Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Serhii, an iOS developer. Hearthkin started as two things at once: I wanted to find out whether I could ship a real app on my own, end to end — and I wanted something genuinely useful for my own family while I did it. No dramatic origin story. I just kept looking at what exists for households and finding it was either a tracking app built for keeping tabs on teenagers, or a general-purpose tool where the family stuff drowns in everything else. A household doesn't need a feed, a social graph, or a location history. It needs about five things, always visible. So Hearthkin opens to who's home. Under that sits a shared note, the family list, the dates nobody wants to be the one to forget, and your HomeKit status in a line. Cards speak up when something's new and step aside when they're empty. There's a Home Screen widget so most days you never open the app at all. On privacy: presence is home-or-away only — no trail, no history. No third-party analytics or ad SDKs. HomeKit data is handled on-device by Apple and never reaches my servers. The design goal was to feel like it came with the phone. Everything is native SwiftUI on iOS 26, and I spent an embarrassing amount of time on things nobody will consciously notice. Free, iPhone, iOS 26. I'd love to hear what your household currently duct-tapes together for this — group chat, shared notes, a whiteboard on the fridge? And what's the one thing you'd want on that first screen?

Hearthkin

One private app for everything your household shares

One private app for everything your household shares