Apple Watch companion app

All of your family's health routines, timers and reminders all in on your wrist with the Apple Watch companion app. Access your family's daily routine progress, active care timers and initiate quick timers directly from your Apple Watch.

When your hands are full — thermometer in one, child in the other — glancing at your wrist beats unlocking your phone. Medication Timer’s Apple Watch companion puts Today progress, the next scheduled dose, active Care, PRN timers, and notification actions on your watch.

The watch does not sign in to your account on its own. Your iPhone stays the authenticated client; the watch shows a snapshot synced over WatchConnectivity and relays actions back to the phone for Firestore writes.

What you see on your wrist

Today progress — Segmented bars per family member for the anchor day
Next scheduled dose — All medications in the current routine slot, with Take and Snooze 10m
Active Care — One card per care session: course next-up, session PRN timers, Add temp when fever tracking is on
Active timers — Household PRN timers outside Care windows
Quick timers — Preset chips for saved member-and-medication pairs (Family Care)

Family and medication setup stays on the iPhone — the watch is for glanceable state and quick logging.

Actions from the watch and notifications

Watch buttons use the same write paths as in-app and notification actions: routine Take / Snooze, timer Log dose, Care course doses, care temperature logging, and care notes (via Siri hint on the Care card).

iPhone local notifications forward to the watch when the companion is installed. Taken, Snooze, and Re-administer on your wrist relay to the phone — keep Bluetooth enabled and the iPhone app installed.

If the phone is briefly unreachable, actions queue and flush when it reconnects.

Experimental — what to expect

This is an early release. Keep your iPhone nearby, signed in, and updated. Complex edits, new medications, and subscription management remain phone-only.

Test on a physical Apple Watch; the simulator may not reflect real sync timing.

Availability

Free: Watch companion app, Today progress, next dose, active Care and PRN surfaces, notification action relay.

Family Care: Quick timer preset chips on the watch.

Requires iOS with Medication Timer installed on the paired iPhone.

Try the Watch app

Install Medication Timer on iPhone, open the Watch app on your phone, and enable Medication Timer for your watch face. Sign in on iPhone, then open the watch app to see your household snapshot.

Free Feature

This feature is freely available to all Medication Timers users

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Lock screen & widget timers

Free

See PRN countdowns on your lock screen and home screen. Next Up and Active Timers widgets with Take, Snooze, and Log dose — free on iOS and Android.

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Growth & Development and Body Metrics

Family Care

Track child weight, height, and head circumference against WHO and CDC growth charts, and follow weight, height, and BMI trends for the whole household, with optional reminders, Today logging, and family reports on Family Care.

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Family Tracking When Illness Strikes

Free + more with Family Care

When unexpected health situations strike and your family is suffering through a tough cold, flu, or infection, Care brings order to the chaos. It unifies as-needed medication, temperature and symptom tracking along with strict antibiotic schedules into a single, focused tracking session; giving you total clarity when you need it most.

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Easy onboarding & family setup

Free

When you first sign into Medication Timer you are taken through a step by step guide to setup your family and familiarise you with the app while; setting up your family, adding common medications, adding your first as-needed timer and adding your first health reading

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Smart fever & symptom tracking

Free + more with Family Care

When the whole house gets sick, managing care shouldn't feel like guesswork. Go beyond "are they still warm?" with an intuitive family health tracker that visualizes fever patterns and logs symptoms in real time.

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Medical summary and reports

Family Care

When you're at the doctor's office, "I think they had a fever on Tuesday" isn't as helpful as a precise data log. This feature transforms your daily tracking into comprehensive health reports that map out everything from routine medication adherence, showing exactly what was taken versus what was missed, to as-needed doses and symptom flares. By consolidating vitals like temperature and blood pressure into clear summaries, you provide clinicians with a complete, accurate picture of your family's health history.

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Share critical health data

Family Care

Share your timers, routines, doses and health readings with other family members or caregivers; allowing you to better manage and collaborate on the care of your children and those in need.

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Family health tracking

Free + more with Family Care

All of your family's health routines, health readings, medication intake, temperatures and symptoms in one simple to use app. Setup your family, custom elevated temp settings, dose routines and notifications, health readings for RHR, INR & more

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As-needed medication tracking

Free + more with Family Care

Keeping a household healthy is hard enough without the "brain fog" of being sick yourself. Our as-needed trackers and medication timers eliminate the guesswork by logging every dose and temperature in one shared place. It handles the mental math of 24-hour limits and safe intervals, so you can focus on recovery instead of post-it notes.

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