I built KidzVault because the parents in my life kept telling me the same story.
My wife and I don't have kids. But almost everyone we love does — and for years they've been telling us the same thing: it's impossible to keep track of everything their kids have going on. Permission slips in three folders. Doctor's number in a screenshot somewhere. Coach's phone in a text from August. Three school portals, each with a password reset twice this year. You probably know the feeling.
The moment it clicked
A close friend of ours was getting her daughter ready for a sleepover and couldn't find the allergy notes from the pediatrician. They were in an email — somewhere. By the time she found them, the host family was already wondering why she was holding things up. She mentioned it to my wife and me later, almost as a joke. Why isn't there just one place for this?
The honest answer: there are dozens of "places" for this — calendars, planners, family-organizer apps. But none of them did the one thing she actually needed: one place per kid, every doctor and teacher and coach and login hint, and the ability to hand it to grandma when the kids stayed over for a week. No accounts for grandma. No "join our shared family thing." Just the info, on her phone, when she needed it.
I'm a builder. I listened to enough versions of that story from enough parents in our lives that I started sketching what the actual fix looked like. That's KidzVault.
Why it works the way it does
What I committed to
- Your data stays on your phone. No cloud sync. No server holding your kids' info to be breached. The data lives where you put it — your device — and nowhere else.
- No surveillance, no ads, no selling. Apps for parents shouldn't make money from parents' anxiety. KidzVault makes money one way: you pay $4.99/mo because the app is useful.
- Export to share, not sync. When the kids spend a week with co-parent or grandma, hit export — clean PDF with every doctor, teacher, coach, schedule, and contact for that kid. Login hints stay private. Caregivers don't need to install anything.
- Built for the long haul. We're not chasing investors or a quick exit. My wife and I run Vault Planners, and KidzVault is one of the tools we plan to support for as long as it's useful.
Where it's headed
The current version covers the core: per-kid hubs, six categories, reminders, sharing via export. Coming through the rest of 2026:
→ Optional PIN/password lock so your kids' info is encrypted on the device
→ Smart reminders that learn your patterns (after-school pickups, recurring appointments)
→ A small set of carefully chosen partner referrals (tutors by ZIP, family service providers) — never invasive, always optional, and only ones I'd use myself
No cloud sync. No social feed. No "family timeline." Just the tools that actually reduce the mental load of running a household with kids.
If you want to reach me
I read every email. Bug reports, feature requests, "this would be useful if it did X" — all welcome. hello@kidzvault.com.
And if you found this through a friend, a card, or a school newsletter — thank them for me. Word of mouth is how this works.
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