CaringBridge

CaringBridge.org

About this app

CaringBridge is a no-cost, 501(c)(3) nonprofit health platform that surrounds family caregivers with support while they care for a loved one on a health journey. A donor-supported nonprofit founded in 1997, the organization offers tools to share and document a health journey, simplify care coordination, and connect caregivers with a supportive community. CaringBridge addresses feelings of overwhelm, isolation, and loneliness by improving emotional health and social connectedness, helping people come together in support of healing. With over 300,000 people on the platform every day sending or receiving support, there are over 1,600 messages of love, hope, and compassion posted every hour. And every 12 minutes a new CaringBridge page is started. The CaringBridge community includes all 50 states and more than 242 countries around the world. To learn more visit www.caringbridge.org.

Private, protected, and ad-free
· A trusted, private, and ad-free space that only a nonprofit like CaringBridge can provide to support family caregivers and their loved ones on a health journey.

Communicate to everyone all at once
· Communicate to everyone all at once in a safe and private space, relieving the burden of individually updating people.

Capture and process every step of the health journey
· The very act of capturing a loved one’s health journey improves emotional health and social support.

Coordinate care with family and friends
· Making it easy to ask for help, because we know it’s often the most difficult thing to ask for.

Ratings and reviews

The new changes are terrible!!! Horrible layout, no gallery tab, so you have to scroll through all posts to find pictures. You have really downgraded the app and website!! We have lost half our followers, as they can no longer login or navigate through the site. The story used to be collapsed, now you have to scroll through the whole thing to see the latest posts. It feels like the website and app are straight out of the 90's.

The app was never great, but it served its purpose. Since the recent update (June 2024) I can no longer log in at all. If I click on the Facebook option to log in, I immediately get an error message without even being able to enter any information. The error I get is "Your Facebook email is unavailable. Contact customer care to resolve." I'm a co-author on a site for my dad while he battles pancreatic cancer, and the last thing I need is login issues on a stupid app.

CaringBridge provides a useful platform for caregivers and family to share updates regarding a loved one who is experiencing an ongoing troublesome issue to friends and family who care about them. For those posting updates, the app is a less polished experience compared to the website: photos disappear from drafts, submitting a post doesn't always actually submit the post, and other issues I've experienced, so I hope the dev team can give those aspects some care and attention.

What's new

Minor enhancements to improve your CaringBridge Mobile App experience