Kin: Family Video Calls
Devesh Patel Social Networking iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Kin: Family Video Calls is a free Social Networking app for iPhone and iPad by Devesh Patel. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 26, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 124 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Oct 26
- 2026 · v1.0.4
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About Kin: Family Video Calls
Kin makes every video call feel like they’re right in your room. Tap a face and their phone rings. Studio-clear spatial voice brings every word, laugh and breath up close, and you never stare at yourself: only their face fills your screen. Every call is end-to-end encrypted. EASY TO CALL • Your people are faces on your home screen, with their first names. Tap one to call. • Video or voice calls, between iPhone, iPad and Mac. • Calls ring even when Kin is closed or your phone is locked. • Missed a call? Tap Call back. • Share your Kin handle or your invite link, and they can call you. MADE FOR FACE TO FACE • Clear voice: Kin cleans up every voice right on the phone, so the people you call sound clear and close. • No self view: you look at them, not at yourself. Want a quick look? See yourself for five seconds. • Pause: one tap pauses your picture and voice together. • Group calls: add someone, up to four of you. • Spatial audio: with headphones, voices come from where people are. • The screen stays on during a call, upright or sideways. TOGETHER • Watch together: a video in step on both phones, or a countdown to press play at the same moment. • Share your screen, and point or draw on what they share. • Keep the last 30 seconds: save the end of a call as one clip, only for you. • Record a call: it stays locked inside Kin, on your device. The other person always sees when anything is recorded. WHEN THEY CAN'T PICK UP • Leave a voice note or a video message of any length. • Free to talk: let your people know you're free right now. • Drop-in calls: if you both switch it on, Kin rings you both when you're both free. • Wake-up message: wake someone with your voice instead of a ringtone, if they allow it. • Auto-answer: for your closest people, a call opens after a countdown you can cancel. Only when you both switch it on. SAFE BY DEFAULT • Strangers can't call you. They can send one short request video, and you decide. • A video from someone new starts blurred and silent until you tap it. • Block or report anyone, any time. • Lock Kin with Face ID. • Delete my Kin handle removes your account and its data. PRIVATE Calls, voice notes and video messages are end-to-end encrypted, locked with keys only the two of you hold, so we can never see or hear them. Read the encryption code aloud: the same code on both screens means nobody is in the middle. No ads and no tracking. Kin runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later. Questions? [email protected]
What’s new
Version 1.0.4 · Updated October 26, 2026
Smoother calls on weak and far-away connections: steadier voice and pictures that recover faster when the network is busy. The Recording sign now shows only while a call is really being recorded.
App privacy
The developer, Devesh Patel, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID, User ID
- Usage Data: Other Usage Data
- Contact Info: Email Address
- Contacts: Contacts
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Audio Data, Other User Content
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality, Other Purposes
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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