Remember their birthday, and their daughter’s too.
Kindred Contact is an app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch that remembers the dates and the people that matter to your clients, colleagues, and friends. It reads birthdays from your contacts, keeps the anniversaries and family you hear about, and gives you a friendly alert on the day or the day before.
A heads-up when it counts, at a time that suits you.
Choose an alert on the day, the day before, or both, at the time you pick. “Shea turns 40 today.” “Emma’s birthday is tomorrow (Shea’s child).”
Tap the alert and their page opens, ready for you to call or send a note.Coming in 1.2
Birthdays
Read from their contact card, with the age they're turning worked out for you.
Anniversaries
A wedding or a work anniversary, kept with the person.
Their children's birthdays
Kept on the parent's page, so you can ask how the party went.
Dates of your own
A graduation, a launch, a first day: any date you want to remember for them.
Upcoming dates on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch.
A Month widget shows your month at a glance, and Today keeps birthdays and dates together.Coming in 1.2
Remember their family, not just their name.
Write “her daughter Adelaide just turned 6” and Kindred offers to add Adelaide, connected to her parent. Her age becomes a birth year, so it’s still right next year.
- Partners, children, parents, friends, even “his boss Priya”.
- The spouse and children on their contact card are offered as connections, and notes know more kinds of relationship, from fiancés and business partners to mentors and in-laws.Coming in 1.2
- On a Mac, the free Kindred for Messages notices when you wish someone a happy birthday in Messages and offers to remember the date.Coming in 1.2
- Read on your device, and added only when you tap Add. They stay in Kindred, out of your address book.
“That was Saturday. Ask how it went.”
Not every date is a birthday. When someone tells you they’re moving, starting a new job, or running a marathon, note it with the day. Kindred brings it up as something to ask about, around the day it happens.
Each day, Kindred suggests one person you’d enjoy hearing from, with a warm reason to reach out: something they told you, an interest you share, or a link you saved for them. Never a list, and never a count.
Kindred for client relationships →Questions about birthdays and dates
How can I remember my clients' and friends' birthdays?
Kindred reads birthdays from your contact cards and alerts you on the day, the day before, or both, at a time you choose. It also keeps anniversaries, their children's birthdays, and dates of your own, all on the person's page.
Can I get a reminder the day before a birthday?
Yes. Choose the day before, the day itself, or both. Alerts come at the reminder time you pick. A tap on the alert opens that person's page. (Coming in Kindred 1.2.)
Can Kindred remember the birthdays of someone's children?
Yes. Add a child's birthday on the parent's page and you'll get an alert like any other. If you only know an age from a note, like "just turned 6", Kindred keeps their age right over the years but doesn't alert on a guessed date.
Will Kindred change the birthdays in my contacts?
Not on its own. Kindred reads birthdays from Apple Contacts. If you edit a birthday inside Kindred, that edit is saved to the person's iCloud contact card, and nowhere else.
Can Kindred use the family on someone's contact card?
Yes. The spouse and children in a card's Related Names are offered on that person's page as connections, one at a time. Ignore one and it stays ignored on every device. (Coming in Kindred 1.2.)
Can it remind me about things people tell me, not just birthdays?
Yes. Note something with a date, like a move or a new job, and Kindred brings it up as a reason to reach out around that day, with something to ask about.
Are the alerts private?
With Kindred's Face ID or Touch ID lock on, alerts say what kind of day it is but not whose. Everything else stays on your devices and in your own iCloud.
How much does it cost?
It's free to download and free for 14 days. Then one purchase of $29.99 unlocks Kindred on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, with Family Sharing. No subscription.
Be the one who remembers.
Your contacts already have the birthdays. Kindred makes sure you see them in time.