Mango Health Reviews

by Its A Poor App13

Let me say that I am at Level 8, with over 6700 points earned. I’ve been doing this for a while earning from 0 to 15 points max per day. MangoHealth started out with good intentions. But it has fallen flat. In the beginning, I worked hard to follow my dosing times and earn points. Then, when I finally earned enough points to start getting rewards, I found out that it was rigged. First, I thought you could pick your reward from the point level you achieved. But no, you have to hit a “piñata”, one chance per week, and if it “ breaks” you get to choose your reward. However there is no way to hit the “ piñata” hard enough to break it on the first try, apparently the only way to win. And when it finally breaks ( remember, you are actually hitting your iPhone screen.. ) and you look at the list of people who won, most times it shows no winners. Now MangoHealth is hitting me with “missing doses”reminders for medicines that are on my list but for times that ARE NOT the scheduled dose times. MangoHealth is making up dose Times, and it’s is intermittently responding to the touch screen, when MangoHealth is getting deleted.

by EJW74

MangoHealth was recommend by my online pharmacy. They offered a gift card for signing up, so I did. I would not have done it otherwise. MangoHealth itself it ok, but not great. Adjusting and inputting information on MangoHealth is not all that intuitive or as flexible as desired. Every day I have to wait for MangoHealth to load and sign me in just so I can tap the check mark indicating I took my medication - which I always do anyway. I don’t always have my phone on me, and mornings are busy, so sometimes I forget to mark it until it’s too late to get credit - which is dumb, since I actually took the medication on time. The raffle is a joke. I won a $1 gift card the very first time (I’m guessing everyone wins the first time in order to get you to keep playing). But since then - nothing. I assumed that the higher I leveled up the more chances I would have to win. Even if the prizes were small it would make people want to keep leveling up. I don’t really see the point. Honestly, it’s just easier for me to set up reminders on my phone.

by QB19375

I normally don’t review apps, but this was a must. I downloaded this to help manage medication, and honestly, it’s such a disappointment. Not only do you have to open and close MangoHealth multiple times to clear a notification, but the reminders are enough to drive someone crazy. I have a lot of reminders already, so it’s important to me that I don’t have them go off at the same time. Seems like a simple fix, right, just set them all to go at different times? Wrong. A 4 pm reminder on MangoHealth may go off at 3:55 or God knows when, which means I miss the reminder for my medication when it “overlaps,” another alert. Seriously, MangoHealth can’t even tell time? Useless.
It took me a while to set up all of my medications in MangoHealth (not user friendly at all), only to have it drive me crazy with alerts at the wrong time, alerts that you can’t clear from the Fitbit (they just pop right back up, wth?!) and that take multiple steps to clear from the phone.
This is advertised as a health app; you should fix the glitches before advertising as such. Just use the Apple Reminder app. It’s much less hassle and more reliable. The only feature you’d miss out on are the “weekly drawings” for prizes, but you’ll literally never win them in Mango.

by Geinia

This is a new app for me and seemed to be working well for about a week. Then it stopped recording healthy habits while is just a short list of them. The steps was not correct in mine when it worked. The day it stopped the next morning hydration habit stopped needs work! For meds after you get them listed and add how many is on hand it seems like a reminder when to reorder. If you get meds at to location like local and 90 day it will be wrong. For instance I am gave a med to be on long time but need fill first one local and get one 90 day sent to me it reminds me to order from both and no way to take the one off. Will give a few weeks but if habits do not work I will delete. I deleted and not sure when I wrote this review but today is September 30th 2019. And received email to update review or contact them. I stand with my review MangoHealth needs work to be helpful, and since it feels like along time since I deleted app maybe they have fixed.

by " Dizzy "

It is nice to have a constant reminder when meds need to be taken. Easy to set up & use. Only downside is that when I take my medicine but forget to record it with MangoHealth , the history is wrong- shows a false missing of meds & won't let me enter correct time taken. Now that I’ve used MangoHealth for some time now, I had reached the highest level (8) and would be well into the 10 thousand range if MangoHealth had not suddenly froze up on me- I had to uninstall then reinstall- only to discover that the score that their system had saved for me was way back to 9700 range. And at that point when you factor in having to start back all the way back there and with my percentages being so messed up with the bug that occurred after the reinstall, I mean MangoHealth really isn’t something that I want to continue using at this point and I hate to say that because up until the last couple weeks it was great. But I need something more reliable,more consistent.

by DinosRose

Recently I’ve been having issues with how MangoHealth has been tracking water intake. If you look at my History, it shows I’ve met my water goal for each day over the past week. But if you view the habit detail (chart & log), it shows 0 servings almost every day since 12/31 except Sunday and what I’ve captured for today.

