Dr.Herb
Herb reference & interactions
Only for iPhone
$9.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
On ashwagandha, tongkat ali or St John's wort with a prescription? See what the references say and which medicines each herb's cautions name. Nothing leaves your phone.
Dr.Herb is a private, offline herbal reference: evidence-aware summaries, no account, no ads.
Taking ashwagandha, tongkat ali or St John's wort alongside a prescription? Look up what the published references say about each herb, and which medication classes its cautions mention.
Dr.Herb is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. It does not prescribe or recommend any herb or dose. Entries summarise published reference material and are shown with their evidence standing — never as a prescription. Consult a qualified healthcare professional for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
WHAT IT DOES
• 322 monographs, each with uses, preparation, dosage context, evidence notes and a cautions card. 122 carry a reviewed botanical photograph.
• Search by herb name or by sickness — type "insomnia" and get the herbs the guide indicates for it, ranked ahead of passing mentions.
• Browse 18 body systems, ordered by strength of published evidence. That ordering is not about which herb suits you.
• Evidence badges — Strong, Moderate, Preliminary, Mixed, Traditional, or Not supported. 170 of 322 entries are gradeable and show one; the rest show none, because a badge we can't stand behind is worse than no badge.
• Every entry cites its sources. Tap Sources on any herb, or on any warning in the interaction checker, to open the record behind it — EMA/HMPC, the WHO monographs, Health Canada, the US NIH, EFSA and the published literature.
• Interaction checker — pick a medication class or safety factor and see every herb whose cautions mention it. The app says on screen what that means: a match is not a severity rating, and no match is not a clearance.
• Favourites and per-herb notes, kept below the reference text so the two never blur.
• Regimen tracking — record which herbs you take and on which days, write your own dose note, and mark a dose taken. It records your decisions; it never suggests a herb, a dose or a schedule.
• An optional daily reminder, off until you turn it on, silent, and worded as a count. It never names a herb, so nothing about what you take shows on your lock screen.
• Export and import — a JSON backup plus a notes CSV. Import merges, so loading the wrong file cannot silently wipe your work.
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
No ads. No account. No subscription. Works in airplane mode.
It makes no network calls of its own. Everything renders from bundled files and local storage. The only permission it ever asks for is notifications, and only if you switch the reminder on. There is no location, camera, microphone, contacts, calendar or storage permission.
Dr.Herb runs no cloud backup of its own, because it has no server. Your iPhone's own encrypted backup, which you control in iOS Settings, may include app data.
ONE PURCHASE. THE WHOLE APP.
One upfront purchase unlocks everything: no herb limit, no feature tier, nothing held back.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Botanical images come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, credited under each photo and in Settings. They are for visual context — never identify a plant you intend to consume from a photograph in an app.
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You can now rate Dr.Herb without leaving the app. It asks rarely — only after you've read a few herbs on different days — and never on the Interactions screen.
The developer, Elevated Self, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Elevated Self LLC
- Size
- 59.7 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 24 more
- English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- Copyright
- © 2026 Elevated Self LLC
