Why we built it
About KeeperCircle
Every household runs on contacts that clutter up your frequent contact lists, aren't shared when they need to be, and lack context for why they're even there.
Got kids? Then you've had something like this following conversation.
Honey? Do you have Johnny's friend Jeffrey's dad's email? I thought he gave it to you last year at the little league game? Then you both search your contacts lists for a name you don't remember and isn't labeled that you mostly don't need cluttering up your typical contact list anyway; which is already filled with years of random names you don't even remember.
The school office. The backup pickup person. The dog walker. 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, your household needs them, not just whichever adult happened to maybe 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 are buried in one parent's phone, and the rest are lost in group texts or on school handouts headed for the recycling bucket. Now you can give them the right place. A private, shared contact list that belongs to your household, along with categorization and if you want to, notes on how you met or other history.
Not just an address book
Your phone's address book is built for people you contact all the time, which is useful, but not the best home for a household's shared contacts. Most tools built for managing contacts are sales relationship tools for 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.
That means contacts 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 made this?
KeeperCircle is built by parents and a small independent company in the United States. It's focused on 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!
