For volunteers, caregivers and organisers
You look after more people than you can call each week. FiveClose tells you who has gone quiet, so your time goes to the people who need it today. Free.
Checking on people who live alone
On your own phone, open You → Set up a phone for someone, enter their name and who else should be in their circle, then point their phone's camera at the QR code. There's no email, password or sign-in for them, and opening the app counts as I'm OK.
If they go quiet for a few days, you're told first, by email and notification, with a button to say they're fine once you've spoken. Only then is the rest of their circle asked to check on them. Repeat the steps for each person you visit. Do it with their agreement, and add their family to the circle where you can.
Keeping a big group in touch
- A group circle for your volunteers, members or the people you visit. They join by scanning your QR code, or you add them from a list or contacts file.
- Three to say hi to. Each week Home suggests the three people you've been out of touch with longest, and the Circle page is a searchable list with one "Say hi" per person.
- 👋 Poke the group sends one nudge to everyone who joined, at most once an hour.
- People who are only in a group never see your timer, mood or location, and are never asked to check on you.
Events with an end date
For an outing, a camp or a retreat of up to 30 days: one join link that closes when the event starts, roll calls in a tap, and announcements that reach everyone. Everyone sees names only, never an email or phone number. Afterwards, people stay in touch only if both say yes, and 30 days after the end the event is deleted.
A reason to meet
- Phones face-down together at a session or a meeting, with a flock of hens the group raises over the weeks.
- Brain games for older members: eight short games with big buttons, each modelled on training or a task tested in research with older adults. No sign-in. A game group adds a shared leaderboard.
Good to know
- FiveClose asks people to reach out. It doesn't replace emergency services or a care plan: in an emergency, call your local emergency number.
- Free. A group of 100 or more people needs FiveClose Plus (S$49 a year).
- It speaks English, Simplified Chinese, Malay, Tamil, Indonesian, Japanese and Spanish, following each phone's language.
- Your organisation is responsible for any consent its own rules or local law require.