For schools & colleges
Kindred is free school management software for schools and colleges in India. Student records, geofence-verified teacher attendance, live bus tracking, fee collection, homework, marks, behaviour notes, class announcements and a private line between every parent and the class teacher: one app for staff, one app for parents, one dashboard for the principal. No licence fee, no per-student charge, no paid tier.
Apply to onboard your school →Class groups turn into gossip channels, teachers' personal numbers get circulated, and screenshots of a bad afternoon travel further than any correction. Kindred gives every parent a private, school-owned thread with the class teacher. Voice notes, read receipts, no exposed phone numbers, nothing to forward. Announcements land in one indexed feed instead of 200 unread messages. How Kindred messaging works →
The office fields calls from anxious parents and relays guesses. Kindred pings the driver's GPS every 15 seconds onto a live map, with ETAs that account for real traffic, timestamped boarding alerts the moment a child gets on, a one-button driver SOS, and fuel accountability so route spend stops being a mystery. How bus tracking works →
Kindred verifies that a teacher is physically inside the school's geofence via GPS before marking them present, and records arrival time and lateness automatically. No paper register, no proxy sign-ins, no month-end reconstruction of who was actually on campus.
Parents pay in-app, payments reconcile against the school's own fee structure automatically, and overdue students surface as a report rather than a WhatsApp receipt hunt.
Per-period attendance, homework with reference photos, test marks the moment they're recorded, and behaviour observations tagged positive, neutral or concern. Parents see the trend as it forms, so the parent–teacher meeting stops being a surprise. How academic tracking works →
Allergies with severity tags, medications, conditions, blood group and the emergency contact tree are held encrypted in India, visible only to the school office and the people the parent chooses. Never sold, never shared with advertisers, never used to train models. How health records work →
Kindred charges schools nothing because the per-student licence is a large part of why so many Indian schools still run on paper and WhatsApp. There is no paid tier waiting behind a trial, no feature held back, no seat limit, and no advertising inside an app that children's families use every day. The full commitment is on the pricing page.
Yes. There is no licence fee, no per-student charge, no setup fee and no paid tier. The app carries no advertising, and Kindred does not sell school or parent data.
The student information system, the paper attendance register, the WhatsApp parent groups, the printed diary, the fee ledger and its spreadsheet reconciliation, and the phone call to the bus driver.
A working day for the first class: roster import, geofence setup, parent invitations and teacher training. The school then expands class by class at its own pace.
Yes. Kindred is DPDPA-compliant and hosted in India. Data never leaves India and is never used to train models. Full security and privacy detail →
Yes: english, Hindi and Kannada throughout, so office staff, drivers and parents each use the language they're comfortable in.
Karnataka State board, CBSE, ICSE, IGCSE and IB, including pre-primary through Std 12 and IB PYP, MYP and DP.
Kindred is built in Bengaluru and Shimoga, and is in guided pilots with private schools across Karnataka. Local pages with the specifics for your city:
Free to set up, free to run. Start with one class. Read personally by the founder, with a reply within two working days.
Apply to onboard your school →