Stop ringing at 9 pm to remind her.

Android's clock app has alarms. If your dad is watching TV at 9 pm and an alarm rings, he taps "dismiss" because he does not know what it is, and the pill never gets taken. If he leaves it on the counter and the news distracts him, he forgets.

Physical pillboxes are half a solution: they confirm the pill left the compartment, not that it went in his mouth. And they tell you nothing.

You are covering with your time what the interface fails to solve. The arrangement can hold a few months. A year if you are lucky and the rota works. Then it gets harder, and by then you are tired.

At the scheduled time, the phone changes. The full screen is taken over by the reminder. It is not a notification you swipe away. It is a screen that holds control until she responds.

Read-aloud of the medication name

"It's nine o'clock. Take one white Levothyroxine tablet." Clear text-to-speech, in English, at high volume. If she is not looking at the phone, she hears it. If she is, she reads text at 30 px.

Three buttons, nothing else

Took. Snooze 15 min. Skip. No menus. No double-tap. 80-px-tall buttons visible from a metre away.

If she does not respond, it loops and tells you

The screen stays up and sounds again after 15 minutes. After 45 minutes with no response, the dose is logged as "missed" and, if you enable it, you get an SMS. Knowing when a call is worth making, and when it isn't, takes half the noise out of your week.

Adherence log

Every dose is recorded on her phone with the exact time and status: taken, snoozed, skipped, no response. You visit on Saturday, open the parent app, hold your phone near hers, and the history syncs to yours over Bluetooth. No cloud. Health data is GDPR special-category: it lives on her phone and on yours, nowhere else.

Quiles Mayor is a calendar reminder. It is not a medical device. It has no CE marking as a health product, no FDA clearance, no regulatory standing. It does not replace prescription management, professional pill dispensers with intake verification, or clinical supervision.

We do not interact with electronic prescriptions. We do not check drug interactions. We do not warn you if a dose is dangerous. That is the job of her GP and pharmacist, not of a €59/year app.

If your mum is on a critical regimen (anticoagulants, oral antidiabetics, cardiovascular drugs) talk to her doctor before delegating anything to a digital reminder. Ask whether her case allows assisted self-management or needs in-person supervision.

Saying this up front is more responsible than burying it in fine print.

After installing Quiles Mayor, you open the settings panel from your own phone (paired over Bluetooth, no cloud account). For each medication, you enter three fields: a name in plain language as she knows it (for example "the white thyroid pill", not "Levothyroxine sodium 50 mcg"), the exact time, and the frequency (daily, every other day, weekly).

If you want, you add a photo of the blister pack so she can visually confirm it is the right one before taking it. Photos stay on her phone, not on any server.

Configuring four medications takes about 15 minutes. After that, you do not need to open it again. If the prescription changes, you visit again, open the panel, edit. It cannot be done remotely, and that is on purpose: we want you in the conversation every time a treatment changes, not a paid carer or in-law silently editing it without you knowing.

Quiles Mayor costs €59/year (~€4.92/month) with a 14-day free trial and includes medication reminders, SOS and the rest of the launcher. No hidden premium module: everything is in the box.