Our story

KeeperCircle started with our own kitchen counter. Between two parents' phones, a stack of school papers, an after school care group roster, camp friends, multiple group chats nobody could search, the people our household actually relied on - the pediatrician, the sitter, the coach, the plumber who finally showed up - were scattered everywhere and owned by no one. You know the drill. You meet one of your kids' friend's parents at an event and trade contact info. Maybe they should be in your phone contact list all the time. But either way, this is one of many. Sure, you can leave a short note in your phone. But really, these things grow over time. We wanted a way to make sure we maintained context and history and could share these contacts easily. And archive them away when they got old. (How many entries do you have in your phone where you don't even know who that person is? Or the outcome of using that organiation's services?)

We looked for a home for those contacts and found three kinds of tools: personal address books built for one phone, sales contact managers built for pipelines, and household management tools that do a ton of things like calendars and more, but nothing exeptionally well and certainly not good contact management. None of these really covered what a typoical family with one more kids seemed to need these days. So rather than bolt contacts onto another do-everything family app, we set out to build the one missing piece: a shared household contact layer that does that job well and leaves the rest alone. One extra we did add that fits is basic event tracking so we can all keep track of things like birthdays or other events. Not as a calendar app, (though you can add them to your calendar of course), but to keep track of things like attendees, gift giving and receiving, any notes, and similar.