Shifa (شفا) means healing in Urdu.
Shifa AI is an AI-powered medicine companion that helps you search, understand, and never miss your medications. It turns confusing prescriptions and medical jargon into clear, actionable information — and keeps you on track with smart reminders.
- Wrong dosage
- Missed timing
- Dangerous side effects
- Serious health risks
| Landing Page | Sign In |
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| Medicine Search | Appointments |
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| Medication Reminders |
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Shifa AI serves anyone who has ever stood at a pharmacy counter confused about what they were holding. Specifically:
Today, as the app stands, it works best for:
| User | Why Shifa Helps |
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| Patients managing chronic conditions | Diabetes, hypertension, arthritis — multiple meds, complex schedules. Shifa organizes them. |
| The elderly | Forget a dose? Missed yesterday's pill? Reminders on web and Telegram keep seniors on track. |
| Caregivers | Managing medications for an elderly parent or sick family member is hard. Shifa centralizes it. |
| Anyone with a confusing prescription | When a doctor writes in shorthand and you go home unsure — Shifa explains it in plain English. |
| People intimidated by medical jargon | Side effects, drug interactions, pregnancy safety — written for real people, not doctors. |
Honest note: The app is currently English-only. Language localization (Urdu, Kashmiri, Hindi) is part of the vision, not yet implemented. The goal of serving rural, low-literacy users fully is aspirational — the foundation is being built.
Type any medicine name and instantly get:
- What it's for (uses and indications)
- Dosage guidance — adult, children, and maximum daily dose
- Side effects
- Precautions and what to avoid
- Drug interactions
- Pregnancy safety note
- Timing guidance
How it works: Common medicines (Paracetamol, Ibuprofen, Amoxicillin) are served instantly from a curated local database. For any other medicine, Gemini AI generates a careful analysis in real-time and caches it in Convex for future users.
Upload a photo of your prescription — handwritten or printed.
Gemini Vision reads it and extracts:
- Medicine names
- Dosage instructions
- Doctor's notes
Each extracted medicine has a one-tap button to pull its full information immediately.
Supported formats: JPG, PNG, WebP, PDF
After searching a medicine, Shifa fetches live prices from real pharmacy sources so you can compare costs and find the best option.
Powered by Apify — pharmacy data fetched in real-time.
Every medicine result is enriched with links to trusted medical references — so you're not just reading AI output, you're reading AI-summarized, source-backed information.
Powered by Exa neural search.
Set a reminder for each medicine — just the name, time, and frequency. The app tracks:
- Which doses you've taken today
- Which are remaining
- Your full daily schedule in a timeline view
Reminders persist in the cloud (Convex) — they survive browser restarts and work across sessions.
Connect your Telegram account once (2 steps, under a minute). After that, reminders fire as Telegram messages at the exact time you set — so you get notified even when the browser is closed.
This is the key accessibility unlock. Telegram works on every phone, uses almost no data, and doesn't require a smart device. It's the bridge toward users who don't live on a web browser.
Browse a list of doctors, pick a date on the calendar, select a time slot, and confirm a booking. The UI is fully functional as a demonstration — appointment persistence to a real doctor booking system is on the roadmap.
| Layer | Technology |
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| Frontend | Next.js 14 + TypeScript |
| Styling | Tailwind CSS + custom design system |
| Animations | GSAP (GreenSock) |
| Backend / DB | Convex (real-time, serverless) |
| AI — Medicine analysis | Gemini API (gemini-2.5-flash-lite) |
| AI — Prescription OCR | Gemini Vision (multimodal) |
| Medical search enrichment | Exa API |
| Pharmacy pricing data | Apify |
| Notifications | Telegram Bot API |
| Authentication | NextAuth.js + Google OAuth |
npm install
npm run devIn a separate terminal:
npx convex devCopy .env.example to .env.local and fill in:
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=
NEXTAUTH_SECRET=
NEXTAUTH_URL=
CONVEX_DEPLOYMENT=
NEXT_PUBLIC_CONVEX_URL=
GEMINI_API_KEY=
GEMINI_MODEL=gemini-2.5-flash-lite # optional, this is the default
EXA_API_KEY=
APIFY_API_KEY=
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=
NEXT_PUBLIC_TELEGRAM_BOT_USERNAME=
See DEPLOYMENT.md for full deployment instructions.
Medicine is complicated. Labels are dense. Instructions are jargon.
And for too many people — elderly patients, caregivers juggling multiple family members, patients who just got a diagnosis and are overwhelmed — that complexity becomes a real risk.
Shifa AI's goal is to make medicine understandable, searchable, and hard to forget.
The English-first version serves that goal for the patients who can use it today. The next step is breaking the language barrier — Urdu, Kashmiri, Hindi — so the people who need this most can access it too.
Built with the belief that understanding your medicine should never be scary.