One calm screen for someone you love in assisted living. They call their people with a tap, tell you they're okay, see their day, and can always reach help. You get the circle that hears them — and a nudge if a day goes quiet. No tracking, no subscription, ever.
No menus to get lost in, no feeds, no noise. Four things, big and clear, all of them theirs.
No dialer, no contact list to navigate. Tap Daniel's face and it rings Daniel. Photos, never menus — built for older eyes and less steady hands.
One green tap and their circle knows they're fine. They give the reassurance — they aren't tracked into it. That's the whole idea: they initiate, their circle receives.
Morning pills, tea with Margaret — gentle reminders under their control. Their circle can add to the day, but never invisibly: anything added is clearly labeled and can always be removed.
One clear button calls the local emergency number — always behind a calm confirm that shows the number, so a stray tap never dials an ambulance. Their circle is alerted in the same moment. Real calls, through the phone's own dialer.
Wave runs on their phone and on yours. Theirs is the warm home screen. Yours sets up the circle — up to six people who hear from them, and hear if a day goes quiet.
On your own phone, you create the circle and add the people in it — names and how each person prefers to hear. Their phone joins with a six-character code. No accounts, no passwords, for anyone.
Each person gets one email and confirms from their own inbox. Nobody is added to a circle without agreeing to it, and a "no thanks" deletes their address on the spot.
Check-ins and emergencies land as real notifications on every phone in the circle — or by email if that's easier. No app to install, and never a per-message charge.
You choose an hour to start worrying — say eleven in the morning. If no check-in has come by then, the circle gets a gentle nudge: "No check-in from Alex by 11:00 — maybe give a ring." That's the one thing this whole category charges a subscription for. Here it is part of the circle you unlock once — never a monthly bill, because an older adult talking to the people they love should never be metered.
Most "senior safety" apps quietly become surveillance the watchers love and the person resents. Wave is built the other way up.
Every signal the circle sees is one they sent themselves — the only exception is word that a quiet day stayed quiet. The safety net stays invisible until it's truly needed.
No location tracking, no location history, no camera watching, no activity dashboard. The one location reading is theirs to switch on, taken only when they call for help. If it would feel like being watched, it isn't in Wave.
Large type, generous targets, high contrast, and lots of air. Built for older eyes and hands that aren't as steady as they were.
Calls go through the phone's own dialer — reliable, familiar, and they work even when the app doesn't.
Up to six people, each one having said yes by email first. What they get is a gentle "they're okay today" — and a nudge on a quiet morning. Peace of mind, not a monitoring console.
Designed with older adults and people with limited mobility or dexterity in mind — including those who need a little help answering.
No. There's no location tracking and no dashboard of their activity. Everything the circle sees is something they sent — including one location reading, only if they switch it on: when they press "I need help", the text they send carries a map link to where they are at that moment. Never before, never after. And one deliberate exception, which we'd rather name than hide: if no check-in has arrived by the hour you chose, the circle is told that none arrived. Absence is the only thing Wave ever reports on its own, and they know it works that way.
Only the person setting up the circle runs Wave on their own phone. Everyone else confirms by email once, then gets notifications on whatever phone they already have — no app to install, no account, nothing to buy.
Deliberately almost nothing: a circle id, hashed pairing tokens, their first name, timezone, the worry window and check-in rhythm you chose, circle members' contact handles with each person's alert preference, a single timestamp of the last check-in, and the kind and time of the most recent alert — both overwritten, not a history. No location, no message contents, no contact books, no analytics. The full list is on our privacy page, published word for word.
No, and there won't be. Wave is free to download and free forever for the person holding the phone. One person unlocks the circle once — a single payment, never a subscription — and Wave Circle, check-ins, quiet-morning nudges and emergencies, is included with it. Alerts go by email and free phone notifications, and there are no paid extras. An older adult talking to the people they love should never be metered.
They own it. Their own reminders are theirs to add, silence or remove. Their circle can help through a shared calendar: those events appear clearly labeled as coming from the calendar, and are changed in the calendar itself. Remote setup can only change their settings while they have it switched on, and the phone says so when it does.
The red "I need help" button calls the local emergency number — always behind a calm "are you sure?" that shows the exact number, so an accidental tap never dials. At the same moment their circle is alerted, if they're connected to one, and when they're back in the app a text to the people on their home screen is ready to send, with a map link if they switched that on. Wave doesn't monitor anyone and isn't a response service: the call goes to the emergency services like any other call from the phone.
Older adults — especially in assisted living — and people with limited mobility or dexterity, plus the people who look out for them. The name says it: the check-in is a wave — a simple hello that says I'm okay.
Wave is on Google Play — free to download, no account needed to start. Questions before you install? Write to support@ubersoft.pro.
Built for a real grandparent, in a real assisted-living home — and for everyone like them. Free to download.