You're already managing the medical and behavioral care of someone you love — most of it from the kitchen counter, most of it from memory. CareHaven holds all of it — every dose, every meltdown, every win, every appointment — in one quiet place. So your brain doesn't have to.
A one-page template for what to leave with a sitter, substitute teacher, or respite worker. Free PDF. Useful even if you never install the app.
Most apps make caregivers do the work twice — once with the kid, then again with their thumbs. CareHaven is built around four lifts that nothing else handles well.
"What did the neurologist say about adjusting the dose? When was the last seizure? What did Joey eat at school?"
The app holds it. Every entry is one tap away from being logged with timestamp, context, and a record you can hand to anyone who needs it. No more parent-as-database.
"Are spirals worse on Wednesdays? Does poor sleep predict tomorrow's hard day? Is texture the thread in the food refusals?"
The app reads the patterns. Local, deterministic trend detection runs over your log nightly — surfacing what's worth noticing. No AI guessing, just math on what you logged.
"How do I brief the new sitter, the new SLP, the substitute teacher, my own mother?"
The app prepares it. Tap "Handoff" — the app drafts a one-page summary of today, the cues only experienced caregivers know, and the emergency plan. Print, AirDrop, or NameDrop in seconds.
"I had three things I wanted to ask and now I can't remember any of them."
The app prepares your case. Pre-visit prompts pull the last 30 days into a clinician-ready summary. During the visit, optional on-device transcription captures every follow-up so nothing leaves the room unrecorded.
Every surface earns its keep. No chat thread of unread messages, no infinite settings, no tabs you forget exist. Just the surfaces a caregiver actually opens.
Type one letter, see every match — surfaces, cues, contacts, milestones, medications, the lot. Local and instant. The AI assistant is one tap away when you want it, but typing alone never sends a thing off the device.
The home screen. One scroll = one day. Feedings, sleep, behaviors, vitals, doctor visits, wins, and notes — chronological, with at-a-glance summary pills and a "What's open" digest at the top.
Therapy sessions, school meetings, medical visits. Recurring or one-time. Bucketed Today / Upcoming / Later / Past so the most pressing things stay at the top, with day-of nudges for what needs to leave the house.
Deterministic trend detection over your own log. Mood by hour, sleep ↔ next-day behavior, day-of-week peaks, food sensory threads, seizure-free streaks. Honest about confidence — weak signals show as weak.
The signals only experienced caregivers know. "Asks for water repeatedly = anxious." "Red ears, very quiet = overstimulated." Sitters, respite workers, and school staff actually understand what they're seeing.
Eight channels mapped per person — auditory, tactile, smell, proprioceptive, vestibular, and the rest — with what calms, what overwhelms, and which tendency (avoiding, seeking, mixed). Travels into the handoff sheet automatically so a sitter walks in with the map.
Wins, firsts, and breakthroughs — kept where the hard days are kept too. Caregivers tend to underestimate how much progress has happened. Memory Book is the antidote.
One tap, one page. Today's plan, current cues, active life changes, emergency contacts and meds. AirDrop, NameDrop, print, or PDF. The signature moment of the app.
Optional four-digit PIN protects the whole app — and any sensitive surface inside it — when a sitter, family member, or clinician borrows the phone. Face ID or Touch ID for the primary caregiver. Auto-locks after the timeout you set, so a hand-off across the kitchen counter doesn't expose a year of medical history.
Tap the profile pill at the top of the screen — or long-press anyone in the switcher — to open a card that holds the whole person. Profile basics (name, color, diagnoses), Care plan (goals, milestones, cues), Daily life (routines, preferred foods, life changes, sensory profile), Health & communication (medications, appointments, AAC phrases). Every section reads from and writes back to the same data the rest of the app uses — change once, change everywhere.
Every IEP goal. Every therapy target. Practice logged in real time, baseline → target tracked across months, accomplishments archived with the date they happened. When the next IEP meeting starts, you walk in with proof.
Most care apps treat the caregiver as the data-entry layer. CareHaven treats them as a person who is also exhausted, and quietly carries some of the weight back.
