From the person who built this — and what you should know
Because "what pill is this?" is one of the most common health questions people Google. Parents find pills in their teenager's room. Elderly people dump their pill organizer and can't tell the blue one from the white one. Someone drops a bottle and pills scatter across the floor. These are real, everyday situations where a quick answer matters.
For a quick reference? Yes, it's quite good — pill imprint codes are essentially serial numbers, and the databases are comprehensive. But for any decision about taking medication? No. Never trust AI alone. Your pharmacist will identify any pill for free, and they can also check for interactions with your other medications. PillOrNOT is a flashlight, not a doctor.
This is the biggest limitation. Counterfeit pills (especially fake oxycodone, Xanax, and Adderall laced with fentanyl) are designed to look exactly like real pills — same imprint, same color, same shape. PillOrNOT cannot detect counterfeits from a photo. If you have any doubt about a pill's authenticity, do not take it. Fentanyl test strips and professional lab testing are the only reliable methods.
Supplements aren't regulated by the FDA the same way as prescription drugs. Many don't have standardized imprint codes. PillOrNOT will try to identify them, but accuracy is lower for supplements. If it's a vitamin or supplement, the bottle is usually your best source of truth.
We know pill photos are sensitive. That's why we built this with zero servers — your photos go directly from your phone to Groq's AI and back. We literally cannot see what pills you're identifying. No logs, no database, no user accounts. Just static code on Cloudflare's CDN.
— The Creator of PillOrNOT