Medical and dental students are not short of material. They are short of certainty about where their next hour should go. Medrilo exists to answer that one question: what should I study next?

The idea

Most study apps measure how much you have done. Medrilo pays attention to how well you actually know something, and how recently you showed it. A student who answered a topic correctly a year ago and a student who answered it correctly yesterday are not in the same place, so the app’s measure of accuracy takes freshness into account. Everything else grows from that: what to review, where you are weak, and what belongs on today’s list.

The Today screen with study goals and next stepsA practice question showing the correct answerThe Performance screen with fresh accuracy and delayed recallThe built-in reader showing a lecture handout
Medrilo on Android: today’s next steps, question practice, performance and the built-in reader. Shown with a demo account.

What it does

  • Practice and review: question practice, review of what you are due to revisit, and a record of your mistakes and weak topics.
  • A plan for today: a Today view, a study planner, and a Focus mode for getting on with it.
  • Reading: a built-in PDF and EPUB reader with highlights and notes anchored to the page.
  • Exam tools: mock exams, a timetable, reminders and a dictionary.
  • Optional AI: an assistant that cites the page it is drawing from, with consent, usage limits and the choice to use your own key. It stays off until you turn it on.
  • Offline and languages: it keeps working offline and syncs later, in English, Arabic and Bangla.

How it is built

The back end is a Laravel API on MySQL. The app is React and TypeScript, wrapped with Capacitor for Android so that the phone and the web share one codebase. Automated tests cover the areas that matter most, particularly keeping one student’s data separate from another’s.

What I learned

AI is the part people ask about first, and I deliberately made it the last thing that matters. Medrilo has to be useful with the AI switched off. A student’s trust depends on the answer being traceable to a real page in a real source, which is why the assistant shows its citations.

Where it stands

Medrilo is live on the web. The Android app entered closed testing on Google Play at the end of October 2026, and an iPhone version is planned, including support for iPhone Duo.