Kinhold
Kinhold Family Management System
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Family Management System · open source

All your family's stuff.
One app. One brain.

Kinhold is one hub for tasks, calendar, vault, meals, and rewards, with an AI assistant that creates and answers anything by chat. Your spouse can use it. Your kids will want to.

No signup. Pick a family member and you're in.

Free for one family, forever Encrypted vault Bring your own AI key

Stop duct-taping a dozen apps into a family.

Most "family productivity" is twelve disconnected apps and a group chat where things go to die. Kinhold collapses the stack.

To-do app
Shared calendar
Meal planning
Recipe management
Shopping list
Chore charts
Rewards system
Information storage
Just Kinhold.
AI-first interface

Say it once. Done.

Calendar events, reminders, meal plans, chore assignments, vault lookups — tell the assistant what you need and it handles the rest. If an MCP tool can do it, one sentence is all it takes.

Ask anything about your family.

Create, edit, or look things up. Every module in Kinhold is wired into the assistant, so one question can span tasks, calendar, vault, and more.

Use Claude. Or ChatGPT. Or both.

Kinhold ships an MCP server. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any client that supports custom MCP servers and manage your family from there.

Built-in assistant too

Don't want to wire up an external client? Kinhold has its own chat baked in, with the same access to your family hub.

Permission-aware

The AI sees exactly what each user is allowed to see. Kids can't peek at the vault.

Dashboard

A different home screen for every family member.

Drag-and-drop widgets per user. Kids see their leaderboard, achievements, and chore list. Parents see the calendar, the family activity feed, and what needs claiming.

  • Customizable widget grid in edit mode
  • Activity feed: completions, kudos, achievement unlocks
  • Featured event countdown banners
  • Mobile-first. Looks great on the family iPad.
Kinhold dashboard
Tasks & chores

Chores that don't end in an argument.

Recurring chores. Family tasks anyone can claim. Points awarded the moment a task is checked off, written to a real ledger so nobody can argue about who did what.

  • Multiple lists (chores, errands, "honey-do")
  • Recurring rules (daily, weekly, every other Tuesday)
  • "Family tasks" anyone can claim for the points
  • Auto-points on completion. No manual scoring.
Food, end to end

Photo of a recipe → dinner Wednesday → groceries Saturday.

Three modules that work great alone, and even better together. Snap a photo of a recipe (the AI reads it), drop it on a day, and the shopping list builds itself.

Recipes

Drop a photo of grandma's index card. Paste a Pinterest URL. Or type it by hand. The AI extracts the title, ingredients, steps, and serving size.

Meal plan

Drag a recipe onto Wednesday. Mark Friday as pizza out. Plan around soccer practice and the in-laws coming over. The week, on one screen.

Shopping list

Auto-built from the meal plan, deduped across recipes (one onion, not five). Hand it to whoever's running to the store. Check off as you go.

Or use any one on its own. Recipes without meal planning. Shopping lists without recipes. Whatever works for your family.

Calendar

All the calendars. None of the back-and-forth.

Pull in everyone's Google calendar. Subscribe to school ICS feeds. Add manual events with recurrence and visibility modes: visible to all, marked busy, or fully private.

  • Google Calendar + ICS feed aggregation
  • RRULE recurring events with exceptions
  • Visibility modes: private, busy-only, public
  • "Feature on dashboard" with countdown banners
Kinhold calendar
Points · Achievements · Rewards

Gamification kids actually like.

Steam-like, not Cocomelon. A real ledger keeps points honest. Achievements unlock automatically. Rewards are whatever your kids actually want, priced in points you set.

Honest leaderboard

Tamper-resistant ledger. Daily, weekly, monthly views.

27 default achievements

Hexagonal, auto-unlocking, with hidden "???" slots to discover.

Real rewards

Screen time, picking dinner, cash payouts. You set the prices.

Custom achievements

Make your own. "Practice piano 30 days." "Read 5 books." Your call.

Vault

The "important documents" folder, finally not a sketchy spreadsheet.

SSNs, medical records, insurance cards, passwords, the wifi password your in-laws keep asking for. Encrypted at rest. Tap to reveal. Auto-clear clipboard. AI playbooks walk you through entering anything you've never bothered to digitize.

