People
Where LifeWell starts. You begin with yourself, add the people who matter — family on one side, work on the other — and keep what you know about them and the moments you share. It is also the largest single folder of screens in the app, and the reason LifeWell is not a health tracker.
People
/people is a record of the people in your life — who they are to you, and the details you would otherwise
keep in four places. /people/import brings a list in rather than making you type it.
Choosing a number from your contacts
On Android, a Contacts button sits beside every phone number field. Press it and your phone shows your contacts; you pick one, and LifeWell reads only that contact's name and numbers and keeps just the number you choose. Android asks for reading and changing contacts as one permission, and it asks only when you press Contacts. LifeWell never adds, changes or removes a contact, and your address book is never uploaded, searched or stored. Say no and you type the number instead — every phone field works either way.
Identity card pictures
On a person in your own record you can add a picture of the front and back of their identity card — JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 5 MB a side. A number alone can be mistyped; the picture is what a check is made against if a match is ever questioned.
- Where it is kept. With LifeWell, encrypted, and not in your Google Drive — the one picture in LifeWell that works that way.
- Who can open it. Only LifeWell administrators, for a check, and every opening is written to the administrators' log. You can see that it is kept, its size and the date you added it, but not the picture itself.
- Who never sees it. The person it belongs to, anybody you connect with, and any shared link.
- How it goes. You remove it, you delete that person, or you delete your account — any of the three deletes it for good.
Email needed
The Email needed filter on the People page (/people?filter=email-needed) lists the people in your record
who have no email address and whom you have not marked as having none. People you import by name alone arrive
with no email address, so they appear here. Tick that a person has no email address and they leave the list.
When nobody is owed one, the page says so: Everyone in your record has an email address, or you have said
they have none. An email address is what a request to connect is sent to.
Trees
/people/family-tree— who is related to whom./people/work-tree— the same idea for colleagues and reporting lines.
Both are built from the same store of people and relationships, so somebody who is in both is one record rather than two.
Connections and groups
/people/connections— people who also use LifeWell and have agreed to be connected to you. In the menu it sits under Sharing, as Partner sharing./people/family-groups— a household or family group. A Family plan's seats can only go to somebody already connected to you here, and a seat shares nothing — see Family seats./people/journeys— a shared trip or period, with its own photos and notes.
Asking somebody to connect is one request. If their entry has no email address, if the address is your own, or if you have asked too often, the app says which rather than failing quietly. Email needed lists everybody in your record who still has no address.
When somebody invites you
If somebody adds you as a person in their record with your email address before you have a LifeWell account, and presses Invite, you receive an invitation email with a link. Open the link, create your account and finish onboarding, and the invitation is kept: their request to connect is waiting for you when you are in.
| Who | Notice | What it says | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| You | [their name] added you as family on LifeWell | Their request to connect is waiting for you. | Review the request |
| The person who invited you | [your name] joined LifeWell | The person you invited now has an account. | See their page |
| The person who invited you, if you accept | [your name] accepted your request | You are now connected. | What they can see |
Nothing is shared until you accept, and declining is always fine.
Places
/maps holds saved places, and the maps over your own record — memories, notes, people and events plotted
where they happened. /people/location-tracking and /people/location-history are opt-in and off by default.
Saved places and location history are yours. A link can carry a tracker, your medications or a tree, and nothing else — the database enum that names what a share may carry has three members and none of them is location. That absence is the enforcement, rather than a screen that simply does not offer the option.
Messages
/chats is one-to-one and small-group messaging between connected accounts. A conversation with a
professional is the same mechanism with a different kind on it.
The export carries the messages you sent. The other person's words are the other person's record.
Community
/community is a set of groups with posts and replies. Groups are a shared catalogue rather than something
you create, and every post carries the same moderation route as any other.
You can block someone. Who you have chosen not to see is your own decision and your own record — it is one of the few things in the export a person might genuinely want a copy of if they ever left.
Professionals
/professionals is a directory of practitioners who have listed themselves, with a verification against a
register. See Professionals.
Blood donation
/blood-donors is a public directory, and /profile/blood-donor is where you list yourself. See
Blood donation.
Sharing
Everything above answers to one sharing model, which is an area of its own: Sharing. Nothing here is visible to another account unless you made it so.