One question.
Every day.
Everyone answers. At year's end, it becomes a book.
Each family member answers independently — you can't see anyone else's answer until you submit your own. Every answer is saved forever. At year's end, every voice becomes a hardcover book delivered to your door.
Most family apps are one person
documenting everyone else.
Kinely is different. One question. Everyone gets it. Everyone answers.
That's not a diary. That's a conversation that never ends.
Three steps. Two minutes.
A lifetime of memories.
A question arrives
Every morning, a single thoughtful question lands on every family member's phone at the same time. Questions come from our curated library of 1,000+, AI-personalised to your family, or written by a family member in advance.
Everyone answers
The question creates a daily entry card — a permanent record anchored to that date. Every family member opens it and responds with text, a voice note, or photos — any combination, in any order. Responses appear as others answer, in real time.
📝 Text · 🎤 60s voice note · 📷 3 photos — per person, per day
Your story builds
Every answer is saved permanently — searchable, filterable, and beautifully organised. At year's end, every question and every answer is compiled into a hardcover Annual Book, delivered to your door in January.
A simplified experience so grandparents can answer as easily as everyone else.
The stories you
haven't asked yet.
The questions your grandmother carries — her hardest year, what shaped her, what she'd tell her younger self — disappear when she does. Unless someone asks.
Kinely asks. Her answers play back in her grandchildren's app, in her actual voice.
“Her voice. Her laugh. Her story. Saved forever.”
What was the hardest year of your life — and what got you through it?
One question. One entry. Everyone's answer — saved forever.
Each morning's question creates a daily entry card — a permanent record anchored to that date. Every family member adds their response throughout the day: a few words, a voice note recorded on the commute, photos from the moment. At midnight, the entry locks and becomes part of your family archive — and eventually, your Annual Book.
At the table. Across the world.
Gone before the conversation starts.
Gathered Mode
Open Kinely at dinner. The question fills the screen — big enough to read across the table. Your family answers out loud, you log them. Three minutes. Then you put the phone down and get back to dinner. Kinely knows when to disappear.
Connected Mode
The question arrives on every phone at exactly the same moment. Dad answers from his hotel. The kids answer from the couch. Everyone sees each other's answers trickle in. For twenty minutes, you're in the same room across 800 miles.
Spotlight Mode
It's her birthday. Every question today is about her — her favorite memories, her best year, what the family loves most about her. At the end of the day, she has a page full of love letters from the people who matter most.
Grandparents Mode
Grandma gets the question in extra-large text with a single big button to record her voice. The grandkids hear it played back in her actual voice. The stories she's never told — her childhood, her wedding day, her biggest adventure — finally get asked.
Big Events
First day of school. Thanksgiving. The last day of summer. Kinely knows when the big moments are coming and prepares a special question set — curated for the day. Every milestone gets its own chapter in your family's story.
Guest Mode
For guests & gatheringsSomeone's joining you for the holidays. Send them a guest link — they answer tonight's question right alongside your family. Their answer is saved in your archive, marked as “Guest · Sarah · Thanksgiving 2025.” No account needed. Just connection.
See how it works →For the parent 800 miles from home
“I travel constantly for work. The fifteen minutes we spend on Kinely's question every night is the only time I feel like I'm actually home.”
— David K., father · Chicago, Illinois
The conversations that shape
who your family becomes —
now you'll always have them.
Every answer is saved forever — searchable, filterable, beautifully organized. Type “embarrassing” and surface every answer your family ever gave to that topic. Open the archive in five years and hear your child's voice at age nine. The Annual Book is built from everything you share all year.
March 4, 2024 · One year ago
“What's something you're secretly really good at?”
Mom
Parallel parking — I've never once needed a three-point turn in my life. Your dad still doesn't believe me. Also, I'm pretty good at knowing when someone in this family needs a hug before they know it themselves.
Emma · was 13
I can memorize a full song after hearing it twice. I think it's because music is how I feel things. On the way to school last Tuesday I learned all of Driver's License before we hit the highway.
December 25, 2023
“What was the best part of this year?”
Jake · was 8
When dad came home three days early from his work trip and surprised us. We didn't even do anything special — just pizza and blankets on the living room floor. But it felt like the best night of the whole year.
This year happened.
This is proof.
Every question your family answered. Every voice note. Every photo. Compiled, designed, and printed — delivered to your door every January.
Not a scrapbook. Not a photo album. A complete record of who your family was this year, in your own words.
Learn more about the Annual Book →
What families say
“We used to sit in silence at dinner. Now our son asks what the question is going to be before we even sit down.”
— Sarah M., mother of three
Portland, Oregon
“I travel constantly for work. The fifteen minutes we spend on Kinely's question every night is the only time I feel like I'm actually home.”
— David K., father
Chicago, Illinois
“My mother answered a question about her childhood last month. I printed it out. I've never heard that story before and she's 78.”
— Jennifer R., daughter and mother
Nashville, Tennessee
Your family's story is happening right now
Most of it will
disappear.
Yours doesn't have to.
Join the founding families helping us build the most important app a family will ever use.
Founding family pricing from $30 · Limited spots available
Not ready yet? Join the waitlist — free.
"My family won't actually do this."
You don't need everyone on board from day one. One person starts. Others get a notification. Most families find that the question itself does the convincing — because it's specific, unexpected, and takes 90 seconds to answer.
"We'll start and then forget."
Kinely is designed for real life. Miss a day — or a week — and your archive is still there. The question still comes the next day. There's no streak to break and no guilt. Just the next question, waiting when you're ready.
"Is this just another app fighting for our attention?"
It's three minutes a day. We designed it to put the phone down, not pick it up more. The whole point is the conversation it starts — not the screen time it adds.