Watch a medication
One email on any day a manufacturer’s reported status changes for the exact strength you pick. And a one-line note on quiet days, so a silent inbox means the watch stopped rather than that nothing happened.
The mailer is still being built. A watch started now is recorded, and the first email goes out when it ships.
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 · mock-up
What the email will carry
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.
Ask your pharmacy for one of these by name and give them the code. A pharmacy can often order a listed product even when the shelf is empty.
A mock-up of the alert, not one we have sent. Watches are collected during the beta and the mailer is not built yet — what runs today is the daily comparison this would draw from.
On a quiet day
One line saying nothing changed, and the date we checked. That line is how you know the watch is alive.
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. 917 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 the quiet-day note exists
Most days nothing changes. A service that only emails on news is indistinguishable from a service that has silently died, and you would not find out until the day you needed it. So on quiet days we send one line saying nothing changed and giving the date we checked.
If that line stops arriving, something is broken and you should stop relying on us.
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, while the product is in beta. 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 2026-08-26; the feed’s own last update was 2026-08-25. Snapshot 021d4dfd5d742d95. You can check us against the FDA source, and read what we get wrong.