Why we built it
About KeeperCircle
Every household runs on contacts nobody wants in their phone.
The school front office. The backup pickup person. The neighbor with the spare key. The plumber who actually shows up. The parents of your kids' friends. These aren't people you call every day, or even every week or month. But when you need them, you need them now, and your household needs them, not just whichever adult happened to save the number. Not every thing is easy to find online. Especially specific relationships when you're not even sure of the names! (Such as your daughter's friends Mom Susan for whom you only have her first name and phone you quickly entered last month at the school event.
Today those contacts live in the wrong places. Some are buried in one parent's phone, and the rest are lost in group texts or on school handouts headed for the recycling bucket. KeeperCircle exists to give them the right place, a private, shared contact list that belongs to your household, along with sensible categorization and if you want to, notes on when / how you met or other pertinent history.
Not just an address book
Your phone's address book is personal and built for the people you contact all the time, which is useful, but it's not really the best home for a household's shared, occasional contacts. Most tools built for managing lots of contacts are sales relationship type tools, designed businesses rather than families. KeeperCircle is about the household contact layer. Contacts belong to the household instead of one person, they carry context instead of bare numbers, and the whole thing is private by design.
That means every contact can hold what actually matters to a family, like which child it connects to, how the household member is connected to that contact, what role it plays, and the notes only your household should see. And every adult in the household can find any of it without yet again trying to figure out who, (if anyone), kept a number or email. Or remember if the last plumber who fixed that broken pipe did a good job or not.
What we believe
Your family's information is yours. We don't sell contact data. We don't hand it to advertisers. Private notes stay private, even when you share a contact. The free plan shows ads on non-sensitive pages. The paid plan removes ads entirely.
Who's behind it
KeeperCircle is built by parents and a small independent company in the United States. It's focused on doing one thing well, keeping your household's contacts organized, shared, and private. The goal is to ease the burden of the few minutes or more of annoyance that happen many times per week just trying to track down basic contact information. We found this frustrating and decided to do something about it for ourselves and others!
