Family photos, stories, chats and video calls
A private place for your family, on iPhone and iPad. Start your home, invite the people you love, and decide for yourself which homes sit at your table. Nothing is public. Nothing is for sale.
Who sees what
Every post goes to one ring, or to homes you pick. The rings are drawn around your home, by you.
Bath-time videos, report cards and the permission slip on the counter.
Family you’d have over for Sunday dinner. Most posts go here.
Family you love and see at weddings: great-aunts, cousins, the holiday-card list.
Your labels stay in your home. Whether a home is at your table or on your porch is your own choice. Other homes never see how you’ve labeled them, nobody is told when you change it, and they make their own private choice about you.
How it works
Families grow one home at a time. There’s no friend list and no sign-up page for strangers.
Sign in with Apple, name your home and add the people who live with you. Kids get accounts you manage.
Send your parents a link. They start a home of their own, linked to yours, and you choose privately whether it sits at your table or on your porch.
Their home makes its own private choice about yours. Neither home sees the other’s, and either can change it quietly later.
What’s in it
Posts
Stories
Chats and calls
Events
Kids
Simple mode
And more
Posts from this day in earlier years show up in your feed. Share your own again with one tap.
The newest photo on your Home Screen, and a card on your Lock Screen when the hearth is lit.
Homes your family is linked with can be suggested to you. Nothing links unless both homes say yes.
Someone moving out, a home splitting in two, or remembering someone who died. There’s a way for each.
Report a post to a person on our team, or block someone quietly. Nobody is told.
A kid whose parents live apart can belong to both homes, each with its own rules.
iPad
There’s a real iPad layout, from the feed to an event’s chat, album and map side by side. Turn an iPad into a hearth Frame and it plays Home and Table photos, never Porch. Pairing a spare iPad as a frame of its own is on the way.
We’re IdleFusion, a small studio, and we make hearth for families, not advertisers. We don’t sell ads or data, so none of this has to exist.
Privacy
Chats, video messages, calls and trip locations are encrypted on your devices. Nobody at hearth can read or watch them.
Table and Porch are your home’s own labels. Other homes are never told where they sit.
Photos and videos go only to homes you shared with, checked each time they’re viewed. Narrow a post and it’s gone from the others at once.
Every account starts from an invite or a parent. Invites work once and expire in 7 days. Location is stripped from photos on your phone.
No. Table and Porch are your home’s own labels, and they never leave your home. Other homes see the posts you share with them, never the label you picked for them. They make their own private choice about your home, and you never see theirs.
Only the ring you pick when you share it: Home, Table or Porch, or homes you choose one by one with Choose homes. Each post shows you where it went, like “Shared with Table”. Nothing on hearth is public, and there’s no reshare button.
Posts and stories to Home go straight through. Anything for your table waits for a parent’s OK. Kids can’t share with the porch until they turn 13, can’t pick homes one by one, and can’t invite people or link homes.
Yes, Simple mode. It shows bigger words and fewer buttons: what’s new from the family, a big Love it, a Reply by voice, and one button that calls everyone at your table. Turn it on in Our home, then Settings, then Simple mode. A grown-up can turn it on for anyone in their home.
No. There’s no search, no public profile and no way to browse. The only way in is an invite from someone already in your family, and invites work once and expire in 7 days.
We’re testing hearth with a small group of families now, and it’s coming to the App Store. If you have questions in the meantime, email us at support@idlefusion.com.
We’re testing hearth with a few families right now. It’ll be in the App Store for iPhone and iPad soon. Questions before then? Write to us and a person will answer.