Safety, and the false-alarm problem
The alert text is the failure case, not the feature. Every false alarm spends your contacts’ trust, so the whole design works to make sure it almost never goes out by mistake.
Layer 1: reminders that escalate
Before your deadline, you can have up to four reminders, at times you choose. They don’t all sound the same: the early ones are gentle nudges, the one near the deadline is a proper alarm with a stronger sound and vibration. It is genuinely hard to sleep through the sequence by accident.
Layer 2: one tap ends the day
You don’t have to wait for a reminder. Tap I’m OK the moment the reminder window opens, over breakfast, on the bus, whenever, and the day is complete. Every remaining reminder is cancelled immediately, so you will never be nagged after you’ve checked in.
Layer 3: a grace period after the deadline
Missing the deadline still doesn’t send anything. A fifteen-minute grace period runs first, on a visible countdown. Long shower, dead battery in a café, phone in another room, ordinary life gets its chance to catch up.
Layer 4: your words, tested in advance
When an alert does go out, it reads the way you wrote it. The standard wording is a nudge, not a siren:
“Hi Sarah, Ben has not checked in today. It might be a good idea to reach out.”
And because you can send a test text to your first contact when you set up, the real message never lands cold. Your contact knows what it is, knows it might one day matter, and knows a false one is unlikely, because you had four reminders and a grace period first.
Layer 5: watched from our server, not just your phone
The deadline is watched by our server as well as your phone. If your phone is off, broken, or out of signal at the deadline, the sequence still completes, that is, after all, the situation the app exists for.
What we will never claim
No check-in app can guarantee a text arrives, find you, or call an ambulance. All Well Daily is not an emergency service and never replaces 911. What it does is shrink the gap between “something happened” and “someone knew” from days to hours, for the price of one tap a day. We think that trade is worth making, and we’d rather describe it plainly than oversell it.