Teen location app
You want to know your teen is safe. They want you to trust them. KinLink gives you both, without a live tracking screen that makes everyone uncomfortable.
Most teen location apps are built around a live map. A dot. Your kid's dot, moving around on a screen you can watch at any time. It works, technically. But it changes something.
Teenagers who know they're being watched in real-time feel it differently than teenagers who know their parent gets a notification when they arrive somewhere safe. The first feels like surveillance. The second feels like reasonable family communication.
KinLink is built around the second model.
You create a Places Mesh: a collection of named geo-fences around the places in your teen's life. Home, school, their best friend's house, the part-time job, the soccer field. As they move through their world, KinLink sends you a notification when they arrive or leave one of these places. That's it.
You never need to open the app. When you do need more than a passive notification, you can request a check-in with one tap. Your teen taps once to send back their location, an optional note, and an optional photo.
And when their check-in comes from somewhere new, you can turn that exact location into a Place with one tap. The mesh grows naturally as part of normal use.
KinLink requires active consent from your teen. They install the app, enter an invite code you share, and then enter a PIN you set separately. Both are required. There's no silent tracking. Your teen knows they're paired with you, which is exactly how it should be.
Join the waitlist and be first to know when KinLink lands on the App Store on July 1, 2026.
Free · No credit card · Launching July 1 on iOS
