Nuthatch Family is a private, end-to-end encrypted home base for the people you love most — shared lists, notes, meal plans, and chat that sync across everyone's devices. No ads. No tracking. No corporation reading your life.
Every "free" family app, group chat, and shared-list service has the same business model: read everything you put into it, build a profile on you and your kids, and sell access to your attention. Nuthatch Family is the opposite by design — we literally cannot read your data, because it's encrypted on your device before it ever leaves.
Your lists, notes, meal plans, and messages are locked with the same encryption banks and governments trust — right on your phone, before they sync. The server only ever holds scrambled ciphertext.
There's no ad network, no analytics company, and no algorithm deciding what your family sees. We don't build a profile on you because we have nothing to build it from. Your family's life isn't inventory to sell.
Nuthatch Family is offline-first: the real copy of your family's life lives on your own devices and syncs when it can. The server is a dumb relay that forwards sealed envelopes — not a vault of your secrets waiting to be breached.
Big social networks bury the people you actually care about under strangers, outrage, and ads. Nuthatch Family flips it: a tiny, private network where every member is someone you love and every post is something that actually matters to your household.
It's the group chat, the shared calendar, the fridge whiteboard, and the recipe box — all in one warm, personalized space that belongs only to your family.
Shared lists — groceries, to-dos, and packing lists everyone can edit at once, instantly in sync.
Notes — the family info that always gets lost, finally in one place everyone can find.
Meal plans — plan the week's dinners together, with a chat for each meal.
Family chat — real-time conversation that no advertiser, no stranger, and no algorithm ever touches.
No app store required, no account to sell. Start a family, invite the people in it, and everything stays between you.
Open Nuthatch Family in any browser and add it to your home screen — it installs like a native app on any phone or computer. Your encryption keys are created on your device and never leave it.
Send a private invite to family members. When they join, the key to your family is handed device-to-device through a sealed handshake the server can never read.
Make lists, plan meals, jot notes, and chat — all in real time, all in sync, even offline. It just works, and it stays yours.
Nuthatch Family is built so that we can't read your data — but everyone inside your family can. There's one shared key, so every member on every family device can see all of your family's lists, notes, and chats. That's exactly what makes it feel like a shared home, and it's why you should only invite people you genuinely trust, and keep your logged-in devices protected.
It's superb at keeping advertisers, data brokers, and snoops out of your family's everyday life. It is not designed to hide secrets from someone who can seize or unlock one of your devices. Strong privacy, honestly described.
Read the full security storyFree to start, nothing to install from an app store, and nobody reading over your shoulder. Just your family — the way it should be.
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