"Nothing needs you right now."
A small, calm card on home that pulls together the open loops — appointments today and tomorrow, low-supply meds, follow-ups you haven't closed. When the list is empty, it says so. That moment of green is real. The card exists for it.
"You showed up today. That counts."
Inside the wellbeing surface, a quiet count of every care moment you delivered today — feedings, sleep tracked, behaviors logged, notes written, check-ins. So a caregiver who feels like they "didn't do anything" can see what the truth actually was.
Six flavors of stuck — overwhelmed, perfectionism, burnout, can't decide, avoiding, hopeless — each with four or five concrete things to try. Anti-Planner-inspired. No logging, no analysis, no nag. Pick the one that resonates, take what helps, leave the rest.
Three tools, one segmented control: a breathing orb that scales with inhale and exhale (box or 4-7-8), a clean countdown timer, and a 5-4-3-2-1 grounding deck. Calmer chrome, soft animation, no analytics. Built for in-crisis use — caregivers, and the people they care for.
Auto-fill pulls a deterministic recap of the last 30 days — feedings, sleep quality and wakings, seizures by type, behaviors by kind, most-recent vitals, active medications, and the life-context that's currently on. Edit before you save. Show up at the appointment with the recap already drafted instead of typing it from scratch.
Hit record at the start. Live transcription appears as the doctor speaks, on-device, never sent to a server. Step out for a private side conversation, hit pause; resume when you're back and the transcript picks up with a timestamp marker so you can find that moment. The audio file saves alongside the visit — replay it later when you can't remember what dose the doctor said.
Settings → Demo loads a fictional caregiver journal alongside your own — seventeen to choose from, all fully populated. A newborn with night feeds, a four-year-old with Down syndrome learning to sign, an AAC user with cerebral palsy, a profoundly deaf child whose primary language is ASL, a child with PKU on a metabolic clinic schedule, a Type 1 diabetes teen with autism, a young adult transitioning out of pediatric services, an elder with Alzheimer's on comfort care. Load one, see how the surfaces respond to a profile shaped like yours. Remove them all in one tap when you're done exploring.
"You're in the same dataset."
Optional Apple Health integration writes the caregiver's own sleep, heart rate, and mindful minutes into a separate lane in Patterns. The app stops pretending you're invisible — run low on sleep three nights in a row, and the chart shows it next to the seizure-free streak it might explain. Stays on the caregiver's phone, never shared with the rest of the household.
Care happens on the kitchen counter, in the car, at 3 a.m. on the wrist, in the chair next to the SLP. CareHaven shows up on every Apple surface in a way that fits that moment — not the same screen forced into a smaller frame.
Feeding, potty, regulation check-in, behavior note, a quick win — each a single tap on the watch face. The entry lands on the phone before you're back at the counter. Built for the seconds between things, when reaching for the phone isn't an option.
Charge the iPhone on its side at night and StandBy renders a calm day-shape with the day's care moments, the active person's name, and the next appointment. Dim, glanceable, no notifications waking anyone up. The 3 a.m. medication question answered without unlocking the phone.
Hold the iPhone near theirs — NameDrop transfers a one-time, time-boxed sitter brief through Apple's App Clip path. They see today's plan, current cues, emergency contacts, and active medications. The packet's expiry window is yours to set — a single shift, a school day, a weekend respite. No account, no download, no follow-up. The window closes when you say so.
"Hey Siri, log Maya a bottle." "What's next on Zoe's schedule?" Native App Intents wire every logging surface to Siri and the Shortcuts app, so a quick voice request hits the same data the app reads. Useful in the car, in a hospital chair, mid-feed.
iOS 17 added Personal Voice — anyone can record their own voice into the system, and apps with permission can speak as them. CareHaven's communication library hooks in: tap a phrase, hear it spoken in the voice the person chose for themselves. For families navigating a degenerative diagnosis, this surface preserves something precious. For everyone else, a more natural voice than the default robotic one.
Start a feed, a calming routine, or a doctor visit and a Live Activity pins it to the Lock Screen + Dynamic Island. Glance at the elapsed time without unlocking; tap to end. The same pattern the system uses for timers and pizza deliveries, applied to the care moments that fill a day.
