Kin · Your people, remembered

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Settings

Color theme

System follows your device’s appearance. Appearance is saved on this device.

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Your account

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Invite someone

Install Kin

iPhone: Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen. Android: Chrome → Install app. Sign in with the same account on each device.

Your home time zone

Your greeting and calendar use this time zone. Each contact’s occasions retain that person’s location and morning time.

Include shared occasions in Home reminders

Hide past greetings from Home after

After this grace period, greetings remain under each contact’s Past greetings. Nothing is automatically deleted or marked as sent.

Reminder export

Export calendar alerts for 7 days before, 1 day before and the recipient’s morning time. Sending a WhatsApp greeting still needs you to press Send.

Custom relationship names

Connect a local calendar

Your own devices can connect to this running Mac server with its private access key. Relatives should use independent accounts.

Calendar access key

Keep this key private. For your other browser on this Mac, open Kin, enter the same key here, then Connect calendar.

Calendar copies

Share a fixed copy of selected personal dates. The recipient previews what to import; later edits do not sync.

Private backup

JSON backups include contacts, contact photos, groups, occasions and greeting text. Greeting image attachments and their approvals are excluded. Keep the file private.

Restore your JSON backup

Restore replaces this account’s calendar. Download a current backup first. Sign-in credentials are not changed.

Your relationships

Add the names you use for your people, and remove options you don’t need. Removing an option keeps existing occasions unchanged.

New relationship

Sign in to Kin

Each account has its own private calendar. A local access key is for your own devices only.

Your nameEmailPasswordYour home time zone

This invitation creates a private calendar. Importing shared entries is a separate, explicit step.

Share a calendar copy

A fixed snapshot—not a live subscription. Your relative previews it and chooses what to import. Later changes never sync automatically.

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Includes selected names, relationships, dates and recipient time zones. Never includes passwords, greeting drafts, approvals or your reminder preferences.

Previously shared copies

Preview & import

Shared calendar link

Your copy stays independent. New entries use your calendar’s reminder defaults; recipient time zones are retained. No source deletion will delete your entries.

What should Kin call you?

Your greeting follows your calendar’s home time zone. This name belongs to you and isn’t included when you share occasions.

Your preferred name

Invite someone

NameEmail

Single-use · expires in 7 days · owner approval required after registration.