How it works

1. You type it, so you can search it

A photograph of a prescription is a picture of an answer, not the answer. You cannot ask a photograph what the dose was in 2014.

So Prescryption asks for the medicine, the strength and the dose — with an index of 244,000 Indian brands doing the spelling for you — and keeps the doctor's own page alongside it as one compressed photograph per visit. The typing is what makes it findable; the photograph is what makes it checkable.

2. Nothing leaves the phone unless you pay for it to

The free version has no account and no email. Records live in your phone's storage, encrypted, and go nowhere. A subscription adds an encrypted copy on our servers — a copy we cannot open. That is the entire difference between free and paid.

3. Losing the phone is not losing the record

At setup you print two recovery codes: one for you, one for someone you trust. Either opens the vault. Both, plus your PIN, are the only ways in — and we hold none of them. It follows that if all three are lost the records are gone for good, and we would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. The full design is here.