Also, back when the time changed, all of my reminders got screwed up. Instead of a reminder triggering at 8pm, it was triggering at 7pm. And when I tried to edit it back to 8pm, it would appear to accept the change, but it would actually save it as 6pm...moving the reminder even earlier.

And I just figured out that back around the same time, it changed my reminders for my monthly vitamin D from the 1st (in the evening) to the 6th (in the morning)...probably when I was having issues trying to correct the time of day reminders. So when I tried to move the reminder back to the evening on the 6th of the month, after having already taken the medication that morning... I got reminded again at the evening time, so I selected skip. And found out the next day that it registered as a missed dose and broke my medication streak I had going.

by Paziru

I keep putting the type of medicines as liquid and eye drops and by the end of the day, it says tablets again. It’s frustrating me! In addition, I am having trouble relocating the times my daughter took the medicine. I need to reference that (or my husband does) so that we know when to give the next dose (not sooner than 6 hrs). Also, my doctor is advising me to give medicine to my 7 week old, so I think it’s stupid MangoHealth won’t let me. An app is not going to change my opinion on what my doctor is telling me. To improve MangoHealth , consider making a feature where you can put the medicine schedule for others and add a caregiver to have access to the same schedule (without making us sign in on the same account.) Also, make it so that the schedule notifies you in a certain amount of hours. (For example, first medicine dose is at 6:30 am, so the next dose is 6 hrs later at 12:30 am. If MangoHealth registers I didn’t take the medicine until 7:00 am, next dose is 6 hrs later at 1 pm.)

by TromboneDalek

This is the second time I’ve tried to use Mango Health for meds and habit tracking. I love how it shows the patient info sheet and automatically checks for interactions and tells you more so I feel more informed when asking my doctor about it. The first time I used MangoHealth I mainly used it to keep track of which meds I was taking but didn’t utilize the tracking. This time I’ve utilized the tracking and habits. They claim it’s easy to edit your history but that’s not a complete truth. I cannot edit my mood tracking if I forget it the day or night before. I can edit the meds which is helpful but I can’t edit if I took any as needed meds. I have to take an injection every 30 days and I thought this would be helpful but I couldn’t figure out how to get a reminder for that med without it just being part of everything else so MangoHealth has not helped with that. I do like the ability to “recalculate data” especially for updating my step count. The sound and seeing the bar fill up with points after completing tasks such as taking my meds is rewarding and releases dopamine which makes my brain want to take my meds. Overall, MangoHealth is decent but not great and I wish it was easier to navigate.

by Musicbackwriter

I have a mental illness and I would forget to not just take my medicine four times a day but also forget to eat and drink.

Out of all the pill reminders apps, this is the best one. I love the snooze option and how you can adjust the snooze length of time. I also like that it counts down how many pills you have left and when you’re due for a refill. That only works if you manually enter the number of pills you have; it’s not connected to your pharmacy or anything like that.

Now, there are two things I do not like about MangoHealth so much that I’ve made the review lose a star.

1) I would like to rearrange my medicines and habits on the home screen. It currently adds the meds and habits in the order that you plug them in. I’d like two different sections, one for habits and one for meds. I’d also like to rearrange them to my liking so I could put them in alphabetical order.

2) I can’t enter that I took a medicine earlier than scheduled. For example, my morning meds are listed to take at 9:30 am and I can put that I took the medicine at 9:00 am. But what if I need to leave the house earlier than that and I actually took the medicine at 7:00 am. I can’t tell that to MangoHealth because it’s “earlier than scheduled.”

by SamWOWz

I needed an app after my husband had surgery to keep track of his array of meds and this one does exactly what I need. It’s very simple once you manually add the meds and doses, and it doesn’t have pop up ads or in-app purchases (THANK YOU!) so I can just focus on his meds. It’s a bit cluttered looking at first (thus, 4 stars instead of 5), but it doesn’t take long to find your way around and once you do, it’s just so easy and a lifesaver really, and gives us such peace of mind. When you first add each medication you schedule when and how many to take and after that it notifies you at the correct time(s), every day, for as long as you have set it for. We had 11 meds to take at four different times each day in various combinations and MangoHealth made it easy to get right. You can set it to give multiple reminders like a snooze button, and it lets you know when you’re running low. It’s exactly what I was looking for. No extra bells and whistles. Highly recommended!

by _kirsten_

So I absolutely love MangoHealth so far! The daily reminders are so helpful to take my medicine on time.

