Try Holakare before it ships.

What you need

iPhone or iPad

Running iOS 18 or later, or iPadOS 18 or later.

An Apple Account

The same one you use for the App Store.

Apple Watch

Optional. If you have one, you can take or skip a dose from your wrist.

Installing it

1. Get TestFlight

   It is a free app from Apple. Beta apps install through it rather than the App Store. If you already have it, skip to the next step.

   Get TestFlight

2. Open the invitation

   Tap the button below on the iPhone or iPad you want to test on. It opens TestFlight and adds Holakare to it. Then tap Install.

   Apple’s page still calls it GetWell Treatment tracker, the name it went out under years ago. That is the right app; the name updates when this version reaches the App Store.

   Join the Holakare beta

3. Say yes to notifications when it asks

   The request does not appear at first launch. It comes up once you have saved your first treatment, which is the point it can explain what the reminders are for. Dose reminders are the main thing worth testing, and they cannot reach you without it.

What is most useful to try

Anything at all is welcome, but these are the parts I most want to hear about:

• Add a treatment, then take or skip a dose from Today.
• Start a care episode on a sick day and log a temperature and a medicine.
• Put what is actually in your medicine cabinet into the app, with expiry dates.
• Sign in on the same account on a second phone and check the record stays in step.
• If you have an Apple Watch, take a dose from it. Add the home screen widget.

Where a free account stops

Your beta account starts on the free tier, and some of the app sits behind Holakare Family. Running into one of these is expected, not a bug:

• Attaching a photo to a care log.
• Inviting another caregiver, with their own login, into your household. Signing in yourself on a second device is not this, and is free.
• Starting another care episode after your first.
• Keeping more than two active treatments at once. Finishing or stopping one frees the slot; completed and archived treatments do not count.

The plan details set out exactly what each tier includes. The one worth knowing before you start: a free account gets one care episode, per household, for the lifetime of the account, not one at a time, so deleting it does not hand it back. Spend it on a real sick day rather than a trial run.

You can still try the paid parts. A purchase inside a TestFlight build is an Apple sandbox purchase; it costs nothing and never touches a real card. Apple expires sandbox subscriptions within hours, though, so treat it as a look at those features rather than something that stays switched on. If the app says your subscription lapsed, that is the sandbox and not a defect. Worth telling me only if it happened at a confusing moment, or the app handled it badly.

Telling me what you think

In TestFlight, tap Send Feedback and describe what happened. You can also write to me through the contact page.

Please leave real health details out of it. TestFlight offers to attach a screenshot, and on a populated Today, treatment, or patient screen that carries a real person’s name, medicines, and doses to me. Only attach one if the screen holds nothing real (made-up patients and medicines are perfect for this) or if I have asked you for it. Describing what you saw is almost always enough.

Small annoyances are worth reporting. They are usually the ones I can fix.

Builds change

A beta build stops working after 90 days, and I will replace it before then. TestFlight will tell you when a new one is ready. If Holakare ever refuses to open, check TestFlight for an update first.