Feature
Know before the bottle is empty
Running out is a missed dose with a longer tail: a pharmacy trip, sometimes a prescription renewal, occasionally a weekend without medication.
Optional on purpose
Most people do not want to count anything. Supply tracking is off unless you turn it on for a specific medication, and an untracked medication is never presented as one that has run out.
That distinction, not tracked versus zero, is the whole design. A medication nobody is counting must never trigger a warning, because a false "you have run out" is the fastest way to make someone disable notifications altogether.
How the count works
Set how many doses you have and, if you like, when to be reminded. As doses are confirmed, the count goes down.
It counts doses, not tablets. A dose of "2 tablets" decrements by one, because the question you are answering is "how many more times can I take this?", not "how many objects are in the bottle".
The reminder fires once
CareDuo reminds you when the remaining count crosses your threshold, not every time it is below it.
The difference matters. A reminder at every dose below ten is nine reminders, and by the fourth nobody is reading them. One reminder at the crossing is a reminder that still means something.
Running out entirely is always announced, even if the threshold was never crossed cleanly on the way down.
Like every CareDuo notification, a refill reminder is discreet: it tells you something needs reordering without printing a medication name on a lock screen that other people can read.
The count and the dose move together
When a dose is confirmed, the confirmation and the decrement are written together. If the confirmation cannot be recorded, because another device already confirmed that dose or it was already closed out, the decrement is discarded with it.
Nothing quietly consumes supply for a dose that was never recorded. The count and the history always agree.
Only the recipient spends supply
A caregiver can record that a dose was taken, but doing so does not change the supply count. The person taking the medication is the one who knows what is physically left in the packet, and their count is not adjusted by somebody else's phone.
Common questions
Do I have to count my tablets?
No. Supply tracking is optional per medication. A medication with no count set is simply not tracked, and CareDuo will never imply it has run out.
Does it count tablets or doses?
Doses. A dose of two tablets decrements the count by one, because what you are tracking is how many more times you can take this medication.
When does the refill reminder arrive?
Once, when the remaining count crosses the threshold you set, not at every dose below it. Running out entirely is always worth saying, even if the threshold was never crossed on the way down.
Does the count go down if a caregiver records the dose?
No. Only the recipient's own confirmation spends supply, since they are the one holding the bottle.