Things I love:
- daily reminders
- letting me know how many pills I have remaining
- the raffles!!!!!! Which are REAL! I have been using MangoHealth for 3 week and have won 2 raffles. They are not giving out brand new cars, but the little raffles are nice little incentives for taking my medicine on time. Getting a $5 target gift card for taking my meds? Sign me up!

My recommendations for improvement (with these improvements, I would gladly change this to 5 stars:
- the navigation in MangoHealth is poor and not intuitive. Until you come familiar with the icons and what portion you need to navigate to get where you want, MangoHealth is hard to use. I recommend a better app layout to make it easier to use and navigate.
- PLEASE, please add Widget capabilities for MangoHealth so I can see everything in terms of what pills and what time I need to take them on my Home Screen.
- also PLEASE add Apple Watch support!!! I get notifications on my watch about taking my medicine, but I cannot mark that I’ve taken the medicine on my watch. It only allows me to dismiss the notification or if I open the mango app on my watch, all it shows is a thumbs up if I have taken the medicine.

But all in all, thank you for making MangoHealth! The reminders have made me successful in a daily pill regiment.

by Splex71

I do like MangoHealth. The point system raffle is a bonus that keeps me interested.

Once the medication is entered, various information is provided, examples being drug interactions, drug descriptions & what it does. Suggestion would be to add a “read all” option for the inbox. I entered a lot of medications, in which my inbox had 200+ lines of information, a lot is repetitive. I don’t have the time to go in & out of each line, so in MangoHealth it continues to show me how many I haven’t read. To some people this is no issue, to me I would like the option of “read all”.

It is a bit difficult edit & not completely user friendly. It took me awhile to understand how to enter the medication, maneuver through MangoHealth , how reminders would work, etc. I believe there was an informative introduction, in which I skipped. I’m sure if I took the time to go through, it would have helped me immensely, but I’m inpatient & like to figure out on my own.

Once the medication time has past you can only manage from history page, which again took awhile to figure out how to mark “taken”. I’m sure the directions were in the support section, but to me I shouldn’t have to look there.

Also, unless I’m missing it, timestamps would be a suggestion to add, as well.

by Klingeman

I do find MangoHealth very helpful for the most part. It has helped me remember to take my medication most days. However there are times where I mysteriously do not get the notification to take my medication and there appears to be no logical explanation as to why it did not notify me. That can be very problematic.
Another frustrating aspect is that MangoHealth button almost always has red notification dots on it, even after I have opened MangoHealth and gone through every tab and there is nothing new to be looked at. Why? I’ve seen others complain about it, and although minor, it’s very annoying because it makes me question whether my dose was recorded or not. I’ll also say that the “tips for staying hydrated” tab has grown a bit old. Maybe we could get some other health suggestions on there.

by Xrayrain

Update from previous review:
after talking with someone a couple weeks ago I learned how to shorten the medicine name and now font size are same so I decided to change my original review which is below. Also last night I also won 75$ gift card so it’s real. Just make sure to keep trying! Raised the rating now because of these things. But also I’m still waiting for that alphabetical listing for a quicker search!!!!

Original review (3 star): Good app but lacks some obvious improvements. First off for all of us who use this for numerous medicines it especially would help if we can sort the list by alphabetical or as a group those taken on a regular basis and medicines taken in emergencies i.e. nitroglycerin, epipen. It would make it easier to find. On that note it is bad design to have medicine in different font sizes. If there are too many characters, truncate while in list or put to a second line. That way all lettering would be same size. It’s sad that the short-named medicine gets a bold font while long ones I literally have to use a magnifying glass to read. Changing this will make it look good and consistent. I appreciate MangoHealth for what it does provide but these two issues has me wanting to find another app instead.

by Mounir-armand

I know this is probably another way to essentially steal my personal health records, track what people are taking, prescribing, etc. However, I think MangoHealth and basic idea are brilliant. You’re helping people to remember to take their meds, but you’re also reminding people that they already have taken them. I’ve run into that issue as I imagine others have. You’re also getting people in a routine of taking their meds, which will hopefully continue into our older years when our memory begins to fail us. Routines will be key. I love that it automatically shows drug interactions. Most the time only the Pharmacists knows and you have to specifically ask for that information. MangoHealth could save lives. I hope it’s used for the right purposes. Truly. I will be recommending to friends.

by CurlyGirl33

I’m blown away by MangoHealth! Everything is absolutely on-point. It’s attractive, intuitive, engaging, and creative. Most medication reminder apps are as dry and dull as you might expect from something so mundane as a glorified alarm, but Mango turns typical on its head. The interface, the game, the PRIZES! (Does YOUR med reminder do that?) I’m in love!

