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What is KinCircle?

Updated October 28, 2026

KinCircle is a private family care organizer from Opal IT that gives a family one shared place for a loved one's calendar, medications, notes, vitals, memories and documents. Each circle is built around one person, and roles decide who sees what. It costs $12 a month or $120 a year per circle.

KinCircle in brief

KinCircle is a private family care organizer, operated by Opal IT, for families looking after someone they love. Each circle is built around one Person in Care, and everyone helping can see the same picture: a shared calendar for appointments and visits, a medication list, notes and updates, vitals, memories, and important documents, all in one place.

Roles keep things simple and safe. The circle Owner decides who joins and what each person can see or change, so a sibling across the country, a neighbor who helps on Tuesdays, and the person managing appointments each get what they need.

KinCircle is built to be private. Important care information is encrypted at rest, customer data is never sold, and it is never used to train AI. There are no ads.

Pricing is $12 a month or $120 a year per circle. Each account gets one 30-day free trial, with no card required to start. Additional circles are paid at that price from the start.

Who it's for

KinCircle is for families who are already doing the work of caring for someone and are tired of keeping it all straight across texts, calls, sticky notes and memory. For example:

  • Adult children sharing the care of a parent, some nearby and some far away.
  • A spouse who is the main caregiver and wants the kids to stay in the loop without a dozen phone calls.
  • A family that relies on a friend or neighbor for some visits. That helper should see the schedule, but not everything else.

It is a family organizer. It is not a medical record, a monitoring service, or a substitute for a doctor, a pharmacist, or emergency services.

What's in a circle

A circle is the shared space for one loved one. Here is what the family keeps there:

  1. Home. A view of what needs doing today, so nobody has to rebuild the day from old messages.
  2. Calendar and visits. Appointments and visits in one calendar, with who is covering each one. When email is set up, the person assigned to a visit can get a reminder the day before and the morning of.
  3. Medications. One list with each medication's name, dose, schedule, instructions and prescribed purpose, as the family records them, plus a dose log where helpers mark a dose taken or skipped.
  4. Notes and feed. A timestamped feed for updates. A note can be marked caregivers-only so Viewers don't see it.
  5. Vitals. Readings the family records, shown as charts over time. These are for family coordination, not a diagnosis.
  6. Memories. A place for stories, special days and things worth keeping, separate from day-to-day care notes.
  7. Documents. A spot for the papers the family needs to find again, visible only to the roles allowed to open them.

The four roles

Everyone in a circle has a role. The role is why they are there, and it decides what they can see and do.

  • Owner. Looks after the circle so the family has one place that stays trustworthy. Invites people, keeps membership in order, and can restore items that were deleted.
  • Caregiver. Helps day to day: adds and updates care information, and can invite another Caregiver or a Viewer when more hands are needed.
  • Viewer. Stays informed without editing the circle. Reads what their role allows and can react to notes they are allowed to see.
  • Person in Care. The person the circle is for. With their own login, they can see the calendar, medications, contacts and vitals, mark their own doses taken, add their own vital readings and share memories. They don't see the family's behind-the-scenes notes, chat or documents.

Pricing

  • $12 a month per circle, billed monthly.
  • $120 a year per circle, billed yearly. That works out to $24 less than paying monthly for twelve months.
  • One 30-day free trial per account, with no card required to start. Additional circles are $12 a month or $120 a year from the start.

One circle covers one loved one. A family caring for two parents would set up two circles, and the second one is paid from the start.

Who runs KinCircle

KinCircle is operated by Opal IT. To reach a person, use the contact page on kincircle.care. The full privacy policy explains what is stored and who can see it.

Privacy, in plain words

  • KinCircle does not sell or rent customer data, and it does not use it for advertising.
  • KinCircle does not train AI models on customer data, and it does not send circle data to an AI service on its own.
  • Important care information is encrypted at rest. Names, email addresses and similar details are protected by sign-in, roles and a secure connection.
  • Outside services receive data only to run the product, or as required by law, and each one gets only what its job needs.

The person who set up your circle (the Owner) can connect an AI assistant your family already uses. It sees only what the person the Owner picked can see, and it can only look, except one set up for Mom herself, which can do a few things for her, like mark her medicine taken. Everything it does shows in the app as done by her assistant. The Owner can turn it off at any time. Tootie-bot, KinCircle's own AI companion made just for Mom, is on the way. The guide on AI assistants explains how it all works.

Using it on your phone

KinCircle runs in a web browser and can be added to your phone's home screen so it opens like an app. On an iPhone, open it in Safari, tap Share, then "Add to Home Screen." On Android, open it in Chrome, tap the menu, then "Add to Home screen" or "Install app."

How families do this in KinCircle

A typical start looks like this:

  1. One family member creates an account and a circle, and becomes the Owner. The 30-day trial starts with no card.
  2. The Owner (or a Caregiver) sends one-time invite links and picks Caregiver or Viewer for each person. Only the Owner can invite the Person in Care.
  3. The family adds what they already know: upcoming appointments, the current medication list, a few notes, and any key papers.
  4. From then on, Home shows what needs doing today, and updates go in the feed instead of a group text.

For a fictional example: three adult children caring for their mother set up one circle. The sibling who lives closest is the Owner, the other two are Caregivers, and a family friend who drives her to a weekly appointment is a Viewer who can see the calendar.

Not medical advice

KinCircle is a family organizer, not medical advice, and not a substitute for a doctor, a pharmacist, or emergency services.

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