Product updates · GetWell 1.x to Holakare

What's new in Holakare, the shared family medication tracker

Holakare is a family medication and care tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch. Every caregiver in a household gets their own login and sees the same shared record of what's due, what was given, and what's next. This page tracks what changed in each release — and how it grew out of GetWell 1.x, the medication tracker that launched in December 2016.

Holakare 2026.2 · In development

Holakare is coming back to the App Store soon. The updates below describe the current rebuild and may change before release.

Holakare Today view with upcoming doses grouped under Mateo, Sofia, and Diego
Current Holakare build · Today, grouped by patient
2015Development began
2016GetWell 1.x launched
GetWell 1.7.6The classic public release
Holakare 2026.2The current rebuild
Then and now

This is more than a rename.

The original GetWell already understood the hard part: one caregiver may be tracking medicine for several people. Holakare keeps that foundation and rebuilds the coordination around the whole household.

Comparison of GetWell 1.7.6 and the Holakare 2026.2 rebuild
What changed GetWell 1.7.6 Holakare 2026.2
Household access One app could hold profiles and prescriptions for several patients. Each caregiver can sign in separately and work from the same family-scoped record.
The daily schedule A timetable and notifications organized upcoming prescriptions. Today groups due, completed, and upcoming doses by patient, and the dose state updates for everyone in the household.
The care record Patients, treatments, medicine, visits, doctors, and treatment facilities. Adds Care Episodes, Quick Logs, patient history, adherence, refill and expiry views, plus PDF and CSV sharing.
Where it works iPhone and iPad. iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and next-dose home and lock-screen widgets.
When the connection drops The original record was designed around one caregiver's app experience. The app shows cached care first and queues new Care Episodes and Quick Logs to retry after a connection returns.
The interface A distinct color for each patient made a busy family schedule easier to scan. A SwiftUI rebuild with patient grouping, larger type support, VoiceOver details, and the Ennichi color system.
The rebuild so far

Product updates, not commit messages.

Holakare is a shared medication tracker for families, so this log groups thousands of technical changes by the difference a household will actually notice.

Current rebuild #

Today now keeps each person's medications together.

When several people have medicine due, a single time-sorted list makes the household harder to scan. Today, the home screen of the Holakare family medication tracker, now keeps each patient's doses together while retaining an “All” view for the caregiver who wants the full picture.

  • Due, completed, and upcoming doses stay visible in one place.
  • Patient filters make a busy household easier to scan.
  • Take, skip, and undo still update the shared record.
Holakare Today view showing patient filters and doses grouped by Mateo, Sofia, and Diego
The current Today view keeps the household overview while adding patient-level grouping.
Identity #

GetWell becomes Holakare.

The new name keeps the original mission—helping people care for the people around them—while giving the rebuilt product an identity of its own. The hen-and-chick mark represents coordinated family care, and each main area now has a stable Ennichi color.

Care record #

Care Episodes turn a sick day into one clear timeline.

A prescription is only part of the story. Care Episodes collect what happened during a fever, injury, recovery, or other concern, so a shared family care record covers sick days and not just scheduled doses. Quick Logs add observations without forcing the caregiver to organize everything first.

  • Record temperature, medicine, symptoms, food, fluids, sleep, notes, and more.
  • Keep an observation inside an episode or directly in the patient's history.
  • Attach privacy-scrubbed photos without turning Holakare into a diagnosis tool.
  • Flag a probable duplicate medicine log before it saves.
Holakare Care screen for doctors, health centers, and care history
Care extends the record beyond scheduled doses while staying factual and patient-scoped.
Across devices #

The next dose becomes glanceable across Apple devices.

The phone remains the source of truth, but a caregiver no longer has to open the full app for every check. This is what makes Holakare a family medication tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch rather than for the phone alone. Holakare adds the next dose to the wrist, Home Screen, and Lock Screen, then makes the longer record easier to share.

  • Take, skip, or undo from the Apple Watch companion app.
  • See the next dose in small, medium, inline, circular, and rectangular widgets.
  • Review a patient's bounded adherence history.
  • Share a patient summary as PDF or dose history as CSV.
Family sharing #

One household record gives every caregiver their own access.

