Complete 2026 Comparison: BEEP vs mojApteczka
BEEP tracks products in general, while mojApteczka manages the family home medicine cabinet with the Register of Medicinal Products and paediatric safety. See the comparison.
BEEP from BGPworks is the world’s largest expiry date tracking app: more than 20 million registered products and 450,000 teams in over 60 countries. Those numbers are impressive, and rightly so: BEEP solves one problem very well. It reminds you when something has expired.
But medicines are not yoghurts. An expired yoghurt wastes a small amount of money. An expired medicine can be a health risk. And the question “has it expired?” is only the start of the questions you should be asking about your home medicine cabinet. That is why comparing BEEP and mojApteczka is not a comparison of two competitors. It is a comparison of two completely different approaches to the same problem.
Two Different Approaches
BEEP asks one question: “Has this product expired?” And it asks that question about everything: food in the fridge, cosmetics in the bathroom, cleaning products, supplements, medicines. It is a universal expiry date tracker for any kind of product.
mojApteczka asks a set of questions, but only about medicines: “Has it expired? Is it safe for my child? Does it interact with other medicines in the cabinet? What is the correct dose? Where can I buy a substitute? Do I need a prescription?”
It is the difference between a Swiss Army knife and a chef’s knife. A Swiss Army knife does many things reasonably well. A chef’s knife does one thing extremely well. If your problem is the home medicine cabinet, you need a tool that understands medicines, not a tool that understands dates.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | mojApteczka | BEEP |
|---|---|---|
| Barcode scanning | Yes | Yes |
| AI medicine package scanning | Yes (VLM) | No |
| Expiry date tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Push notifications | Yes | Yes |
| Medicine database (RPL, 78,000+ medicines) | Yes | No |
| Drug interaction checking (DDI) | Yes (DDInter 2.0) | No |
| Paediatric classification | Yes | No |
| Leaflets + offline SmPC documents (8,000+ medicines) | Yes: indications, dosage, interactions, works offline | No |
| Medicine search (70,000+ NFZ products) | Yes: with owned-medicine labels | No |
| Substitute search | Yes (details) | No |
| Search by indication | Yes | No |
| Family sharing with dependants | Yes | No (team collaboration) |
| QR sharing / PDF report | Yes | No |
| Automatic reminder cloud backup | Yes: recovery after data loss | No |
| Map of pharmacies open now | Yes (map) | No |
| Offline medication administration (queue, 1.7+) | Yes (details) | No |
| Duplicate medicine detection | Yes (details) | No |
| Medicine grouping (person/place) | Yes (details) | No |
| Pharmacy shopping list (low stock) | Yes (details) | No |
| Schedule export (CSV/PDF) | Yes (details) | No |
| Medicine notes | Yes (details) | No |
| Medicine reminders | Yes (with iOS WidgetKit widgets and Siri Shortcuts) | No |
| Dosage tracking | Yes (fractional doses: syrups, drops) | No |
| iOS widgets (WidgetKit) | Yes | No |
| PDF report for the doctor | Yes (tabular, with schedule) | No |
| Free online interaction checking | Yes (check) | No |
| Tracking any products | No (medicines only) | Yes |
| Team collaboration (business) | No | Yes |
| Web version | Yes | No |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Price | Freemium (0 / 9,99 / 19,99 PLN) | Free (50 items) / Premium (~20 PLN) |
The columns speak for themselves: BEEP wins on universality, mojApteczka on depth of knowledge about medicines.
BEEP: The Expiry Tracking Leader
BEEP deserves credit. It is a very good app and the rightful leader in its category.
Its scale is impressive. 20 million registered products means the user community has built a huge barcode database covering food, cosmetics, supplements, cleaning products and thousands of other categories. 450,000 teams in more than 60 countries is proof that BEEP solves a real problem: businesses, shops, restaurants and warehouses genuinely need to track their products’ expiry dates.
The interface is clean and intuitive. You scan a barcode, BEEP recognises the product, you set the expiry date, and you receive a notification before it expires. Team collaboration lets businesses manage expiry dates at scale. That is something mojApteczka deliberately does not do, because our focus is elsewhere.
If you run a restaurant and want to control expiry dates in the fridge, BEEP is hard to beat. If you want one app for everything, from milk and face cream to ibuprofen, BEEP is a sensible choice.
The problem begins when your main goal is managing medicines.
mojApteczka: The Medicine Specialist
BEEP sees a medicine as a product with a barcode and an expiry date. mojApteczka sees a medicine as an active ingredient, dose, pharmaceutical form, ATC classification, interaction profile, paediatric status and summary of product characteristics (SmPC).
