Does Kindred work on the long rural bus routes around Shivamogga?

Yes. Shivamogga schools draw students from Bhadravathi, Sagar, Thirthahalli, Hosanagara and the surrounding villages, on routes that run an hour or more each way. Kindred tracks the driver's GPS every 15 seconds and sends parents a timestamped alert when their child boards and when the bus arrives, which is exactly the visibility a long rural route never had.

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School management software · Shivamogga

Built in Shimoga. For Shimoga schools.

Kindred is free school management software — student records, geofence-verified teacher attendance, live bus tracking, in-app fees, marks, homework, behaviour notes and a private parent–teacher line, in Kannada, Hindi or English. Most school software reaches Shivamogga as a sales call from a metro. This one is made here.

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Why that matters more than it sounds. School ERPs in India are built for metro campuses and sold outward. The result is software that assumes a 6 km bus route, a fibre connection in the office, and a parent body that reads English — then supports the exceptions through a ticket queue in another state. Kindred is built between Bengaluru and Shivamogga, so the Malnad case isn't the exception it has to accommodate. It's the case it was designed against.

Long routes, real distances

A Shivamogga school's catchment is not a neighbourhood. Students come in from Bhadravathi, Sagar, Thirthahalli, Hosanagara, Soraba and villages off the main roads, on routes that run an hour or more each way through ghat sections and monsoon-damaged stretches. For those families, the bus is the single largest source of daily anxiety, and the school office has historically had nothing better to offer than "it left on time."

Kindred pings the driver's GPS every 15 seconds onto a live map, alerts the parent with a timestamp the moment their child boards and again when the bus reaches school, gives the driver a one-button SOS, and tracks fuel against the route so long-distance running stops being an unauditable cost. How bus tracking works →

Designed for patchy coverage, not perfect coverage

Between Thirthahalli and Hosanagara, mobile signal is a suggestion. Kindred is built mobile-first for Indian network conditions: a teacher marking attendance on a weak connection doesn't lose the entry, and a bus trail shows the gap where coverage dropped and resumes when it returns — rather than the app simply failing and the school going back to paper.

Kannada as the default, not the translation

In a Shivamogga school, Kannada is not a minority preference to be accommodated — it's how the office, most parents and every driver actually work. Kindred ships Kannada as a first-class language across the entire app, alongside Hindi and English, set per user. Nobody has to operate in their second language to use their child's school app.

Why free changes the decision entirely

Per-student pricing was set in a metro. The annual licence a Bengaluru school absorbs is the reason a Shivamogga school of the same size is still on a paper register. Kindred removes the number from the conversation.
No procurement cycle. No quote, no committee approval, no budget line, no renewal negotiation next June.
No hostage data. Free means there's no leverage moment where the price goes up because your records are inside.
Start with one class. One class, one working day. Expand when that class's parents start asking why the rest of the school isn't on it.

Areas we work with in and around Shivamogga

Vinoba Nagar Gopala Tilak Nagar Ashoka Road Balaraj Urs Road Sagar Road Navule Vidyanagar Bhadravathi Sagar Thirthahalli Hosanagara Soraba Shikaripura

What your school gets

Student information system, class rosters and the parent contact tree
Geofence-verified teacher attendance with arrival time and lateness
Live bus GPS tracking, boarding alerts, driver SOS and fuel accountability
In-app fee collection with automatic reconciliation and overdue reporting
Per-period attendance, homework, test marks and behaviour notes
Private parent–teacher chat with voice notes and read receipts
Leadership dashboard for the principal and senior faculty
Kannada, Hindi and English throughout

Frequently asked questions

Is Kindred actually built in Shimoga?

Yes — Kindred is built between Bengaluru and Shivamogga.

What does school management software cost for a Shimoga school?

Nothing. No licence fee, no per-student charge, no setup fee, no paid tier. See the full pricing commitment →

Does Kindred work on the long rural routes around Shivamogga?

Yes — live GPS every 15 seconds, boarding alerts with timestamps, and fuel accountability on routes out to Bhadravathi, Sagar, Thirthahalli and Hosanagara.

Will Kindred work where mobile coverage is patchy?

Yes. It's built mobile-first for Indian network conditions and syncs when the signal returns instead of discarding what was entered.

We're down the road.

One class, one working day, free. The founder reads every application and replies within two working days.

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