Live bus tracking, attendance, homework, marks, behaviour notes, a private line to the class teacher, and class announcements, one calm app for the whole school day. Built in Bengaluru, hosted in India, never advertised. No licence fee, no per-student charge, no paid tier: for schools, colleges and parents alike.
Teachers,
Kindred
Hello, Aryan
Amara’s day
Today, Wed 25 Nov
Sports Day is on, bus leaves 15 minutes earlier.
Class teacher
Your day
Bus
ETA 8 min
Attendance
Marked 8:42 AM
Ms. Rao sent a message
“Amara led the counting exercise today.”
KindredMr. Ravi
School bus · Route 3
KindredAbout Amara
She led the counting exercise today.
About Bus route 3
Running 5 minutes late this morning.
About Amara
Fee receipt for November attached.
KindredAttendance
M
T
W
T
F
Read pages 12–14
English · Due tomorrow
Numbers 1–20
Score
18/20
Class avg
15.4
Amara helped a classmate tie their shoelaces.
Kindred
Your child
Amara Devangi
Grade 1 · Section A
Blood group
A+
Allergies
Peanuts
Age
5 yrs
Roll no.
17
96% attendance
62 of 64 school days present
India-hosted
India only
DPDPA-compliant
By design
Row-level security
Database-level
Never sold
No advertising
Five pillars
Not just an ERP. Not just a chat app. A calm, complete view of the school day: built from the ground up for India, for schools and colleges, for parents who don't want to live on WhatsApp.
Like Uber, but for your child's school bus. The driver's GPS pings every 15 seconds, the map is live, and you get a confirmed alert the moment your child boards: and the moment they're safely at school.
Like texting, but private, school-owned, and the teacher's number stays theirs. Text or voice notes. Read receipts so you know they saw it. No group, no forwards, no "did anyone get the homework?"
Like a report card that updates itself. Per-subject attendance, homework with reference photos, test marks the moment they're recorded, behaviour observations tagged by tone. No spreadsheet exports. No quarterly surprise.
Allergies, medications, conditions, emergency contacts, kept encrypted in India, visible only to the school office and the people you choose. Never sold, never used to train models, never shared with advertisers.
Like Instagram stories, but for your child's small wins. Behaviour observations from the teacher. A friendship circle showing who they're doing group work with. The signals that decide whether they're thriving: surfaced gently, early.

Aryan Devangi
Founder · Kindred
Bengaluru · Shimoga
When I went to school in Shimoga and later in Bengaluru, my parents had almost no idea what I was up to between the morning bus and the evening one. A folded note about a missed test would arrive a week late. A behaviour issue would surface in a fifteen-minute parent–teacher meeting six months after it happened. The teacher's number was either everyone's or no one's.
Twenty years later, my baby cousins go to school the same way. Paper diaries that go missing. WhatsApp groups that drown out the one message that mattered. Parents who only learn their child was absent when the bus stopped at the school without them.
India has built the software that runs the rest of the world's banks, hospitals and airlines. But the place we send the people we love most, our schools, still operates on the same accountability gap as 2005. Kindred is the answer to one question: what would it take for every parent in India to know, in calm and verified detail, how their child's school day actually went?
Live tracking on the bus. A confirmed timestamp the moment they're safely at the gate. A direct line to the class teacher that doesn't disappear into a group of forty parents. A monthly attendance calendar that doesn't need a phone call to access. Accountability, not vague reassurance.
I'm building Kindred in Bengaluru, hosted entirely in India, and I will never sell your child's data. If you'd like to talk, aryan@kindredschool.in.
Honest answers
Nothing. Kindred is free for schools, for colleges and for parents: no licence fee, no per-student charge, and no paid tier held back. Nobody sees a bill, nobody sees an ad, and nothing is sold about anyone.
In India. We have no replicas outside India. We are DPDPA-compliant by design. Not retrofitted later.
No. We don't train any models on user data. We don't share data with third-party AI providers. We don't share data with advertisers. We make no money from your data.
Those are ERPs, built for the school office. Kindred is built for the parent. The school office gets a clean admin console, but the surface area is the parent experience: live bus, calm feed, direct teacher chat. Different product entirely.
Forward this page to your principal or office team. We can pilot one class for two weeks, free. If parents in that class love it, we roll out school-wide.
Yes. The driver's phone broadcasts GPS every 15 seconds, and the ETA uses Mapbox's live traffic for routes through ORR, Sarjapur, Hennur, Whitefield and Tarahunise. We tested it for months before launch.
Any Android phone made in the last 4 years. Battery life: 4–6 hours of broadcasting on a charge. Schools provision the phones. We don't.
Yes. That's your right under DPDPA. Email us and we delete every record we hold about you and your child within 30 days, with confirmation.
We're surveying 50 Bengaluru parents on what their school apps get right and where they fall short. The report drops in a few weeks: free, no strings.
Preview the full Kindred parent experience: no login, no sign-up. Every screen is scripted with sample data.
Press & media
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Free to set up, free to run, no licence fee and no per-student charge. Start with one class, personally reviewed by the founder, with a reply within 2 working days.