Meet Kindred — A voice archive for the people you love

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Kindred

A voice archive for the people you love.

Every feature, from the first launch.

No account, no login, no cloud. Everything runs on your device and works fully offline — nothing in this post is hidden behind a wall.

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.

A look inside

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What's inside

50-prompt curated deck — 9 categories of one-sentence prompts that lead somewhere unexpected.
On-device voice recording + Speech transcription — Up to 30 min per answer. Nothing ever transmits.
People register — Name, relationship, optional portrait, the single sentence you'd want to say.
Timeline of a life — Stories arranged by the year you tag them — a navigable shape.
Export your audio — M4A audio + TXT transcript + combined PDF — you own the files.

Why we built it

60M people die globally each year. Their voices, stories, and rituals die with them. StoryWorth turns it into a paper book over a year; HereAfter AI does voice-chat with synthesized deceased people, which many find unsettling. There is no calm, private, on-device archive that just asks good questions, records what you…

What makes it different

Kindred is the only iOS app that combines (a) a hand-curated 50-prompt structured interview deck, (b) on-device-only voice recording + transcription, (c) a People + Timeline view that turns recordings into a navigable archive, and (d) plain export to .m4a/.txt/.pdf you own. StoryWorth converts to a book and charges $9…

Who it's for

Hobbyists who want a tool that respects their time, their gear, and their offline life.

In one line: A voice archive for the people you love.

Try it

See the Kindred app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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