iPhone · Coming soon
Did they take their medication?
CareDuo answers that question without a phone call. The person taking medication gets a reminder and taps once to confirm. The family member who worries sees it happen, and hears about it when a dose is missed.
Requires iPhone with iOS 18 or later. Free to start.
Today
Wednesday · 2 of 3 doses
Taken
Due now
Later
The check-in call, without the call
Asking a parent every evening whether they took their tablets wears both people down. One feels watched; the other feels like a nag. CareDuo moves that exchange off the phone call and into a single tap, so nobody has to ask and nobody has to be asked.
A reminder arrives when the dose is due
Scheduled on the device, so it fires on time whether or not there is a signal. "Every day at 08:00" means 08:00 where the person is, through daylight saving changes and across time zones.
One tap confirms it
Taken or Skip, straight from the notification. The time recorded is the moment they tapped, not the moment the phone found a network.
The person who cares sees it immediately
Their day updates live. No dose is invented and nothing is guessed: an empty slot stays empty until somebody acts on it.
A missed dose says so
When a dose passes unanswered, the caregiver gets a notification naming the person and the time of day, never the medication, because a lock screen is visible to whoever is nearby.
What CareDuo does
Five things, done properly, rather than a dashboard nobody opens twice.
Medication reminders
Daily, specific days, or several times a day. Local notifications that arrive on time, offline, and survive travel and daylight saving.
How reminders work →Caregiver alerts
A missed dose reaches the person who cares, discreetly, without putting a medication name on a lock screen.
About alerts →History and adherence
Every dose, in order, with the week's adherence counted honestly, so an evening dose is not an omission at breakfast.
See what's recorded →Refill tracking
An optional dose count that goes down as medication is taken, with one reminder when it is time to reorder.
How supply is counted →Privacy and security
A caregiver sees medication and doses. Not location, not messages, not anything else. Access is granted by invitation and can be withdrawn.
What is shared →Pairing, end to end
An invitation link or a six-character code, accepted with explicit consent on the other side. Nobody is added to a Care Circle silently.
Set-up walkthrough →Two people, one arrangement
CareDuo is built for a relationship, not for a patient record.
Adult children
Keeping an eye on a parent's medication from another city, without turning every call into an interrogation.
For adult children →Partners
Sharing one routine between two people who already share everything else.
For partners →Family caregivers
Coordinating a relative's medication when more than one person is responsible for it.
For caregivers →Living alone
Someone knows the dose was taken, without handing over control of anything.
Living alone →Common questions
Is CareDuo available to download?
Not yet. CareDuo is in development for iPhone and is coming to the App Store. This site describes what the app does today, not features that are merely planned.
Does the person taking medication need to be good with phones?
Their whole job is one tap on a notification: Taken or Skip. There is no dashboard to learn and nothing to configure. A caregiver can set the medications up on their own device after being invited.
Can a caregiver see anything besides medication?
No. A caregiver sees the medications in the shared Care Circle, whether each dose was taken, skipped or missed, and the history of those doses. They cannot see location, messages, other apps or anything else on the phone. See privacy and security.
What happens if the phone is offline?
Reminders are scheduled on the device itself, so they fire without a network. A confirmation made offline is recorded at the moment it was tapped and syncs when the connection returns. The time you see is the time the person acted, not the time the phone reconnected.
Is CareDuo a medical app?
No. CareDuo helps people remember and record medication a doctor already prescribed. It does not give medical advice, check drug interactions, diagnose anything or recommend dosages.
How many people can be in a Care Circle?
A Care Circle is one person taking medication plus the people they invite. Most circles are a pair, which is where the name comes from, but a recipient can invite more than one caregiver, so siblings sharing responsibility for a parent can all be in the same circle.