People living with dementia often pull their CPAP mask off without realizing it — and untreated sleep apnea makes cognitive symptoms worse. MaskAlarm watches the bed and sounds a loud alarm the moment the mask comes off — and alerts you by text or a notification on your own phone, wherever you are — so you can respond instead of discovering it at breakfast.
It confirms across several checks before it ever sounds, so a shadow or a turn of the head won't wake you. Put the mask back on and the alarm stops by itself.
The moment the mask comes off (or monitoring stops), MaskAlarm reaches the people watching over the sleeper — wherever they are. Two ways, and you can mix them:
No app to install — the alert arrives as a regular text on any phone that receives texts. Each caregiver gets a confirmation text when added and can reply STOP anytime. US phone numbers for now.
The caregiver installs MaskAlarm free, taps "I'm a caregiver," and scans your QR code (or types the pairing code). Alerts arrive as loud app notifications — iPhone or Android, anywhere.
Next room or across the country. One caregiver can watch over several people, and the free caregiver app never needs a camera or a subscription of its own.
Add up to three people per sleeper — any mix of text and app. A spouse in the room, plus family who just want to know.
Turn any caregiver on or off, send a test alert anytime, and choose whether the alarm also sounds on the sleeper's own phone — silence it for someone already in the room, keep it on for someone farther away.
Caregiver alerts — text and app both — come with the monthly subscription at no extra cost. The caregiver's own app is completely free.
Some people with dementia leave the mask on but unclip the hose — therapy stops silently. On the Standard, Extended and Continuous plans, MaskAlarm adds best-effort alerts when the hose comes off a worn mask. It works best with light-colored bedding and won't catch every case, so keep it as one layer of watchfulness, not your only one.
These plans cost more than the equivalent plan without hose alerts. Spotting a detached hose is a harder thing to see than a missing mask, and it takes a more capable AI model to do it — one that costs more to run for every picture it looks at.
Text alerts go to US phone numbers for now; app alerts work anywhere the caregiver has the free MaskAlarm app. Alerts rely on the sleeper's phone having power and an internet connection. MaskAlarm is not an emergency service and is not a substitute for in-person supervision or professional care.
Try everything for a week with the one-time $7.99 7-Day Evaluation · then plans from $39.99/month. See pricing
