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Install Our Caring Circle on Android

Updated May 2026 · About 1 minute · Chrome for Android

Adding Caring Circle to your home screen turns it into a real app: full-screen launch, an icon in the app drawer next to Gmail and Calendar, and the snappiest possible path back to your circle. Here's how — five short steps in Chrome.

Good news on Android: push notifications already work. Unlike iPhone, Android doesn't require you to install Caring Circle to get push notifications — they work right out of the browser. Installing is for the app feel: home-screen icon, full-screen launch, and a cleaner switcher entry.

Open Caring Circle in Chrome

Tap the Chrome icon on your phone, then go to app.ourcaringcircle.com. Sign in if you haven't already.

Did Chrome already offer to install it? On a return visit, Chrome sometimes pops up an "Install Caring Circle" banner at the bottom of the screen. If you see it, tap Install and you can skip the rest of this guide.

Open the 3-dot menu

Tap the 3-dot menu in the top-right corner of Chrome (just to the right of the address bar).

Tap Install app

Scroll the menu if you need to and tap Install app. On some older Chrome versions it's labeled Add to Home Screen — same thing.

Confirm in the dialog

Chrome shows a dialog with the Caring Circle icon and name. Tap Install to confirm. You can rename the shortcut here too if you'd like a shorter label on the home screen.

Open from your home screen

Caring Circle is now on your home screen and in the app drawer. Tap the icon — the app launches full-screen, with no Chrome address bar or tabs in sight.

After install — making the most of push notifications

If you turned on push notifications already, nothing changes after install — they keep working. If you haven't, open Caring Circle from the home-screen icon and the dashboard will offer to turn them on. Accept the Android permission prompt and you're set.

You'll get three categories of pushes, each with its own toggle in Settings:

Quiet hours are respected automatically — no pushes between 10 PM and 7 AM in your local time.

Troubleshooting

I don't see "Install app" in the Chrome menu. Two common causes. First, you may be in Incognito mode — Chrome hides install in private tabs. Close the Incognito window and open a normal one. Second, the menu shifts based on what you've installed recently; scroll up and down through it to be sure the option isn't hiding.

I'm on Samsung Internet (or another non-Chrome browser). Samsung Internet supports a similar flow — tap its menu and look for Add page to → Home screen. The label and exact path vary by app version. If you can't find the option, install Chrome from the Play Store and follow this guide; the icon will still launch full-screen from Chrome's installed app.

I'm on Firefox. Firefox for Android doesn't fully support installing web apps the way Chrome does — you can add a shortcut to the home screen, but it opens inside Firefox instead of launching full-screen. For the best experience, use Chrome.

I installed but the icon shows a generic globe. Old installs sometimes cache before the manifest icon loads. Remove the shortcut (long-press → Remove), open Chrome, reload app.ourcaringcircle.com once, then reinstall.

The app feels stuck or out of date after install. Pull-to-refresh inside the app, or close it fully from the app switcher and reopen.

Still stuck? Email support@ourcaringcircle.com — include your phone model and Chrome version and we'll usually solve it in a single reply.

On a different device?

Each platform's install flow is a little different. Here are the other guides:

iPhone (iOS Safari) Desktop (Chrome / Edge)

Need help we haven't covered? Email support@ourcaringcircle.com — we typically reply within one business day.