Scan it or search it
Hold the box in the camera frame, or type the name. Searching also works by symptom or by condition if you don't have the box in front of you.
دوا لینے سے پہلے، جان لیں کہ یہ ہے کیا
DawaLens is a free app that reads any medicine sold in Pakistan. Point your camera at the box, or type the name, and it tells you the active ingredients inside, what the medicine is commonly used for, the health alerts you should know about, the side effects, and every other brand made from the same ingredients.
Launching 2026 · Android & iOS · English & اردو
In Pakistan most people buy medicine without seeing a doctor. You describe the problem at the counter, you're handed a box, and that's the end of the conversation. DawaLens is the part of that conversation nobody has time for — it reads the box and explains it to you, in plain English or Urdu, before you take the first dose.
Hold the box in the camera frame, or type the name. Searching also works by symptom or by condition if you don't have the box in front of you.
The active ingredients and their strengths — the part that decides whether two differently-named boxes are the same medicine.
Common uses, health alerts, and side effects, written to be understood rather than copied off the leaflet inside the carton.
Your medicines, your conditions and everything you've scanned, saved in one place you can show to a doctor.
Four steps, start to finish. It plays on its own — tap any step to jump straight to it.
دواخانہ اب آپ کی جیب میں
Align the medicine box within the frame
Searching for medicine
چوبیس گھنٹے میں آٹھ گولیوں سے زیادہ نہ لیں۔
Panadol Extra adds caffeine 65 mg to the same base.
Disclaimer: this information is for educational purposes. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before taking any medication.
No sign-up screen, no ads, no upsell. It loads straight into the thing you came to do.
Results narrow with every letter — each showing the manufacturer, the form and what it's primarily used for. You can also search by symptom or by the condition you're managing.
دوا کا نام، علامت یا مرض — تینوں سے تلاش کریں۔
The reader picks the printed name and strength off the carton. Packaging here is inconsistent, so rather than pretend to one perfect answer it returns up to five ranked matches for you to confirm.
ڈبے کو فریم کے اندر رکھیں۔
The pack you scanned at the top, and underneath it everything about what's in your hand — uses, dosage, warnings, the active ingredients and the other boxes carrying the same thing. Readable in Urdu, and saved to your profile in one tap.
استعمال، خوراک، احتیاط اور اجزاء — سب ایک جگہ۔
It's faster, it's cheaper, and often it's the only option. The pharmacist hands over a box, says a price, and moves to the next customer. Nobody explains what's inside it.
سر، بخار کے لیے کچھ دے دیں
"Just give me something for the fever."
A box you've never heard of, and a foil strip with the only real information printed in 5pt English on the back.
Three questions almost nobody gets a straight answer to:
یہ دوا کس مرض کی ہے؟
Two boxes can carry completely different names and hold the same thing. Without the ingredient names, nobody can tell what they actually bought.
کیا یہ محفوظ ہے؟
A blood pressure tablet, a painkiller and something for the stomach. Nobody checks whether those three belong in the same day.
اس کے مضر اثرات کیا ہیں؟
Drowsiness before a drive home, a stomach that can't take it on an empty morning — the things worth knowing before the first dose, not after.
No account needed to look something up, and nothing in the app is for sale.
Reads the name and strength off the carton and shows the most likely matches so you can confirm the exact pack you're holding.
Three ways in. Useful when the box is gone, the label has worn off, or you only know what it was prescribed for.
Each salt inside the box with its exact strength — the only reliable way to tell two medicines apart, or recognise that they're identical.
What the medicine is normally given for, written for a patient rather than lifted from a package insert.
The cautions that matter — what to avoid alongside it, which conditions make it risky, and what needs monitoring while you're on it.
What people commonly experience, and which ones mean you should stop and speak to someone.
Every product registered with the same active ingredients, so you can recognise the equivalent box when the one you were given isn't available.
Your medications, your conditions and every scan you've made, kept together and private to you.
Switch the whole app to Urdu, or tap once and have the instructions read out for anyone who can't read a 5pt English label.
Most households here keep a shoebox of strips for five people. The next release stops treating each one as a separate question.
Scanning a medicine and reading what's inside it will always be free. There is no paywall on knowing what you're taking, and no account required just to look something up.
No. DawaLens doesn't list prices and doesn't sell anything. It tells you what a medicine is and what's in it — what it costs is between you and your pharmacy.
Medicines are matched against the registered product records for Pakistan, and the clinical content is reviewed before it goes in. When we're not confident about a match, the app shows you the alternatives rather than guessing.
No, and it shouldn't. DawaLens explains what a medicine is so that you understand what you've been given and can ask better questions. Choosing treatment is a doctor's job.
یہ ایپ آپ کو دوا تجویز نہیں کرتی — صرف بتاتی ہے کہ دوا ہے کیا۔
The core medicine index is kept on the phone after the first scan, so you can look something up in a village clinic with one bar of signal.
Yes. The whole interface switches to Urdu, and the medicine information is written in Urdu rather than machine-translated from English. It can also be read aloud.
پوری ایپ اردو میں دستیاب ہے، اور معلومات پڑھ کر سنائی بھی جا سکتی ہیں۔
Your profile — the medicines, conditions and scans you save — stays yours. It isn't sold, and it isn't shared with pharmacies or manufacturers.
We're still tuning the reader against local packaging — the foil, the glare, the Urdu on the back. Leave your number and we'll message you on WhatsApp the day DawaLens goes live. No marketing, no noise.
جس دن ایپ تیار ہوگی، ہم آپ کو واٹس ایپ پر اطلاع دیں گے۔
We'll message you on WhatsApp the day it goes live.
آپ کا نام فہرست میں شامل کر لیا گیا ہے۔