Meds in Hand — Privacy Policy
Effective August 15, 2026
The short version
Meds in Hand collects no data about you. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics or crash-reporting SDKs, and no servers of mine for your data to travel to. Your medication list, dose history and photos live in your own iCloud and on your devices — nowhere else.
Where your data lives
- Your iCloud. Your medication library, dose schedule, history and photos are stored in your own iCloud, inside the app's iCloud container, and sync between your devices through Apple's infrastructure — never through mine.
- You stay in control. Because the data is yours, removing a medication, a dose entry or a photo in the app removes it everywhere it synced. The app also has built-in backup & restore in Settings.
Permissions
- Notifications. Dose reminders are local notifications scheduled on your device — one per time of day, deliberately worded without medication names so nothing personal appears on your lock screen. Nothing is sent to a server to deliver them.
- Camera and photos. Used only to photograph or pick images of your prescriptions, bottles and packaging. Photos are stored with your data in your own iCloud.
- Apple Health. If you choose to import, the app does a one-time, read-only import of your medication list from Apple Health. It never writes to Health, and nothing read from Health leaves your devices and your iCloud.
Medication information lookups
The app's bundled medication library and safety information are built from public sources — RxNorm, DailyMed, openFDA and MedlinePlus. When you search for a medication or open its label, the app may query those public U.S. government services directly from your device. Those requests contain the medication name or identifier being looked up — never your identity, your medication list, or anything else about you — and they go straight to those services, not through any server of mine.
What I collect
Nothing. There are no tracking identifiers and no network connections to servers of mine, because I don't run any. Apple may share anonymous, aggregate App Store statistics with me (such as total download counts), which contain nothing about you.
Changes & contact
If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. Questions? Email [email protected].