts on Android.
New
Encrypted backup file New
Create a backup file of your data, encrypted with a password you choose, and save it wherever you like: Files, iCloud Drive, Google Drive or a computer. Restore it on a new phone after a confirmation step; a safety copy of the current data lets you undo the restore. ChronoPill never receives the file. The same format works on iPhone and Android.
Key points (AI) New
An optional, labeled summary shown under the official text, sent only when you tap the button. The official text always stays in full above it, and the summary is checked against it before it is shown.
Box photo recognition (Premium) New
Identify an unrecognized medicine from photos of its box. You confirm the result before anything is saved, and a match in the official country pack always takes precedence.
Reminder health New
A list of the phone settings that can stop or delay reminders, each with a Fix button, the date until which reminders are scheduled, and a test reminder with no medication name. On iPhone and Android.
Discreet mode New
Hides medication and person names on the Lock Screen and in notifications, and on iPhone also in widgets, the Live Activity and on Apple Watch. On by default for new installs; if you already use ChronoPill, your setting is kept and a one-time notice lets you turn it on.
Doses not recorded as taken New
A section in Insights that counts these doses by reason, scheduled time and weekday, on iPhone and Android. Counts only.
Stock battery and Records to confirm New
Each medication sheet shows the stock you entered as a battery with the days of supply, labels such as Count confirmed 3 days ago, and a The count is right button. In My Pharmacy (Premium), Records to confirm lists the counts to check again and the missing expiry dates. On iPhone and Android.
My Pharmacy on Android (Premium) New
Android gets the My Pharmacy screen of the iPhone app, opened from the Meds tab.
Status days New
Mark the days when you are away or when someone else gives the doses. Those doses are left out of statistics, the streak and the Doctor Report, and your records keep their real state. Reminders keep ringing, unless you pause some of them. On iPhone and Android.
Pause reminders during a status New
Inside a status, you can pause the reminders of the medications you pick. The status shows Reminders paused at your request until its last day, and the reminders come back on their own afterwards, with a notice without names. On iPhone, Apple Watch and Android.
Dose notes New
Add a note to a dose when you skip it or enter it later, or from History, which also shows how each dose was recorded. The Doctor Report includes your notes only if you choose. On iPhone and Android.
Visits New
Add your visits and prepare each one with the doses, reactions and notes of the period and your own questions. The visit reminder never names the doctor or a medication. On iPhone and Android.
One notification per dose time New
The doses of one person due at the same time arrive in one notification, for example 08:00, 3 doses, with Taken, Snooze and then Undo. On Apple Watch, the dose time arrives as one wrist reminder with Take all and Snooze. On iPhone, Apple Watch and Android.
Calm mode New
Turn off Show progress numbers in Settings to hide percentages, streaks and celebrations. Your doses and reminders are unchanged. On iPhone and Android.
24-hour day dial New
Today shows your doses on a 24-hour dial, with a mark at each dose time and a count of the doses recorded, never a percentage. It is also on the Apple Watch Today page, the small widget and the circular complication (Premium). On iPhone and Android.
Check-ins (Premium) New
A morning plan with the number of doses and the first and last time, an evening check-in and a weekly check-in, at the times you choose, never with a medication name. They never take the place of a dose reminder. On iPhone they replace the daily summary. On iPhone and Android.
App icon shortcuts on Android New
Touch and hold the app icon for Log next dose, which asks you to confirm before recording, Today, and Scan a barcode.
Doctor search and calendar New
In a visit, type a doctor or practice name and pick it from Apple Maps on iPhone or Google Maps on Android: the name, place and phone fill in. Add to Calendar opens your calendar's own screen, and a Doctolib button appears where Doctolib works.
Apple Health medications (iPhone) New
Import the medications you share in Apple Health, read only. Names stay as in Apple Health, reminder times are rebuilt when Apple Health shows the same times two days in a row, and Link to the official product opens the add form so you can pick the exact product.
