In development
Caregiving organiser
Everything you're holding for someone else, in one calm place.
When you're looking after a parent, the hardest part isn't any single task — it's carrying all of them at once. Which pills went in this morning, what the cardiologist said, whether the blood pressure has been creeping up, and which sibling needs telling.
Why it exists
The information exists. It's just scattered across six places and one person's memory.
A discharge summary in a folder, dose times in a group chat, blood pressure readings on a cuff that syncs to a phone nobody checks, the appointment in someone's calendar, and the actual understanding of what's going on held entirely by whichever sibling lives closest.
Cariven's job is to be the single place all of that lives, and to make it possible to hand parts of it to someone else without handing over everything.
What it does
The day in front of you, and the record behind it.
Today, without the guilt
The home screen answers one question: what still needs doing. Doses due, what's already been logged and by whom, the next appointment, and a gentle nudge to write down how the physio visit went while it's fresh.
When a dose is late it says so plainly and moves on — "one dose is waiting from earlier, it happens, log it when you can." Nobody caring for a parent needs an app that scolds them.
Lisinopril 10 mg and Metformin 500 mg, both with breakfast.
Vitals that arrive on their own
If the blood-pressure cuff, scale, glucose meter, oximeter or thermometer already syncs to Apple Health, Cariven picks the readings up automatically and charts them — so the trend is there when the doctor asks, rather than something you reconstruct from memory in the waiting room.
- Blood pressure, glucose, weight, pulse, oxygen and temperature
- Seven- and thirty-day trends with average, low and high
- Readings you take by hand sit alongside imported ones
Apple Health works in both directions, and both are opt-in. The context bands on the charts are exactly that — context, not medical guidance.
Share the parts, not the whole
Invite a sibling, a partner or a paid carer into the circle and choose what they can see, category by category. A co-caregiver can be given full read-and-write access to medications and vitals; someone helping occasionally might see only today's doses. The paperwork vault stays yours.
Everyone in the circle sees the same current picture, so logging a dose once means it's logged for all of them.
The label, straight from the manufacturer
Photograph a pill bottle and Cariven reads the name and strength off the label on your device. For each medication it can pull the manufacturer's own "Drug Interactions" and "Warnings" sections, verbatim, from the FDA's public label database.
This is deliberately not an interaction checker. There's no pairwise logic and no scoring, because the free data needed to do that accurately no longer exists and wrong interaction advice is worse than none. What you get is the official label text and the matched product name, for you to check against the bottle in your hand — and to take to a pharmacist, who is the right person to ask.
Cariven Plus
Free for one person. Plus for a family doing this together.
If you're the only one managing care for one person, the free tier is a complete app and you never need to pay. Plus is for households sharing the load across several people, or anyone looking after more than one person.
Free
- One person in your care
- Medications, vitals, journal and appointments
- Apple Health import
- Up to ten documents in the vault
Plus $129.99 once, or $59.99/yr
- Everyone you look after
- The shared care circle, scoped by category
- An unlimited document vault
- Doctor-ready reports
Plus is $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year if you'd rather; the $129.99 lifetime unlock exists because caring for someone is already expensive enough without another renewal. Trial length, where offered, is shown on the purchase screen in the app.
Built into the phone
On the Lock Screen, so you see it without going looking.
Cariven puts what is still due on your Lock Screen and home screen as a widget, in both the small circular and rectangular sizes. Doses can be logged from there or by asking Siri, which matters when your hands are full and you are already halfway to the kitchen.
Everything syncs through your own iCloud, and the care circle runs on Apple's own sharing — so when a sibling logs a dose it appears on your phone without either of you creating an account with us.
Apple Health works in both directions and both are opt-in. Cariven is a record-keeping tool, not a medical device and not clinical advice; it does not check drug interactions. Every decision about medication or treatment belongs to a qualified professional who knows the person involved. Policies are on the legal page.
- Requires
- iOS 18.6 or later
- Devices
- iPhone and iPad
- Price
- Free · Plus from $59.99/yr or $129.99 once
- Account
- None
- Sync
- Your own iCloud, sharing included
- Permissions
- Health, calendar, camera, microphone
Coming to the App Store.
Cariven is still in development. LeasePace is out now, if you want to see how we finish things.