That difference has practical consequences.
AI recognition: Instead of scanning a barcode, you can take a photo of the package. A Vision Language Model reads the name, dose, expiry date and form of the medicine. It then matches the result to the Register of Medicinal Products, which contains more than 78,000 medicines registered in Poland. BEEP requires a barcode and has no pharmaceutical database. If the code is unreadable or the medicine is from abroad, you have to enter the details manually.
Drug interactions: mojApteczka automatically checks interactions between all medicines in your cabinet using the DDInter 2.0 database, with more than 1.3 million known interactions. When you add a new medicine, you immediately see whether it interacts dangerously with something you already have. BEEP does not analyse active ingredients, so it has no way to check this.
Paediatric classification: For each medicine, you can see whether it is approved for use in children. For a parent looking through the home medicine cabinet at three in the morning for something to treat a fever, that information is invaluable.
Medicine substitutes: Has your medicine run out or is it unavailable at the pharmacy? mojApteczka shows substitutes with the same active ingredient and dose. BEEP does not even know which active ingredient your product contains.
Leaflets and SmPCs: Direct access to official patient information leaflets and summaries of product characteristics. You do not have to search the internet and try to separate reliable sources from forum advice.
Medicine reminders with iOS widgets: mojApteczka reminds you to take medication with a push notification, while the iPhone home screen widget (WidgetKit) shows the next dose to take. Siri Shortcuts let you check the schedule quickly by voice. BEEP only tracks expiry dates. It does not know when you need to take a medicine.
Fractional dose tracking: Syrups and drops require precise doses, such as 2.5 ml. mojApteczka supports fractional doses and tracks the remaining quantity after each administration. BEEP does not track dosage at all.
Free online interaction checking: You can check interactions between any medicines without logging in or creating an account. BEEP does not analyse active ingredients.
Why Medicines Need a Specialist App
Medicines are the only product category in your home where the expiry date has health consequences, not just taste consequences. You can smell expired milk and throw it away by reflex. An expired medicine looks and smells the same, but its effectiveness or safety may have changed.
That, however, is only the tip of the problem. These are the questions that matter when managing medicines, and that a universal expiry date tracker will not answer:
Drug interactions can be dangerous. Combining two seemingly harmless over-the-counter medicines can cause serious side effects. The WHO estimates that adverse drug interactions account for a significant proportion of hospitalisations. An expiry date tracker will not warn you about a dangerous combination, because it does not know what is inside the package.
Paediatric safety is not optional. Not every medicine is suitable for a child. An adult dose can be dangerous for a five-year-old. You need an app that knows a medicine’s age classification, not one that only knows its barcode.
Dosage is critical. With medicines, it is not enough to know that a product exists. You need to know the dose, form (tablet, syrup, suppository), active ingredient and route of administration. A universal tracker does not store this information, because it makes no sense for yoghurt or shampoo.
You need official medical documents. A medicine’s patient information leaflet and summary of product characteristics are documents approved by the regulator. When you have doubts, you need access to a reliable source, not the first search result.
Who Is It For?
BEEP is good for you if:
- You want to track the expiry dates of everything at home: food, cosmetics, cleaning products and medicines as well.
- You run a business, restaurant or shop and need a team expiry date tracker.
- Medicines are only a small percentage of what you track, and you do not need pharmaceutical information.
- You do not mind the lack of a web version or Polish medicine database.
mojApteczka is the better choice if:
- Your main goal is managing your home medicine cabinet.
- You have a family with children and want to know which medicines are safe for them.
- You care about checking interactions between medicines in the cabinet.
- You want to add medicines by photographing the package, without looking for a barcode.
- You need access to leaflets, substitutes and information from the Register of Medicinal Products.
- You want to share a medicine list with your doctor by QR code or print a PDF report.
- You need medicine reminders with iOS home screen widgets and Siri Shortcuts.
- You give a child syrup or drops and need to track fractional doses.
- You want to check medicine interactions online without creating an account.
Try mojApteczka
BEEP has proved that people want to control their products’ expiry dates. That is important market validation. But medicines deserve a tool that understands them more deeply than “barcode + date”.
If your home medicine cabinet is more than a random drawer of tablets, if you have children, care for older parents or take several medicines at the same time, try mojApteczka on the free plan. 20 medicines, 3 AI scans per month, interaction checking and cloud synchronisation. No fees, no credit card.
Visit mojapteczka.pl and see how a specialist medicine app differs from a universal tracker. The Android app is also available on Google Play. You can also check your medicines for interactions online straight away, without logging in.
Have questions? Write to kontakt@mojapteczka.pl and we will be happy to answer.