Caregivers
Captrieve is not a monitoring app. It is not a tracker. The person you care for uses it for themselves – to hold onto thoughts, to get reminders at the right moment, to feel capable rather than managed. You are connected to what they choose to share, and to the gentle rhythm of their day.
How it works
The caregiver is not a passive viewer of someone else's screen. They have their own full Captrieve – their own captures, their own cues, their own retrieves. The caregiving layer is what connects them.
Setting up retrieves for someone else
The person you care for doesn't need to do anything except develop one habit: tapping their phone against a small sticker you've placed somewhere meaningful. You set up what they see when they do.
You put an NFC tag on the nightstand. You set up three retrieves: medications taken, door locked, phone charging. You train them to tap their phone against the tag at bedtime. That's it.
They don't open an app. They don't navigate menus. They tap the tag. The reminders appear. One gesture, every night, for as long as they need it.
Tag on the kitchen counter. Reminder: Take morning medications, call the clinic today, the visiting nurse arrives at 2 PM.
Tag by the front door. Reminder: keys, wallet, today's appointment address. And notifies you, automatically, that they've left.
Geofence on the clinic. You've been capturing questions since the last visit – "ask about the new medication," "mention the sleep trouble." They all pop up when they walk in.
The same front door tag, tapped again on return. You get a notification: home at 1:23 PM. No GPS tracking. No constant monitoring. Just the rhythm of a normal day, visible when it reassures.
Presence events
GPS tracking watches someone without their ongoing participation. Captrieve is different: The person taps a tag they placed themselves, for their own routine. The presence signal is a side effect of a gesture that already serves them.
What you see as a caregiver is a log – not a map. Front door, 10:47 AM: departed. Front door, 1:23 PM: returned. The log makes a normal day visible. An absence in the log is something you notice yourself, in your own time. The app does not alarm. You do the interpreting.
The tap serves them. It incidentally informs you. That distinction matters.
Your own captures, in their space
The NFC tags you place in their home serve both of you. The same physical tag, tapped by your phone, brings up your own retrieves – whatever you've set for that moment in that place.
Tap the tag by the front door on arrival. Your Captrieve shows: "She mentioned the heat hasn't been working," "Ask about appetite this week – the doctor wanted to know," "She wanted to show you the reunion photos."
Tag inside the cabinet door. Your retrieve: "check whether she has enough of the blood pressure medication." Her retrieve: Take the morning pill. Same tag. Each of you sees only your own.
Tag by the front door, on the way out. Your retrieve: "call the visiting nurse service before end of day." You don't have to remember. It finds you at the door.
Shared captures
You can send a capture directly to someone you're connected with. They receive it as a retrieve in their own Captrieve, with whatever cue you've set – or they can set their own.
This is not a text message. A text message arrives now, when you send it, whether or not now is a useful moment. A shared capture arrives when it's actionable – at the store, at the clinic, before the meeting, when they tap the fridge.
You notice the ketchup is nearly gone. You capture it – "we're low on ketchup" – and forward it to your partner with a geofence cue on the grocery store. They don't see it until they're standing in the condiments aisle. That is when it is useful. That is when it arrives.
More than one caregiver
A person can connect more than one caregiver. Two adult children sharing responsibility for an aging parent. A professional caregiver and a family member. A primary caregiver and a backup. Each caregiver sees the same presence log and shared captures. Each one gets presence notifications independently.
The person being cared for controls who is connected and can remove any individual connection at any time. Removing one person's access does not affect anyone else.
Both the person you care for and you need Captrieve and a Connected subscription. You both get the full app – not a stripped-down companion version. Both of you benefit from it independently. The caregiving layer is what connects you.
Connected is $2.99/month or $24.99/year. After any 12 consecutive months of Connected, Solo is yours permanently – even if you stop the subscription.