Watch a medication
One email on any day a manufacturer’s reported status changes for the exact strength you pick. Nothing on the days nothing changes.
Confirm by email first. We send one link; nothing is watched until you click it.
One medication. Not a newsletter, not a digest.
No account. Manage it from a link in the email.
Cancel in one click. Deleting removes the address too.
Start a watch
Two fields and you are done
On a change day · example layout
What the email carries
Which manufacturers moved, what each of them now reports, and the package code to ask for — drawn from that morning’s comparison against the day before.
Then today’s count for that strength, the two dates compared, and a one-click link to stop the watch. National reporting, not your pharmacy’s shelf.
The layout of a real alert with the names left blank. Each one is drawn from the daily comparison of two copies of the FDA database.
On a quiet day
Nothing. Every drug page shows the date of the last check, so you can always see the comparison is still running.
Nothing else, ever
No newsletter, no digest of unrelated drugs, no partner mail. One medication, one purpose.
Sets off an email
A manufacturer moving between available, limited and unavailable for the exact strength you watch.
A new listing appearing for it.
A listing disappearing, which we report as no longer listed by FDA.
A product being marked to be discontinued.
Does not
A reverification — the FDA updating a record’s date without changing what it says. 920 of the listings we hold carry that label.
A change to a different strength of the same drug.
A status moving into or out of our unknown bucket, because we will not wake you for a blank field we cannot interpret.
Why a quiet inbox is not proof
Most days nothing changes, so most days we send nothing. A service that only emails on news looks exactly like one that has silently died. Every drug page states the date of the last FDA copy we compared; if that date ever stops moving, something is broken and you should stop relying on us.
Never build a refill plan on an email arriving. Ask your pharmacist.
What we store, and what it costs
Your email, your ZIP, and which strengths you watch. Nothing else. No name, no prescriber, no prescription details. There is no password because there is no account — managing or deleting a watch happens through a signed link in the email itself.
Nothing. If a paid tier arrives it will be for watching several medications at once, and any watch you already hold will be handled with an email that explains the change before anything is charged. We will not convert a free watch into a bill silently.
Built from the FDA drug shortage database, fetched 2026-10-13; the feed’s own last update was 2026-10-13. Snapshot e27f223fa484afd5. You can check us against the FDA source, and read what we get wrong.