How it works
Four steps. You confirm every one — nothing about your medication record is guessed or auto-saved.
01 · Scan
Point your camera at your medication or prescription label. On the default build, scanning runs on-device using Apple Vision — the image isn’t sent anywhere to be read.
02 · Review
pepcil shows you exactly what it recognised in the label — drug name, concentration, strength, expiry — and how confident it is in each field. Low-confidence fields are flagged, not guessed at.
03 · Confirm
Nothing from a scan is saved automatically. You check each field against your own label before it becomes part of your record. If something looks wrong, you correct it or leave it blank.
04 · Log
Your shot is recorded using only the values you confirmed. Any dose math pepcil shows is presented as based on the values you entered — never as an instruction to inject or a determination that a dose is correct.
And in between · Understand
Every medication you save gets its own information page: what it is, its evidence status stated as a word and a sentence (never a score), what official use information exists for the exact product you saved, and the named documents it comes from — a Health Canada product monograph, FDA prescribing information, an EMA summary of product characteristics. Where evidence is thin, pepcil says so plainly instead of filling the gap. And reading is kept strictly separate from logging: nothing you read ever transfers a number into your record.