ChronoPill on iPad New
ChronoPill runs on iPad, in portrait and landscape, with every tab in a readable centered column and a larger day dial. An iPad keeps its own list: there is no sync with your iPhone. To move your data, use an encrypted backup file.
Caregiver access and views New
Choose how long the caregiver link works (24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or until you revoke it), share it with a QR code, and get a notification with the time of each view; the recent views are listed on the caregiver dashboard screen. Only the time is recorded, never the device or address. On iPhone.
Improved
Official leaflets, every section free Improved
Side effects, driving, older adults, children and excipients are now free to read, like every other section of the official leaflet.
Weekly recap on Android Improved
The weekly recap card with your streak, already on iPhone, now appears on Today on Android too.
Live Activity for dose times (Premium) Improved
The Live Activity now shows the next dose time with Taken and Snooze, then Undo, and has its own setting in Settings > Notifications. Super Lazy Mode is no longer needed.
Siri Improved
Siri phrases work in every language of the app. When a spoken medication name matches medications of several people, Siri asks which person the dose is for before recording it.
More Siri and Shortcuts actions Improved
Skip or snooze a dose, and ask for the next dose, the doses left today, the units left or the last recorded dose. The answers are facts from the data on your iPhone.
Apple Watch Improved
The Today page shows the 24-hour day dial, and the streak page states the number of days in a row with all doses recorded as taken.
Neutral wording Improved
Statistics, the weekly recap and the Doctor Report show counts and percentages without grades, colors by level or early and late labels.
Plain completion lines Improved
The message shown when every dose of the day is recorded now states a fact, Every dose of today is recorded., on iPhone and Android.
Health profile from Apple Health Improved
Your date of birth, sex, height and weight refresh from Apple Health each time you open the health profile, read only; a value you change stays yours. The Import and Export buttons are gone. On iPhone.
Time-saving settings Improved
The shortcuts of Super Lazy Mode now sit next to what they change, each with its own switch (Premium): faster dose confirmation, quiet hours, and the Travel Mode and Fasting Mode suggestions.
Same substance abroad Improved
Travel Mode now finds products with the same substance through its ATC code and its names in every script, for example paracetamol in Japan. Informative only.
Fasting Mode notice Improved
A clearer notice: ChronoPill takes no responsibility for changes to a treatment during a fast. Ask your doctor or pharmacist before changing the time, amount or number of doses.
Fixed
Days of stock for weekly treatments Fixed
Days of stock and refill needs now count weekly treatments per week, on iPhone and Android.
Contact Support Fixed
Contact Support in Settings > About opens the support form again.
Also in v1.5.2 - Tidier Today, Germany database
2026-10-01
A focused release: the Today list stays short on busy days, and Germany's official medication register joins the offline country packs.
New
Germany database (BfArM / AMIce) New
The complete official German register: 321,625 products harvested from BfArM's AMIce portal, searchable offline with per-product links to the official source page. About 120 products temporarily show "not_found" clinical fields due to an upstream BfArM portal incident - the complete pack is republished server-side as soon as the source is repaired, no app update needed.
Improved
Today and History stay tidy Improved
Beyond three dose cards, Today collapses the rest into a "+ N more doses" row that opens the full pending list. History days start collapsed with a dose count per day - tap to expand.
v1.5.1 - New languages, new countries
2026-08-24
This release brings the app to three new languages and two new country databases, and pauses Canada/UK while their official-text licensing is finalized.
New
Spain and Italy databases New
Official country packs from AEMPS CIMA (Spain, 25,343 products) and AIFA (Italy, 12,467 products), searchable offline with per-product links to the official source documents. Germany (BfArM) is in preparation. Canada and the UK packs are temporarily out of the build while we finalize licensing of their official texts - already-downloaded packs keep working.
App in 9 languages New
Full UI localisation adds German, Spanish and Italian to the existing English, British English, French, Canadian French, Arabic and Japanese.
