Downloaded this after my mom kept losing track of my dad's appointment schedule and medication changes across three different specialists. Having one shared place for records, meds, and appointments instead of a group chat and a stack of paper folders has already cut down on the "wait, did anyone call the cardiologist back" moments. The wearable sync is a nice bonus, but the actual value for us is just having one household view instead of it all living in one person's head.
Rabbithole
Hello! 👋 So excited to share this with you all.
When my grandfather could no longer walk, my father took down two walls in our family home so a hospital bed could fit through the doorway and a wheelchair could reach the bathroom.
He changed the shape of the house because the care system stopped at the front door.
What stayed with me was how much of health falls to families: the records, medication lists, appointments, small changes, and the job of remembering which specialist said what. That work usually lives across portals, group chats, folders, and one person’s head.
So Gurleen, Param and I built Lifelong: one place for a whole family’s health.
You can keep records, medications, symptoms, appointments, activity and sleep organized by person, connect the wearables your family already uses, and use Alo in the app to log updates and take simple actions.
Most health apps are designed around an individual. Lifelong is designed around the household. It’s for families to use together, not for one person to monitor everyone else. Sharing is user-controlled, and Lifelong does not diagnose or prescribe.
Check us out on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/lifelong-family-health/id6758003611
Or visit our website: trylifelong.com
If you’re the person in your family who remembers which specialist said what, I’d genuinely love to hear what would make Lifelong useful for your family.
@raztronaut "Designed around the household" is the whole thing. We've got a one-year-old and the health admin lives in my wife's head: vaccination history, appointments, everything. Congrats on the launch!
The thing I'd think about is that a family record is permanent. My daughter's entire medical history would be logged by me, from birth, and she never agreed to any of it. When she becomes of age, whose record is it? Can she take it with her, or delete it? That's a design question more than a privacy-policy one.
@raztronaut Health data is usually fragmented across way too many places, so having one shared layer for the household feels genuinely useful.
Awesome Product!
Rabbithole
@yashekbote Thanks Yash!
@raztronaut the detail that stands out is the walls, tearing down two of them so a wheelchair and hospital bed could fit. That is what happens when care work has no infrastructure of its own, it reshapes the physical space around it because nothing else was built to hold it. The real product here is the mental load, whoever remembers which specialist said what is doing a job that usually has no name and no backup. Building for the whole household instead of one patient is the right unit. Wishing your team a strong launch.
@raztronaut Does Lifelong support sharing specific records with doctors or caregivers?
love that! what privacy measures have you implemented?
Refocus
The line that stood out for me is that this is for families to use together, not for one person to monitor everyone else. I build voice AI that calls aging parents every day, and that tension is the hardest part of the design: the adult child wants visibility, the parent does not want to feel watched. We ended up letting the parent know what gets shared before it goes out, and adoption changed a lot once we did.
Question on Alo: when someone logs a symptom or a medication change through it, does that reach the rest of the household right away, or can the person hold it back and decide later who sees it?