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Whatever the scenario, learning how to use a pill identifier to recognize a pill can keep you and your loved ones safe—especially at a time when potentially deadly fentanyl pills are popping up all over the country - Kristina Robb-Dover

ID Pills
ID Pills

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Identify Mystery Pills With This Field Guide

Ever find a few mystery pills in the bottom of your purse—or worse, in a place your kid or pet may have gotten into? Fortunately every medication has its own distinctive shape, color, and markings, so it’s possible to identify a lost pill...

If there’s a number printed on the pill, plug it in and you’ll have the answer. Otherwise, select its shape and color. The tool will show you all the pills that match that description. There’s also a search that goes the other way: you can put in the name of the drug, and see pictures of all the ways it’s packaged into pill form.

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 Identify Mystery Pills With This Field Guide

Ever find a few mystery pills in the bottom of your purse—or worse, in a place your kid or pet may have gotten into? Fortunately every medication has its own distinctive shape, color, and markings, so it’s possible to identify a lost pill.

Pill Identifier and Drug List App

Helps you detect a medicine by its color, shape and imprint.

Pill Identifier App

Use the pill finder to identify medications by visual appearance or medicine name. All fields are optional.

Smart Pill ID App

Quickly identify pills using your camera!

Medscape

Medscape's Pill Identifier helps you to ID generic and brand name prescription drugs, OTCs, and supplements. Search from over 10,000 tablets and capsules by imprint, color, shape, form, and scoring.

RxResource

Use our Pill Identification Tool to identify your medications by imprint, shape, color, and/or scoring. Please select at least one or more options.

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