One press, and the people you trust know.
Kinly is a personal safety app. You choose a small group of people — your Circle. If you are in danger, you press one button and all of them are told at once, and shown where you are.
Kinly is free. There is no charge, no subscription and no paid tier.
Not in the app stores yet
Kinly is being prepared for the App Store and Google Play. If you would like to know when it is there, send an email and you will be told once.
How it works
Step 1
Choose your Circle
Invite a few people you would actually ring — family, close friends. They have to accept, so nobody is in your Circle without knowing they are in it.
Step 2
Press the button
One button in the app, or a widget on your home screen so you do not have to find the app first. A short countdown runs before it sends, so a press you did not mean can be cancelled.
Step 3
Your Circle is told, and can see where you are
Everyone in your Circle gets a notification and your live location. They can say they are on their way, or that they are calling 999 — and everyone else sees that, so two people do not drive to the same place.
Your location is only ever shared during an alert you sent yourself.
Never at any other time. Not in the background, not to us, not to anyone in your Circle who is simply curious. This is the one rule Kinly is built around, and every other decision in the app follows from it.
It is also why Kinly has no “find my friend” screen. An app that can show someone where you are on request is an app that can be used to keep track of you, and that is the opposite of what this is for.
Read the privacy policyWhat Kinly does not do
Worth being plain about, because a safety app that is vague about its limits is a safety app that lets someone down at the worst possible moment.
It does not track you
Your location is shared only while an alert you sent is active. The moment you mark yourself safe, it stops. There is no screen anywhere in Kinly where one person can look up another.
It does not call 999 for you
Kinly tells the people you chose. Calling the emergency services is still something you, or one of them, has to do.
It cannot promise a response
Kinly delivers a notification. It cannot make a phone ring louder than it is set, and it cannot guarantee that anyone is awake, nearby, or able to come.
Nobody joins without agreeing
Membership goes both ways only when both people agree. You can leave any Circle at any time, and remove anyone from yours, without asking permission.
If someone in your family is installing this
Kinly does not let you watch where they are. It is not a parental monitoring tool, and it cannot be turned into one — there is no setting that shares a location continuously, because the feature does not exist.
What it does is give them a way to tell you, and a few other people, that something is wrong, without having to explain it. You would be told at the same time as everyone else in their Circle, and you would see where they are for as long as the alert is running.
They have to invite you, and you have to accept. Either of you can undo that later.
Kinly is not a replacement for the emergency services. In an emergency, call 999.
Kinly is free
There is no charge, no subscription, and no paid tier. Nothing in the app is held back for people who pay — the part you would need on the worst night of your life is not something to charge for.
There are no adverts in Kinly, and nothing about you is sold. There is no advertising or analytics code in the app at all, which is why there is nothing to opt out of.
Getting Kinly
If you have a question before it arrives, or you are already using Kinly and something is wrong, support is a person rather than a form that goes nowhere.
Not in the app stores yet
Kinly is being prepared for the App Store and Google Play. If you would like to know when it is there, send an email and you will be told once.