Never get caught short keeps your medication on your phone, not on anybody else’s computer. This page explains exactly what that means, including the one part that does leave your phone and what is done to make it unreadable.
This app is made and run by James Lockhart. If you want anything explained, changed or deleted, write to jslockhart17@gmail.com and you will be dealing with me directly.
Whatever you type into it. That usually means the names, strengths and doses of your medication, how much you have left, when you expect to collect more, your GP surgery and pharmacy, appointments, notes, and anything you put on the emergency card, which may include allergies and an emergency contact.
All of it is health information about you, which the law treats as deserving extra care. It is kept in your browser’s own storage on your device. It is not uploaded, and I cannot see it.
The app also asks your browser to hold on to that storage rather than clear it to free up space. It does not survive the app being deleted, which is what backups are for.
Online backup is off unless you switch it on. When you do, this is what happens.
The practical result is that I hold a block of characters I have no way of reading, and nor would anyone who broke into the server. That is deliberate, and it has a cost you should know about: if you lose your recovery code, I cannot recover your backup for you. There is no reset, because a reset would mean I could read your data.
Your encrypted copy is kept until you delete it. You can do that at any time from Settings, by turning off online backup and choosing to delete the copy. You can also write to me and I will remove it, though you will need to tell me the reference, since I have no other way to tell one backup from another.
The legal basis for storing it is your explicit consent, given when you switch the feature on. You can withdraw that consent whenever you like by turning it off.
The app is hosted on web space provided by IONOS. Like every website, that server keeps a technical record of requests made to it, which includes the internet address your connection is coming from. That is a normal part of running a website and is used to keep it working and secure. I do not use those records for anything else, I do not try to connect them to anything in the app, and I could not do so even if I wanted to, because the app sends no name or account with its requests.
The app has the official UK bank holidays built into it, so it works offline. If you tap Check for updates on the bank holidays screen, and only then, it asks gov.uk for the current list. That request tells gov.uk your internet address, as visiting any website would. Nothing about you or your medication is sent with it.
It contains no advertising. It loads no typeface from anyone. Nothing you type into it, not a medicine, not a note, not an appointment, not the recovery code, is ever sent to Google or to anyone else. Your health information is never sold, rented, shared or used to build a profile, and it never will be. If that ever changes, this page changes first and the app tells you.
The website uses Google Analytics to count how many people open it and how often. Adding the website to your home screen still runs the website, so opening it that way is counted too. The app from Google Play is built separately and does not contain it at all.
Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser. It tells Google your internet address, the sort of device you are using and that a page was opened. It never receives your medicines, your notes, your appointments, your recovery code or anything else you have entered.
The address of the screen you are on is cut back to the website itself before it is sent, so the part that can name a single medicine never reaches Google. A tracker blocker or a private browsing window stops the counting, and the Google Play app never starts it.
Under UK data protection law you have the right to see the personal data held about you, to correct it, to have it deleted, to take a copy elsewhere, and to object to how it is used. With this app most of that is already in your hands rather than mine.
If you are unhappy with how your data has been handled, tell me first and I will try to put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
This app is meant for adults managing their own medication, or helping someone close to them. If you use it to keep track of a child’s medication, that information sits on your phone under your control, exactly like your own.
If what the app does with your data changes, this page is updated before the change ships, and the date below changes with it.
Last updated 21 August 2026.
This app organises medication. It does not give medical advice, does not diagnose, and never suggests what to take or when to change a dose. Every number in it came from you. If something about your medication worries you, speak to your GP, your clinic or your pharmacist. In an emergency call 999.