Guides
Background articles on the problems we kept running into while building Medifix: reminders that vanish in silent mode, apps that lock core functions behind a subscription, and health data treated as less private than users assume. The list grows as we write.
Standard push notifications go quiet when your phone does. How exact alarms on Android and critical alerts on iOS make a medication reminder ring like an alarm clock instead.
Read more →Between a note on the fridge and handing over your full account login there is a missing middle. How end-to-end encrypted, revocable caregiver sharing works.
Read more →Plenty of reminder apps put reliable alerts, or even the number of medications you can add, behind a subscription. Why that is a particularly bad trade for medication.
Read more →Drug name, dose and timing often imply a diagnosis. Why health apps are among the worst offenders for data sharing, and what keeping data on-device actually requires.
Read more →More about what Medifix does on the Medifix overview, and answers to technical questions in Support.