Reimagining healthcare with design, innovation, and play
Free digital tools, games, and ideas for pharmacy
Explore practical apps, interactive games, and creative digital resources for the pharmacy community, the public, and the wider healthcare workforce.
Featured Products 🌟
Competency Tracker
A simple digital tool to help pharmacy teams record, review, and track competencies across services. Designed to support workforce development, training visibility, and local learning needs.
Open AppPill & Capsule AI Counter
Use your camera to automatically detect and count pills and capsules using computer vision. A prototype tool currently available for testing and exploration.
Try ItPharmacy Pac-Man
Chase medicines and avoid hazards in this pharmacy-themed twist on Pac-Man, designed to test your knowledge in a fun, retro style.
Play GamePlay & Learn 🎮
Antibiotic Space Invaders
A fun and educational game that teaches the importance of proper antibiotic use and the dangers of antibiotic resistance.
Defend against bacteria in this retro-style arcade game.
Big Pharmacy Quiz
Think you have what it takes to become the Big Pharmacy Quiz champion? Post your results on Twitter using #bigpharmacyquiz.
Open AppPharmacy Tic Tac Toe
A 2-player game of tic tac toe, also known as noughts and crosses, with a pharmacy twist.
Open AppMatch the Generic
A game of matching generic medicines to their brand names. How many do you know?
Open AppMedicine Hangman
Can you identify the medicine from its description? Test your knowledge and learn more about pharmaceuticals.
Play NowDrug Discovery Game
Discover the medicine invented in the year you were born.
Explore decades of breakthroughs, from 1933 to 2005, in this interactive timeline.
NutriSnake 🐍
Welcome to NutriSnake, a classic game with a healthy twist. Guide your snake to collect nutritious foods and avoid junk food. Each healthy item replenishes your health bar, while junk food drains it. Use the arrow keys to navigate. How long can you survive?
Play NowTools for Work 🔨
Final Label
A web-based dispensary labelling application designed to support real-world pharmacy practice. Create clear, patient-friendly labels quickly, consistently, and with confidence.
Barcode Generator
Convert, create, and print Code 128 GS1 barcodes for shelves, medication, ward code bags, and other practical pharmacy workflows.
Open AppTicketFlow
Automate and improve the ticket queue process with customisable, patient-friendly tickets and better visibility of numbering flow.
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Stories & Recognition 📰
From Chemist and Druggist
Antibiotic Space Invaders: can you beat AMR?
@panisphik releases a new pharmacy game with Pills2Pixels, adapting Space Invaders so bacteria is destroyed using antibiotics. Check out why he is creating educational pharmacy games.
From Chemist and Druggist
Pills2Pixels: Pharmacy games by a pharmacy professional.
Here’s a list of fun pharmacy-themed games which make technology a “joy” rather than a “chore”.
Health and Science: Coding for Care
Embarking on a coding journey can be overwhelming, especially for healthcare professionals. This article introduces front-end development as a practical starting point, offering a clear path to mastering essential coding skills and creating impactful digital solutions.
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🏆 Digital Health Award Winner
Pani Sphikas - Pills2Pixels was proudly awarded a Bronze Digital Health Award for innovation in gamified learning and digital education tools in healthcare.
This recognition highlights the creative power of combining play, design, and technology to improve health outcomes and professional development.
About Pills2Pixels
Open-source healthcare tools built from real-world experience
Pills2Pixels is a free and open-source platform created by Pani Sphikas — a healthcare professional, leader, and builder — focused on making healthcare more engaging, practical, and human.
Every tool, game, and application on this site has been designed and developed with one goal in mind: to solve real problems in healthcare using simple, accessible technology. This is not theory — it is innovation built from frontline experience and shared openly for others to use, adapt, and improve.
Everything on Pills2Pixels is free to use and created with an open-source mindset, because meaningful innovation in healthcare should be inclusive, practical, and available to everyone.
The platform brings together:
Whether you are a healthcare professional, educator, student, or innovator, you are invited to explore, use, and build on this work.
This is healthcare innovation made practical — and made open.
Impact & Reach
Used across education, events, and real-world healthcare settings, Pills2Pixels demonstrates how low-cost, accessible technology can create meaningful impact at scale.
Contact me
Email: pills2pixels@gmail.com 📧
Twitter: @panisphik
LinkedIn: Pani Sphikas on LinkedIn