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CareHaven is an independent software company building private apps that carry the mental load of caring for someone with complex needs.

Everything on this page is free to use in your coverage — the description below, the screenshots, the logo, and the founder bio. For interviews, a live demo, or anything you don't see here, email info@carehaven.org.

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CareHaven is an independent, for-profit software company building private apps for families caring for someone with complex needs — autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, dementia, and more. Its first app, also called CareHaven, keeps medications, appointments, patterns, and caregiver handoffs in one calm place. Your care records are yours. You choose which records to share and which caregivers to invite. We never sell your family's care information. There is no account to create. Two further apps are in development: Groundwork (a working title), an IEP and 504 advocacy tool for parents, and ChoreLight, a chores app to help a child build independence. Founded by a Birmingham security professional who built the first app for his own family. CareHaven's free iPhone open beta is coming soon. Join the beta list at carehaven.org/beta. Groundwork and ChoreLight are not yet available to install and have no announced release date.

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The essentials

The company: CareHaven LLC, an independent, founder-owned software company in Birmingham, Alabama. It is a for-profit company, not a nonprofit, and does not accept donations.
The apps: CareHaven (the care app, whose free iPhone open beta is coming soon), Groundwork (IEP and 504 advocacy, in development — "Groundwork" is a working title), and ChoreLight (chores and independence for kids, in development). Neither of the other two is available to install, and neither has an announced release date.
What it is: a private app for caregivers that holds the whole care picture — medications, appointments, behaviors, patterns, and caregiver handoffs — in one calm place.
Who it's for: caregivers of people with autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, dementia, and other complex or medical needs — from a young child to an aging parent.
Privacy: your care records are yours. You choose which records to share and which caregivers to invite. We never sell your family's care information. No CareHaven account is required. Sync and caregiver sharing require an Apple account. Sync is optional and off by default. Today, sync uses iCloud: Apple encrypts synced records while they travel and while they are stored in iCloud.
Signature features: pattern detection across weeks, class-level medication cautions that prompt the right question for a prescriber (not a clinical interaction check — it doesn't diagnose interactions or catch everything), a one-tap private handoff for a sitter or co-parent, and whole-household profiles.
Platform: iPhone (iOS 17+), with iPad and Apple Watch companions.
Status: A private iPhone app. The free open beta is coming soon, with the App Store launch to follow.
Founder: Shawn Sharp — Birmingham-based security professional and University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate (BS and MBA).
Origin: built by the founder for his own family, after nothing on the market fit.

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Patterns across weeks Download PNG

One-tap caregiver handoff Download PNG

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Founder

Shawn Sharp

Founder & developer, CareHaven

Shawn Sharp is a Birmingham-based security professional and University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate (BS and MBA). After his own family spent years coordinating complex care for their son — the medications, the specialists, the appointments, and the constant work of remembering it all — he couldn't find a tool that fit. So he built one. His background in security shaped CareHaven's defining choice: your care records are yours, with no account to create. You choose which records to share and which caregivers to invite. CareHaven is the app he wishes his family had from the start.

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Hear when the open beta starts

The free iPhone open beta is coming soon. Join the beta list at carehaven.org/beta to hear when the open beta starts.

Join the beta list Email info@carehaven.org

Press, interviews, and partnerships: info@carehaven.org

Print-ready flyers — handout cards, a counter flyer, and a bulletin-board poster, free and with the print settings spelled out: carehaven.org/flyers