Expiry tracking
An app to track medicine expiry dates at home
MedKeep is an app that tracks medicine expiry dates for a household. MedKeep reads the expiry date off the label when a box is photographed, stores it against that medicine, and warns before it passes, so an expired box is found in advance rather than at the moment somebody needs it. MedKeep is built by Sulayo, a Dubai product studio.
Why do home medicine lists get abandoned?
Because typing them in is the whole cost and none of the benefit. A medicine cabinet holds twenty or thirty boxes, each with a long name, a strength, a quantity and an expiry date in small print, and entering that by hand takes an evening. Almost every household list is abandoned within a week of being started, which is why MedKeep is built around the camera: a box is added by photographing the label, and the name, strength and expiry are read off it.
What does MedKeep do when a medicine is close to expiry?
MedKeep warns before the date passes rather than after, which is the difference between replacing a box on the next pharmacy trip and discovering the problem while somebody is ill at eleven at night. Because MedKeep also tracks how much is left, the two facts can be read together: a nearly empty box expiring next month is a different decision from a full one.
Who is each medicine for?
MedKeep records the person each medicine belongs to and logs doses per person with a history, so a parent can check whether a child has already been given something today before giving it again. Reminders are per person as well. That is what separates MedKeep from a stock list: a stock list tells a household what it owns, and MedKeep tells it what has actually happened.
At a glance
- Adding a medicine
- Photograph the label, or scan the barcode
- Tracked per medicine
- Quantity left, expiry date, who it is for
- Tracked per person
- Dose log with history, and reminders
- Languages
- English and Arabic, with a right-to-left interface
- Platform
- Web app, installable on a phone, works on any modern browser
- Pricing
- 14-day free trial, then two paid tiers
Questions people ask
How does MedKeep know the expiry date?
MedKeep reads it off the label from a photograph, so it does not rely on anyone typing a date correctly from small print. A barcode can be scanned as well. Anything read from a label can be corrected by hand before it is saved.
Does MedKeep work for a whole family, or one person?
A whole household. Each medicine is recorded against the person it is for, doses are logged per person, and reminders are per person. The paid tiers differ mainly by capacity: one is capped by how many members and medicines are tracked, the other is unlimited.
Can MedKeep hold a prescription or a doctor's note?
Yes, prescription files can be attached and stored, and the household's records can be exported or printed, which is useful when travelling or changing doctor. A printed list is still the most portable format there is in a clinic waiting room.
Is MedKeep a medical device or a source of medical advice?
No. MedKeep is a record-keeping tool for a household's own medicines: what is in the house, how much is left, when it expires and who it is for. It does not diagnose, does not recommend treatment and is not a substitute for a pharmacist or a doctor.
Where is the data kept?
On infrastructure operated by Vercel, Neon and Cloudflare, each of which maintains a SOC 2 Type II attestation for the services Sulayo uses. Every query is scoped to one household through a single shared module, so a missing scope fails closed rather than returning another family's records.