The Pill
Written by Heather Leister
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Gentlemen readers, stop now, this review is especially written for my readers who are of the female variety. Read on if you must, but don’t blame me if you suffer a case of TMI. Disclaimer over. Now ladies – The Pill is an app that’s designed to help you remember to take your birth controls pills. You’ll need to set the day when you took the first pill of your current (or last) pill pack. Then set the time of day that you take your pills. Next you activate an alarm that will remind you when it’s pill time. You also have the ability to set an extra alarm for twice the reminder. You can customize the alarm by choosing from a list of sounds. My favorite two were sitar and moo. Yep, moo.
If you enable push notifications then you’ll be able to receive your reminder even if the app is closed. There is also an option to set up an email reminder for yourself. Between all of that I think you’ve got no one to blame but yourself if you forget that little pill. The app’s background color can be changed up too. Finally, at the bottom of the screen is a picture of a birth control pill pack. If you swipe from left to right you can change which pill pack you see. There are four choices right now. This lets you set up the app so it’s counting the right amount of pills, depending on which type you’re using. As you go through the month pills in the “virtual” pack will disappear so it looks like your actual pack. The pack can also be hidden if you don’t want the app to scream “birth control!” Final reminder – if you want The Pill to sound the alarm while you aren’t running the app you have to enable it’s push notification and be connected to the internet, either through Wi-Fi or the 3G network.
The Pill seems like a thorough way to keep track of your birth control pills and I like that you can set the extra reminder (and determine the delay between the first alarm and second.) My only advice, don’t take your pills at the time of day when you might find yourself in a business meeting or volunteering in the classroom. Otherwise you might find yourself having to think fast to explain why your phone is mooing.
Price when Reviewed: $.99
Seller: Stephanie Queraud
