Invite-only & private
Your tree is invisible to the outside world. Only people you invite — and verify — ever see a single name.
Private, invite-only family treeTrack down
Track down
your family.Privately.
KinHound helps you hunt down every branch of your family — then build it together behind invite-only walls, with consent and security in the roots, not bolted on.
Web app live today · iOS & Android coming soon
Everything a family needs
Built for real families, not databases
Most family trees treat people like spreadsheet rows. KinHound treats them like family — with ownership, consent, and privacy in every record.
The hunt for relatives
Pick up the scent: search by name and place across WikiTree, Geni and more, then verify a match before anyone joins.
Consent-gated contact
Names and relationships are shared with the family. Phone and email stay private until the owner says yes.
Collaborative, with ownership
Anyone can add a relative — yet every person has an owner and delegates who control their own details.
Real genealogy modeling
Maternal vs paternal names, unions, adoptions, the deceased — modeled the way real families actually work.
Duplicate detection
Add someone who may already exist and KinHound flags the match — merge in a tap, no tangled branches.
The hunt · Kinfinder
Every family has a lost branch. Go find it.
KinHound earns its name. Kinfinder picks up the scent of relatives scattered across public genealogy sources — and brings the trail home to your tree.
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Catch the scent
Search by name, place and era — KinHound sniffs across WikiTree, Geni, MyHeritage and more.
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Follow the trail
Ranked matches with the evidence behind each one, so you can tell a real lead from a dead end.
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Make the catch
Verify, then send a private invite. Nothing enters your tree until a human confirms it.
Security & privacy
Your family isn't a product
KinHound is built privacy-first: invite-only access, consent-gated contact info, encrypted storage, and GDPR-aligned controls — designed in from the first migration, never bolted on.
Row-Level SecurityConsent engineEncrypted at restGDPR-alignedApple / Google sign-in
Invisible by default
Row-level security isolates every family. With no invite, there is nothing to see — not even that a tree exists.
A real consent engine
Contact details are released field-by-field, only when the person who owns that record approves the request.
Ownership & delegation
Each person has an owner; guardians and delegates get scoped edit rights. No free-for-all on anyone's data.
How it works
From a single name to a living tree
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Start or get invited
Spin up your family's private tree, or join with a one-time invite code from a relative.
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Build & explore
Add relatives and walk the living tree — search by name, browse the map, follow every branch.
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Pick up the scent
Let Kinfinder hunt across public genealogy sources. Review the evidence and verify before you add.
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The family grows
Invite a verified match. They claim their place, add their kin, and the tree keeps branching.
See it in action
Beautiful on every branch
Designed to feel like a keepsake, not a database. Here's the app your family will actually want to open.
Walk the living tree
Hunt with Kinfinder
Consent-gated profiles
Start hunting today
KinHound runs right in your browser now — start your tree in minutes. Native iOS and Android apps are on the way.
Coming soon to
the App Store
Coming soon to
Google Play
Works at app.kinhound.com
Part of the Kin family
Once you've found your people, there's the matter of what you leave them.
KinCoffer — a private legacy-management platform — picks up where the tree leaves off: wills, heirlooms, documents and memories, ready when family needs them.