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I'm the developer of Kinship Vault. Happy to take honest critique in the comments.

Kinship Vault: the one folder you'll never have to dig for

A- Answer

Kinship Vault is an offline iOS app that keeps every document your household actually needs — IDs, health cards, vaccination records, wills, membership cards, travel docs, private photos — in one Face ID-locked, AES-256 encrypted vault. Nothing leaves your phone unless you choose to back it up to your own iCloud with your own key.

Don't just trust a screenshot. Here's a short demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ue-hqWcxys02PCsxiFzHPJYX7kffMkA2/view?usp=sharing

Details are blurred to hide real data.

App: https://apps.apple.com/app/kinship-vault/id6764678332

B- Better

Most family-document apps quietly assume you'll hand your identity to a database in a building you'll never see. Kinship Vault doesn't. There's no server holding your IDs, no cloud login to phish, no future breach with your name in it.

Concrete moments it earns its keep:

• DMV asks for your SSN card and a second proof of address. Three taps, both on screen.
• Urgent care after a kitchen accident — insurance card, health card, last tetanus date, all ready.
• Kindergarten registration closes Friday: vaccination records, birth certificate, two proofs of residency, custody agreement.
• Standing at the Costco entrance with your wallet on the kitchen counter. Same for AAA, library card, gym tag, loyalty cards.
• Landing in a tiny Iceland town with zero bars — hotel confirmation, passport copy, travel insurance number, emergency line. No signal needed.
• Private gallery for scans, receipts, journal pages, or photos you don't want iCloud fanning out to three iPads and a partner.

You scanned something you'd rather keep close: an old document, a receipt, a sensitive note, a page from your journal, photos you don't want iCloud quietly fanning out to three iPads and a partner. You want them encrypted, biometric-locked, and nowhere near the regular camera roll.

Kinship Vault has a private gallery built for exactly that.

What it holds:

• Government documents. Passports, driver's licenses, Social Security cards, birth certificates, REAL IDs, immigration paperwork, work permits, visas, naturalization records.

• Health. Insurance cards, provincial health cards, vaccination records, the kids' immunization history, prescription lists, allergy notes, specialist referrals, growth charts.

• Travel. Itineraries, hotel confirmations, boarding passes, visa copies, travel insurance, embassy contacts, anything you want on hand when foreign data plans let you down.

• Finance. Account numbers, IRA paperwork, tax returns, mortgage documents, the receipts and warranties for big purchases.

• Legal. Wills, advance directives, custody agreements, marriage certificates, property deeds, lease agreements.

• Membership cards. Costco, Sam's Club, AAA, the gym tag, library cards (yours and the kids'), loyalty cards, every plastic rectangle that's been fattening your wallet for years.

• Private gallery. The receipts, the scans, the screenshots of password-reset codes, the photos you'd really rather keep out of the family camera roll.

• Legacy. Final wishes, accounts no one knows about, crypto seed phrases, the cryptic note that explains where you actually hid the spare key.

How it works:

• Smart Card Scan. Aim your camera at a driver's license or health card and the fields fill themselves in seconds.

• Expiry tracking. Find out your passport is about to lapse before the airline does it for you.

• Recovery Network & Recovery Passphrase. Someone you trust can still get in, even on the day you can't.

• Emergency Contacts. The people who can reach the essentials without seeing everything else.  

• Lock-Screen Widget. A boarding pass, a medical card, or an emergency contact, one tap from a sleeping phone. Nudging you to store emergency information in Apple Medical ID

• Offline by design. Works at 30,000 feet, on a mountain trail, in a hospital basement, and through every airport WiFi captive portal you've ever sworn at.

Why offline :

Nothing leaves your phone unless you say so. There's no Kinship server holding your IDs, no cloud login for someone to phish, no future breach with your name buried in it. Most family-document apps quietly assume you'll hand your identity to a database in a building you'll never see.This one never asks you to.

Want a backup? You own it: encrypted into your own iCloud, with your key, on your terms.

C - Cost

For early users I've set a launch price: lifetime Premium for $3.99, paid once, no subscription.

Link : https://apps.apple.com/redeem/?ctx=offercodes&id=6764678332&code=KEEPSAFE399

Hope it saves someone a drawer-search someday. Happy to answer questions in the comments, including the boring ones about encryption and recovery.

Website : https://kinshipvault.app

Don't just believe the screenshot, see it in action. Link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ue-hqWcxys02PCsxiFzHPJYX7kffMkA2/view?usp=sharing

Disclaimer : Details are blurred to hide real data.

Now if you want to read about it.

Kinship Vault : The folder you can never lose.

There's a moment every household knows. The frantic search through drawers, wallets, and email inboxes for a passport, an insurance card, a vaccination record, a will, a password, at the exact moment you need it most.

