Count Pills in a Photo — AI Pill Counter

Even light and one visible layer give the count its best starting point. Before counting, mark one complete, clearly visible tablet in the Examples setting — and one per medication, up to three. Touching, fragments, glare and mixed medications can still cause misses or duplicates. A qualified person must review every marker and follow the required manual procedure for regulated counts.

Upload the photo and choose Count. Auto mode uses the selected item name; review every marker and correct the tally. For a guided recount, open Examples and mark one complete, clear pills, with up to three examples for different-looking kinds.

Yes. After upload, mark one complete, clear tablet in the Examples setting, then choose Count. If the tray has more than one medication, mark an example per medication — up to three — and have a qualified person review every resulting marker.

Yes. You can count, review and download a free result without an account. Downloads are free without a watermark. No signup required. Server-processed photos are encrypted in transit and removed under our Security policy.

Auto uses the selected item name without requiring examples. For a guided recount in Auto or Similar items, open the Examples setting and mark 1 to 3 complete, clearly visible tablets before the count can run. Distinct objects needs no examples and suits separated, fully visible tablets. Neither identifies medication safely, so have a qualified person review and correct every marker under the required manual procedure.

Sensitivity (Low to High) sets how confident the AI must be before marking a tablet. Raise it toward High if low-contrast white or pale pills on a light tray are being under-counted; lower it toward Low if shadows or the tray's texture are being picked up as extra tablets. A plain, matte tray with even overhead light needs the least adjustment.

Result overlay controls how the estimate is displayed — Dots + heatmap marks counted detections and shows a density map, Dots only keeps the image clear for qualified review, and Heatmap only shows concentration without individual markers. Ignore small detections raises the minimum size counted to reduce fragment, dust or debris markers. A qualified person must still follow the required manual procedure; the AI image is not a regulated-count record by itself.

Open Bulk audit and every tray photo is counted with the Distinct objects detector. Every tray and marker still needs qualified human review. For a medication-specific Auto or Similar items pass, count in Single photo mode one tray at a time with your own marked examples, because a manual crop is image-specific.

Treat each tray result as a draft. A qualified person must complete the required manual procedure, correct the tally, and approve the official record. A CSV, PDF or shared link may support that review but is not a regulated or controlled-substance record by itself.

Choose Auto or Similar items, open the Examples setting and mark 1 to 3 complete, clear tablets of one medication, then choose Count. Have a qualified person review and correct every marker; never rely on the AI total alone for a regulated count. Repeat with fresh examples and a new tally row for each medication.

Counting a single tray photo and downloading the free marked-up result need no account. Bulk audit — queuing a whole batch of tray photos into one grand total — is Premium. Signing in lets you save up to 3 counts for free, with unlimited saved history on Premium.

CSV export is free. A branded PDF and a read-only reviewer link are Premium, but both remain supporting review material only. A qualified person must complete the required manual procedure and approve the official regulated or controlled-substance record.

Yes — each tally row's Count number can be edited directly if a manual recount finds a different total, not just the row's Label. A remove button (×) deletes a single tray's row, and Clear tally resets the whole sheet for a new stock check.

Opening a saved stock-take with Open in tally replaces the entire current tally sheet — it does not merge the saved rows into what you're currently counting. Export, save or note down your current tally first if you still need it, since there's no undo once a saved session loads in.

Yes, for separate and fully visible items. Choose Distinct objects, then add up to 60 photos on Premium or 200 on Pro; review and correct every photo's detector markers before using one tally per photo plus a grand total. Guided Auto or Similar items cannot reuse one crop across unrelated photos, so process those one at a time with a new example.

No. Bulk object counting requires Distinct objects and never transfers a marked crop to another image. The detector settings apply to up to 60 photos on Premium or 200 on Pro, but every result still needs marker-by-marker review. Temporary uploaded and generated files are processed securely and deleted automatically.

Almost always one of three things. The file is over the 20 MB free upload limit — Premium takes 50 MB and Pro 120 MB. The format is not one this tool accepts, so check the list shown on the upload panel. Or the file is not really the format its name says: renaming a file does not change what is inside it, and that is the reason a valid-looking image gets refused.

It reports what is genuinely in the file, so a blank or surprising result usually means the data was never there — stripped by the app that last saved it, removed by a platform on upload, or absent from the original. Try the untouched original file straight from the camera or source rather than a copy that has been through a messaging app.

Pill Counter supports free standard use within the published processing allowances. Free downloads are clean — no watermark. No signup is required for standard tool use. Photo effects and AI edits have a web-size limit on Free, with the original-resolution result available through Premium or one credit. Crop, resize, rotate, compress and convert stay full size. Premium supports batches of up to 60 files, with the applicable plan limits shown before processing.

No — Pill Counter runs in the browser on desktop and phone. There is nothing to install, no trial to start, and no license to buy before you can see whether it does what you need. Try it on the file you are actually stuck with rather than a sample.