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 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.

Nice app but does have some glitches. Sometimes uploading photos works and sometimes it doesn't. Also had trouble with adding a link for a related article into my latest post. I was able to finally add photos and the article link through editing the post on the website rather than through the app. Lastly, on both the app and website it seems that I can only re-read my posts from the last six months or so, but not before. It seems to get stuck retrieving the older ones.

I hate to say it because I think CaringBridge is a fantastic website and it's been invaluable to us during my husband's cancer treatment. But this app is honestly pretty bad. Clicking any external link (and some internal links) crashes the app completely. You cannot see who hearts a post from the app. Navigating the site settings is unintuitive. Posting journal entries is super easy though. If you just need to fire off quick updates, then the app will work well for you.

What's new

Minor enhancements to improve your CaringBridge Mobile App experience