Ask the founder on WhatsApp, the free plan first, and guides in German and Spanish

What a look at the services families already pay for taught us on 27 October, and what we changed the same day: a person to ask before you sign up, plainer prices, honest call promises and new guides.

By Ravi Tiwari, Founder, Athnova Care · 27 October 2026

What the services families pay for have in common

We read the sites, app listings and ads of the check-in and parent-care services people already pay for, in the US, the UK, India and beyond. The ones with customers almost all put a person in front of the buyer before any form: a free conversation, a phone number, a WhatsApp chat. Our only door was an account form — and a message to our WhatsApp number from someone who was not yet a family got an automatic reply and nothing else.

What changed today

• Ask Ravi on WhatsApp: a link on every page and on the sign-in screen. Your message reaches the founder, who answers in the same chat from the Athnova Care number. We keep these messages for 30 days and email ourselves only that one is waiting, never what you wrote.
• Pricing shows the free plan first, marks refills as India-only, and lists what daily check-ins cost elsewhere, as each company shows it today.
• The home page speaks to families wherever their parents live, and no longer promises India-only services in its first lines.
• The Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Turkish, Romanian, Arabic, Urdu, Indonesian and Filipino pages now say plainly that the follow-up phone call is part of the full plan and reaches 25 countries; some promised a call where it does not reach yet.
• If your browser is set to one of our languages, an English page offers you that edition. It never redirects you.
• A gift code opened from the gift email now survives sign-in and is switched on by itself; before, a new family could lose it on the way.
• Opened inside Facebook or Instagram, the sign-in page leads with the email code, because Google sign-in does not work in those in-app browsers.
• The Start button now shows on phones in every language edition.

New guides

• Check-in apps for people who live alone, compared: how you check in, who is told when you miss it, how fast, and what it costs.
• Aging parents in another country: the five things that make the distance safer, with a guide for the country your parent lives in.
• Medication reminders for an elderly parent: alarms, pill organisers, dispensers, reminder calls and WhatsApp, side by side.
• Sahaayak vs Athnova Care: a companion in India, or a daily check-in — and when to use both.
• In German: the Lebenszeichen-App explained, and the „Bist du tot?“ app. In Spanish: la app «¿Estás muerto?».

Read next

• Check-in apps for people who live alone, compared (2026)
• Aging parents in another country: what to set up when you live abroad (2026)
• Medication reminders for an elderly parent: calls, WhatsApp, apps and pill dispensers compared
• Pricing

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