Why we are building it
Nearly every group plan starts the same way and dies the same way. Someone floats an idea in a chat, four people say they are in, and then it has to survive three weeks of scheduling, a spreadsheet nobody opens, a payment app, a maps link, and a thread that scrolls past whatever was decided on Tuesday.
None of those tools is bad at its job. The problem is that the plan does not live in any of them — it lives in one person’s head, and it costs them a lot to keep it there. That is the part Kinora is for: holding the plan in one place, so deciding is a group activity rather than a favour someone does for everyone else.
The parts that stall a plan.
Kinora carries the four things a group has to settle before anything is real, and then keeps what happened once it is over.
Dates get decided
Put a few options out, let everyone mark what works, and the weekend that wins is the one on the plan.
Jobs have names on them
Every task shows who owns it, or shows plainly that nobody does yet. Nothing quietly lands on one person.
One plan, not six threads
Where you are going, what you are doing, what it costs and who is coming all live on the same page.
The after is kept
When it's over, the photos everyone took end up in one album instead of scattered across four group chats.
Where we are right now
Kinora is in private beta. That is a real state, not a marketing word: the planning product is built and in daily use by a small group of testers, and we are letting people in from the beta list in batches rather than opening the doors to everyone at once.
A few things worth being straight about. Kinora is web-first — it runs in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a laptop, and it installs to a home screen, but there is no App Store or Google Play app and we are not promising a date for one. It is free while the beta runs. And there are gaps: features get built in the order testers vote for them on the idea board, which means the roadmap is public and genuinely moves.
What we’ve committed to.
Four things we hold to, each of which shows up as a decision in the product.
Plans are group work
One person should not have to carry a trip for eight people. The product is built around shared load, not an organiser dashboard.
Private by default
A plan is visible to the people invited to it. We do not sell personal information or uploaded memories.
No download required
Anyone can open a plan from a link in a browser. Asking a whole family to install an app is how plans die.
Testers set the order
The idea board on the homepage is where the roadmap comes from. The ideas that keep getting votes are the ones we build.
Want to help shape what’s next?
Join the beta list and you get in as we open batches — and your ideas go on the board the rest of the roadmap is voted from.