Chickadee helps older adults write down their medicines, blood pressure, blood sugar, and how they feel — in one to three taps, in type they can actually read.
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Our first user was a father juggling new prescriptions, changing dosages, and a doctor who kept asking, "So how have the new pills been treating you?" — a question he answered from memory he didn't trust. Spreadsheets were never going to happen. So we built him a diary with buttons the size of his thumb, and his answers stopped being guesses.
Chickadee is what we learned, made for everyone's parents.
Every entry is stamped with the time automatically and written as a plain sentence anyone can read — no cells, no charts to decipher.
Medicines appear as big named buttons — one tap records the dose and the time. Blood pressure and blood sugar use an oversized number pad, one number per screen.
Feelings are five faces and tap-able symptoms — and for anything specific, they tap the microphone and just talk. No typing, ever.
One button turns the last two weeks into a clean, timestamped summary to hand to the physician. Dosage changes and side effects, finally on the same page.
Chickadee doesn't have servers because it doesn't need them — and it doesn't even ask the phone for internet access. That's not a promise in a policy. It's a technical fact the operating system enforces.
A little chirp each day that says all is well. The next version of Chickadee will let a parent share their diary with the family they choose — so a son in another state sees this morning's entries without a phone call, and a daughter gets a gentle nudge when the diary goes quiet.
Same rule as always: nothing is shared until they say so.
Join the waitlistChickadee is in early testing with real families now. Tell us about yours.
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