You hold everyone else. Let CARER hold a little of you.
CARER is a warm, private companion for unpaid family carers. Somewhere to be heard, to say the hard things, and to be remembered — with no scores, no pressure, and no prying into the person you care for.
CARER is a wellbeing companion, not an emergency service.
Is this you?
You might not even call yourself a carer.
- You're caring for a parent with dementia while raising your own kids and holding down a job — pulled in every direction, with nothing left by the time the house is quiet.
- Your partner is going through cancer treatment, and you're the strong one — with nowhere to put your own fear.
- You're raising a disabled or autistic child, loving them fiercely, and quietly grieving a future that looks different from the one you'd pictured.
- Your grown-up son or daughter lives with a serious mental illness, and you're braced for the next phone call — carrying fear, love, and anger all at once.
- You're a young adult and you've been helping look after someone at home for as long as you can remember — often without even the word for what you are.
- The caring has ended, and you're in the quiet after — unsure who you are now that the role that filled your days is gone.
If any of that lands, you're in the right place. CARER is for you.
CARER exists to lift a little of the weight off the person doing the caring — not to manage the caring itself. It's a place to be honest, to be heard, and to feel a bit less alone at 3am. That's the whole job. We measure nothing, we fix nothing, and we ask nothing of you in return.
How it works
No forms, no setup, no homework.
Just start talking
No forms, no quizzes, no goals to set. Say whatever's on your mind — CARER opens straight into a quiet space and simply listens.
It remembers, so you can carry less
The things you share stay with you, in your words. Next time, you pick up mid-stream — no starting from scratch.
Come and go as you need
Two minutes or twenty. Day or night. There's no streak to keep, nothing to miss, and no reason to feel behind. When you've had what you needed, put the phone down — that's the point.
What it does
Built to lift load, never add it.
A companion that listens
A warm, unhurried conversation whenever you have a minute. Not a help desk — somewhere that meets the feeling first.
It remembers — so you never start over
CARER holds on to what you tell it, in your own words, and gently offers it back. No re-explaining, ever.
A private space for the unsayable
A sealed, encrypted place for the feelings you can't say aloud — resentment, anger, the wish it would just be over. Received without judgement, never re-surfaced without your say-so.
Room for grief — even for someone still here
A first-class space to name and hold anticipatory grief and ambiguous loss — the kind that has no neat ending, and no need for one.
Help, one tap away — even offline
A calm crisis and safeguarding route on every screen. Free, always. It works with no signal and no sign-in.
Real, human help nearby
When you need more than a companion, CARER points you to trusted helplines and carer organisations — wherever you are in the world.
Your words stay yours.
CARER runs on your own device by default, so what you say stays with you. We never sell it, never train AI on it, and never let it reach your family or the person you care for. No scores. No surveillance. Export or delete everything, whenever you like.
Read our full privacy promise →Free during early access — and always for the things that matter most.
CARER is free while we're in early access. The core companion will always be free. Crisis support is free, and always will be. No ads, and we never sell your data.
More about pricing →CARER is a companion, not an emergency or medical service. If you or someone else is in danger, please use the urgent-help options — they're always one tap away, free, and work offline. See how to get urgent help →
Whenever you're ready, we're here.
There's no right time and no wrong way to start. Come in and put something down.
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