Nyano is a family wellness platform that lets adult children monitor their aging parents' daily well-being—mood, sleep, activity, meals, and medication adherence—through simple updates delivered directly to WhatsApp. The service uses a phone camera for brief wellness signal readings, food scanning with emoji-based feedback, and integrates with Apple Health and Android Health Connect to aggregate wearable data. This enables long-distance family members to stay informed about their loved ones without requiring parents to learn new technology.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Adult children who live far from aging parents often struggle to know how their loved ones are truly doing—whether they slept well, ate properly, took their medications, or are emotionally okay. Phone calls typically yield reassuring but uninformative "I'm fine" responses, and there is no lightweight, non-intrusive way to stay informed about daily wellness without requiring parents to adopt complex health apps or wearables.
Solution
Nyano is a family wellness and connection platform that centralizes a parent's daily wellness signals into simple updates delivered through familiar channels like WhatsApp and SMS. The service aggregates data from connected wearable devices—covering steps, sleep, heart rate, and activity—and supplements it with voluntary emotional check-ins, meal logging, and medication tracking. A camera-based wellness check uses the phone's camera to provide a brief, non-medical wellness signal reading designed to increase self-awareness, while food scanning returns emoji results instead of numeric calorie counts to reduce judgment and overwhelm. Authorized family members can ask AI-powered questions like "Was Dad active today?" or receive automatic summaries, and all data is shared only with explicit consent from the person being monitored. The platform is explicitly positioned as a general wellness service, not a medical one, with AI responses and nutrition estimates clearly labeled as informational.
Target Audience
Primary users are adult children living remotely from aging parents who want daily peace of mind about their loved one's wellness, as well as employers seeking wellness benefits for their workforce through discount codes.
Features
- Camera-based wellness signal reading using the phone's camera for brief, non-medical self-awareness check-ins
- Food scanning that returns emoji-based feedback instead of calorie or macro numbers to provide guidance without judgment
- Integration with Apple Health and Android Health Connect to aggregate steps, sleep, heart rate, heart-rate variability, and active energy data
- Mood Calendar for tracking emotional patterns day-by-day without streak-based gamification
- Medication tracking with simple taken/not-taken logging to give family members peace of mind
- AI-powered conversational interface and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that allow authorized family members to ask natural-language questions about a parent's activity, sleep, or medication
- WhatsApp and SMS messaging delivery for updates, with opt-in consent and easy STOP/HELP commands for management
- Family sharing controls that let the monitored individual set permissions and revoke access at any time