Family · for adult children of parents living alone
QuietCheck is a passive check in for people whose mother or father lives alone. Their phone quietly reports that it was used and how much battery is left, and a widget on your home screen turns that into a light: brighter right after they have been on their phone, dimmer as hours pass with nothing. Your parent never presses anything and has no account; you set their phone up once and they use it the way they always have. If the day goes quiet for too long, you get a nudge.
The widget sits on your home screen with your parent's name, a line such as Using the phone as usual, a row of dots for the day so far, and a time stamp like 40 minutes ago. The dot on the left glows warm when a sign of life came in recently.
The Today tab shows the same light larger, with a sentence about how the day looks, the time of the latest news, and the battery level. Tabs for History and Settings sit along the bottom. Before a parent is connected, the screen shows a sample and a button to connect their phone.
During setup, their phone shows a page titled Here is what gets sent. What is sent: whether the phone is in use, battery level and charging, and what times it was used. What is not sent: location, which apps were used, and more. Two buttons: Agree and start, or No, thank you.
Most days you do not need to call. You just want to know that today looks like every other day. QuietCheck answers that with a light instead of a message. When your parent picks up their phone, the light on your home screen warms up. Nothing all morning, and the light is simply dim, which tells you it might be time to ring. You never have to open the app to find out.
Open it when you want more. The Today screen shows the current state, when the last sign of life arrived, a row of dots showing the rhythm of the day, and a seven-day summary in History.
Their phone sends two things: that it was used, and the battery level with whether it is charging. The app turns the moments of use into brightness and the battery into a small number under the light. There is no location feature anywhere in the app and no column for one in the database. Which apps they open, contacts, photos, and messages are never read.
Your parent sees this list on their own screen before anything begins and agrees on their own device. A single tap on Disconnect on their phone stops everything and erases what was already sent. Raw signals are deleted after 30 days regardless.
This app goes on both phones. The easiest time to connect is when you are in the same room: borrow their phone for a minute, install, link it to your family, and hand it back. From then on there is no daily button for them to remember, no message to answer, and no streak to keep. Using the phone is the check in. No account is created for them either; their phone holds a device link, not a login.
Ask for a nudge after 6, 12, or 24 hours without a sign of life. The default is 12. Overnight hours are excluded, so an ordinary night's sleep never wakes you at three in the morning. If the last thing that came through was a nearly empty battery, the notification says so, because a dead phone is not the same thing as a quiet day.
Send the family code to a brother or sister and they see the same feed and receive the same nudges. Looking after aging parents from a distance is easier when it is not one person's job.
QuietCheck is not a medical device, a caregiver alarm, or an emergency service. A quiet day does not mean something is wrong; most often it means the phone stayed on the table. When you want to know how they really are, call them. This only tells you whether today looks like every other day. The app is free, with no subscription, no ads, and no account for your parent. The interface is available in 45 languages.
No. There is no button to press and no message to answer. Using their phone normally is the check in.
No. There is no location feature in the app and no place to store one. Only phone use times, battery level, and charging state are sent.
Yes. One tap on Disconnect on their phone stops sending and erases what was already sent. Raw signals are also deleted after 30 days on their own.
No. Overnight hours are excluded from the quiet-day nudge, so a normal night's sleep does not trigger a notification.
Yes. Share the family code and they get the same feed and the same nudges.
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