The medicines of someone you look after, kept track of properly.

Khayal is built for the person doing the looking after, not for a patient managing their own pills. It holds the schedule so you don’t have to keep it in your head, and turns “he’s been taking them, mostly” into one page a doctor can actually read.

Khayal is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition, and it never suggests or adjusts a dose. It records what you enter and reminds you of it. Always follow your doctor or pharmacist.

What it does

• Reminders that actually arrive. A reminder that does not fire is worse than no reminder, because by then you have stopped watching the clock. Khayal sets alarms to the exact minute, re-arms them after a restart, and walks you through the battery settings that Xiaomi, Redmi, Oppo, Vivo, Realme, OnePlus, Samsung and Honor phones use to close background apps. Then it offers to prove it: send yourself a test reminder, lock the phone, and see whether it turns up.
• Mark a dose in one tap. Given or skipped, from the notification, the home screen widget or the Today list. Khayal records when you tapped rather than when the dose was due, because that difference is the part a doctor finds useful. Skipping never asks you why.
• Medicines written down properly. Name, strength, form and times of day. Every day, alternate days or chosen weekdays. Before food, after food or empty stomach. A start date and a course length. Attach a photograph of the actual strip, so whoever stands in for you knows which of the six white tablets is which.
• Refill countdown. Enter how many are in the box and Khayal counts down as doses are marked, allowing for how often the medicine is really taken — a twice-weekly injection with four left is a fortnight, not two days.
• Vitals, without opinions. Blood pressure, sugar, weight, temperature and SpO₂, entered by hand and shown as a trend, with 7, 30 and 60-day ranges. Khayal never tells you whether a reading is normal. That is the doctor’s job and this app does not pretend otherwise.
• The doctor chart. One page for the consultation: which medicines were taken in which part of the day over the last week, fortnight or month, with the range and average of each reading. Export it as a PDF, print it or send it ahead.
• Read a prescription. Photograph one and Khayal pulls out what looks like medicine names, strengths and 1-0-1 timings, so day one is checking rather than typing. Every suggestion is shown to you before anything is saved, because handwriting is guesswork.
• Hand over to a sibling. Going away for a fortnight? Export the whole record as one file, send it over any chat app, and whoever takes over carries on from where you stopped.
• Everyone you look after. Separate profiles with their own medicines, readings and history, each with its own colour so it is always clear whose record you are writing to. Both parents belong here, and it costs nothing.
• Large mode. One switch makes everything bigger and reduces Today to what to take now, so you can hand the phone to the patient.
• App lock. Optional fingerprint or screen lock before anything is shown.

What it deliberately does not do

It never judges a reading and has no notion of a normal range. It has no account, no sign-up and no cloud sync. There is no Pro version, nothing to unlock and no subscription. Khayal is free.