Dose Card

Turn the prescription into a chart Nani can read on the fridge.

Photograph the doctor's note, check what Dose Card read, and print a big picture timetable in English and her own language. If she can't read it, she scans the code on the card and her phone reads it to her. It's free, with no sign-up, and nothing is stored on a server.

Make a cardSee how it works

Printed in English with

  • हिन्दी
  • বাংলা
  • मराठी
  • తెలుగు
  • தமிழ்
  • ગુજરાતી
  • ಕನ್ನಡ
  • മലയാളം
  • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
  • اردو
  • Español
  • Français
  • العربية
  • 中文
  • Português
A handwritten-style sample prescription listing seven medicines in shorthand such as 1-0-1, OD, HS and SOS
The sample prescription and the card Dose Card made from it, in English and Hindi.

Why a card on the fridge

About half of older adults in India take five or more medicines at the same time.

People with long-term illnesses take their medicines as prescribed only about half the time.

A prescription is written in shorthand for the pharmacist: 1-0-1, BD, HS, SOS, AC, PC. The person taking seven tablets a day needs something else: what to take, how much, and when, in their own language, big enough to read without glasses.

How it works

  1. Photograph the prescription

    Dose Card reads each medicine: the name, how much, morning or night, before or after food. It understands Indian shorthand like 1-0-1, OD, BD, TDS, HS and SOS. You can also type the medicines in.

  2. Check every row against the paper

    Anything hard to read is marked Please check. Fix the amount with + and −, tap the times, pick before or after food.

  3. Print it and stick it up

    Pick your grandparent's language and print one A4 page: medicines down the side, times across, with a picture for every dose. Its QR code opens a talking version: tap Morning or Night and the phone says what to take. Share it with family on WhatsApp.

Make a card

Start with the prescription, then check every row against the paper.

Card details

Saved in this browser only. The printed QR code and shared links carry the card inside the link itself, so nothing is stored on our server.

Medicine timetable
MedicineMorningAfternoonEveningNight
Metformin 500After food1 tablet——1 tablet
Amlodipine 51 tablet———
Pantoprazole 40Before food1 tablet———
What the pictures mean
  • tablet

Copied from the prescription. Check with your doctor or pharmacist.

Your card appears here

Tested on 17 prescriptions

Found 72 of 72 medicines and read 287 of 288 details right: how much, which unit, when, and before or after food. It made up none. The test prescriptions are fictional and cleaner than real handwriting, so every card still has to be checked against the paper.

See every test prescription and the one it got wrong

It copies. It never advises.