Everyone home, on one map.
Kinnect shows a family where each other are, without handing that to anybody else. It runs on a server its owner controls, and it sells nothing — no advertising, no data brokers, no third party in the middle.
How it works
- Both people agree. You share a code; nobody is added until you approve them. A leaked code shows a stranger exactly as much as holding nothing does.
- Sharing is mutual. If you can see somebody, they can see you. There is no way to watch a person who cannot watch you back.
- You decide what each person sees. Where you are now, where you have been, or nothing at all — set per person, and changeable at any moment.
- It is always visible. While Kinnect is sharing your location, a notice sits in your notifications that cannot be dismissed.
What it does
- A live map of the people who share with you, with battery and speed
- Places you name — so history reads “at Home”, not a street address
- Ten days of history, as stays and journeys rather than a trail of dots
- Private one-to-one messages, photos and video
- Video calls that go directly between the two phones
- A Wear OS companion, so a watch can report on its own
Who holds the data
Kinnect is self-hosted. The maps are drawn from OpenStreetMap data stored on the same server, so opening the app tells no mapping company where you are. Video calls are peer to peer: the server introduces the two phones and never carries the call.
Locations are kept for ten days and then deleted. You can delete your whole account, and everything in it, from inside the app.
Kinnect is in family testing and is not yet on Google Play.