The exercises come home from therapy.
The practice actually happens.
Cronote sends a practice check-in by text or email on the days you choose. One tap logs Done or We struggled in the browser, no app and no password. You watch the logged weeks add up, and a quiet stretch is information, not a guilt trip.
Free for parents, with unlimited app and email delivery. We struggled is a real answer, never a failure state. No diagnosis or goal details ever appear in a text. Sending reminders since 2010.
Nobody forgets on purpose. Home practice just loses to everything else.
The therapist sends home a folder and a plan. Then real life happens: dinner, homework, bedtime, repeat. By Thursday nobody can remember whether practice happened on Monday.
A text, a tap, and a record that adds up.
- Create the weekly check-in: "Practice week. Did you get a few minutes in most days? Done or We struggled." Set it to repeat weekly on the day you choose, forever.
- Pick the channel: Text or email, whatever you actually read. The check-in arrives as a normal message and one tap logs the answer in the browser.
- Watch the weeks add up: Every answer lands on the reminder's detail page, week by week. Logged 9 weeks means logged 9 weeks. There is no streak to break.
- A quiet stretch is information: Turn on "No answer? Notify me" and the reminder's owner gets a heads-up when a check-in has gone 10 days without an answer, so the plan gets adjusted instead of abandoned.
- Confirm your email: One tap after you sign up, so your check-ins are never held. This is the step people skip and regret.
Three setups that keep a home program alive.
Set them up once. They run every week on their own, and the record builds itself.
The weekly practice check-in
Every Sunday evening: "Practice week. Did you get a few minutes in most days? Done or We struggled." One tap and the week is logged. Both answers count, because both answers are true.
Moment→
Decision
The five-minute nudge
A short daily reminder at the moment practice actually fits your house: "Speech practice. Five minutes before bath time." Day and activity only, nothing clinical, nothing to install.
Moment
The caseload check-in
For therapists: one weekly check-in to every family on your caseload, imported from a CSV. The detail page shows which weeks each family logged, and "No answer? Notify me" tells you when a family has gone quiet for 10 days.
Moment→
Decision
Free for parents.
Every feature is free, with unlimited app and email delivery. Text messages use one credit each: buy a one-time pack, no monthly fee, and credits never expire. A weekly text to one family is about 4 to 5 texts a month.
Free
- Weekly check-ins, forever
- One tap logs Done or We struggled
- No-answer notifications
- Email delivery included
- 10 free text credits to start
100 texts
- About a year of weekly texts for 2 families
- Credits never expire
500 texts
- A school year of weekly texts for a 10-family caseload
- No monthly fee, ever
2,000 texts
- About a year of weekly texts for a 40-family caseload
- Best rate for clinics
Common questions
Does anyone need to install an app?
No. The check-in arrives as a normal text message or email, and one tap logs the answer in the browser. Parents who set up their own check-in create a free Cronote account; a family receiving a check-in from a therapist installs nothing and creates no account.
What does the check-in text actually say?
The day, the activity, and a one-tap answer, nothing else. For example: "Practice week. Did you get a few minutes in most days? Done or We struggled." No diagnosis, no goal details, and nothing clinical ever appears in the message.
What happens when we miss a week?
You tap We struggled and the week is logged honestly. There are no streaks, no badges, and nothing to break. A missed week is information that helps the next conversation with your therapist, not a failure state.
Can our therapist see the answers?
Only if the therapist is the one sending the check-in. When a parent sets up their own check-in, the answers are the parent's alone. When a therapist sends the weekly check-in to their families, the therapist sees which weeks each family logged on the reminder's detail page.
How much does it cost?
Cronote is free for parents, including unlimited app and email delivery, so a family running its own check-in typically pays nothing. Text messages use one-time credit packs that never expire: $5 for 100 texts, $15 for 500, $40 for 2,000, with no subscription. A weekly text to one family is about 4 to 5 texts a month, and every account starts with 10 free text credits.
I am a therapist. Can my clinic use this for a whole caseload?
Yes. Import your caseload roster from a CSV, send one weekly check-in to every family, and see which weeks each family logged on the reminder's detail page. "No answer? Notify me" tells you when a family has not answered for 10 days. Check-in texts carry no diagnosis or goal details by design, and a Business Associate Agreement is available for clinics.
Keep reading
- Speech therapy exercises at home: what practice really looks like
- Speech therapy home practice: how to make it actually happen
- For parents who keep forgetting practice (it is not just you)
- Home program compliance: fixing the visibility problem
- Carryover activities families actually do
- HEP adherence: why home exercise programs fail silently
One weekly text. Your whole caseload, accounted for.
The visibility problem in home programs is not effort, it is silence. A weekly check-in text with a one-tap answer turns silence into a signal you can act on between sessions.
For SLPs, OTs, and PTs
- Import your caseload from a CSV: one roster upload, one weekly check-in to every family. Families receive a normal text or email and install nothing.
- See which weeks each family logged: Done and We struggled both land on the reminder's detail page, week by week, so the next session starts from what actually happened.
- Know when a family goes quiet: "No answer? Notify me" alerts you when a family has not answered for 10 days, while there is still time to adjust the plan.
- Priced for a caseload, not a subscription: texts cost cents apiece via one-time credit packs, about 4 to 5 texts per family per month, and a Business Associate Agreement is available.
Parents: invite your therapist
If this would help your child's therapist see how practice is really going, send them this page. Copy the link or email it in one tap.
Set it up before the next session.
Ten minutes today and the practice check-in runs every week from now on. Free for parents, no card required. Remember to confirm your email so delivery is never held.