A small team, working with focus and care.
Lifelong is a family health app for iPhone that keeps your family's records, medications and appointments in one shared place, with Alo, an AI that knows your family's history.
We are a small team building the family health app we wanted for our own families — one place to keep track of the everyday things, and something to lean on when a day turns out to be harder than that.
We are building it because caring for the people close to you is already a team effort, and almost none of the software involved behaves that way.
Co-founder & CPO
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founder & CEO
What Lifelong does
One record for each person in the family
Each person has their own space for medications, conditions, symptoms, appointments and records. Upload a discharge summary, a lab report or a prescription, as a photo or a scan, and Lifelong reads it and places it on a timeline. What it finds is proposed for you to confirm, so nothing is written in silently.
Sharing that each person controls
Each family member chooses what the rest of the family can see, per category and per person, and can change it at any time. Nothing of yours is visible to anyone until you have made that choice. Whoever set the family up, or pays for it, sees no more than anyone else.
Alo, an AI that knows your family’s history
Alo is Lifelong’s assistant, in the app and in Messages. It answers from the health information you are allowed to see, and it cannot change a record on its own: every change is a draft you confirm. There is more on the Alo page.
Daily signals from the devices you already wear
With your permission, Lifelong reads sleep, activity and heart rate from Apple Health. A watch or a ring that writes to Apple Health, such as Apple Watch, Oura, Whoop, Garmin or Fitbit, arrives the same way.
What makes Lifelong different
It is built around a family, not one person
Apple Health collects one person’s health and fitness data on their own iPhone. Lifelong gives each person in a family their own space and lets them share it, so the daughter who goes to the appointments and the brother three states away are reading the same record.
It keeps the paperwork
Lifelong holds what Apple Health doesn’t: discharge summaries, lab reports, prescriptions, and what was said at an appointment. Those are the things a new doctor asks for and a family usually has in a drawer.
The person the data is about controls it
A parent is a participant with their own account and their own choices, not someone being watched. The family’s owner cannot see another member’s health information unless that member has shared it.
Alo proposes and you decide
Alo cannot see what you cannot see, and it cannot write to a health record without you. How Alo compares with Muse, Instinct and ChatGPT Health is set out in the post introducing it.
It is paid for by subscription and nothing else
Subscriptions are the whole business model. Lifelong does not sell health data and does not train AI models on identifiable health data. Because you pay for it, it does not have to make money from what you put in it.
Who uses Lifelong
- Parents keeping a child’s vaccinations, appointments and records in one place.
- Adults looking after an aging parent, and the siblings who share that job from different cities.
- Families managing a long-term condition together, where more than one person needs to know what changed.
- The one person in every family who has always kept the folder, and would like someone else to be able to read it.
There is a guide for the second group: caring for an aging parent with your family.
We’re always open
Want to work with us? We’d love to hear from you.
Questions
The short ones are here. For anything else, ask underneath, or read the full FAQ.
Why does Lifelong exist?
For most of human history, health was held by the people around you — the ones who noticed when you weren’t yourself and remembered what you’d recovered from. Modern health became a solitary experience. Families still carry the context, the history and the worry, and have been given almost no tools to share it. More on that in our mission.
How does Lifelong make money?
Subscriptions. That is the whole business model, deliberately. Lifelong Premium covers your household, starts with a free trial, and is sold through the Apple App Store — current pricing for your territory is shown in the app and on your App Store listing before you are charged. Because you pay us, we do not have to make money from your health data, and we do not.
Do you sell my health data?
No. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to insurers, not to anyone. We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We have never done either.
We also do not disclose your information to insurers, employers, credit agencies, data brokers or advertising platforms. Full stop. And if any of that ever stops being true, we will tell you before it changes, not after.
Is Lifelong HIPAA compliant?
HIPAA governs healthcare providers, health plans and their business associates. Lifelong is none of those today — we hold your information because you gave it to us, not because a hospital did, so HIPAA does not apply to us the way people often assume. What does apply: Washington’s My Health My Data Act, Nevada SB 370 and Connecticut health-data law (see the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy), the FTC Health Breach Notification Rule, the state privacy statutes, GDPR and UK GDPR, and the Australian Privacy Act. If Lifelong ever becomes a business associate — for example by integrating directly with a health system — we will sign a Business Associate Agreement and update the policy before that data starts flowing.
Is Lifelong medical care?
No. Lifelong is a health information tool, not a medical device and not a substitute for a clinician. It does not diagnose, treat or prescribe, and nothing in it is a medical opinion.
It is also not a monitoring service. Nobody at Lifelong is watching your family’s data, and the app will not summon help. An alert is a prompt to look at something — it is not a clinical finding and its absence is not reassurance. In an emergency, call emergency services. The full detail is in the Medical Disclaimer.
Answered by AI from the pages of this site, and it can be wrong. It isn’t medical advice, so please leave personal health details out.