The Living Tree · Private by design

A family tree
that breathes.

Kinfolktree turns your family into a painterly, living portrait — every relative an ornament, every story a memory in the Vault, every conversation private and end-to-end encrypted. Yours forever, never theirs.

What it is

Three rooms, one living tree.

Kinfolktree is a private family app for the people you actually love. No feed, no algorithm, no strangers. Just the tree, the vault, and the chat — all rooted in privacy.

The Tree

A painterly portrait that grows as your family grows. Tap any ornament to meet a relative — their photo, their story, their place in the lineage. New members sprout in with a soft glow.

The Vault

The family's permanent archive. Voice notes, photos, recipes, oral histories, the stories grandparents won't be here forever to tell. Pin what matters. Edit in place. Search across decades.

The Hearth

Family chat that doesn't bleed into the rest of the world. Group rooms, one-to-one DMs straight from the tree, and a Mentor Registry to connect the elders to the saplings asking for guidance.

Generations

Every branch has a name.

G0

The Roots

Elders. The wisdom layer.

G1

The Pillars

Mid-life. Active builders.

G2

The Builders

Young adults. Career-active.

G3

The Saplings

The newest growth.

The Vault

The stories that can't be lost.

Every family has a hundred stories that die with the person who told them. The Vault is where they live now — voice memos, photos, recipes, oral histories, blessings, advice for the kids who aren't born yet.

Pin the ones that matter. Edit them as memory sharpens. The Vault is a shared archive that belongs to your family, not a platform.

📌 Grandma Adaeze on the move from Lagos, 1971
Voice · 4:12 · Pinned
Jollof recipe — the original
Recipe · 1968 era
Wedding day photo
Photo · 1974 era
Letter from Uncle Chinedu
Story · 1989 era
The Hearth · Tap-to-message

One tap from the tree to a conversation.

Tap any ornament. Their hub opens. Their photo, their story, their memories in the Vault — and a private 1:1 thread, just the two of you. Real time. End-to-end encrypted. No-one else watching.

Group rooms for the whole family, threads for the cousins, DMs for the call you've been meaning to have with your grandfather.

Saw your sapling on the tree this morning. Welcome home, baby.
Grandma 🥹 thank you. I miss your jollof.
Recipe is in the Vault. Pinned for you.
You're the best.
Ring me Sunday. Bring the kids.
The Mentor Registry

Wisdom finds its way down the tree.

The elders opt-in to share what they know — careers, crafts, languages, hard-won life lessons. The saplings can browse the registry, send a request, and start a conversation. Mentorship inside the family, on the family's terms.

No DMs to strangers. No exposure to the open internet. Just kin.

E
Emeka · Engineer
Software · Lagos
Open to mentor
N
Ngozi · Tailor
Craft · 30 years
Open to mentor
A
Adaeze · Storyteller
Oral history · Igbo
Open to mentor
Data Sovereignty

The family owns the family.

Every story, photo, and message is end-to-end encrypted. Your family's history belongs to your family — not Kinfolktree, not advertisers, not anyone else.

  • End-to-end encrypted chat, DMs, and Vault attachments. No advertising. No third-party trackers.
  • One-tap export of your entire archive. Take everything with you, anytime, no questions asked.
  • Invite-only joining. KIN codes are single-use. The tree only grows through people you actually trust.
  • Sign in with Apple. No social-graph mining. No phone-book uploads.
Pricing

Three ways to keep your family's story from going quiet.

Start free. Upgrade when you're ready to give your grandchildren something they can still open in 2080.

Sapling
$0 / forever
Plant the tree, gather the names, and start the first chapter — no card, no clock.
  • Hold up to 5 of your closest kin in one place
  • 2 GB Vault — thousands of photos and first stories
  • Private family chat + one-to-one DMs
  • Mentor Registry — find the family expert when life gets hard
  • End-to-end encrypted. Always.
Plant for free
Pay once
Forever
$199 / one-time
One payment, today. No subscription, no renewal email in 2034 — the tree stays open for every generation that comes after.
  • Everything in Heritage — yours for life
  • One payment. No subscription. Ever.
  • Price locked — pass it down, no surprise renewals
  • Priority lifetime support
Pay once
Get the app

Plant the tree tonight.

Available for iPhone and iPad. Invite up to four people on launch day with a single KIN code.