KinNestGetting started with KinNest
Three things get you set up: create your account, set your app-lock PIN, and add your first entry. Here is what each one does, and why.
Create your account
There are three ways in. Pick one, and you are signed in.
- Continue with Google. The quickest way. You use your Google account, and there is nothing more to verify.
- Create an account. You give an email and a password. We send a 6-digit code to that email so you can confirm the address is yours.
- Sign in. For when you already have an account. This door never creates a new one, so a mistyped address is turned away, instead of quietly becoming an empty account.
Google, create an account, or sign in.
If you signed up with an email and password, we send a 6-digit code. Type it in. Too many wrong tries retire that code, never your account.
Your name, your date of birth, and the country you live in. You need to be 18 or older.
Set your app-lock PIN
Before you can use the KinNest app on Android, you set a 6-digit PIN. It is not optional there. On the web there is no PIN.
The PIN is a second lock, after your account sign-in. You type it each time you open the app. On the web your sign-in and two-step do that job instead, so sign out when you finish on a computer other people use.
- It belongs to your account, not the phone. Change it on one phone and the change reaches your others.
- Fingerprint or face unlock is convenience only. It sits on top of the PIN and is never the security by itself.
- A wrong PIN only slows you down. The app waits a little longer after each wrong try, and nothing is ever wiped.
- You can unlock with no signal. Unlocking never needs the internet, so being on a plane or out of range never locks you out.
Add your first entry
An entry is a pointer to one thing you own. You write what it is, where to find it, and a short note.
Property, gold, a bank account, insurance, a locker, and more. The kind you pick shapes the fields you fill in.
What the thing is, where to find it, and a note in your own words. A reference number is kept short, usually the last four digits.
A photo or two so someone can recognise the thing. The front of a passbook, the door of a locker. We recommend leaving passwords and PINs out of photos and keeping credentials separately.
Each entry is stamped with a tamper-evident SHA-256 seal when you save. If an entry is ever altered behind your back, the seal shows it, and your family are told so on that entry rather than being handed it as though nothing had happened.
- YESWhat the thing is, and where to find it
- YESYour note, in your own words
- YESA photo or two, to help someone recognise it
- YESA short reference, kept to the last few digits
- NOWe recommend keeping passwords, PINs and login credentials separately.
- NOMoney — KinNest holds no funds
- NOAny connection to your bank
- NORecords and documents can contain sensitive information. Choose carefully what you add and share.
KinNest brings your records, documents and wishes together for the people you trust.
How your record is protected, and what is coming
Your record is encrypted in transit and at rest with AES-256, kept behind strict server-side access rules, and stored only in India. We do not read your record — that is a rule we keep. We are not yet at end-to-end encryption, which would put your record beyond our reach entirely. We are building towards that. On the day it is true, we will say so, and not before.
Once you are set up
These are the next few things worth doing, once your first entry is saved.
Name who to reach
Choose who can reach your record. You decide whether to tell them now, or only if something ever happens to you.
One tap, now and then
A quick tap tells us you are fine. A single missed day does nothing; only a long silence eventually reaches the people you named.
Leave a few words
Write a short, personal message. It is delivered with the record, so your family reads it in your own words.