Medisafe Medication Management vs Drugs.com Medication Guide
Choose Drugs.com for a more reliable and comprehensive medication guide experience.
Drugs.com offers a more robust set of features and better reliability compared to Medisafe, which has faced numerous glitches and user frustrations. While both apps are free to download, Drugs.com has a higher lifetime rating and generally more positive feedback regarding its usability and information accuracy.
Head to head
you need a simple medication reminder and prefer an app that is currently free without subscription concerns.
you want a comprehensive medication guide with extensive information and fewer glitches.
Evidence note: Both apps are free to download, but recent reviews highlight significant issues with Medisafe, especially concerning reliability and user support, which may skew user satisfaction.
Frequently asked
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R2] Medisafe Medication Management app is amazing!: this app is so helpful with keeping all my meds organized! i'm so happy i found it
- [R5] Medisafe Medication Management Simple, Reliable, and Easy to Use: Medisafe has been a great medication tracker. The reminders are reliable, the interface is clean and intuitive, and setting up medications takes only a few minutes. It makes it easy to stay consistent with daily supplements and medications without feeling overwhelmed. A well-designed app that does exactly what it promises.
- [R74] Drugs.com Medication Guide Awesome: This app is exactly what I needed. It helps me with my medications. I use it frequently to add or remove my medications. When going to a doctor and they need me to give them my medications it is always on my phone so I can give them an accurate account. It can also be printed out. You can also add each of your family’s meds. Highly recommend.
- [R89] Drugs.com Medication Guide Cannot live without this app!!!!!!!!!: Drugs.com has such a surprisingly thorough and comprehensive database to not only include Rx medication, but also a wide variety of supplements. It is a great source to check drug interactions (to include the vitamins we take!!) and create an organized, easy to read list of medications to give to medical professionals and emergency personnel. It even organi
- [R60] Medisafe Medication Management Notification bugs?: Love the app, but the notification system has issues. Previously it worked fine, but now it is not in sync with my “buddy”. I receive notifications that meds were not taken, when they were and the app was toggled. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling which didn’t help. Hoping for a fix or we need to find something else.
- [R75] Drugs.com Medication Guide love but one major issue: This app has definitely helped me keep track of all of my medications and doses as well as any possible interactions w other foods/substances. My issue with it is that it logs me out of the app every. single. time. i close it. its so annoying having to log again every time i need to check my list. why not just use a website atp?
- [R87] Drugs.com Medication Guide Love this App: It keeps all my meds organized, identified in alphabetical order, with dose amounts, times per day and short reference of what it is used for. It could be printed in a short list version or a longer more descriptive version with possible interactions with other drugs and previous drugs taken. I use it for my whole family. I print it out for each of our doctor visits. It is also easy
- [R10] Medisafe Medication Management Was very useful but not now: I have used the app for years and now it crashes all the time. It takes up to 30 attempts to open it. Contacted them and zero fixes but they told me they would fix it.
- [R34] Medisafe Medication Management Crashes and lags: I’ve used this app for years and the issues just keeps getting worse. Stuck refreshing in the background every 2 seconds (literally) and won’t let me mark anything, check interactions, nor read any of the articles, etc. It can be really frustrating. I’m bummed to have to switch cause this one used to track interactions and has all my history :(
- [R90] Drugs.com Medication Guide Terrible downloading: Ive been using this app for many years. Loved it until a cpl of months ago when it stopped loading any new information about my meds. When I went to add a new drug it wouldn’t let me get to my drugs page. Nothing will load. Even the problem portion of the app won’t load so I can upload the problem with the app. Bad news all around.
- [R100] Drugs.com Medication Guide Crashes: Use to be an amazing tool, now it crashes every time I click to identify a medication
- [R28] Medisafe Medication Management Too difficult now: I’ve used this app for several years - it was free and very helpful and relatively simple. Now it costs $60 yr, and I can’t even navigate your transition. Very sad to lose this reminder.
- [R39] Medisafe Medication Management Needs subscription: This used to be free to use but now needs a subscription. Other downsides include that the Ui is not that intuitive, especially going back to do a dose that is say weekly but you took on a diffeeent day.
- [R64] Drugs.com Medication Guide Sad to see it happen to this app: This is a great app, or was I should say now. To go from paying five dollars to remove ads to now you gotta pay $8.99 a month to remove ads just shows how many developers and companies are going to greed immediately. I definitely pay to move ads and I don’t need all the other extra stuff as much but to go from five dollars a year to now have to pay nine bucks a mo
- [R92] Drugs.com Medication Guide Charging now?: I have always liked using this app, it has been so helpful. I have even used it for multiple profiles. However, I was very disappointed when they started charging a monthly fee to use their services.
- [R19] Medisafe Medication Management Very glitchy and bugged: Pages often “bounce” glitch out several times and app is unresponsive a lot. Not worth the time or effort. This really is shoddy work by the devs as it’s always done this for me across different devices
- [R73] Drugs.com Medication Guide Shady app: I would like to cancel my free trial subscription, however the app requires you to use a link sent to your email. The links getting sent to my email open the same page I’m trying to go to and then have the same message. It’s not possible to cancel or change plans/ subscriptions. Highly shady app. Take off the App Store! Also unable to contact app support as it says security verification
- [R79] Drugs.com Medication Guide Can’t cancel: Can’t cancel and no phone number or chat option. They keep charging me $8.99
- [R98] Drugs.com Medication Guide NOT Happy: I have used your website and app for approximately 2 decades. I just updated this app and this popped up: Health Privacy Consent We may collect and use certain information, such as health topics, conditions, treatments, diseases, or diagnoses. This information may be used for the purposes described in our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy, as reasonably necessary to provide you with
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store