  • AES-256 encryption with separate vault key
  • Role + per-item permissions (kids never see SSNs)
  • Markdown editor with document upload
  • AI-guided playbooks for SSNs, medical, insurance
Setup

Set up your family in under three minutes.

A five-step wizard, not a configuration manual. Name the family, invite a co-parent, add your kids (no email needed for managed accounts), pick the modules you want, and you're done.

  • Five guided steps with sensible defaults
  • Managed kid accounts: no email, no separate login
  • Toggle modules on or off per family
  • Roles: parent, kid, guest. Permissions follow.
Self-hosted

Your server, your data. Docker or Upsun.

Encrypted at rest

Vault items use a separate encryption key.

Export anytime

It's your data. Take it with you whenever.

Transparent pricing

No tiers. No upsells. No mystery.

Self-host is fully free for one family. Or pay us to host it, and we'll show you exactly what you're paying for.

Self-host

Deploy to your own server. Get every feature.

$0 forever, one family
  • Every feature, no gates
  • Docker compose or Upsun template
  • Source on GitHub
  • Bring your own AI key (Anthropic, OpenAI)
  • Single-family install. Keep it for yours.
Get the source
Coming soon
Hosted Family

We run it on Upsun. You use it. Same code as self-host.

$10 / month
  • Sign in at app.kinhold.app. We handle the rest.
  • 5 GB document storage included
  • Daily encrypted backups
  • Unlimited family members
  • AI is optional. Off, BYO key, or add a tier (below).
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Add-ons

Stack only what your family actually needs.

A la carte
  • Extra storage: $1/GB · month
  • AI Lite: +$5/mo · 50 requests/day
  • AI Standard: +$15/mo · 150 requests/day
  • AI Pro: +$30/mo · 300 requests/day
  • Or BYO AI key: $0, unlimited
See full breakdown

Hosted pricing is a placeholder while we finalize numbers. Self-host pricing is final: $0.

For the nerds

Boring, proven stack. Boring is good.

Built on the things you'd already deploy: Laravel, Vue, Postgres, Redis. No experimental runtime, no node-only edge function only-runs-on-Tuesdays nonsense. Should run for a decade.

Architecture docs
Backend
Laravel 11 · PHP 8.2+
Frontend
Vue 3 · Pinia · Tailwind
Database
PostgreSQL 16 · UUIDs
Cache
Redis 7
Auth
Sanctum · Google OAuth
AI
MCP server · 7 tools
Hosting
Upsun · Docker
License
Elastic 2.0
FAQ

Things you're probably wondering.

What's a 'Family Management System'?

Same category logic as a CMS or LMS. A CMS organizes content. An LMS organizes learning. A Family Management System organizes the operational chaos of running a household: schedules, tasks, important documents, meals, motivation for the kids. One hub instead of a dozen apps.

Can my non-technical spouse actually use it?

That's the whole point of the AI assistant. If your spouse can text, they can drive Kinhold. "Add a dentist appointment for Mia next Wednesday at 2" creates the calendar event. No menus to learn.

Is it safe for kids?

Yes. Kid accounts are managed accounts (no email required), see only what their role permits, and never have access to the vault. The gamification was designed to feel like Steam, not a sticker chart.

Do I really need to know Docker to self-host?

If you've ever run docker compose up, you're set. If you haven't, the Upsun deploy template is one click. There's also a setup-simple.sh for SQLite-based home installs.

What is MCP and why do I care?

Model Context Protocol is an open standard that lets AI clients call your app's tools. Kinhold ships an MCP server, so you can manage your family from Claude, ChatGPT, or any other client that supports custom MCP server connections. Bring your own assistant.

Can I export my data?

Always. It's your data. Standard exports for tasks, calendar (ICS), and vault (encrypted JSON). No lock-in.

Is the hosted version different from self-host?

Same code. Same features. Hosted just means we run the server, handle updates, and back up your data. You can switch from one to the other and bring your data with you.

What does "free for one family" actually mean?

Self-hosted Kinhold is free for a single household: your spouse, your kids, your in-laws if they're in the family group. We're not policing that. The license prevents reselling Kinhold as a multi-tenant SaaS, which protects the project and the hosted version.

Your family's operating system,
ready when you are.

Try the live demo, or self-host it on the Pi sitting in your office gathering dust.