KinNestHow the handover works
KinNest reaches the people you named only after a long, careful sequence, never a single missed tap, and you can stop it at any point. Here is exactly how, day by day.
Your check-in keeps the clock at zero
KinNest watches for one thing: are you still around. It looks for a check-in from you.
A check-in is small. You open the app, you check in, and the clock resets to zero. That is proof that you are here.
As long as you keep checking in, nothing happens: your family is never contacted, and your record stays private to you.
If the check-ins stop, KinNest does not act right away. It moves up a slow ladder, giving you many chances to say you are fine before it ever reaches the people you named.
Only your own check-in counts. Nobody else can do it for you, and no report from anyone can be mistaken for it.
The ladder
You choose how long your window is — one month, two, or three — in Settings. The ladder below is the three-month default, and these are the exact day numbers KinNest uses for it. Every number moves with the window you pick: a one-month window asks your people on day 31, a two-month window on day 61.
For the first 83 days of silence, KinNest says nothing and does nothing. There is no reminder that implies something is wrong. If you check in on any of these days, the clock returns to zero and the 83 days begin again.
After 83 quiet days, KinNest sends you a reminder once a day for seven days. These reminders go to you and only to you. Your family hears nothing. A single check-in during this window ends it and resets the clock.
If you have still not checked in, KinNest asks the people you named to check on you in person. They are told you may need reaching. They are not told about your record, and they see nothing inside it.
If your primary nominee reports that you are gone, the record still does not open. A further 7 days of continued silence from you must pass first. At any point in those 7 days, your own check-in stops everything.
The backup nominee stays completely dormant until now. If the primary side has not resolved things by day 121, the backup is woken as a last resort. They are never contacted before this day.
A report never opens your record on its own
Being reported is not the same as being handed over. Two things stand between a report and your record.
First, the wait. When a nominee reports that you are gone, KinNest does not open anything. It starts a 7-day countdown. If you check in during those 7 days, the report is cancelled and the record stays shut.
Second, and above everything else, your own check-in outranks any report. However far the ladder has climbed, and even if someone has reported you gone, the moment you check in KinNest treats you as here, cancels what was in motion, and resets the clock.
Your own check-in always outranks a report, at any point on the ladder.
- YESStarts a 7-day wait for continued silence from you
- YESCan be cancelled by a single check-in from you
- YESIs a person saying they could not reach you, nothing more
- NOOpen your record the moment it is filed
- NOOverride your own check-in
- NOReach anyone before day 91
If your subscription lapses, the date stops moving
A stopped payment does not tell us what happened. It could be you cancelling, a relative cancelling, a card expiring — or something happening to you. So a lapse does not stop the handover. It stops the postponing.
When a subscription lapses, the record enters runoff. The clock keeps running, the ladder still advances, and on the fixed date we still ask the people you named to check on you. If they tell us they cannot reach you, your record goes to them seven days later.
What ends is your ability to move that date. It is fixed at the last check-in your subscription paid for, and a check-in no longer pushes it back. Subscribing again restores Check in eligibility. An eligible Check in is what moves the date. Editing freezes too — but deleting, naming a nominee and exporting all stay open, and nothing is ever deleted because a payment stopped.
Every runoff message says that we cannot tell who ended the subscription, and carries two doors: subscribe again, or pause the countdown. Pausing needs you signed in on your own device and confirming it there — never a link in an email. It is once per account, it changes nothing in your record, and subscription alone does not lift it. After subscribing again, you must Check in to start the watch again. We write straight away, then once a month, then every other day through the week before the date.
What your nominee actually receives
When a handover completes, eligible recipients can access the record prepared for them.
The record includes your entries, notes and supporting documents. Personal letters are included for their intended recipients.
They read it on the web at app.kinnest.in. There is no app to install. They sign in with the email you invited, and the record is there.
A nominee is not an heir. KinNest hands over the record of an asset, never ownership of it. Who inherits is decided by your family and the law, not by this app.
- YESWhat a thing is and where to find it
- YESYour personal message to each person
- YESSupporting documents and photos
- NOWe recommend keeping passwords, PINs and other access credentials separately.
- NOKinNest keeps supporting documents; it does not hold or move your money.
- NOAny connection to a bank
While you are alive, it stays yours
The handover only happens at the end of the ladder. Until then, your record is protected.
Your record is encrypted in transit and at rest with AES-256. It is stored only in India, in the asia-south1 region. Access is controlled by strict server-side rules. Every entry carries a tamper-evident SHA-256 seal, so if an entry is altered, it is flagged where your family read it rather than passed on quietly.
We do not read your record. That is a rule we keep.
What the seal does not do
The SHA-256 seal proves that an entry has not been altered. It does not make the entry secret. Today your record is not end-to-end encrypted, which means it is technically possible for the content to be seen on our side; our promise not to read it is a rule we keep, not something the maths yet prevents. We are building end-to-end encryption. We will describe it as protecting your content on the day that is true, and not before.