You get home once a year if you are lucky, and every visit your kids have to be reintroduced to someone who loves them. Bondnow puts your family on her screen every day, across whatever number of timezones sit between you.
Flights are expensive, but that is not what is eroding the relationship. This is.
Your evening is her middle of the night. So calls get scheduled, and scheduled calls get postponed, and eventually they happen once a month.
You installed something on your last visit and talked her through it twice. It has not been opened since you got on the plane.
Every year the reintroduction gets more awkward. They are polite to a stranger, and you can see her notice it.
The screen in her home shows photos and videos from everyone in the circle, arriving as you share them. Your son's football match at nine at night your time is waiting on her screen with her breakfast. Nothing had to be scheduled and she did not have to be awake.
Ask a seven year old to sit still and talk to a screen and you get thirty painful seconds. Let them send a ten second video of a drawing and they will do it three times a week. That is what builds a relationship.
Small ordinary moments arriving through the week are worth more than one long call where you both perform being fine. That is the difference between being informed and being close.
Yes. Bondnow is an app, so there is nothing to ship. It runs on a tablet she already has, wherever she lives, and calls work from anywhere, so every one of you can use it from wherever you are.
You create the account from your own phone, and her sign-in is made at the same time. Then whoever is with her, a neighbour, a sibling or a carer, installs Bondnow on her tablet and signs in with those details. That takes about a minute. Everything after that you do from the app on your own phone, from wherever you are.
The radio works with stations in any language, from anywhere in the world, which for many families is the single most valued part. Callers' names are announced as you enter them, so they are spoken the way she knows them.
There is no limit, and it is one subscription for the whole family however many of you there are and whatever countries you are in. Several people can be on the same call together.
No. Bondnow is not a monitored alarm service and not a medical device. It does not call 999 or any local emergency number and it does not detect falls. If you switch on two-way calling, her screen can show a red Alarm button that rings the one family member you choose, but nobody monitors it. Please arrange local support for emergencies separately.
Free for the first month, then £9.90 a month or £99 a year. No card, nothing to buy, cancel any time.