I have just one suggestion as a new user: Allow “groupings”, by which I mean that the user can select multiple meds to group together as one collective reminder (i.e, “Morning Meds”). Keep the option of receiving individual reminders, but also give users the ability to further streamline their medication management.

Thank you for the awesome (FREE!) app. I appreciate that you don’t make me pay to access your amazing work. If you’re stuck buying medications in the US, you don’t have much left over for in-app purchases. This is fantastic, and I’m going to tell everyone I know!

by Better4Gette

I’m one of those people that believes that smart phones should make us smarter. Since downloading Mango Health one month ago, I have not missed a single dose of medication! This is a great feat for a forgetful, busy-minded person like myself. Knowing that my medication is being managed makes me feel like I can be more productive with my time. Thus, I am smarter because of Mango. 😉

A couple things the developers might consider adding in the future to make MangoHealth more ingenious.

1. Option for variable dosage amounts when the medication is taken more than once a day. (As in, your prescribed 1 dose in the AM and 0.5 dose in the PM)

2. A time log of when the medication is taken, “on time” and “late” indicators in history, or rewards for taking meds on time.

Reminders, snooze, and last calls help to make sure you take your meds everyday, but if it is best for you to take your prescribed dose at the same time every day, wouldn’t it be good to note that one has gone off schedule?

There’s a wonderful satisfaction about seeing your “progress” on MangoHealth , being rewarded for points you accumulate, and keeping up your streak. I would argue that if one fails to take their time-sensitive pills within a reasonable window, that may result in reduced points or a lag in their streak, some sort of reminder that urges the user to stay on top of their medication to get the best out of MangoHealth .

Thank you Mango Team!

by Sunshine0521

I began using MangoHealth to help me keep track of my medications and to set reminders to take the meds. This is a great app! And it is ENTIRELY free with no annoying ads or hidden “stuff” that makes you delete MangoHealth . You add your medications including the dosage, frequency, color, shape and time. You’ll even receive alerts in your Mango Inbox on important needs to know information about your meds and possible interactions. Then you customize your alarm. The alarms are limited, but MangoHealth is so helpful that doesn’t matter. By doing this you now have reminders set for yourself and when you visit your doctor(s) or pharmacy you have a list of your meds (cause you know they’ll ask). MangoHealth also allows you to track your weight, blood pressure and blood glucose. You can also set reminders for your water intake and exercise. MangoHealth has additional features that allows you to earn points and rewards. I haven’t used it long enough to understand how that works, but I’ll find out. I can’t say enough good things about MangoHealth. Great app! Thank you!

by Hexist

I’ve been using MangoHealth for over two years when I started really trying for facial hair. I absolutely loved the user friendly interface when I first started using it. The raffle especially helped me a ton. I was able to get new clothes which helped so much in my transition. The current update is amazing as well ! We were definitely herd when asked for feedback. I absolutely love the visual goal for medicine and habits. Especially for us autistic people. Sometimes just words and the due time are not enough but the visual goal makes me feel like I’m on track and my routine is going smoothly but most importantly…thank you!!! The widget is so helpful so I’m not constantly opening MangoHealth 50 times a day to see my progress!!! To be honest I still like MangoHealth better than Tiimo. Sure that one is nice but the two work together so well and mango has really amazing sound alerts, refill reminders, and a fun weekly raffle as well as the ability to add people as care recipients. It’s made making sure my two husbands get their medicine taken. So thank you!

by SodaSaya

This is the best medicine reminder app ever!
You add in the medicine name, instructions on when and how to take it, how much you have, and what it looks like. Then Mango Health will tell you information about the medicine and if there is risk of OTC reactions and interactions. As you take your meds you get points. Points add up and you get to the next “level”.
This is the awesome part: you get entered into a weekly raffle if you take your meds as directed. The prize to the raffle is REAL money! If you win, you choose if you want a gift card with the money on it or if you want to donate the money to an organization. The higher the level you’re on, the higher the prize money! I was on level 7 and I WON!! $75! It was the first time I’ve ever won ANYTHING in my life! This was about two or three years ago. Level 8 is the final level and it’s $100.
Now it’s not just about medicine. Now you can track food, mood, and other things. It’s pretty rad.