Kinship Vault is the offline vault built for those moments. Important documents, immigration paperwork, health cards, kids' medical history, private photos, travel essentials, the wallet of cards you swore you'd digitize one day, and the things you'd want your family to find later. All in one place. All findable in 5 seconds. All locked behind Face ID and AES-256 encryption.

Reach for it when…

You're at the DMV and they want your Social Security card and a second proof of address. Three taps. Both there.

You're at urgent care after slicing your hand on a kitchen tile. They want your insurance card, your health card, and your last tetanus shot date. All three are in.

Your kid spikes a 104 fever at 2am and you're in the ER parking lot trying to remember her allergies and where the insurance card is.

Kindergarten enrollment closes Friday at 4pm. The school wants vaccination records back to age zero, the birth certificate, two proofs of residency, and the custody agreement.

You're standing at the Costco entrance. Your membership card is in the wallet that's still on the kitchen counter. Also AAA. Also the library card. Also the gym tag. Also that one loyalty card that gives you the third coffee free. All of them. On your phone.

You land in a small town in Iceland with no signal and need your hotel confirmation, your passport copy, the travel insurance number, and the local emergency line. Kinship Vault doesn't need the internet. Nothing it shows you is going through a server.

The kennel calls at 6pm Friday asking for the dog's rabies certificate from a vet visit two summers ago. It's in your Health folder.

You scanned an old document, a receipt, a sensitive note, a page from your journal, photos you'd rather your iCloud auto-sync didn't share with three iPads and a partner. You want them safe, biometric-locked, encrypted, and out of the regular camera roll. Kinship Vault has a private gallery built in.

What it holds:

• Government documents. Passports, driver's licenses, Social Security cards, birth certificates, REAL IDs, immigration paperwork, work permits, visas, naturalization records.

  • Health. Insurance cards, provincial health cards, vaccination records, the kids' immunization history, prescription lists, allergy notes, specialist referrals, growth charts.

  • Travel. Itineraries, hotel confirmations, boarding passes, visa copies, travel insurance, embassy contacts, anything you want offline when foreign data plans betray you.

  • Finance. Account numbers, IRA paperwork, tax returns, mortgage documents, big-purchase receipts and warranties.

  • Legal. Wills, advance directives, custody agreements, marriage certificates, property deeds, lease agreements.

  • Membership cards. Costco, Sam's Club, AAA, gym tag, library cards (yours and the kids'), loyalty cards, every plastic rectangle that's been bulging your wallet for years.

  • Private gallery. The receipts, the scans, the screenshots of password-reset codes, the photos you really don't want in the family camera roll.

  • Legacy. Final wishes, secret accounts, crypto seed phrases, the cryptic note that explains where you actually hid the spare key.

How it works:

  • Smart Card Scan. Point your camera at a driver's license or health card and the fields fill themselves in seconds.

  • Expiry tracking. Know when your passport will lapse before the airline tells you.

  • Recovery Network & Recovery Passphrase. A trusted person can get in even if you can't.

  • Emergency Contacts. People who can reach the essentials without seeing the rest.

  • Lock-Screen Widget. Boarding pass, medical card, or emergency contact, one tap from sleep.

  • Offline by design. Works at 30,000 feet, on a mountain trail, in a hospital basement, and any airport WiFi captive portal you've ever cursed at.

Why offline.

Your documents never leave your phone unless you decide. No Kinship server holds your IDs. No cloud account someone could phish, no breach with your name in it. Other family-document apps mostly assume you'll trust your identity to a remote database. This one doesn't.

If you want a backup, you control it: encrypted into your own iCloud, your key, your choice.

Quick heads up: First 100 people get lifetime Premium for $3.99. Regular price is $39.99/mo. Code's live for a week. Link below.

https://apps.apple.com/redeem/?ctx=offercodes&id=6764678332&code=KEEPSAFE399

Hope it saves you a drawer-search someday.

We just went live on Product Hunt today and would love your eyes on it: https://www.producthunt.com/products/kinship-vault?launch=kinship-vault

What it is:

Kinship Vault is an encrypted document vault for the stuff your family actually needs in an emergency: passports, IDs, health cards, insurance, wills, deeds, tax forms. Everything is encrypted on-device with AES-256-GCM, master keys are wrapped by the Secure Enclave, and the local DB sits behind SQLCipher.

What makes it different from "just another password manager for documents":

- Schema-driven OCR for 100+ document types worldwide. Not generic text extraction. We parse fields out of Ontario Health Cards, Pakistan CNIC, Canadian / US / EU / Japan passports, MRZ, AAMVA driver's licenses, US 1040, EU Pet Passport, Apostille certificates, and more. 113 schemas and counting.

