For diaspora families caring for parents, aunties, uncles, and grandparents back home.
You can’t be there. Linger can.
Every day. In your own voice.
Your parent or family elder doesn’t need an app, internet, or a smartphone. Linger calls their regular phone in your voice, catches what matters, routes it to the family, and follows up until it’s handled.
- Signed consent
- Family-only
- Revocable
Tue · May 14
Today
Open Loop
Knee pain unresolved
Mom mentioned again on Tue. Appointment confirmation pending.
Suggested owner: Ada
Just played · Mama · 4 min
“Tell the kids not to worry. I took my medicine.”
More loops · 1 open
All →
Anniversary plans
She wants to call your sister this weekend
Suggested owner: You
Normal phone
No app, internet, or new device for your elder.
Family loop
What changed, who owns it, and when it closes.
Consent first
Family-only voice, watermarking, and revoke controls.
Live care signal
Voice in. Meaning out. Family loop closed.
Live call
Papa · Mumbai, 7:14 PM IST
Family app for recording, rotation, transcripts, and alerts. Your parent never installs anything.
Linger Loops
Every concern becomes a thread. Every thread gets followed up.
Most companion apps talk. Linger remembers. Each call catches what changed, routes it to the right family member, and follows up on the next call until it’s resolved. Over time, your family builds a shared care memory: what changed, who handled it, and what still needs follow-up. That memory is yours, and it stays with the family.
Catch
Linger picks up the moment your parent says something that matters. Pain, an appointment, a worry.
Route
The right sibling gets the thread. Not the whole group chat, not a transcript dump.
Follow up
Linger references the open thread on the next call so nothing your parent said disappears.
Close
When the doctor confirms or the sibling handles it, the loop closes and the family sees it resolved.
One Linger Loop
Tue · 8:02 AM
Call
“The knee is still paining me. I forgot the clinic date.”
Mom · on her regular phone
Linger replies
Linger answers naturally in your voice. The call continues.
Thread opened
Knee pain unresolved · Appointment uncertainty detected
Suggested owner: Ada
Sibling claims
Ada taps “I’ll handle this.” Confirms clinic for Thursday.
Next call
“Mom, Ada confirmed the clinic is Thursday. How is the knee today?”
Loop closed
Family sees the thread resolved. Care memory builds week over week.
What Linger does
Your own voice.
Any phone they answer. Remembered call to call.
Linger has one job: keep your family close to an elder who lives far away and does not use apps. It calls their regular phone, speaks in the family voice they consent to, catches what matters, and turns each concern into a loop the family can own. Voice is the doorway. Follow-through is the product.
Two minds · one voice
Two minds, one voice
Live coordination
Fast voice layer
Natural turn-taking.
Backchannels, prosody, the “mm-hm” that keeps a call feeling alive.
Care reasoning layer
Memory that follows up.
Open threads, escalation logic, the long arc of who they are.
A warm mind that talks. A careful mind that thinks ahead. Fast where the call should feel human. Deep where it has to be smart.
Pricing
Pre-launch · reserve to lockFour tiers. One family pod. Upgrade only when the need is clear.
Start with Watch for free. Most families move to Notes for unlimited voice notes and the Daily Linger digest. Check-in adds structured safety. Conversation adds live calls in your own voice, with consent, when the family is ready.
Free forever
Linger Watch
Families who only need a daily sign of life.
Solo
$0/mo
Family pod
$0/mo
They hear: A short morning ring and up to 5 notes a month.
Family gets: 3-day silence alert, 2 voice slots, no credit card.
AI: No AI in the audio.
- Daily morning ring
- 3-day silence alert
- 5 voice notes per month
- 2 family voice slots
- Best paid start
Most families start here
Linger Notes
Families who want more voice without asking the elder to use WhatsApp.
Solo
$19/mo
Family pod
$59/mo
They hear: Unlimited real voice notes from family.
Family gets: Replies, transcripts, smart-trim audio, and the Daily Linger digest.
AI: No AI in the audio.
- Unlimited voice notes
- Immediate or scheduled calls
- Press 1 voice replies
- 8 family voice slots
Catch, route, follow up
Linger Check-in
Families who want every concern to become an open loop with an owner.
Solo
$29/mo
Family pod
$79/mo
They hear: Notes plus short check-in questions they answer naturally.
Family gets: Open loops with suggested owners, follow-up on the next call, resolved history.
AI: Still no AI conversation.
- Everything in Notes
- Linger Loops: open / route / follow up / close
- Daily Q&A check-in
- Emergency contact tree
Live calls in your voice + closed-loop care
Linger Conversation
Families ready for natural two-way calls that build a shared care memory.
Solo
$59/mo
Family pod
$129/mo
They hear: A live conversation in your own voice. They just talk.
Family gets: Full Linger Loops, owner assignment, follow-up on next call, resolved-thread history.
AI: AI is opt-in and disclosed.
- Everything in Check-in
- Live two-way calls in your trained voice
- Linger Loops auto-follow-up across calls
- Watermarked, pod-only, revocable
Pod = up to 8 voice slots + 1 elder. Need more elders? Add another pod, same dashboard.
Annual = pay yearly, get 2 months free. Cancel any time, refund pro-rated.
PPP routes (Manila, Mumbai, Mexico City, Bogotá, Kingston, Accra) get about 50% off all tiers. Buyer’s billing country sets the price.
Linger Conversation includes 90 min (solo) or 200 min (pod) of live AI calls per month. Overage: $0.40/min solo, $0.35/min pod. Hard-stop available per pod.
Want to talk to a person first? Email the Linger team directly: hello@linger.audio. A real person answers before launch.
Trust & safety
Clear consent, clear limits, clear escalation.
- Every synthesized call is designed for forensic watermark verification, so misuse can be traced and revoked. Your voice model never leaves Linger.
- Linger refuses to read bank info, OTPs, or links, even if the prompt comes in your voice. Money requests are blocked at the model level.
- You own your voice. You can revoke it any time and it stops working everywhere within minutes.
- Any elder can say no to any voice on the call. We honor it instantly and we don’t ask again.
- Data lives in the same region as the elder it’s about. HIPAA, GDPR, and EU AI Act alignment are built into each route before we open it.
- Third-party ethics audit once a year. We publish the report.
Common questions
Answers before signup.
- Yes, forever. Linger Watch is free. Linger rings your elder every morning at a time you pick, plays a short “good morning” from you, and pings you if they miss three days in a row. You can also send up to five recorded voice notes per month, free. No credit card. We earn when families upgrade to send more notes, get the daily summary, or add live calls in their own voice.
Waitlist
Tell us your family route. We prioritize what families ask for.
We open routes with the right voices, phone-network partners, emergency expectations, and payment options. Add where your family calls from and what phone your parent actually uses.