Partner sharing

Partner sharing in LifeWell is a connection between two accounts, made by email invitation, that shares nothing until you choose something to put through it. You invite somebody by address and they accept from their own account. Nothing about your record moves at that point. What travels afterwards is a separate decision each time — one tracked metric, or your medication schedule — and each one is its own row on a single page that answers what one person can see. Any row can be stopped on its own, and stopping it takes effect immediately. Nothing is shared by default, and nothing is ever shared account-wide.

What you get out of it

Caring for somebody is a shared job, and most health apps are built as though it happens alone. When two people are keeping an eye on the same medication schedule, or when adult siblings are between them watching one parent's blood pressure, the hard part is often not the care. It is the running commentary around it: who gave the last dose, what the reading was on Tuesday, what the clinic actually said.

LifeWell's answer to that is deliberately narrow. It does not open your account to somebody else and it does not hand them a copy. You pick one thing — a metric you track, or the medication schedule — and that one thing becomes readable. The rest of the record stays exactly as private as it was, including the parts sitting next to the thing you shared.

The reason it is built one item at a time is that the alternative was tried and it fails quietly. A permission matrix asks you to predict, in advance, every combination of person and category you will ever want, and it answers the question nobody asks. The question people ask is the other way round: what can this one person see, right now. One row per shared thing answers that in a glance, and any row is stopped on its own.

Nothing is shared by default and nothing is shared account-wide, so every item somebody can see is a decision you made on its own.
One page answers the question people actually ask before they panic: what can this person see.
Revoking takes effect immediately. There is no grace period, no queue and no overnight job.
Each person keeps their own account. There is no shared login, no shared device and no password to hand over.
Accepting an invitation shares nothing, so a connection is never a surprise about what somebody can already read.

What people use it for

A number somebody asked you to watch

You were told to take a reading twice a day and bring the results. Share that one metric with the person who asked for it, and nothing else you keep moves with it.

Help with medication during a bad stretch

A partner or an adult child can follow the medication schedule — what to take and when — without being able to see the journal, the readings or anything else in the record.

Ending it without a conversation

A situation changes and the reason for sharing goes with it. Open the list, stop the one row that no longer belongs there, and it stops working before you have closed the page.

How it works

Invite by email — Send an invitation to an email address. LifeWell will not tell you whether that address already has an account — answering that question would let anybody test addresses against the whole user base — and the person receiving it is told nothing about your record.
They accept as themselves — They sign in to their own account and accept. An invitation nobody answers expires by itself after thirty days, and a declined one closes and cannot be sent again for another thirty.
Nothing has moved yet — A connection is a door, not a key. The two accounts now know about each other and not one thing about your record has been shared.
Choose one thing to share — Pick a single item — one tracked metric, or your medication schedule — and give it an expiry if the reason for sharing it has an end date.
Stop any of it, whenever — Every shared item is one row on the page listing what other people can see. Revoking a row takes effect immediately: the item stops resolving rather than being hidden from a list.

Questions

Does connecting with somebody share anything?

No. A connection is a door between two accounts and nothing goes through it until you choose something to put there. That is why the connections page says so above the list rather than underneath it.

What can I actually share?

One tracked metric, or your medication schedule. Each is chosen on its own, and what you share carries the thing you picked and nothing else — there is no setting that shares a whole domain or a whole account.

How does the other person see it?

What you share becomes an address. It is generated in your browser and shown to you once: LifeWell stores a hash of it and enough of the beginning to tell two of them apart, so it cannot be recovered or shown again. If you lose it, stop that item and share it again.

Can they add or change anything in my record?

No. Anything shared this way is read-only. Nothing anybody else does can write into your record.

What happens when I revoke it?

It stops working immediately. The address stops resolving rather than being hidden from a list, and the row moves to revoked on the same page you revoked it from.

Can I share with more than one person?

Yes. Every item and every person is a separate row, so two people can hold two different parts of your record and neither of them inherits what the other can see.

What happens if nobody answers my invitation?

It expires by itself after thirty days. A declined invitation closes, tells you nothing beyond that it is closed, and cannot be sent to the same person again for thirty days.

Tips

Set sharing up before you need it rather than during the week you need it. Connecting somebody costs nothing and shares nothing, so there is no reason to leave it until the day it matters.
Give a link an expiry when the reason for sharing it has one. A reading shared for a six-week review does not need to outlive the review, and an expiry is one fewer thing to remember to revoke.
Read the list of what is shared every few months. It is short by design, which makes it quick, and a row that no longer has a reason behind it is easier to spot on a calm day than on a bad one.
Share the metric rather than the screenshot. A shared metric stays current on its own, so the person reading it is never working from a number that was true a fortnight ago.
If you lose an address, revoke it rather than sending it again from memory. It cannot be recovered by design, and a revoked link stops working at once — which is the safe end of that mistake.

By The LifeWell team · updated 2026-09-12

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