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Photograph the discharge papers. Not another $15-a-month village.
ElderCare is the family record that fills itself from the paper in the bag. Caring Village, AgeCare, and Kintaria are full care operating systems. Different night of the week. Different bill.
17 September 2026 · 5 minute read
- Photograph the discharge papers
- No account, no card, first page free
- $99, once, not $15 a month
- Not a clinician. Word for word from the paper.
ElderCare vs Caring Village, AgeCare, and Kintaria
Facts below reflect each product’s public site as of September 2026. Plans change, so confirm on their pages before you buy.
| What you need | ElderCare | Caring Village | AgeCare | Kintaria |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Photograph discharge papers and bottles | The product | Document folders on paid plans | Docs live inside a full care record | Lab-photo extract and visit notes |
| First page without an account | Yes | Sign up for a village | Create a record and roles | Sign in, add parent, invite |
| Shared family access | Whole family on one licence | Free is 2 members; paid caps seats | Family, senior, and aide views | Invite siblings to one workspace |
| Calendar, tasks, meal train | No, not the job | Core product | Care plan and tasks | Appointments and playbooks |
| Watch, location, fall detection | No | No, a coordination hub | Watch via Apple Health, phone fall detection, zones, QR card | No |
| Bilingual parent and kids | Plain English from the paper | Not the hook | Senior Mode, one language | Side-by-side languages, 7 of them |
| Clinician or diagnosis | Not a clinician | AI assistant Julia for next steps | Trends against a baseline, no diagnosis | Drafts summaries, family edits |
| Price | $99, once | Free (2 members, ads) or $14.99 to $24.99 a month | From $39.99 a month; app not yet in the stores | Free 1-year founding trial, then $14 a month |
Swipe the table sideways to see all five columns.
One note on names: AgeCare the app is a new family-care software product, separate from the Canadian long-term-care operator of the same name. At the time of writing, the app is still pending App Store and Google Play review.
How to choose
ElderCare vs Caring Village
They are the operations desk. We are the filing cabinet.
Caring Village is the village: calendar, tasks, messaging, and its AI assistant Julia. Document folders sit on the paid tiers. If you only need what the hospital already printed, you do not need $15 a month to know what the discharge sheet said.
ElderCare vs AgeCare
They watch the house. We read the paper.
AgeCare is a week-of-care system: dose confirmation, vitals, messages, watch data, safe zones, and a fall workflow on the phone. Different night. Tuesday after discharge, phone camera, done, that is ElderCare.
ElderCare vs Kintaria
They write the visit up. We photograph what the hospital already wrote.
Kintaria turns a visit into a plain-language summary and lets your parent read in their language. Closest story to ours. If the bag of paper is the problem, not the bilingual workspace, start with the free page here.
4 search problems this page answers
Photograph the discharge papers
ElderCare is built for the stack in the bag: discharge sheets, pill bottles, appointment cards. Snap them. The family record fills in. No typing at 11:00pm.
No account, no card, first page free
Read the first page before you sign in. That is the trial. Caring Village and the hubs ask you to create a circle first.
$99, once, not $15 a month
One family licence. Every sibling you invite is included. A year of Caring Village Circle is already more than $99. AgeCare and Kintaria sell ongoing workspaces.
Not a clinician. Word for word from the paper.
We show what the paper said. No dose advice, no diagnosis, no what-to-do-next from a model. If you want Julia or a visit draft, use those products.
Questions families ask before they pick
- Is ElderCare trying to replace Caring Village?
- No. If you need a meal train, a task board, and an AI assistant, use Caring Village. Use ElderCare when the problem is the paper, and every sibling seeing the same medications and dates.
- Does AgeCare already store documents?
- Yes, inside a much larger record that also wants dose check-offs, vitals, and often a watch. ElderCare does not track location or falls. It digitizes the packet. Note that the AgeCare app is new and not yet downloadable in the app stores.
- Is Kintaria the same idea?
- Same buyer, different input. Kintaria is strongest on visit summaries and bilingual reading. ElderCare is strongest on photographing this page before anyone types.
- Do I pay to see the first page?
- No. First page free, no account, no card. Then $99, once, for the family licence.
- Is this medical advice?
- No. ElderCare is not a clinician. We show what the paper said so siblings are looking at the same words.
Sources
- Caring Village pricing and FAQ (Julia, the AI assistant)
- AgeCare, one care record for the whole family
- Kintaria pricing and founding trial
Comparison details for Caring Village, AgeCare, and Kintaria are taken from their public websites as of September 2026 and are not affiliations. Confirm current pricing on each site.
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