How to use Kinidhi
Kinidhi is built for grandparents as much as grandchildren, and the fastest way to teach a phone habit is to show it once. Each lesson below acts out a single task on a phone screen, with the tap you need to make marked as it happens. The same lessons live inside the app, where they play in your own language — Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati or Punjabi — and can read each step aloud.
Getting started
The four things a new family member does on day one.
Signing in
Open the app, tap “Continue with Google”, pick your account. That is the whole thing.
Watch it in the app →Starting your family
The first time you open Kinidhi it asks a few questions — your name, your parents, your children — and builds the tree from the answers.
Watch it in the app →Getting around
Five buttons along the bottom: Home, Tree, Timeline, People and Me. That is the entire map of the app.
Watch it in the app →Starting another family
Keep your spouse’s side as its own tree, and switch between families from the top.
Watch it in the app →Everyday
The parts you will use every week.
Sharing a memory
Speak the story into the microphone, attach a photo, and send. Voice and picture arrive together.
Watch it in the app →Listening and replying
Tap Listen and the app reads a post aloud. Tap the heart, or leave a few words.
Watch it in the app →Seeing the family tree
Drag with a finger to move through the generations; tap a name to open that person.
Watch it in the app →How two people are related
Pick any two relatives and Kinidhi names the relationship — in the kinship word your family actually uses.
Watch it in the app →Adding a relative yourself
Open anyone, tap “Add a relative”, and choose the relationship from the list.
Watch it in the app →Adding family by voice
Say “my father is Ramayya” and the app works out where he belongs.
Watch it in the app →Your settings
Language, light or dark, reminders, and the downloadable family keepsake — all on the Me page.
Watch it in the app →Watching them in your own language
The videos on this page are in English. Open app.kinidhi.com/learn and pick a language at the top, and every lesson switches — captions, the names inside the example family, and the kinship word it shows. Turn on Voice and each step is read out, which helps a reader who finds small text hard. That page needs no sign-in either, so you can send the link to someone who has not joined yet.
Sharing them with your family
Each video is a small file made for messaging apps — under a megabyte, portrait, and silent apart from a short music bed. Long-press a video to save it, then forward it on WhatsApp to the person who needs that one step. Sending a single lesson at the moment someone is stuck works far better than sending all eleven at once.
Start with the free tree maker
Not ready to sign in? The free tree maker builds a family tree in your browser with no account at all, and names every relationship in your language. When you want it kept safely and shared with the family, that same tree moves into the app.