Keepsake

For families

The family caregiver app for coordinating a parent’s care

Keepsake is a free app for the small group of people actually doing the day-to-day work: the notes from a doctor visit, the running task list, a voice memo on the drive home, the medication changes nobody can keep straight. One shared place, so the information stops living in three different group chats and one person’s memory.

Free, no ads. iPhone today; Android waitlist is open.

One shared place, not five group chats

When more than one person helps with a parent’s care, the information scatters fast. The medication list is in one sibling’s head. The appointment dates are in a text thread. The insurance paperwork is on the kitchen counter. Keepsake pulls it into a single shared folder: notes, tasks, documents, contacts, and the running record of what’s been tried. Everyone you’ve added sees the same thing, so being informed stops being one person’s full-time job. If a paper binder and a shared note have stopped holding it together, this is the caregiver organization tool that step replaces.

Built for the people doing the work

Most caregiver coordination is an adult child looking after an aging parent, usually with a sibling or spouse somewhere in the picture. Keepsake is built for that group of four or five, not for a hundred acquaintances getting periodic news. You set whether each person can view, edit, or owns the profile. The result is a calmer version of the thing you’re already doing in scattered places: an app for caregivers of aging parents that lowers the cost of the “who’s doing what” conversation instead of promising to skip it. For the wider comparison, we wrote an honest guide to family caregiver apps that holds Keepsake to the same six criteria as everyone else.

Voice memos, not just typing

The feature that surprises people is the voice memo. After a long hospital day, nobody wants to type out what the cardiologist said. Holding a button and talking for forty seconds, then having a sibling hear your actual voice, lands differently than a typed line in a chat. Families use it as a kind of caregiver journal app: visit summaries, the new dose change said out loud, a parent’s own words about what they want. We went deeper on this in the case for voice memos in caregiving.

Tracking a parent’s medications together

Medications are where coordination breaks first. A new prescription gets added in the ER, the regular doctor never hears about it, and the pillbox stops matching the list. Keep the current medication list in one shared place, note what changed and when, and let whoever’s on that night work off the same record instead of a half-remembered instruction. It does not replace your pharmacy or a clinical record, and it should not. It keeps the family’s copy of the truth in one spot so tracking an elderly parent’s medications isn’t one person’s memory test.

If you’re caring for someone with dementia

Dementia care runs on routines and steady observation more than on medical milestones, which is exactly the rhythm a shared folder fits. Keepsake won’t do the memory work for the person living with the diagnosis, and no app will. What it does is lower the load on the lead caregiver and keep distant family current on behavior changes, sleep, and what helped yesterday. As an Alzheimer’s or dementia caregiver app, the value is continuity: the next person who walks in can read what happened without a phone call. The Alzheimer’s Association has the clinical guidance; Keepsake is the layer above it for the family.

What Keepsake isn’t

Honesty first. Keepsake is iPhone-only as of this writing, so if a sibling is on Android, it’s the wrong fit today and you should look at a cross-platform option. It is not a clinical record and is not HIPAA-protected; for a hospital-grade record, ask your provider. And it is not built to broadcast updates to dozens of friends and neighbors: for that, a journal-style tool like CaringBridge fits better. Keepsake is for the few people carrying the daily work.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best app for caregivers?

There isn’t one best app for every family, because the right tool depends on what you need it to do: share day-to-day updates, recruit helpers, or broadcast news to a wide circle. For a small family group coordinating an aging parent’s care on iPhone, Keepsake is built for shared notes, tasks, and voice memos. If a family member is on Android, a cross-platform option like CircleOf fits better. Our full comparison weighs five apps against the same six criteria.

Is there an app for coordinating care for aging parents?

Yes. Keepsake is a free family caregiver app made for coordinating an aging parent’s care across siblings and a spouse. It keeps the medication list, appointments, notes, documents, and the running task list in one shared place so everyone helping works off the same record instead of scattered texts. It is iPhone-only today, with an Android waitlist open.

Can my siblings and I share notes about our parent?

That is the core of it. Keepsake gives a small family group one shared folder for notes, voice memos, photos of documents, and a task list, with per-person permissions so you decide who can view, edit, or owns the profile. Shared notes for caregivers are most useful when the long-distance sibling can read what happened without you retelling it, which is exactly the gap a shared record closes.

Is there an app for tracking an elderly parent's medications?

Keepsake keeps the family’s current medication list in one shared place, including what changed and when, so the person on tonight isn’t guessing. It is a coordination tool, not a pharmacy or a clinical record: it won’t fill prescriptions or check interactions. Its job is to stop the medication list from living only in one person’s head while three doctors prescribe without talking to each other.

Is there a caregiver app for Alzheimer's or dementia?

Keepsake works well for dementia and Alzheimer’s families because that kind of care runs on daily routines and shared observation rather than one-off milestones. It keeps the lead caregiver from carrying every detail alone and keeps distant family current on behavior and sleep changes. It does not do memory work for the person with the diagnosis, and it isn’t a substitute for clinical guidance from the Alzheimer’s Association or your parent’s care team.

Is Keepsake free, and does it work on Android?

Keepsake is free, with no ads and no selling of family data. It is iPhone-only as of this writing; the Android version is in active development, and you can join the Android waitlist to hear when it ships. If your family is split across iOS and Android right now, a cross-platform caregiver app will serve you better until then.

Caring for a long-distance parent has its own version of all this. If the hard part is staying current from another state, see Keepsake for long-distance and remote caregiving.