Getting started

Kinnomy takes about a minute to set up, and a little longer to fill in. This guide covers the first ten minutes and the first week.

Go to Start free and enter your name, your email, a password and a name for your household, like “The Rivera home”. You can change the household name later.

Every new household starts with 30 days of Household+ free, with no card needed. When the 30 days end, your household moves to the Free plan. Nothing is deleted: paid modules become read-only until someone upgrades.

After you create your account you are signed in and taken to the app, where your household is waiting with the name you chose.

1. Add the people. Open People and invite the adults and teens by email link or with your household’s 6-character join code. Add young children and grandparents as profiles without a login. See Inviting your household.
2. Tell the house this week’s plan. Type a sentence like “Soccer practice Thursday at 5:30pm, Sarah needs to bring snacks” and review the plan it drafts. Nothing is saved until you press Save. See Tell the house.
3. Fill in the Emergency card. Your address, emergency contacts, each person’s medical notes, insurance policy numbers, utility shutoffs and pets. It prints on one page and it is free on every plan.
4. Add the bills. In Money, add each repeating bill with its amount, due date, who pays and how it splits. When one is paid, tap Mark paid and the next one is scheduled. See Bills and splits.
5. Start the household memory. Write the wifi and trash day into the house manual, and add your plumber and doctor as contacts. The household checklist lists 40 things worth writing down.

• Add a few photos to Photos, so everyone has something to react to. See Photos and albums.
• Add your pets, with their vet and who feeds them when. See Pets.
• Ask everyone to start a wishlist before the next birthday. See Gifts and wishlists.
• Run the setup assistant for a ready home maintenance schedule and starter chores. See Setup assistant.
• Turn on phone notifications on each phone. See Phone notifications.

Kinnomy runs in your browser, on phones and desktops. On a phone you can add it to your home screen so it opens like an app: use your browser’s share or menu button and choose the option to add to the home screen. There is no native iPhone or Android app yet.

The app comes in light and dark, with 11 themes, 8 accent colors or your own, fonts that are easy to read and text from 85% to 150%. Each person sets their own; see Personal settings. This website has light and dark too: it follows your device until you choose, and the moon or sun button at the top of any page switches it (on a phone, open the menu and use the Dark mode switch). Your choice is saved on this device.

Once a few bills, tasks and events are in, ask the Brain “What’s going on this week?” or “Give me a household health check”. It answers from your own records and shows the steps it took. See Asking the Brain.

Use Sign in at the top of any page on this site. If you forget your password, the sign-in page can email you a link to set a new one.

• Roles and permissions, so everyone sees the right things.
• The documents vault, for the lease, the policies and the warranties.
• Export and delete, because your data is yours.