- Three recovery paths, no single point of failure.

- BIP39 passphrase (solo)

- Shamir secret sharing via QR codes, printable PDF cards, or files (default 3-of-5 with your trusted circle)

- Dead Man's Switch (inactivity-triggered release of a final shard)

- Tamper-evident audit ledger. Hash-chained, verifiable. Every access is logged.

- Panic mode. Duress PIN + auto-wipe after N failed attempts (default 10).

- Document expiry reminders at 90 / 30 / 7 / 1 days. The thing you'll actually open every month, not just a doomsday vault.

- Emergency profile + ICE contacts that work without unlocking the full vault, for medical situations.

Honest framing on cloud: there's an optional iCloud backup target, but the blob is fully encrypted on-device before it leaves. Ciphertext-only. You hold the keys.

Pricing: Free for 3 IDs. Pro unlocks unlimited documents and all categories (monthly, annual, or lifetime).

I would genuinely appreciate upvotes, comments, and especially honest feedback on the PH page. Happy to answer anything technical here too: crypto choices, recovery model, schema coverage, threat model.

Thanks!

You know those moments when you suddenly need a document right now and have no idea where it is.

Boarding in three hours and you realize the passport expires in five months. A clinic asks for an insurance card you haven't seen since 2021.A renewal date quietly passes. Your pet's vaccination record is buried in old emails. Tax docs scattered across screenshots, PDFs, and random folders.

Every adult I know lives one bad day away from one of those moments. The documents that matter most are the ones we can never find on time.

I'm a solo iOS dev, and I just shipped Kinship Vault on the App Store. It's the app I wished existed for those moments.

Open the app once. It does the rest.

Point the camera at a passport, driver's licence, health card, tax form, pet passport, will, or deed. The app recognizes it across 113 document schemas spanning 30+ countries (Ontario Health Card, Pakistani CNIC, Japan My Number, Carte Vitale, US 1040, EU Pet Passport, AAMVA driver's licences). Fields are parsed in seconds. Photos and personal scans come along too. Nothing leaves your phone.

Renewals never ambush you again.

Quiet local reminders 90, 30, 7, and 1 day before anything expires. No server ever sees a date. The day you'd otherwise lose a passport at a border becomes a Tuesday email reminder three months earlier.  

A paramedic can help you while your phone is still locked.

Blood type, allergies, medications, ICE contacts on the lock screen.

Tappable in one second, even if you can't speak. The rest of your vault stays sealed. (Two-key architecture: a column key powers the widget; the master key, which protects document blobs, never touches the lock screen.)

There is no "forgot password" email, because there is no server.

Recovery is yours to design. A 24-word passphrase you write down once, or Shamir shards split across 5 people you trust. Any 3 can rebuild the key. Fewer than 3 learn nothing. Print them as PDF cards. Mail them to siblings. Hand one to your lawyer. Recovery happens between the people you already chose, not between you and a help desk.

The crypto is real and it is local.

SwiftUI + Swift Concurrency on top, SQLCipher (AES-256) underneath,libsodium AES-256-GCM for document blobs, Secure Enclave wrapping the master key so it physically cannot leave the chip. Optional iCloud backup is ciphertext before it ever leaves the device. I am the developer and I cannot read your data. I built it that way on purpose.

Tamper-evident audit ledger.

Every read, export, and share is hash-chained with SHA-256. The history cannot be quietly altered, by anyone, including a future-me with malicious intent.

Pricing

• Free: 3 ID documents
• Pro: monthly, annual, or lifetime
• Lifetime exists because asking people to subscribe to a vault felt wrong. Pay once, keep it forever.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/kinship-vault/id6764678332

Site: https://kinshipvault.app/

I would genuinely love feedback from this sub: architecture, the UX, the threat model, the onboarding, anything.  

You know those moments when you suddenly need a document right now and have no idea where it is.

You're leaving for a trip and suddenly realize nobody remembers where the hotel bookings, itineraries, visa details, passport copies, or travel documents were saved. Someone at a clinic asks for an insurance card. A renewal date quietly passes because nobody remembered it existed. You get asked for ID at a store and realize your physical driver's licence is sitting at home. Your pet's vaccination record is buried somewhere in old emails. Tax documents are split between screenshots, PDFs, and random folders.

The documents that matter most are usually scattered across drawers, screenshots, PDFs, email attachments, and random folders.

So I built Kinship Vault.

I'm a solo developer and I just launched it on the App Store. The goal was simple: make personal and family records easy to store, easy to retrieve, and private by default.

Getting started is simple.
Point your camera at a passport, driver's licence, health card, tax form, pet passport, or other document. The app automatically reads and organizes the fields for you.

