Tribe

Your household, in one place

Tribe keeps the week where everyone can see it: who is where, whose turn it is, what is for dinner, and what still needs buying. It is meant to be read at a glance by whoever walks past — and to keep working when the signal does not.

Sign inWith the account you already have. Tribe never sees a password.

What it does

The calendar

Everyone’s week in one grid, each person in their own colour. Bring in the calendars you already keep — Google, or anything that speaks CalDAV.

The chores

A rota that takes its own turn. Chores move on the day you choose, so nobody has to be the one who keeps asking.

The meals

Plan the week from your own recipes, or ask for a suggestion. Dinner can also just be takeaway — the plan should fit the evening, not the other way round.

The shopping

The week’s menu becomes a list, in the order you walk the shop, with sections you can name yourself. Tick it off one-handed in the queue.

The to-do list

The things nobody has got round to. Give one a date and it becomes an event in the calendar.

The people

Grown-ups, children, babies and guests. Everyone gets what they need and nothing they should not have — a child cannot reset the tablet, and a baby is not on the rota.

Three ways to run it

The first thing the app asks is whose device this is. The answer decides where your household’s information lives — and in one case, that it never leaves the device at all.

Offline only

Nothing leaves the device

The whole household lives in the app’s own database, on that one device. No account, no sign-in, no server, nothing to set up. It works on a plane. We cannot see any of it, because none of it is ever sent to us. If you later want to share it with the rest of the house, you can connect it to an account then — until you do, this is a private notebook that happens to be an app.

The shared screen

A tablet in the kitchen

One screen everybody uses. People tap their own name instead of signing in, so ticking off a chore or adding to the shopping list takes one hand and no password. The things that need an account — settings, calendars, invitations — stay on personal phones, so a shared screen left on the counter is not a way into anybody’s account.

Your own phone

Signed in as you

Sign in with an account you already have, and stay signed in. You can do everything from here, including the parts a shared screen deliberately cannot. Your tribe’s information lives on Tribe’s server, and is served only to your own tribe.

About your data

A household organiser knows where everyone is meant to be this week. That is not information to be casual with. It is why offline-only is a real mode rather than a note in a settings screen.

Offline means offline: In offline-only mode nothing about your tribe is sent anywhere. No account is created, no copy is kept, and nothing reaches out on its own. There is exactly one request the app can make, and only if you press it: fetching the shared starter recipes, which is a read of a public list and carries nothing of yours. Never press it and the app never contacts anything at all.
Nothing sold, nothing measured: No adverts, no trackers, no analytics, no profiling — not in the app, and not on this page. There is nothing here counting what you tap.
We never hold a password: Signing in goes through an account you already have. Tribe is told that you are you, and nothing else about that account.
Encrypted where it sits: Email addresses and the other personal details the server needs are encrypted in the database rather than stored in plain text.
Yours to take, and to delete: Anyone with an account can download everything Tribe holds about them, in a file they can actually read, and can delete that account. Deleting yours does not delete the household the others are still using: what was yours goes, and what other people made stays theirs.
The one thing that leaves: Asking for a recipe suggestion sends your request and a list of ingredient names to a language model, because that is the only way to answer it. It does not send who lives here, your calendar, or anything held against a person’s name. Never ask, and nothing is ever sent.

Start where you like

You can begin offline on one device and connect it to an account later. Nothing about the first choice is permanent, and nothing about it is retroactive: what stayed on the device stayed on the device.