You are her person. Betsy, a computer voice, is there on the days you can’t be: ten minutes at the hour she picks, every word remembered, and word the same day of a fall, an illness or someone after her money. Sunday’s text gives you something to ask her. $2 a day, billed $60 a month.
We make Betsy. You make the calls only you can make, and she makes the rest.
At a glance
| Betsy | You | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A ten-minute phone conversation about her life, every day, at the hour she picks | Her own child on the phone, when the day allows |
| Who makes the call | A computer voice that says what it is on every call | You, her person |
| How long a call lasts | About ten minutes; Betsy talks a third of the time, and the rest is Mom’s | As long as you’ve got |
| Memory between calls | Every conversation; each call starts where the last ended | A lifetime of her, told and retold |
| Same voice, same number | The same voice, from the same local number, forever | The voice she taught to talk |
| What the family hears | One story on Sunday; the same day for a fall, an illness or someone after her money | What she decides to tell you |
| Phone needed | Any phone that rings: cell, landline or flip phone | The one in your hand |
| Anything to install, wear or charge | Nothing | Nothing |
| Price | $2 a day, billed $60 a month, for a ten-minute conversation every day | Your own time, on the days you have it |
Pick Betsy if…
- You love her, and you also have a shift, a kid’s fever and a 4:30. You call when you can, and her phone still rings every day.
- You’ve started opening with “Are you eating?” and you’d rather open with the Dairy Queen.
- You want to hear about the stumble the same day, even when she’d keep it from you so you won’t worry.
- You’d like somebody to ask about the drive to Reno on Tuesday and remember it on Wednesday.
- She has things to say that she won’t say to her own child. They stay hers, except a fall, an illness or someone after her money.
Does it have to be you, every evening?
“Every evening, I am expected to call my 84-year-old mother”
A teacher of 54, writing to Dear Abby, 2025
She wrote that on top of a full-time job and two children. Your week has its own shift and its own 4:30. None of it makes you less her person. It means the job was built wrong: one person, one hour, every day. Betsy takes the hour on the days you can’t, so nobody has to find the time. You keep the calls only you can make, two or three a week, with something to say. My mother lives alone and I can’t call every day goes further.
Will she feel handed off?
Betsy answers that on the first call, with your name in it: “Sarah set me up because she wanted somebody to call you every single day.” Betsy is from you, not instead of you. The number reaches Mom from your own phone, in your own words, and Tell Mom gives you those words. She picks the hour, and if she says “stop” on any call, it stops.
What does Sunday give you to say?
A reason to call that isn’t “Are you eating?” On Sunday you get one text from Betsy, with one line and one story. A Sunday text reads like this.
Margaret had a good week. Ask her about the summer she worked the Dairy Queen window in 1961.
So you call, and you ask about the Dairy Queen. She never has to tell a story twice unless she wants to, and to you she will. Betsy gives the family more to talk about, and the rest you hear from her.
One line and one story.
If she mentions a fall, an illness or someone after her money, you hear the same day, in her own words. That is the stumble she might keep from you so you won’t worry. Everything else stays hers, because that is why she keeps talking. If you are weighing someone who comes to the door, see Betsy vs Papa. If you are weighing a public program, see Betsy vs county and sheriff programs. What Betsy is has the whole picture.
What we checked and when
- No other service’s facts are on this page. Betsy’s price is as of November 2026.
- The letter to Dear Abby: The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 15, 2025, read November 5, 2026.
Questions people ask
What makes Betsy different from calling her yourself?
You are her person, and Betsy doesn’t change that. Betsy is there every day at the hour she picks, remembers every word, and on Sunday hands you one story to ask about. You call when you can, with something to say.
I don't want to phone Mom every day. Is that all right?
Yes. Call when you can, at a time you can keep. Betsy calls every day at the hour she picks, and Sunday’s text gives you something to ask her.
How often should I call my elderly mother?
There is no right number. Two or three calls a week at a time you can keep is a good place to start, and how often should I call? goes into it. Betsy makes the daily call.
Will Betsy ever ask for money?
Never, not for anything. She says so on the first call. Everything about Betsy reaches Mom from you first, from your own phone, in your own words.
Start hereWhat Betsy is, in plain words
QuestionsMy mother lives alone and I can't call every day. What can I do?
QuestionsHow often should I call my elderly mother?
First stepsHow to tell Mom you signed her up for Betsy
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