Frequently asked questions

Many family members want to help but don't know where to start. CircleCare makes it easy by giving everyone visibility into what needs to be done. When tasks are clear and contributions are visible, people are more likely to participate — whether you're caring for a parent, spouse, child, or anyone else.

The key to dividing caregiving responsibilities is clarity and fairness. CircleCare helps by making all tasks visible to everyone, allowing care team members to claim tasks based on their availability and proximity. The app tracks who's doing what, so everyone can see contributions.

Often one person carries more of the caregiving because there's no clear system for sharing responsibilities. Without visibility, others may not realize how much is being done. CircleCare solves this by making all caregiving activity visible to everyone in the circle.

CircleCare is a care coordination app for families, available on iPhone, Android, and the web. Whether you're organizing care for a loved one or managing your own health with support from others, it provides shared task lists, medication tracking, appointment calendars, and activity updates—all in one place.

Download the CircleCare app, create a care circle, and invite your care team. Add tasks, appointments, and notes. Everyone in the circle sees what's happening and can contribute. The app tracks who's doing what so no one is left guessing.

CircleCare is free to start: the free plan includes 1 care circle with you and 1 caregiver. Premium is $6.99/month, or $59.99/year with a 1-week free trial on the annual plan. Only the person who creates the circle pays; everyone they invite joins free. Cancel anytime.

CircleCare is available on iPhone, Android, and the web at my.circlecare.app, and the same account works on all three. People you invite can join from any web browser without installing anything (a free account is required).

A care circle is a private group in CircleCare for coordinating care for one person, like a parent or grandparent. Family members and other caregivers join the circle to share updates, track medications, and keep appointments in one place. Only people invited to the circle can see its information.

In CircleCare, the Owner creates the circle and can invite members, manage settings, and delete the circle. Caregivers are family members who help coordinate care; they can view and update information. The Care recipient is the person being cared for; they receive medication reminders and can confirm when they've taken them.

Yes. You can be a member of multiple CircleCare circles. For example, you might be the owner of your mom's circle and a caregiver in your dad's circle created by a sibling.

When a dose is due, the care recipient gets a push notification at the scheduled time and taps "I took it" to confirm, and the family members in the circle are notified. If the dose isn't confirmed within 15 minutes, the care recipient gets a reminder. After 30 minutes, the caregivers in the circle are alerted. After 1 hour, everyone in the circle is alerted. The dose stays unresolved until someone marks it as taken or skipped.

After 1 hour with no confirmation, CircleCare notifies everyone in the circle. The dose stays unresolved until someone marks it as taken or skipped. The medication history shows patterns over time, including adherence rates and which doses are missed most often.

Yes. CircleCare supports medications taken daily, every other day, weekly on specific days, monthly, or on and off cycles. For medications taken only when needed (PRN), choose "As needed": there are no set times or reminders, and whoever gives a dose logs it so everyone in the circle can see when it was last given.

CircleCare delivers reminders and alerts as push notifications through the mobile app on iPhone and Android. The web app lets you manage notification preferences, but it does not deliver reminders, so install the mobile app and turn on notifications to receive them.

The daily update is free for everyone. At 7 PM in the care recipient's time zone, the Home screen in the mobile app shows a short summary of what the circle logged that day: doses, tasks, and notes. It stays until midnight. CircleCare also sends one evening push notification, only if something was logged that day, and it does not include any health details. You can turn it off under "Daily update & tips" in notification settings.

Yes, with Premium, in the mobile app. Say what you want to add, such as a medication, appointment, or task, and the form fills in. You check it before saving. Speech is turned into text on your phone, and your recording and the words you said are not sent to CircleCare. Voice add works in English and Spanish, on supported iPhones and Android phones.

The app is available in English, Spanish (Latin American), French (France and Canada), German, Italian, and Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal). This website is in English and Spanish.

Yes. Quiet hours pause CircleCare notifications during the times you set, such as overnight from 10 PM to 7 AM, and you can choose which types of notifications you receive. Both settings are in Profile & settings.

Yes. CircleCare lets caregivers log blood pressure, heart rate, glucose, and weight readings for the person they care for, so the whole circle can see them over time. Health vitals are included on every CircleCare plan, including the free plan.

Yes. CircleCare's free plan has no time limit and includes 1 care circle, you plus 1 caregiver, unlimited medications and reminders, appointments, health vitals, the activity feed, and 200 MB of documents. Being invited to someone else's circle is always free.

CircleCare Premium includes unlimited caregivers per circle, 1 GB of documents per circle, the AI assistant (called the Care Assistant in the app), adherence reports and calendar import, the weekly email digest, voice add, and up to 5 care circles. Premium is $6.99/month or $59.99/year, and the annual plan includes a 1-week free trial.

No. Being invited to someone's CircleCare circle is always free, and everyone can create one circle of their own on the free plan. Only the person who creates a circle ever pays, and only if they upgrade to Premium.

Everyone can create one care circle on CircleCare's free plan. Premium subscribers can create up to 5 circles, which helps families caring for more than one loved one.

Nothing is deleted. You choose one circle to keep with free access, and your other circles become read-only until you re-subscribe. On the circle you keep, the free plan's limit of two editing caregivers applies, so additional caregivers become view-only: they can still see everything but can't make changes. Re-subscribing to CircleCare Premium restores full access.

If you subscribed on the web, open your Profile in the web app at my.circlecare.app and choose Manage subscription to reach your billing portal, where you can cancel in a couple of clicks. If you subscribed in the mobile app, cancel from your phone: Settings > Subscriptions on iPhone, or Play Store > Payments & subscriptions on Android. Either way you keep Premium until the end of the period you already paid for, and you never need to contact support to cancel.

In the CircleCare mobile app, go to Profile > Subscription > Restore Purchases. This is useful if you reinstall the app or switch phones. If you subscribed on the web, your subscription follows your account automatically.

CircleCare is built for exactly this kind of shared caregiving between siblings. Unlike generic task apps or group chats, it's designed for the dynamics of care teams—tracking contributions, sharing updates, and keeping everyone on the same page.

Yes! CircleCare helps families share eldercare responsibilities with shared task lists, tracking of who's doing what, and updates that keep everyone informed—all without the chaos of group chats or shared documents.

Shared calendars only show appointments. CircleCare is a complete care coordination system—tasks, medication reminders, updates, notes, and contribution tracking. It's purpose-built for the realities of ongoing care.

CaringBridge focuses on health updates and journals during medical events. CircleCare focuses on ongoing caregiving coordination—tasks, responsibilities, and family coordination for day-to-day care needs.

CareSplit is built around the money side of caregiving: an expense ledger, splitting costs between siblings, and a dashboard for tracking who has contributed what. CircleCare is built around the care itself—a shared calendar, medication tracking where each dose is confirmed by the person who gave it, and an activity feed the whole circle can see. If the hardest part of your situation is dividing expenses, a cost-splitting tool is the better fit; if it is knowing whether a medication was actually taken and who is carrying the day-to-day load, that is what CircleCare is for.

In CircleCare, tap the invite button and enter the person's email address. They'll receive an invite to join your care circle for free, either in the app or from any web browser.

Absolutely! CircleCare is designed to be simple and intuitive, even for care team members who aren't tech-savvy. If they can use a smartphone, they can use CircleCare. The learning curve is minimal—most care teams are up and running in minutes.

Yes! Many care teams use CircleCare to include people who live far away. They can help coordinate appointments, track medications, contribute to tasks they can do remotely, and stay informed without being physically present.

Yes. Your family's data is private and secure. We never sell your information to advertisers. Only people you invite to your care circle can see your family's information.