Hebra: Video Calls for Family
Big-button calling for seniors
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Set it up once on their iPad. After that, one green button is the whole app - no menus, no contacts, nothing to learn, and nothing to tap by mistake.
Your mother doesn't want another app. She wants to see your face.
Hebra is a video phone built for one person - the parent or grandparent you call most. You set it up once on their iPad. After that there are no menus, no contact lists, no settings, and nothing to tap by mistake. One large green button fills the screen. They press it, and you answer.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Pair the two devices. Their iPad becomes the Follower, your iPhone becomes the Leader. Enter the same six-digit code on both. It takes about thirty seconds, and you only ever do it once.
2. Either of you presses call. The other device rings like an ordinary phone call - even when the app is closed and the screen is locked.
3. Talk. The video fills the entire screen, edge to edge. No floating toolbars, no buttons to hunt for. Just a face, as large as the screen allows.
BUILT FOR SOMEONE WHO SHOULDN'T HAVE TO LEARN ANYTHING
- One button. The call button is the whole screen, not a small target in a corner.
- No reading required. The Follower screen carries almost no text. Colour, size and sound carry the meaning instead.
- It rings like a real phone. Hebra uses Apple's own CallKit and PushKit, so an incoming call shows the familiar green and red phone screen and wakes the iPad from any state. No more missed calls because the app wasn't open.
- Nothing to break. There is no settings screen to wander into, no account to get logged out of, and no contact list to delete by accident.
- Made for poor eyesight. Maximum contrast, very large targets, and slow, calm motion.
FOR THE PERSON SETTING IT UP
Your iPhone shows you what you need to know before you call: whether their device is online, when it was last seen, how much battery it has left, and whether the volume is actually turned up - which is the reason calls go unanswered more often than any other.
WORKS ON A SLOW CONNECTION
Hebra prefers a direct connection between the two devices and falls back to a relay when the network won't allow one. If bandwidth collapses, video quality drops but the conversation continues - audio is never sacrificed. A data-saver mode is there for connections that need it.
PRIVACY
- No account. No sign-up, no password, no phone number, no email address.
- No data collected. Hebra has no analytics, no advertising, and no trackers of any kind.
- Nothing stored. There is no chat, no message history, no call recording and no voicemail, because none of those features exist.
- Encrypted directly between the two devices. Audio and video are end-to-end encrypted. When a relay is needed, it forwards encrypted traffic that it cannot read.
WHAT HEBRA DELIBERATELY DOES NOT DO
No text chat. No photo sharing. No group calls. No social feed. No contact list. No advertising. It is a video phone between two devices, and that is the entire product.
Hebra needs two devices - typically your iPhone and their iPad - and an internet connection on both.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Setup is easier to follow.
A short introduction on first launch explains that Hebra is two devices, which one to set up first, and where the six-digit code comes from. The setup screen now says what each device is for in plain words.
The connection error screen and the camera and microphone prompts now appear in Russian on a Russian device.
Calls also connect more reliably when a server cannot be reached.
The developer, Aleksey Deryushev, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Aleksey Deryushev
- Size
- 16.1 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Russian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Aleksey Deryushev