DailyStrength

What DailyStrength does

DailyStrength, founded in 2006 and headquartered in Los Angeles, is a free, web-based peer-support community platform organized around health conditions and personal life challenges. The platform hosts over 700 support groups across 40-plus categories spanning mental health (depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD), physical health conditions (fibromyalgia, chronic pain, cancers), relationships, addiction recovery, and life events such as bereavement and caregiving. Its core product surface comprises condition-specific discussion forums, member profiles, personal journaling features, friend connections, and crisis-resource links, with content structured for both human browsing and organic search discoverability.

The underlying technology is a standard web application built on user profiles, threaded discussion boards, and journal entries, with no mobile app and no documented AI, machine-learning, or third-party model integrations. Operational infrastructure including Help/FAQ, Crisis Resources, Contact Us, and Report Abuse is hosted on Sharecare's Salesforce-based service platform, and cookies and browsing data are governed by Sharecare's privacy policy, with the company noting that health-condition browsing may be considered health data under applicable frameworks.

DailyStrength is owned and operated by Sharecare, Inc., which holds the copyright (2006-2026) and integrates the platform within its broader digital health ecosystem. The business model is advertising-supported, with the platform free to end users and monetization occurring through ad placements and unspecified data-driven marketing capabilities; no premium pricing is publicly disclosed and no enterprise customer segment exists. The company has 11-50 employees and has not raised capital since a $5M Series 2 from Redpoint Ventures in May 2007.

Name

DailyStrength

Legal name

Sharecare, Inc.

Website

https://dailystrength.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DailyStrength is a free, advertising-supported online peer-support community platform where users join condition-specific support groups covering mental health, chronic illness, relationships, addiction, and life challenges. It is owned and operated by Sharecare, Inc. as part of its digital health ecosystem.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Peer Support Community

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (62419)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Health & Support Communities (BPAMABAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community/Group Chat Platforms (BPAMACAH)

Keywords

• Online health communities
• Peer support groups
• Condition support forums
• Community discussion platform
• Member journaling tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Revenue model

1. Advertising and Platform Services: DailyStrength appears to generate revenue through advertising displayed on the platform and potentially premium features. The platform is free for users to join and participate, with monetization occurring through ad placements and data-driven marketing capabilities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

DailyStrength operates a free, web-based peer support community for individuals facing health conditions and personal challenges. Members can create accounts, join condition-specific support groups, post and reply to discussions, maintain profiles and journals, connect with other members, and access crisis resources.

Product overview

DailyStrength is a peer support community platform owned by Sharecare that provides online support groups and discussion forums for individuals facing health conditions and personal challenges. The platform operates as a single unified product offering text-based peer support communities organized across more than 30 health and wellness categories. Users can join condition-specific groups, participate in discussion forums, maintain personal journals, connect with other members as friends, and access crisis resources. The platform is accessible via web browser and includes a mobile-friendly interface for journaling and forum participation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Online Support Groups Free, web-based peer support communities organized by health condition and personal challenge. Members join groups to post discussions, reply to others, journal, and connect with people facing similar situations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Depression group alone has 24,601 members and 160,807 posts
• +2 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SharecarecoreOthersDailyStrength is owned and operated by Sharecare, Inc. The platform is branded as part of the Sharecare ecosystem, with copyright notices indicating Sharecare ownership (Copyright 2006-2026, Sharecare, Inc.). The platform integrates with Sharecare's broader health information and services platform, with cross-linking between DailyStrength and Sharecare properties. Crisis resources, Help/FAQ, and other support services redirect to Sharecare infrastructure.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Sharecare: Sharecare is the parent company of DailyStrength and operates a broader consumer health and wellness platform. It is the strategic acquirer and operator, sharing audience and brand infrastructure with DailyStrength.
• Reddit: Reddit hosts the largest general-purpose health and mental-health communities (r/depression, r/Anxiety, r/bipolar, etc.) and competes with DailyStrength for users seeking condition-specific peer support, though it does so as part of a much broader platform.
• WebMD: WebMD is a major consumer health information platform that combines medically reviewed content with community features. It competes indirectly with DailyStrength for health-information-seeking users and advertiser budgets.

Direct peers

• PatientsLikeMe: PatientsLikeMe is a patient community platform where users track symptoms and share treatment experiences across chronic conditions. It overlaps with DailyStrength's chronic-condition support use cases and similar peer-generated health-data model.
• HealthUnlocked: HealthUnlocked is the largest social network for health communities, hosting condition-specific support groups for patients across thousands of conditions. It is the closest direct competitor to DailyStrength in the patient peer-support community model, with a similar condition-segmented forum structure.
• Inspire: Inspire partners with health organizations to host condition-specific patient communities, combining peer support with health-content resources. It directly competes with DailyStrength for health-condition community engagement and partnership-based monetization.
• MedHelp: MedHelp was a long-running online health community offering condition-specific forums and patient-to-patient support, very similar in model to DailyStrength. It represents a historical direct competitor in the patient community space.

Emerging players

• Psych Central: PsychCentral is an online mental-health information site with active community forums for mental-health conditions. It addresses overlapping audience segments (depression, anxiety, bipolar) and represents a content-plus-community alternative to DailyStrength.
• 7 Cups: 7 Cups offers peer-to-peer emotional support with trained listeners and community forums, focusing on mental health. It competes for the same mental-health peer-support audience as DailyStrength but with a hybrid listener-plus-community model.

Regional players

• Mayo Clinic Connect: Mayo Clinic Connect is a condition-based patient community operated by Mayo Clinic, offering peer support alongside clinical credibility. It overlaps with DailyStrength's community functionality but is anchored to a single U.S. health system.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/daily_strength
• Facebookfacebook.com/dailystrength
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dailystrength

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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