Included free for every family
Stay close, even from far away.
When someone you love moves into care, the hardest part is the distance — the calls that don't connect, the visits that can't happen, the feeling that you're losing the everyday closeness. Porchlight gives families a private, gentle way back in.
Family access is always free. If your loved one's community uses Porchlight, you'll receive a private link — no app to download, no subscription.
A new story from Dad
“The summer your grandmother and I built the cabin, it rained for nine days straight…”
Illustrative example — not a real resident.
The family relay, concretely
Listen anytime. Talk back. Keep it forever.
Listen to anything they've recorded
A private link to a personal page where you can hear your loved one's stories — in their own voice, whenever you want.
Record a voice message back
Reply with your own voice, voicemail-style. Your resident hears it in the same dead-simple, one-button app — no typing, no logins, nothing to figure out on their end.
Get notified when something new lands
SMS and email alerts fire when a new story is recorded or a new message arrives — on either side — so nothing gets missed.
Keep it private
Family and public pages can be password protected, and access runs through private, per-family links rather than a public directory.
Keep the stories forever
The recordings are preserved — a voice archive the whole family can return to, for years to come.
Nothing to install
Family access is free and works through a private web link — no app store, no subscription. Listen and reply from a phone or a computer.
The reason we built this
Distance stops meaning silence.
Being heard is good for you, and staying connected is good for you. A voice message at bedtime, a story you'd never heard — connection becomes low-friction again. Your loved one ends up at the center of a living, two-way connection that started with one tapped button.
Want to see what a family page looks like? Communities can share a private link with you once your loved one is set up. Any sample pages shown on this site are hypothetical examples — never a real resident.
Is your loved one's community on Porchlight?
Family access is free. If their community doesn't use Porchlight yet, point their activity director our way.