Suggestion: it would be cool if there were more than 8 levels or more point-related goals. I’ve been on level 8 for two or three years. I have 10,110 points. I get that once you win a grand prize, you can’t win again but I wish there were badges or some other goals to reach. Like, “congrats- you’ve used MangoHealth for four years!” (Which I have lol).

by Icewingdog

March 10, 2019 App now won’t load after time change, hangs on Loading screen even after force quit and reboot phone.

Overall a very good app. Things I'd like to see changed:

- other apps provide a snooze dialog WITHOUT interrupting what you're doing and having to go into MangoHealth to snooze
- multiple robust snoozes. Sometimes I'm busy or don't take my med for a few hours, I need something that won't stop nagging me until I've taken it
- today I took my med 30 minutes before the reminder, and it would NOT allow me to log it as taken

Previous review
After updating to the latest version, MangoHealth was hanging and crashing, but after rebooting my phone MangoHealth is working fine and is faster as advertised. Great support with timely responses, too.

Previous review:
I really want to like MangoHealth, but there a a few big issues. First, I really don't care about winning prizes, I just want to be reminded to take my med. The designers put more focus into the reward aspect and preventing people from cheating when they missed a dose; I hardly ever take mine at the same time every day, and the new update makes it even harder to accurately track if you haven't taken your dose in the narrow time window. The update is even less intuitive and informative when you try to correct a missed dose, which makes the quantity remaining incorrect. I just need something that will nag me without fail until I take my med, not quit after three tries.

by Prince Zordar

Sadly, it seems that I am turning into one of those people who has trouble remembering to take his meds. Mango lets me set reminders to take them on time. “Mango time” has become a running joke at my house now. I really like the drug interaction feature - it finally answered the question of why my blood sugar was going crazy after starting a new blood pressure med. The only issue I have is with entering my blood glucose. The number wheel starts at 100 and occasionally while I am scrolling it up it will reset to 100 so I have to start over. Minor inconvenience overall though. Would be nice if it talked to HealthKit so I didn’t have to enter stuff manually. The Qardio app already records my blood pressure, so maybe Mango could pull that data automatically?

by KonaSusan

Although I have just begun using this program, I am forgetting to notify Mango that I have taken my doses. It just takes a few days to get into the rhythm of reporting after I take my prescriptions. Great app, though. Easy to use.

This is an update to my initial review: Having MangoHealth is like having my own personal "mother" who gently reminds me that it is time to take my meds. I really love MangoHealth.

And an update to my update, I was experiencing a problem with my evening medication would not show as being taken, although I had reported on MangoHealth at least twice that I had taken the dose. Then a medication that I split one dose between morning and evening and which had been showing and recording correctly, just disappeared and I could not fix the problem.

An email to the Contact us was responded to the next morning. The customer support at Mango Health is first rate. I was informed that they were working on a fix, and within a day or two, they had made MangoHealth work for me.

So I continue to rate MangoHealth as five stars. It is a great app to have if you want to keep track of taking meds as scheduled, or keep track of the amount of the medication that is left and when it is time to refill, or if you want to know about drug interactions. I can highly recommend MangoHealth which does all of these things.

At the beginning of 2018, I am still so happy with MangoHealth, particularly because I am getting forgetful. 😱🤯😨😜🤪

by Cz1103

I have always had a problem remembering to take my medication. But with MangoHealth I have remembered to take it for over 600 days. I have an Apple Watch too so if I’m on the go I can still get a reminder and track it on my app. I have memory issues and I like that it tells me when my meds are running low so I can refill my prescription. The point system keeps me motivated and the little articles at the top seem to always correlate with my life at the time like traveling with meds, why to drink more water, and general tips for healthy living. I love MangoHealth and have suggested it to many people I know who are struggling to keep track of their meds. Plus I just won a $75 gift card to target so I’m buying myself a little gift for keeping myself healthy! Thank you!

by Isabelle285

If you have to take a certain amount or variety of meds, it can feel cumbersome and feel easier to delay or dismiss than stay on a regimented schedule. However, Mango Health has helped to keep me accountable, not only through reminders, but also because seeing "0" next to days where I didn't take my meds or took them too late shows me an actual representation of how diligent I am being with taking what I am prescribed. My only comments for developers would be to add the ability to customize a medicine or supplement if it isn't listed, as well as add "Habits" for iOS, too (although I know those are two things already under consideration). Highly recommend this for anyone taking medication for any length of time.