Your family's health story,
in one private place.
Keep conditions, medications, allergies, and care notes for the people you look after — organized, current, and shared only with those you trust.
Help during emergencies should always be free. Every free account includes:
- An emergency profile with allergies, medications, conditions, and contacts
- Silent and active alerts that notify your emergency contacts the moment it is scanned
- A family group to manage everyone you care for in one place
Anyone can scan it to help, in 10 languages, while your family is alerted the moment they do.
Arkoura began with a 15-minute search for a family member who had wandered — surrounded by people who wanted to help and couldn’t.
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HOW IT WORKS
Start in minutes.
Ready whenever it matters.
STEP ONE
Build the profile and journal
Add conditions, allergies, medications, doctors, and emergency contacts — for yourself or someone you care for. Keep the notes and documents that matter in one private place.
Takes less than 5 minutes.
STEP TWO
Keep it current
Care changes — a new medication, a new doctor, a note from an appointment. Update it once and it stays current everywhere, in all 10 languages.
STEP THREE
Share with the people you trust
Invite family to help keep things current, and share only what you choose. And if there's ever an emergency, any bystander can scan the QR code to see what helps — while your emergency contacts are alerted automatically.
THE SAFETY NET INSIDE
If someone you love ever needs help,
their profile speaks for them.
Most days, Arkoura is a quiet place to keep your family's health information organized. But if someone is ever alone and in trouble, their free emergency profile is there: any bystander can scan it with a phone camera and see exactly what helps — no app, no account, in their own language.
Your family knows the moment someone scans
When an emergency profile is scanned, Arkoura automatically alerts the emergency contacts — so the people who matter are on their way while help is already there.
The cyclist who could not speak
He collapsed mid-route. No ID. Responders had no way to know about his penicillin allergy. The treatment they gave him nearly ended his life.
Her friend had no answers
A sudden allergic reaction, and the friend beside her did not know what she was allergic to, what she took, or who to call. The ER had questions no one nearby could answer.
The grandmother and the pill bottles
A fall at home, then the ER. Confused and in pain, she could not recall her nine medications or which doctor to call. Her family found out only once the hospital finally reached them.
Surrounded by people who wanted to help
She collapsed on a busy street. Within seconds, half a dozen strangers were crouched beside her — but not one knew her name, her conditions, or who to call.
The child who couldn't say his name
Non-verbal and lost at a crowded festival. No name, no parents' contacts, no sensory needs communicated. Responders had nothing to go on.
He fainted. He recovered. He opened a session.
Regained consciousness surrounded by paramedics. He opened a timed session, handed them a code — and they accessed his full journal and history in seconds.
THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM
Every day, millions cannot speak for themselves.
When someone can't speak for themselves, the people around them need answers. These are the numbers behind why Arkoura exists.
117M
people live with epilepsy — and may lose consciousness without warning
WHO Global Epilepsy Report, 2024
55M
people live with dementia, often unable to communicate their identity or medical needs
WHO Dementia Fact Sheet, 2023
1 in 36
children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, many of whom are non-verbal
CDC ADDM Network, 2023
6 in 10
people living with dementia will wander at least once — many do so repeatedly
Alzheimer's Association, 2024
40%+
of adults 65+ take five or more prescription medications — a list few families can recite in a crisis
Lown Institute, Medication Overload, 2019
136M
emergency department visits per year in the US — many by patients who cannot communicate their medical history
CDC NHCS, 2022
One QR scan changes everything.
Arkoura puts critical emergency information where it needs to be — accessible to anyone, anywhere, instantly. No app. No language barrier. No barrier at all.
Data referenced from WHO, CDC, the Alzheimer's Association, and peer-reviewed medical literature. Full citations available at arkoura.com/research.
WHO IT'S FOR
Built for the people who carry someone else's care.
If you're the one who remembers the doses, the doctors, and the allergies for someone you love, Arkoura was built for you.
Parents of children with special needs
A child with autism and allergies can't always explain what they need. Keep their conditions, sensory needs, and safe foods organized — and carried with them wherever they go.
Families caring for aging parents
Nine medications, three doctors, two pharmacies. Keep it all current in one place, share it with siblings, and have it ready at every appointment.
Loved ones who may wander
For a family member living with dementia or prone to wandering, their emergency profile helps any bystander identify them, understand what helps, and alert you immediately.
And for you
You don't need to care for someone else to want your own health story in one place. Organize your records, keep them current, and carry your emergency profile everywhere.
THE HEALTH JOURNAL
A private journal for everything care asks you to remember.