Improved
Verified provenance everywhere Improved
Country packs carry per-product source links (DailyMed, ANSM, AEMPS, AIFA, PMDA, AMMPS) so every clinical statement can be checked at the source.
v1.3 - Super Lazy Mode
2026-05-24
The biggest UX overhaul since launch. Super Lazy Mode reduces the per-medication setup time from about ninety seconds to under ten for the recurring cases, and adds a Lock Screen presence so you never have to unlock to see what is due next. Everything ships behind a single opt-in master toggle so users who prefer the manual flow are not disrupted.
New
Super Lazy Mode New
Master toggle in Settings > Interface. When on, ChronoPill pre-fills the low-stock threshold and color, and copies frequency and meal timing only when the product's official posology text states them. Eight per-category toggles in the dashboard let you keep the master on but disable specific behaviours.
Lock Screen Live Activity New
Pin the next pending dose to the Lock Screen and to the Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Pro and newer. The activity updates as you take or skip doses. Tap it to open ChronoPill straight to the Today tab.
Privacy redaction on Lock Screen New
Nested toggle under Lock Screen Live Activity. When on, the Lock Screen banner shows "Medication / Reminder / 09:00" instead of the actual drug name and dose. Anyone who picks up the locked phone cannot read the medication.
Sleep-aware reminder times New
ChronoPill reads your median wake and bed times from Apple Health and replaces the default 09:00 / 21:00 reminder hours with your actual schedule. An optional sub-toggle defers reminders you opt in yourself to the wake hour; everything else fires at the original time.
Travel auto-prompt New
When your device detects you are in a different country, ChronoPill offers Travel Mode for that destination in one tap. Symmetric prompt when you return home.
Religious fasting auto-prompt New
On the first day of Ramadan or Yom Kippur, ChronoPill offers to switch Fasting Mode on for the appropriate window. Dates come from the system Islamic Umm al-Qura and Hebrew calendars.
Apple Health import: allergies and conditions New
If your iPhone is linked to a US or EU health system (Epic MyChart, Kaiser, Mayo, etc.), import your patient-recorded allergies and conditions directly into your Health Profile. ChronoPill parses the FHIR resources on-device, nothing is transmitted off-device.
Apple Watch wrist double-tap New
On Apple Watch Series 9 / Ultra 2 and newer running watchOS 11, mark a dose taken with the system double-tap gesture (touch index finger and thumb together twice). Older Watches keep the on-screen Take button.
"Use X times" cluster chip New
When you add a medication and another active med has the same frequency, a chip appears in the schedule section showing the existing med's times. One tap copies them.
Lazy Mode dashboard New
One screen lists every Lazy Mode behaviour with its own toggle, the values currently in use (sleep anchors, medication count), and the Live Activity status. Access via Settings > Interface > See what is auto-filled.
Visible Lazy Mode indicator on Today header New
A small violet sparkles chip next to "Good morning" / "Good evening" tells you Lazy Mode is on. Tap to open the dashboard.
Improved
Dose confirmation is now 1.5 seconds in Lazy Mode Improved
Down from 5 seconds. A 5 second undo toast at the bottom catches accidental taps. Both behaviours opt in / out independently in the dashboard.
Safety
Sleep defer is opt-in per medication Safety
Only reminders you explicitly opt in are deferred; everything else fires at the time you set.
Live Activity circuit breaker Safety
If a future ActivityKit regression ever crashes mid-request, ChronoPill detects the interrupted launch on the next start and disables the Live Activity path. The user re-enables it from the dashboard whenever they choose to retry.
Defaults
Super Lazy Mode now defaults to off on first launch
All automation is opt-in. Returning users keep their saved preference; new installs see the toggle off and discover Lazy Mode by tapping the Settings > Interface section.
Previous releases
Older release notes for v1.0 - v1.2 are folded into this page. The full historical changelog is on file with App Store Connect.
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