Early access · Free
You tap “I’m OK”.
They stop wondering.
Holo Connect is a free iPhone app for people living independently. Check in once a day with one tap. The people you choose see it, and if a check-in is ever missed, they’re told automatically. Nothing to wear, nothing to remember.
Free app. Free to join the list. No card, no commitment.
An illustration of the app: on the phone, a large blue “Check In Now” card reading “Tap to confirm you’re OK”, an SOS button, and two hours and forty minutes left in the morning window. Below it, the notification a family member receives moments later: “Margaret checked in, 8:12 AM, twelve days in a row.”
Then the phone call can be about
anything else.
One tap answers the question everybody was going to ask anyway. What’s left is the conversation you actually wanted — the garden, the grandkids, what she ought to do about that car.
One day, from both sides.
Everything Holo Connect does happens twice: once for you, once for the person who cares.
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8:12 AM
You
One tap, inside a window you picked.
Your morning window runs 7:00 to 10:00. Tap once and you’re done for the morning, and the streak grows.
Her
She doesn’t have to ask.
It’s simply there when she wakes up, along with the week so far and whether today’s medications have been marked as taken.
Nobody had to ask, and nobody had to report in. That is the whole trick.
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2:40 PM
You
Say it out loud; the app sorts out the details.
Tell it where you’re going and roughly how long, in your own words. It works out when you’re due back.
Her
And if you’re not back, she hears about that too.
Running late is easy to fix from your phone. Add another half hour and nobody is alarmed.
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6:30 PM
You
Nothing happens.
Maybe you dozed off. Maybe you’re out longer than you meant to be. Maybe it’s something else. You don’t have to do anything at all.
Her
Her phone tells her anyway.
Fifteen minutes after a window closes with no check-in, everyone in your care circle is told: by notification, and by text message on the paid plan. Each missed window is announced exactly once.
This is the part no reminder app does. Nothing happened — and that is precisely what got noticed.
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7:04 PM
You
When you do need someone, it’s one button.
Press SOS, confirm once so it can’t go off in your pocket, and your whole care circle knows at once. No menus, no explaining.
Her
With where you are, if you’ve turned that on.
She sees the address, opens it in Maps, and marks it resolved once she’s reached you. Location is only ever captured at that moment, never followed through the day.
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Sunday
You
Add a photo when you feel like it.
The light on the water at seven. The dog doing something ridiculous. It goes to the same small circle, and nowhere else.
Her
Because it isn’t only about safety.
A check-in that’s only ever a safety signal gets tiresome. This one occasionally has the sunset in it.
Safety is the reason it gets installed. This is the reason it stays.
Set it up in an afternoon. Then it just runs.
Most of this is done once, by whoever is handiest with a phone.
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1
Pick your check-in times
A morning window, an evening one, or both, whatever matches how your day actually goes. You can change them whenever you like.
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Invite your care circle
The app gives you a short code to text, email, or read down the phone. They enter it and they’re connected. No searching, no address book, nothing to look up.
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Tap once a day
That’s the whole routine. Medication reminders and the SOS button sit there quietly until you want them. The check-in is the only thing that ever asks anything of you, and it asks once.
Nothing to wear. Nothing to pay.
It runs on the phone that’s already in your pocket.
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Nothing to wear
No pendant, no wristband, nothing to charge on the nightstand and nothing for anyone to notice across a room. If you have your phone, you have Holo Connect.
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Free to use
The daily check-in, the SOS button, medication reminders and your first contact don’t cost anything. There’s an optional paid plan for households that want more, and you never have to go near it.
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Your people answer
Alerts go to the family and friends you chose, by name. No call centre, no stranger on the line, nobody you have to explain yourself to.
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Your times, your rules
You pick the windows. Change them whenever you like, or pause them altogether when you’re away — your circle is told, so nobody worries.
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Nobody watching all day
Where you are is only ever captured at the moment you check in, head out, or ask for help. There is no map of your day, because we never make one.
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One tap, then it’s gone
No feed to scroll, no score to keep, nothing that wants your attention twice. You tap once and the app has nothing further to say to you.
Questions people ask us.
What if I simply forget to check in?
Then it does the job. Fifteen minutes after your window closes, your care circle is told a check-in was missed, and shortly after that your phone rings and someone who loves you asks if you’re alright.
Forgetting isn’t a failure of the app. Forgetting is the entire reason it exists.
Does my family need the app too?
To get notifications on their phone and see your check-ins, yes. They install it, enter your invite code, and that’s it. On the paid plan, contacts can also be alerted by text message, which needs nothing installed on their side.
Does it follow me around all day?
No. There is no background tracking of any kind. If you turn location on, the app takes a single snapshot at the moment you check in, ask for help, or head out, and nothing in between. You can leave location off entirely and everything else still works.
What will it cost?
The app is free. The daily check-in, the SOS button, your first contact and a couple of medication reminders don’t cost anything, and they never will.
If a household wants more — extra check-in windows, up to four contacts, unlimited medication reminders, text-message alerts, location with check-ins — there’s an optional paid plan. We’ll confirm what it costs before launch. Joining the waitlist never charges you anything.
Is there an Android version?
Not at first. Holo Connect launches on iPhone. Join the waitlist and we’ll let you know if that changes. The list is how we decide what to build next.
When does it launch?
We’re in the last round of testing. We’d rather get it right than name a date and then move it, which is the sort of thing that annoys everyone including us. Everyone on the waitlist hears first and gets in before it opens to the public.
What happens to my information?
Your check-ins, medications, and location are shared with the care circle you choose and nobody else. We don’t sell personal information and we don’t use it for advertising. The privacy policy spells out exactly what is collected and why.
Joining this waitlist adds your email address to our mailing list so we can tell you when early access opens. One click unsubscribes you.
Be first in when we open the doors.
Tomorrow morning you’ll put the kettle on, tap once, and get on with your day. Nobody will phone to check. That’s the whole idea.
Early access goes to the waitlist before Holo Connect reaches the App Store. One email when it’s ready.