The day timeline is the home. But some moments need a different shape — a fridge tablet, a fullscreen card to show a child what's coming, a list of the next seven days, a month grid. Same data, different lens.
Big serif clock, the active person's day at a glance, the next 48 hours of appointments, a slowly cycling caregiver tip. Auto-dims after 30 seconds of stillness; tap to wake. Designed to live on a tablet on the counter so the whole household can see where the day is.
One swipeable big-card view of today — one event per page, 110-point emoji, large serif title, optional time underneath. No log buttons, no edit chrome, no scrolling lists. A visual schedule the cared-for person can actually use to anticipate their own day.
Day timeline for today. List view for the next seven days at a glance — routines and appointments grouped by day. Month grid with event-density dots when you need to see the whole shape. Tap any cell, the day's appointments appear inline.
Off by default. When you turn it on in Settings, your care log mirrors between the iPhone and iPad signed into your Apple ID using Apple's encrypted CloudKit Private Database. Apple themselves cannot read the contents. The Settings row even shows you the live sync state so you know it's working.
Open SOS and the dispatch number, poison control line, and crisis text line are pre-loaded for your current country — not the country your phone was bought in. Travel from the US to Mexico and the SOS surface flips from 911 to 911-Mexico without you reconfiguring anything. Location stays on-device and never leaves CareHaven. Opt in once in Settings → Privacy.
Every US state has its own Parent Training & Information Center, Protection & Advocacy agency, Early Intervention program, and Developmental Disability services. Most caregivers don't know they exist. CareHaven bundles all 50 — and uses your location (if you've granted it) to surface YOUR state at the top. Free legal advocacy, free family training, IEP support — for caregivers who didn't know the help was there.
Common medications, behavioral conditions, care strategies, ABLE accounts, hospice eligibility, PAINAD, sundowning, fragile X, ARFID — written for caregivers in plain language. All bundled, all on-device, all available offline. When the cloud AI is reachable, queries get richer answers; when it's not (waiting room, plane, rural drive), the offline KB still answers.
Last feed time, next dose, the next appointment — sized small, medium, or large for the iPhone or iPad Home Screen. Updates a few times an hour via WidgetKit. Tap any cell to deep-link straight into that surface inside the app. Glance, decide, move on; only unlock if you actually need to.
CareHaven is built like a journal you keep in your nightstand. The app holds the data, you hold the key, and nobody else gets a copy.
No account to create, no sign-in to forget. Care data lives on your iPhone in Apple's encrypted device storage. There's no central server we could hand to anyone.
Optional auto-backup writes an AES-256-GCM encrypted file to your Files app. Only your password decrypts it. Lose your phone, restore on the next one.
Multi-caregiver households can opt in to Apple's encrypted CloudKit Private Database to keep iPhone and iPad in sync across an Apple ID. Apple cannot read the contents.
The deterministic chart is always the source of truth. AI commentary is opt-in, runs only on PII-stripped queries you approve, and never decides anything for you.
No PHI ever leaves your device without your explicit action. The .chbak backup format is byte-for-byte encrypted. Doctor visit transcription runs on-device when the system supports it.
We use Plausible (cookieless, anonymous page-view counts) on this site only. The app itself sends zero telemetry. Nothing about your care is for sale, ever.
Generic family apps assume neurotypical development and a neat schedule. CareHaven is shaped around what actually shows up in complex care — the bad days, the wins, the cues only the parent knows.
Up to 2 care profiles on Free, 5 on Plus, unlimited on Family. Each profile separate — own timeline, meds, behaviors, goals, contacts. Switch with the person pill at the top of any screen.
Free forever for receiving handoffs, logging a day, and the offline knowledge base. Plus opens Wall Display, AI, iCloud sync, Apple Watch, and doctor-visit recording. Family adds real-time co-caregiver sync. 14-day free trial on every paid tier.
Subscriptions are managed by Apple — cancel any time from iOS Settings → Subscriptions.
All tiers stay private: care data lives on your iPhone, never on our servers.
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