Most families end up juggling several apps and gadgets, one for calls, another for photos, another for reminders. BondNow replaces all of it with a single platform, so your loved one, your family circle and any care team involved are connected in one place, with nothing extra to buy, learn or manage separately.
It is not a video calling app, and it is not a care record. It is the thing that sits in the room with your relative and quietly keeps them connected to their life.
No account, no password, no button, no app to open. If a device requires dexterity, memory or confidence that an older person may not have, it ends up in a drawer. Ours works whether or not they can use technology, because it never asks them to.
A station begins in the morning. A photo appears at lunchtime. A call connects without being answered. Most products wait to be used. A companion initiates, which is the difference between a device someone owns and a presence in the room.
Calls, memories and radio today, with reminders and more to come. One device, one subscription, one thing to understand, instead of a drawer of gadgets that each solve a tenth of the problem.
Every option below is good at something. Read the first row carefully, because it is the one almost everybody skips.
Only one column has a tick on every row, and the first row is the reason.
Family portals, care apps and photo frames are almost all designed around the people looking in a login for the family, a report for staff, one more gadget to set up.
The older person rarely gets anything that's genuinely theirs. They're the reason the product exists, but they're not who it's for.
The device belongs to her. Her family appears on it. Her station plays on it. She is not asked to operate it, and she is not asked to understand it, but it is hers and the day is better because it is there.
The family and the care team connect to her life rather than to a dashboard about her. That is the whole design, and it is why we describe it as a companion rather than a tool.
BondNow is early. Rather than borrow somebody else's numbers, here is exactly what is real, what is next, and what we will never claim.
Automatically answered calls, shared photos and videos, scheduled radio, and gentle spoken reminders set from your phone. Since January 2025: 957 moments shared, 395 conversations without the touch of a finger, 85 people across 28 family circles.
A quiet sense of how their days are going, built to be gentle and reassuring rather than clinical. We are still working out whether and how to build this well. It would not be a diagnosis, and it would not be built from cameras or constant observation.
A single button so your loved one can reach the people in their own circle, not only receive from them. It rings a list of family members you set up in advance. It is not a monitored alarm, it does not call 999, and it does not replace telecare or a pendant alarm.
We do not publish outcome statistics we have not measured. No loneliness reduction, no staff hours saved, no CQC result. When we have run a care home pilot and have real numbers, we will publish those instead.
BondNow is not a monitored alarm service and is not a medical device. It does not call 999 and it does not detect falls. Please keep any telecare or emergency arrangements you already have.
£250 set-up fee, £14.50 a month with the first two months free, and 60 days to change your mind.