Kindred

About this app

What Kindred does

Kindred is a small, private archive for the stories that disappear with the people who carried them. It works the way a good listener works: it asks a real question, records what you say, and keeps the recording safe — on your phone, never in the cloud. What's inside v1: — A library of 50 hand-curated prompts in 9 categories (childhood, parents, school, work, love, big decisions, faith, family rituals, the year you'd live again). Each prompt is one sentence. Most lead somewhere unexpected. — Voice recording up to 30 minutes per answer, with on-device Speech transcription you can edit later. No transcript is ever uploaded. — A People view where you can register the family members you're recording (or recording for): name, relationship, a portrait you take or import, a single sentence you'd want to say to them. — A Timeline view that stitches your stories chronologically by the year you mark each one — so a recorded life becomes a navigable shape. — Calm reminders: pick one prompt a week, get a single gentle notification on the day and hour you chose. No streaks, no scolds. — Export: each story exports as an .m4a audio file plus a .txt of the transcript, or as a combined .pdf you can email to a relative. You own the files. — Free forever. Optional Kindred Family pro unlock ($14.99 one-time) adds: shared prompt sets between two devices (via AirDrop), a printable 50-prompt deck PDF, and extra prompt packs for specific lives (a parent who emigrated, a grandparent in a long marriage, an adult sibling who survived an illness). Kindred is not a synthetic-resurrection product. It will never clone someone's voice or simulate their replies. It is a recorder and a listener and a place to keep what's been said.