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SibCircle: a sibling caregiver app for one shared care rota
One board for the meds, the rides, the bills, and who is on point this week.
SibCircle is a sibling caregiver app for adult brothers and sisters sharing the care of an aging parent. One board holds the medication list, the appointments, the rides, the bills, and the name of whoever is on point this week.
Waitlist Not built yet Updated 5 September 2026
What problem does SibCircle solve?
One of you lives twenty minutes from your mother and one of you lives three states away. The near one drives to the cardiology appointment, fills the pill organizer on Sunday night, and takes the call when the pharmacy is out of the tablet again. The far one asks how it went, in a group text that already holds four unanswered questions. By spring nobody can say who last paid the water bill, whether the new blood pressure tablet replaced the old one or joined it, or what the neurologist said in March. Two of you remember that sentence differently. The third stopped reading the thread in February. What follows is rarely an argument about facts. It is the feeling that one person is doing everything, running into the feeling that nobody trusts the person doing it. A better calendar does not touch either feeling. Both get worse when there is no record to point at, because then the argument becomes an argument about memory.
Weekly on-point rota
One row a week for who is on point, the appointments, the rides, and the bills, so the handover is written down.
| Week of | On point | Meds and appointments | Rides | Bills and paperwork | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Free to use. No account. Nothing you type here is stored.
What would SibCircle do?
SibCircle would be one board the whole family opens. A rota puts a name against each week, so the answer to who is handling this is a person rather than a silence. The medication list shows the current dose, who changed it, and the date, so a call from the pharmacy has one place to check. Appointments carry the ride, the driver, and a short note written afterwards, which is where the neurologist's actual words go. Bills and letters sit in a shared vault with a due date and a paid mark. A Sunday digest sends everyone the same summary, so the sister three states away is informed without reading two hundred messages. Medical decisions stay with your parent and their care team. SibCircle only keeps the record straight.
How would it work?
- 1Invite your siblings and fill the rota so every week carries one name on point.
- 2Log medications, appointments, rides, and bills as they happen, with a note after each visit.
- 3Read the Sunday digest instead of a thread, and swap a week when someone cannot cover it.
- 4Export the record when a new doctor, a bank, or a family meeting needs the history.
Who is it for?
- The sibling who lives nearest and has quietly become the default for every appointment.
- The sibling in another state who wants to help and keeps hearing things afterwards.
- Two siblings who get along badly and still have to run the same medication list.
How do you run a shared caregiving calendar for an aging parent without an app?
Put a fifteen minute call in the calendar at the same hour every week and hold it even in a quiet week. Sunday evening suits most families, because the pharmacy run and the coming week's appointments are both visible from there. Fifteen minutes is short on purpose. It is long enough for a handover and too short for a row. Use the same four headings every time: medications, appointments and rides, money and post, and how your parent seemed. Whoever was on point last week speaks first and the others let them finish. Then say out loud who is on point for the coming week, and write the name down. The written rota is the part that changes things. Make a grid with a row for each week of the next three months and one column for the name. Fill in all of it now, not week by week, and put it where everyone can see it. When the pattern is visible, the brother taking four weeks in a row can see it, and so can everybody else. Swapping then becomes a small negotiation about a date instead of a large argument about fairness. Keep one shared document for the medication list, with the date of the last change at the top. Anyone who hears about a change writes it there before they forget. Do the same with a one paragraph note after every appointment, written the same day, in the clinician's words rather than your summary of them. None of this settles whether your father should still be driving. It does mean the disagreement starts from one set of facts, which is usually the difference between a hard conversation and a bad one.
What do people use today?
| Option | Good at | The gap |
|---|---|---|
| The family group text | Everyone already has it, and an urgent message reaches every sibling in seconds at any hour. | Nothing stays findable. The dose change from March sits somewhere above four hundred messages about something else. |
| A shared calendar | Appointments and rides in one grid the whole family can see and edit from any phone. | Holds the when and not the what. No medication list, no note after the visit, no name against the week. |
| An agency or facility portal | Accurate schedules and notes written by the people who are paid to deliver the care. | Covers the hours the agency works, and often gives one family contact a login rather than all of you. |
| A shared folder and a spreadsheet | Free, private, shaped however your family likes, with room for scanned letters and bills. | Someone has to keep it current, and that someone is usually the sibling already doing the driving. |
What would it cost?
Free
$0
- Two siblings
- Weekly rota and shared calendar
- Printable on point rota
Family
$12/mo
- Up to six family members
- Medication list with change history
- Sunday digest for everyone
- Appointment notes and ride log
Circle
$20/mo
- Everything in Family
- Document vault for bills and letters
- Full export of the care record
Prices are proposed. Founding members lock in the lowest price if we build SibCircle.
Questions people ask
What is a sibling caregiver app?
A sibling caregiver app gives adult brothers and sisters one shared place for a parent's medications, appointments, rides, bills, and the name of whoever is on point that week. SibCircle would hold that record so coordination stops depending on a group text nobody can search.
Does our parent have to use it?
No. Your mother or father never needs an account. A read only view exists if they want one, showing this week's appointments and who is driving, and it can stay switched off without changing anything else.
What happens when siblings disagree about care?
SibCircle takes no side. The board shows what was decided, when, and by whom, which narrows most arguments to the real question. What the right course of care is belongs to your family and the care team, not to software.
Can it tell us whether a medication is safe?
No. The list records the name, the dose, the prescriber, and the date something changed. Questions about interactions, timing, or dosing go to the pharmacist or the prescribing clinician, who can see the whole picture.
How does the rota handle a week nobody can take?
The week stays empty and visible, which is the point. A blank week in the grid is a conversation your family needs to have, and it is much easier to have three weeks early than on the morning of an appointment.
Will the far away sibling actually read the digest?
Some will not, and SibCircle cannot fix that. What it can do is make the record the same for everyone, so nobody can say they were never told, and the sibling who does read it can help without needing a phone briefing first.
Is our family's health information sold or used for advertising?
No. The medication list, the notes, and the documents stay inside your family workspace. Nothing is sold or handed to advertisers, and any member can export the whole record and take it elsewhere.
When will SibCircle launch?
There is no date. SibCircle is built only if enough families join this waitlist and say they would pay for it. Joining costs nothing, and the weekly rota sheet on this page is free to print whatever happens.
Where does this stand?
SibCircle is a proposal, not a product. This page collects demand from search and answer engines. Askwright builds it only if enough people join the waitlist and say they would pay. Read how this works.
General caregiving information, not medical advice. Decisions about treatment, medication, and care belong with your parent and their care team.