It supports 100+ document types across 30+ countries including Ontario Health Cards, US passports, Pakistani CNICs, Japan My Number cards, Carte Vitale, tax forms, and even your photos which you don't want to put publicly on phone or on icloud.

Everything is encrypted on device before storage. Nothing is uploaded to cloud without encryption of data and that too after your approval. In case you change the device or lose it your data remains encrypted on cloud, so just collect your key parts or use your pass phrase to download and decrypt the backup.

The reminders are surprisingly useful.
Passports, licences, visas, insurance cards, pet records, and other documents quietly expire all the time.

Kinship Vault sends private reminders before important dates so renewals stop becoming last minute surprises.

Designed for quick access when needed.
You can securely store medical details, emergency contacts, allergies, medications, and other essential information in a lock screen accessible emergency profile while keeping the rest of the vault protected.

Built with privacy first.
The app uses Secure Enclave backed encryption and SQLCipher AES-256 storage. The encryption keys never leave your device.

Even optional iCloud backups are encrypted before upload, which means I as the developer cannot access your data.

Recovery without depending on a company.
This is my favourite part. You can set up trusted recovery contacts using encrypted recovery shards(the broken part of your key) so you are not locked out forever if you lose access to your device. But you would need all copies to stitch together the key to unlock. Other way is to save you 24 words passphrase copy and use that to access your key.

Audit history built in.
Reads, exports, and shares are logged with tamper resistant history tracking so you can always see vault activity.

A few tradeoffs:

• iOS only for now and android is in progress( with StrongBox Keymaster) because Secure Enclave support mattered more to me than cross platform support
• Free tier includes 3 ID documents
• Pro has monthly, annual, and lifetime options
• Lifetime exists because subscriptions for document storage felt a little unfair

Would genuinely love feedback, criticism, UX suggestions, or ideas I missed.

Site: https://kinshipvault.app/
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/kinship-vault/id6764678332

You know those moments when you suddenly need a document right now and have no idea where it is.

You're leaving for a trip and suddenly realize nobody remembers where the hotel bookings, itineraries, visa details, passport copies, or travel documents were saved. Someone at a clinic asks for an insurance card. A renewal date quietly passes because nobody remembered it existed. You get asked for ID at a store and realize your physical driver's licence is sitting at home. Your pet's vaccination record is buried somewhere in old emails. Tax documents are split between screenshots, PDFs, and random folders.

The documents that matter most are usually scattered across drawers, screenshots, PDFs, email attachments, and random folders.

So I built Kinship Vault.

I'm a solo developer and I just launched it on the App Store. The goal was simple: make personal and family records easy to store, easy to retrieve, and private by default.

Getting started is simple.
Point your camera at a passport, driver's licence, health card, tax form, pet passport, or other document. The app automatically reads and organizes the fields for you.

It supports 100+ document types across 30+ countries including Ontario Health Cards, US passports, Pakistani CNICs, Japan My Number cards, Carte Vitale, tax forms, and even your photos which you don't want to put publicly on phone or on icloud.

Everything is encrypted on device before storage. Nothing is uploaded to cloud without encryption of data and that too after your approval. In case you change the device or lose it your data remains encrypted on cloud, so just collect your key parts or use your pass phrase to download and decrypt the backup.

The reminders are surprisingly useful.
Passports, licences, visas, insurance cards, pet records, and other documents quietly expire all the time.

Kinship Vault sends private reminders before important dates so renewals stop becoming last minute surprises.

Designed for quick access when needed.
You can securely store medical details, emergency contacts, allergies, medications, and other essential information in a lock screen accessible emergency profile while keeping the rest of the vault protected.

Built with privacy first.
The app uses Secure Enclave backed encryption and SQLCipher AES-256 storage. The encryption keys never leave your device.

Even optional iCloud backups are encrypted before upload, which means I as the developer cannot access your data.

Recovery without depending on a company.
This is my favourite part. You can set up trusted recovery contacts using encrypted recovery shards(the broken part of your key) so you are not locked out forever if you lose access to your device. But you would need all copies to stitch together the key to unlock. Other way is to save you 24 words passphrase copy and use that to access your key.

Audit history built in.
Reads, exports, and shares are logged with tamper resistant history tracking so you can always see vault activity.

A few tradeoffs:

• iOS only for now and android is in progress( with StrongBox Keymaster) because Secure Enclave support mattered more to me than cross platform support
• Free tier includes 3 ID documents
• Pro has monthly, annual, and lifetime options
• Lifetime exists because subscriptions for document storage felt a little unfair

Would genuinely love feedback, criticism, UX suggestions, or ideas I missed.

Site: https://kinshipvault.app/
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/kinship-vault/id6764678332