SaleemSaleem: a health app in Arabic for older adults and their families
A health notebook in Arabic for older adults and their families: log readings, follow medicines and lab tests, and share a clear report with your doctor.
Every home has a small notebook or a folded sheet with sugar and blood-pressure numbers, and lab printouts piling up in a drawer. Then, at the doctor's, the search begins: when was the last reading? How much was it? What did the lab say last time?
Saleem was made for exactly that moment.
What is Saleem?
A health notebook on your phone or computer. You measure at home with the devices you already own and log the number in Saleem; it saves it, shows its status against general ranges and prepares an organised report for your doctor.
Saleem keeps track of blood sugar, blood pressure and pulse, weight and BMI, mood and energy, medicines and their doses, and lab tests with their reference ranges.
Who is it for?
- Older adults who do not like apps: large text, wide buttons, simple words, and nothing to configure.
- Adult children looking after their parents' health: a separate record per person, with access the parent grants and can withdraw at any time.
- Doctors who want clear numbers on one page instead of a notebook and a memory.
Tracking, never diagnosis
This is Saleem's first rule. Every reading is compared with general adult ranges and described with one of four words: low, normal, needs attention, high. Saleem never says "you have such and such" and never suggests a treatment. Its job is to get you to your doctor with clear numbers; the decision is the doctor's.
What makes it different?
Arabic first
Not a translation of a foreign app. Saleem is written in Arabic, right to left on every screen, accepts Arabic and Western digits, and explains things in words anyone of any age understands. The home page and this guide are also in English and Turkish for family members and doctors.
Designed for older eyes and fingers
Large text is on from the start, buttons are at least 44 pixels, contrast is clear, and meaning never depends on colour alone. Automated accessibility tests cover the app's main journeys against WCAG criteria.
A reading in two taps
Four tiles on the home screen. Tap, type the number, save. No internet? The reading is kept and sent by itself when the connection returns.
A report your doctor understands
One page for the last 7, 30 or 90 days: averages, highest and lowest readings, medicine adherence, and the latest lab results with the change since last time. Print it, save it as a PDF, or send a link that expires by itself after a day, a week or a month.
Family by consent, not surveillance
A son or daughter adds a profile they manage for a parent who does not use a phone, or invites the parent to sign in with their own account. The parent accepts the invitation and chooses what the helper sees: view only, or view and add. Every change of access is recorded.
Lab results from any lab
More than a hundred tests with their reference ranges, and the result is typed exactly as printed, even "< 0.5" or "Negative". Saleem compares it with the lab's own range when there is one, and shows the change since the last test.
An AI assistant, with your permission
You can connect Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini to Saleem with a key you control: read only or read and add, for yourself alone or for your family. Ask "How was my blood pressure this week?" and it answers from your actual numbers. Disconnecting takes one tap.
Your data is yours
Passwords and keys are encrypted. Your data is never sold and never used to train AI models. Download all of it as an Excel file whenever you like, or delete your account for good from Settings.
On the phone and the computer
Saleem works in any modern browser and has an Android app on Google Play that reminds you about medicines and readings on the phone.
If this is what you were looking for, read the quick guide or create your account now. The story of how Saleem began is here.