9:40 AM
Cardiology
BE READY AT 9:40
Mike is coming
Riverside Medical, 2nd floor
Rides and appointments, for families
Getting Mom to her appointment shouldn't take eleven text messages.
Marlow turns "this appointment needs a driver" into a driver who has actually committed — and turns that into one line on your parent's phone.
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Free for pilot families · iPhone · no account needed for the person you care for
The part that is actually hard
A calendar can hold the appointment. It can't get anybody into the car.
The gap is never "when is the appointment." It is the four days of sibling group chat that decide who drives, and the parent at the other end who does not know what was agreed.
1
Somebody adds the appointment
Cardiology, Tuesday at 9:40, needs a ride there and back. One event, both legs.
2
A driver claims it
Everyone in the circle sees it needs a driver. One person taps “I’ll take this.” That is the commitment — there is no second confirm step to chase.
3
Your parent is told, once
Their phone shows one line: be ready at 9:40, Mike is coming. No login, no notifications to manage, nothing to tap.
4
The circle sees it happened
Set off, arrived, home again. The people who could not be there find out without having to ask.
Two sides, deliberately unalike
Your parent never sees the app you use.
Every competitor builds one side and hopes the other copes. Marlow is two products in one circle: a normal modern app for the people organizing, and a read-only page for the person being cared for.
- No login, ever — their phone is paired to the circle once and stays paired.
- One tap at most, no gestures, no grids, text from 20px and up.
- Read-only is enforced by the database, not by hiding buttons. Their account is granted read access and nothing else.
- English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi and French — their phone, their language.
What you see
Where Marlow never goes
No analytics. No trackers. No advertising. Nothing sold, to anybody.
You are being asked to hand over an aging parent's address, schedule, and the names of the people who drive them. That deserves more than a reassuring sentence.
Marlow never tracks location
Only the addresses somebody typed in. Where anyone actually is, it does not know.
No analytics SDK, no crash reporter
Nothing measures how you use the app, because nothing is there to measure it.
Your circle, and nobody else
Every table is guarded per-circle at the database, and the isolation is tested by trying to read another family's data and confirming it fails.
Who this is for
The person who ends up organizing everything.
Usually one adult child, usually the one who lives closest, usually without ever having agreed to it.
Marlow is also built for families who do not all share a language. The daughter organizing can work in English while her mother's phone speaks Spanish, Chinese, Hindi or French — the appointment is entered once and each person reads it in their own.