What we can and can’t see.

Kindred is built so there’s almost nothing for us to know. Here is all of it, in plain words. Every line has to stay true, so we treat this page as a promise.

We can’t see

• Your videos, or anything in them. They’re encrypted on your phone with keys that only you and the person you’re talking to hold.
• Your name, your photo, or the names of your people. They travel inside the same encryption.
• Your phone number, email address or contacts. We never ask for them.

We hold briefly

• Each video, encrypted, until the other person’s phone has it. Then it’s deleted. Anything never picked up is deleted after seven days.
• Each invite, encrypted, until it’s used. An unused invite is deleted after seven days.

We can see

• That encrypted files came and went, how big they were, and when.
• The network address a phone connects from, while it’s connected. We don’t log it, and we’ve turned request logging off.

Kindred runs on Cloudflare, which carries the traffic between your phone and ours.

We never

• Show ads, or sell or share anything about you.
• Use outside analytics, tracking or advertising code, in the app or on this site. Even the fonts on this page come from us.
• Train AI on anything you send.
• Keep copies of your videos after they’re delivered.

What Kindred isn’t

• It isn’t built to stand up to governments, or to someone holding your unlocked phone.
• It isn’t a social network. There’s no search, no strangers, no feed and no public posts.
• It isn’t a cloud archive. Your history lives on your phone and in anything you choose to save to your photos.

Early access

Kindred is new. The Android app installs directly from this site while we finish the iPhone app and the store listings. If something here changes, this page changes first.