The Arkoura journal is where your family's health story lives day to day — notes, observations, appointment summaries, and documents you want to keep in one place. An AI assistant helps you capture, organize, and recall what you've written; it never gives medical advice. And when a doctor or caregiver needs context, you grant temporary, timed access — two codes required, on your terms.
Timed and controlled
Sessions expire automatically. You decide how long access lasts.
Double OTP security
Two codes required: one you generate, one sent to the requester. Doctors, emergency responders, and caregivers get in with the right combination — no account needed.
AI-assisted, privacy by design
A conversational AI helps you capture and organize your thoughts naturally. We use Google's de-identification libraries to strip any personal information before it reaches an AI model — no PII is ever sent. Your journal stays completely private to you and whoever you choose to share it with.
YOUR ACCESS CODE
7 4 2 9
Share this code with your helper
Based on the journal, the last cardiac episode was 3 weeks ago. Current medications include...
Does he have any known drug interactions?
FAMILY & PETS
One app for every person and pet you care for.
Extend Arkoura to your entire family. Manage emergency profiles and journal for everyone you love — people and pets alike. Creating and managing your family accounts is free.
Shared emergency profiles
Every family member gets their own QR emergency profile. Invite members, assign roles, and keep everyone's critical emergency information up to date. Available on free accounts.
Family journal access
Invited members can co-manage journals — ideal for parents, elderly care, and anyone supporting a loved one. Available on free accounts.
Arkoura Pets
Your pets deserve the same care. Create full health profiles for each animal — breed, vaccinations, vet contacts, microchip — with a scannable QR code for lost pets.
Personal emergency profile
Pet emergency profile
PRIVACY & TRUST
Private by default. Shared by choice.
Everything you keep in Arkoura is yours alone until you decide otherwise. You control who sees what — a family member, a doctor for an afternoon, or a bystander in an emergency — and nothing is ever shared without your say.
Encrypted from Every Angle
Your emergency profile is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3 — the same standards trusted by banks and major tech platforms. Your information is unreadable to anyone without your credentials, including us.
Built for Privacy Compliance
Arkoura was built from the ground up to align with GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA — even though it is not a medical device or health system. Personally identifiable information (PII) is handled with strict access controls, minimal data exposure, and full auditability. Your rights are built in, not bolted on.
Your Data. Your Control.
Export everything in one click. Delete everything permanently within 30 days. The QR profile shares only what you choose — name, conditions, allergies, medications, contacts. Your personally identifiable information is never sold to third parties or used for advertising.
Zero tracking.
Zero installs.
100% yours.
We built the app we wished existed. Private by design, free where it matters, and honest about everything.
NO APP STORE REQUIRED
Helpers scan with any smartphone camera — nothing to download, no account required. Web applications have strictly limited access to your device by design, so we intentionally built Arkoura as a web app: it can only access what you choose to share.
AES-256 ENCRYPTION
Your data is encrypted at rest. We cannot read it. Not us, not anyone.
FREE EMERGENCY MODE. FOREVER.
The feature that saves lives will never be paywalled. Emergency access is a human right. No exceptions, ever.
THE ARKOURA ADVANTAGE
Engineered for the
moments that matter most.
Free for emergencies. Forever.
Emergency access will never sit behind a paywall. The feature that saves lives is free. No exceptions. No asterisks. No future pricing changes.
Speaks 10 languages instantly
Your profile auto-renders in the helper's language. The AI chat adapts its terminology for doctors, first responders, and everyday bystanders alike.
Your data. Your control.
Export everything in one click. Delete everything permanently. No data sold, no advertising, no profiling. Your health story belongs entirely to you.
No app needed to help you
Any smartphone. Any camera app. No download, no account, no friction. In someone's worst moment, nothing should slow them down.
TRUSTED INFRASTRUCTURE
“We store your health data with the same infrastructure that powers Google's own products — encrypted, redundant, and protected at every layer.”
Be ready before
you need it.
The emergency profile is free forever — because help in an emergency should never be paywalled. The health journal and trusted external access are part of premium, which you can request from inside your account.
Free forever for emergency access. No credit card required.
The Name Behind Arkoura
The Guardian Who Watches
Arc
Arc — the guardian of Arcturus. A name that carries the weight of protection, of standing between someone you love and the uncertainty of the world.
Oura
Oura — the watcher. The other half of Arcturus. The presence that never leaves, that sees without being seen, that stays close even in silence.
Arkoura: the guardian who watches. Not a medical app. Not an emergency button. A guardian that watches over you silently — and speaks for you when you cannot.
Arkoura exists to ensure that every person, anywhere in the world, can be understood in a moment of vulnerability. We give individuals the tools to build a living record of their health — on their own terms — and to share it instantly, safely, and in any language, with whoever needs it most.