Frequently asked questions

RxDown is a medication-withdrawal diary app for iOS and Android. It helps adults working with a doctor to gradually reduce antidepressants, benzodiazepines, sleeping pills, opioids, and other long-term prescriptions — with AI voice journaling, guideline-based reduction schedules, symptom and sleep tracking, and a clinician-ready Doctor Report.

Yes — downloading, daily logging, reminders, and reduction schedules are free forever. Optional Plus and Pro subscriptions unlock AI features: voice-to-entry journaling, AI symptom analysis, and AI schedule suggestions. A free lifetime trial quota lets you test every AI feature before paying.

No. RxDown is a tracking and education tool for adults aged 18 and over. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and its charts and AI insights are informational only. Any change to your medication should be made with a qualified healthcare professional.

Any long-term medication you're reducing with your doctor: antidepressants (SSRIs, SNRIs, and others), benzodiazepines, Z-drugs and sleeping pills, opioids, and more. Receptor-occupancy curves are available for common SSRI/SNRI antidepressants, and benzodiazepine education includes Ashton-based diazepam equivalences.

Hyperbolic tapering reduces medication by a proportion of the current dose (for example 10% per step) rather than a fixed amount. Because receptor occupancy rises steeply at low doses, proportional cuts keep each step's effect roughly even — while equal-milligram cuts get harsher as the dose falls. The approach was described by Horowitz & Taylor (Lancet Psychiatry, 2019) and anchors the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines. Try our free taper calculator to see it in action.

Because the dose-to-occupancy curve is hyperbolic: going from 4 mg to 2 mg can release more receptor occupancy than going from 20 mg to 10 mg. RxDown plots this curve for your own plan so you can see why the end of a taper deserves the smallest, slowest steps.

When you record a voice or text entry, that entry — plus the plan context needed to understand it — is sent to Google's Gemini via Firebase AI Logic, processed, and returned immediately. It is not stored permanently on cloud servers and is not used to train models. Everything else lives only on your device. AI features are optional; you can log everything manually.

A clinician-ready PDF in SBAR format (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) with your dose curve, stability and sleep trends, symptom timeline, plan history including holds and reinstatements, and a plain-language summary. CSV export is also available for spreadsheets or EHR import.

On your device, in a local database — RxDown has no account system and cannot see your diary. You can export everything (CSV/PDF) or delete all data permanently from within the app at any time. The optional backup feature shares an encrypted file wherever you choose.

Yes. RxTaper was renamed to RxDown in 2026. It is the same app from the same developer — your data, subscription, and history are unaffected.

RxDown runs on iOS and Android and is fully localized in nine languages: English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, and European Portuguese.