INTRODUCTION & SHORT MANUAL
Daily OK
A daily “I’m okay” in one tap.
A parent living far away taps one button once a day, and the family knows things are fine today.
Open the service Opens a separate site (a subdomain)
- Service URL
- monitoring.rewrite-co.com
- Languages
- 日本語, English, 한국어, 简体中文, 繁體中文, ภาษาไทย, Tiếng Việt, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu (9 languages)
- Pricing
- Basic plan, billed annually with automatic renewal. Up to 2 monitored people and 5 family members. No setup fee, no hardware.
- Who it is for
- Anyone living apart from an ageing parent who does not need a daily phone call, but does want to know things are fine.
About this service
When you live far from your parents, there are moments of quiet worry. “We haven’t spoken in a while.” “Are they all right?” But calling every day is a burden on both sides, and a camera in the house feels stifling. Daily OK was built for the space in between. All your parent does is press one large button, once a day. That is the whole thing.
A great many features were deliberately left out. There is no camera. No location tracking. No microphone. No automatic call to emergency services. We did not want to build something that makes a parent feel watched. Pressing the button is their own voluntary act — closer to saying good morning than to being monitored.
A missed day does not fire off an alert to the family straight away. First a reminder goes to the parent; only if there is still no check-in does the family get a note saying the check-in has not been completed. Everyone forgets things, so the service tells you gently, in stages.
Getting started
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A family member creates the account
You — the person doing the checking in — register with an email address. Open the link in the confirmation email, set a password, and you are done. Your parent does not need an account.
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Invite the person to be checked on
Register up to two people and issue an invitation link. Send it by email, or show a QR code for them to scan.
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Open the link on your parent’s phone
Opening the invitation link once enables the big-button screen. No sign-up and no password are needed on their side.
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Add it to the home screen
No app store install. On iPhone use Safari’s Share menu → “Add to Home Screen”; on Android use Chrome’s menu → “Install app”. From then on it opens with a single icon. Setting all of this up takes the family about ten minutes.
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One tap a day
Your parent taps “I’m OK today”. The family can check at any time whether today’s tap has happened. On a missed day, a reminder goes to the parent first.
Pricing and cancellation
There is one plan: Basic. It is billed annually and renews automatically, with no setup fee and no hardware to buy. Up to two people can be checked on, up to five family members can follow along, and twelve months of check-in history is kept.
We email you 30 days and 7 days before renewal. Cancel any time from the settings screen on the web — no phone call needed. After cancelling you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for.
Within 14 days of payment we refund in full. The price and the automatic-renewal terms are also stated on the screen before you buy.
The price depends on your country or region. The final amount is shown on the checkout screen.
What to know before you start
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This does not guarantee anyone’s safety
A tap does not guarantee health or safety, and a missing tap does not mean an accident or sudden illness — it may simply be a forgotten day, a flat battery, or a trip away.
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In an emergency, call the emergency services
This service does not contact emergency services. If something is urgent, call your country’s emergency number or contact family directly.
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Notifications can fail to arrive
A notice may be missed, or may not arrive at all, because of a device fault, a network outage, an OS setting, or an outage of this service.
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No camera, no location, no microphone
None of them are used at any point. The only thing stored is the record of the button being pressed, and that is deleted automatically after twelve months. Data export and account deletion are available from settings at any time.
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Your parent needs only a phone and an internet connection
No special hardware is required — but they do need a browser that can open the invitation link (Safari or Chrome).
Frequently asked questions
- My parent is not good with smartphones. Can they still use it?
- Yes. Their screen has a single large button. No registration, no login and no password — opening the invitation link the family sends, once, is all it takes.
- What happens if the button is not pressed?
- A reminder goes to your parent first. If there is still no check-in, the family is notified at the time you configured. That notice says only that the check-in has not been completed; it does not mean an accident or an emergency.
- Will notifications always arrive?
- No. They can fail because of a missed notification, a broken device, a network outage, an OS setting, or a service outage. This service does not guarantee anyone’s safety and does not place emergency calls.
- Do you use location or the camera?
- No. Location, camera and microphone are never used. Only the record of the button press is stored.
- How many people can be covered?
- Up to two people can be checked on and up to five family members can follow along — enough for two parents, watched over by several siblings together.
- Can I cancel?
- Yes, at any time from the settings screen on the web, with no phone call. You keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for.
This page explains how the service is used. Where it differs from the Terms of Service or the refund policy, those documents apply.
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