Private by design. Shared by choice.
Home is who's watching.
a neighborhood kid-tracker for your trusted circle. nothing public, nothing sold, nothing shared outside the adults you already know.
Three steps. Nothing clever.
Tag a kid in when they arrive, tag them out when they leave. A soft dashboard shows the rest.
Tap the kid in.
The adult at the trusted house opens KidTag and taps the kid's face. Add a note if you want. That's the whole gesture.
Parents see it, quietly.
A soft notification and a dashboard showing where everyone is right now, based on the last tag from a trusted adult. Just enough to settle the question of "where did they end up?"
A day's worth of quiet.
Tap any kid to see a simple log of the day. Tagged in, tagged out, by whom, and the occasional note. No heat maps. No breadcrumbs.
A tracker that quietly refuses to be a surveillance tool.
KidTag is end-to-end encrypted by default. Our threat model assumes our own servers can't be trusted with you or your kids' information, and we're engineered around that.
Your household key is generated on your phone.
Every household generates a 256-bit key on-device when it's created, and stores it in the iOS Secure Enclave (the same place Face ID and Apple Pay credentials live). The key doesn't travel through our servers. Not the key, not the seed it came from.
Trust is invited, and only opens once both sides accept.
You can invite a trusted household two ways: scan a QR code in person, or send an invite to their phone number. Either way, the connection doesn't open until the other household has explicitly accepted it on their phone. No public discovery, no auto-add, no strangers slipping in.
Names. Notes. Addresses. Encrypted on your phone.
Kid names, tag notes, allergies, and home addresses are encrypted on your device with your household key before they leave your phone. Our servers store ciphertext; only the phones inside your trusted circle can read the contents. When a second adult joins your household, the existing member's phone re-wraps the key for them. We never hold a copy.
No data sales. No carrier feeds. Ever.
The free tier shows generic, non-targeted ads. Random as roadside billboards, not built from your data. Paid households are ad-free. Either way, we never sell data, never feed brokers, never call anyone a "partner."
I built KidTag so that kindness could show up in one small, shared place. When Beck's mom taps my son in at her house, I see it; when he heads home, I see that too. No group text archaeology, no strangers, no ad business in the background. Just the adults who already love these kids, quietly letting each other know they made it, they're here, they're on their way. It's the oldest idea in the world, wrapped in a little bit of software: home is who's watching. I'm building this for my boys, and for your kids too.
What KidTag is. And isn't.
What KidTag is.
- A private tag-in/tag-out book for a small, trusted circle of families.
- End-to-end encrypted. Only phones inside your circle can read the content.
- A soft notification when your kid is tagged in or out of a trusted home.
- A simple activity log so the grown-ups know the rough shape of the day.
- Free for families who want it, with generic, untargeted ads. One small yearly fee removes them.
What KidTag isn't.
- A public tracker. Nothing you share is visible outside your invited circle. Not to us, not to the internet.
- A social network. There are no strangers, no feeds, no public profiles.
- An ad-targeted data business. Free-tier ads are random and untargeted. Your data is never the product.
- A school-wide or neighborhood-wide app. It's for your two-to-six trusted households.
- A surveillance tool for ex-partners, in-laws, or anyone your circle doesn't invite.
Quiet software for the people you trust.
The iOS app is in development now, with a public release planned for Spring 2026. An Android version follows shortly after. Leave your email below. We'll only use it to send one message, when the app is available to download on your platform.