Will I get an alert before it expires?
FreeDog vaccination reminder app: boosters, expiry and parasite treatments
Yes, when you choose: you record the vaccine with its doses and expiry date, tap «Set alert» and pick, for example, «1 month before». Without an alert no notification arrives, but the due date stays visible in the app and in the calendar. It works for every species.
- The app is free, with no subscription.
- You invite whoever you want, area by area.
- The AI prepares, you confirm.
Doses, boosters and expiry in one form
Name, date, «Add dose» for the boosters and the expiry or validity date. In the last week the vaccine turns yellow, «(expires soon)», then red once it has expired.
Valid: the chip is green
While there are more than seven days to the expiry, the chip in the «Vaccines» box is green and shows only the name. Open it to see the administration date and the expiry date.
In the last week it turns yellow
Seven days before the expiry the chip turns yellow and «(expires soon)» appears next to the name. You see it when you open the record: it is not a notification.
On the expiry day it turns red
From the expiry day the chip is red, with «(expired)». If you also want a notification, choose the alert in the vaccine form.
Seven days after the expiry the vaccine leaves the «Vaccines» box and stays in «History».
You choose the alerts
You start from «No reminder» and choose at the time, 10 minutes, an hour, a day, a week or a month before, or a lead time of your own. For entries with a date only, the lead time counts from 9:00.
- Under «Custom» you add a lead time of your own, from 1 to 60 minutes, hours, days or weeks before.
- One notification arrives for each date of the vaccine: first dose, every booster and the expiry. Tapping it opens the vaccine.
- If you renew the vaccine with the same name, the alert for the old expiry no longer goes off.
The same «Set alert» is there for document expiry dates too, for example the insurance.
Parasite treatments and therapies that repeat
A parasite treatment is recorded as a «Recurrent» therapy: with «Create to-dos in activities» every dose becomes an entry to tick off in the calendar.
- A parasite treatment has no type of its own: you record it as a «Therapy», with its schedule and time.
- You tick each entry off with «Complete» or skip it with «Ignore».
- A notification is something else: if you want one, choose «Set alert» in the same form.
Where you find the due dates
In the «Activities» tab the dose and the expiry appear by themselves, read-only; under «Recommended» the «Boost…» pill opens the vaccine form with the name already filled in.
- The vaccine entries in the calendar cannot be ticked off: to change them, open the vaccine.
- The booster pill appears in the last month before the expiry and turns red once the vaccine has expired.
- «Recommended» is made of app rules, not AI, and you can hide it for a week.
How to set a vaccine alert
Record the vaccine with doses and expiry
Open the pet from the «Pets» tab, then the «Health» tab and the + button: choose «Vaccine». Enter the name, the first dose date, boosters with «Add dose» and the «Expiry / validity date». From the second one on you also find «Add» in the «Vaccines» box; for a booster, tap «Boost» under Recommended.
Choose when to be alerted
Tap «Set alert», switch it on and tick the reminders you want, for example «1 month before» and «1 day before». Under «Custom» you can add your own, from 1 to 60 minutes, hours, days or weeks ahead. Tap «Confirm», then save: without a future expiry date the alert has nothing to refer to.
Find it all in the calendar and the chips
The «Activities» tab shows the vaccine entries by itself: one at the first dose, one for each «Dose N» and an «Expiry: name» entry on the validity date, all read-only. In the «Health» tab the chip is yellow in the last week and red once expired; a week later it leaves the box but stays in «History».
Questions about vaccine reminders
- In the vaccine form tap «Set alert» and choose when: at the time, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week or 1 month before, or a lead time of your own. For every date involved, dose, booster or expiry, a notification arrives.
- Usually because no alert was chosen: without «Set alert» no notification is sent. Also check that PawsPet notifications are enabled on your phone; for entries with a date only, the lead time counts from 9:00.
- Your vet decides, depending on the vaccine and your pet. PawsPet records the dates you are given and, if you want, alerts you: it does not set the vaccination schedule.
- Yes: record it as a «Recurrent» therapy and turn on «Create to-dos in activities». Every dose becomes an entry to tick off in the calendar; if you also want a notification, set the alert.
- No: only the alerts you choose arrive. Due dates still stay visible in the app, though: the vaccine turns yellow in the last week and red once it has expired, and the date shows in the calendar.
Download PawsPet and record the first vaccine
Free for iPhone and Android, and on your computer at app.pawspet.it. You choose the alerts, whenever you like.
Available on iOS, Android and the web