The original app could track several patients, but it did not give each caregiver a separate account inside one household. Holakare gives every caregiver their own passwordless account and scopes the shared data to the family they belong to — which is what makes it a medication tracker for multiple caregivers rather than for a single phone.

  • Invite another caregiver without sharing an account or password.
  • Sync patients, treatments, doses, medicines, doctors, facilities, and visits.
  • Keep device preferences local while the care record stays shared.
  • Delete an account from Settings; the shared record stays recoverable for a short window after the last member deletes their account.
Holakare Patients screen showing the people in a shared household
Several patients were always part of GetWell. Holakare makes the record shareable between caregivers.
GetWell 1.x #

GetWell 1.7.6 carries the original family medication tracker forward.

The surviving public app record identifies version 1.7.6 as the classic GetWell release. It kept several patients and prescriptions in one iPhone and iPad app, used color to separate each person, and generated dose timetables and reminders.

  • Track treatments with different durations, frequencies, expiration dates, and instructions.
  • Organize a medicine cabinet alongside doctors, health centers, and visits.
  • Use the app in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish.
Original release #

GetWell 1.x begins in 2015 and launches in December 2016.

Development started in 2015 with a focused promise: make it easier for one caregiver to organize different prescriptions for different people. GetWell 1.x launched in December 2016 with the family medication tracker at the center.

That original model is still visible in Holakare. The rebuild does not replace the family medication tracker with something unrelated—it expands the record and lets the family coordinate around it.

How this history is made

Compared from the product itself.

The dates here are read from the original GetWell source repository rather than recalled. Its first commit is 13 March 2015. Its 1.0 release tag is dated 8 December 2016 and the build stored at that tag carries the version string 1.0, with 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 following within five days. The last work on that codebase is dated 30 October 2019.

One standard is applied to all of it: a tag or a version in a project file shows a build was prepared, not that Apple published it, so every release date here is confirmed against the App Store record as well. GetWell 1.0 reached the App Store in December 2016, and 1.7.6 is the last version published there — the original project set that version in September 2019. That same codebase ends on a 2019.9 version which was never published, and numbers of that kind are not treated here as evidence of a public release.

The detailed “then” comparison comes from that original source and the public app record. The “now” side comes from the current Holakare 2026.2 source, its product documentation, and the screens being prepared for release.

Common questions

Questions about Holakare

What is Holakare?

Holakare is a family medication and care tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch. A household shares one record of patients, treatments, doses, medicines, doctors and care episodes, and every caregiver signs in with their own account. Holakare was previously called GetWell.

How much does Holakare cost?

Holakare Family costs 29.99 USD per year and includes a 14-day free trial. One subscription covers the whole household, so a second caregiver does not need their own. The free tier keeps unlimited patients, medicines, doctors and health centres, plus two active treatments, one care episode and unlimited text Quick Logs.

Is Holakare available on the App Store?

Not yet. Holakare is in development and is coming back to the App Store soon, so there is no download link on this site. The 2026.2 release described on this page has not shipped.

Can more than one caregiver use the same record?

Yes. A household is the unit that owns the record. Each caregiver signs in with their own account and sees the same patients, treatments, doses and history, kept in sync across phones. Device preferences stay local to each phone.

What devices does Holakare work on?

iPhone and iPad running iOS 18.0 or later, with an Apple Watch companion app and next-dose home and lock-screen widgets. There is no Android version. Caregivers with a subscription can also use the web portal at app.holakare.com.

What happened to GetWell?

GetWell is the same product under its earlier name. Development began in 2015 and GetWell 1.x launched in December 2016 as a medication tracker for one caregiver managing several people. Holakare is the rebuild of that app around a household rather than a single user.

Is Holakare a medical device?

No. Holakare organises care and shows what was already logged. It is not a medical device, it does not provide medical advice, and it does not decide whether a dose is due. Always rely on a qualified healthcare professional.

Coming soon

Follow the rebuild—or help shape it.

Holakare is coming back to the App Store soon. If your household needs something this rebuild still misses, Armando reads the feedback himself.