Invited people. No one else.
Keep your family closenot caught in the feed.
Ava finishes a drawing and shows her cousins. Her grandmother says something kind. And it stops there — no profile, no strangers, no algorithm deciding who else should see your child.
- ads
- public profiles
- follower counts
- sale of family data
Good morning, Mia.
Two things are happening today.
That’s everything for today.
Two decisions need you
Not a stream of everything your child did.
Cousin Corner
Cousin Corner — 8 people
Look what I finished today!
That is awesome. Can we make one together Saturday?
New from your family
Three moments since Sunday.
That’s all for now.
Chapter one
Every other app wants your family to go viral. This one wants them home for dinner.
Growing an audience is what public platforms are for. That is the business model, not a bug in it. Family life wants the opposite: people you already know, a clear audience, and an evening that actually ends.
What you leave behind
- Followers
- Explore and discovery
- Algorithmic ranking
- Likes and popularity counts
- Infinite scroll
- Targeted advertising
- Open messaging
What you get instead
- The family you invited
- Nobody can find you
- Newest first, the way a day happens
- Hearts, with no scoreboard
- A board that ends
- You pay us, so nobody else does
- Rooms a parent set up on purpose
Chapter two
Cousins can actually stay cousins.
Three hundred miles apart, and they still plan Saturday together. Kithlane gives a family the small rooms the internet never built for it — a cousins’ group, a shelf of grandparents’ stories, one album from the lake that nobody has to ask permission to see.
- The recipe boxIn Nana’s own words, before anyone forgets how she did it.
- Where the family history finally gets written downEveryone adds a piece. Nothing lives only in one person’s head.
- Saturday’s plan, and who is bringing whatOne place, so nobody arrives with a second potato salad.
- Homework clubFor the week everything is due at once and nobody wants to ask out loud.
- Every photo from the lake, in one placeGrandparents included, with no app to install and nothing to sign up for.
- Somewhere to ask a questionGuides that help with a volcano project and stop where a parent says they stop.
Chapter three
Children see a welcoming home. Parents see the decisions that matter.
You set the boundaries once and Kithlane holds them. What reaches you is a short list of things that actually need a parent — then you can put the phone down.
- You choose who is in it. Nobody joins without your invitation.
- You approve what opens. One site at a time, and your child sees why rather than a blank wall.
- No adult can message your child privately. Off by default, and there is no setting that quietly turns it back on.
Your photo is checked before it appears. You can keep using Kithlane.
Founding families
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We are building this with a small number of families rather than for an imagined one. If that sounds like yours, leave an address and we will come back to you when there is something worth your time.