The binder your family prays they never need.
Accounts, policies, contacts, wishes, where the shutoff valve is — written down in one calm place, for the people who'd need it. Built privately on your device. Never uploaded anywhere.
- Private & on-device
- No credit card
- Free to start
Pointers, not secrets. KitKept records where things are and that they exist — never passwords, full account numbers, or SSNs. There's nothing here worth stealing, and everything your family would need to find.
The quiet question
If you were in the hospital tonight, could your partner find…
Not because anything is wrong. Because you're the one who knows where everything is — and that knowledge lives in exactly one head. Writing it down isn't morbid. It's one of the most practical acts of love a household can do.
The mortgage
Which bank holds it, and where the statements live.
The insurance agent
The person to call — and the life policy nobody else knows exists.
The water shutoff
The single most useful fact in the house during a burst pipe.
The passwords
Not the passwords themselves — where the password manager's emergency kit waits.
The will
Whether one exists, and where the original actually is.
The kid & pet logistics
School pickup lists, the sitter's number, who's agreed to take the dog.
Private by design
Everything they'd need. Nothing worth stealing.
Other services in this category ask you to upload your whole life to their cloud — and the most common reaction is the correct one: "I'm not doing that." KitKept is built the other way around.
On your device. Full stop.
Your binder is stored in your browser on this device. No account, no cloud, no sync, no server copy. We couldn't read it if we wanted to — it never reaches us.
Pointers, not secrets
"Passwords: in 1Password — emergency kit in the fire safe." "Checking: Chase, ending 1234." Where things are and that they exist. KitKept warns you if an entry ever looks like a real number.
Export only on your terms
Want a backup or a copy for the fire safe USB? You export it yourself — locked with a passphrase using AES-256 encryption in your browser, or printed on paper. Your call, every time.
How it works
Two minutes to the first win. A quiet hour to real peace of mind.
Answer five questions
Who's the first call? Where do the papers live? Where's the shutoff? The Quick Start turns what you already know into the binder's first pages.
Fill sections at your pace
Guided forms for people, home operations, accounts-as-pointers, insurance, documents, wishes. Skip anything. Come back anytime.
Watch the lantern brighten
A warm readiness meter shows what your family could already find — and the next two things that matter most. No doom, no guilt.
Keep a copy where it counts
Print the emergency pack for the fire safe, or export an encrypted file for a USB drive at a relative's house. On-device stays the source of truth.
What's inside
Twenty-two binder tabs. Ten free forever.
Every section is a short, guided form — most take five minutes. The free Starter Binder covers the ten core tabs; the Complete Kit opens the rest.
The honest comparison
Cloud vaults want your whole life. KitKept doesn't want it.
| Cloud legacy vaults | KitKept | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your data lives | Their servers | Your device |
| What you store | Documents, numbers, logins | Pointers — where things are, that they exist |
| If their company is breached | Your life is in the blast radius | They don't have your binder |
| Typical price | ~$100 every year | Free start · $49 once for everything |
| If you stop paying | Access questions | Your binder stays yours — it's on your device |
Fair is fair: cloud vaults offer multi-device sync and sharing that KitKept v1 deliberately doesn't. If uploading is fine with you, they're a reasonable choice. If it never sat right — that's who KitKept is for.
Pricing
Honest prices. No subscription required for your binder.
Complete Kit checkout is live through Stripe. The free Starter Binder remains fully working, and the Readiness Coach add-on is not on sale yet.
The Readiness Coach
"What would your family need that you haven't written down?"
The built-in guide answers from a hand-graded knowledge base — FEMA's Emergency Financial First Aid Kit, CFPB, the National Institute on Aging, AARP, the Red Cross, state-court self-help — and cites the source and grade for what it tells you. It will not write your will, play doctor, or touch a secret. It knows exactly what it is: a guide to writing things down, and a warm hand pointing at the next gap.
Free: the on-device guide
Ask anything; it answers from the vetted cards, entirely on your device, with the source and grade shown.
$4.99/mo: the live coach
A live AI conversation grounded in those same cards — it reads only your readiness levels (never your binder's contents) and suggests what matters next. Capped, honest, cancel anytime.
Questions people actually ask
Fair questions, straight answers.
Is it secure enough for this kind of information?
Here's the honest answer: KitKept is safe mostly because of what it refuses to hold. No passwords, no SSNs, no full account numbers — the app warns you if an entry even looks like one. What remains is a map ("the will is in the fire safe; the checking account is at Chase") that's enormously useful to your family and close to useless to a thief. It stays on your device, and exports are encrypted with a passphrase only you know.
What happens if I lose this device?
The binder lives on the device, so a lost device means a lost binder — that's the flip side of never uploading it. The fix is the backup habit: download a backup file (free) or an encrypted .kitkept file (Complete Kit) and keep it somewhere safe. Re-import restores everything in seconds.
Is this a will? Does it count legally?
No — and KitKept never pretends otherwise. Nothing you write here is a legal document. What KitKept does is make sure your real will, POA, and directives can be found, and its Wishes section is a kindness, not a contract. For the legal documents themselves, use a licensed attorney or your state's official forms.
What exactly is a "pointer"?
A pointer says where something is or that it exists, without containing the thing itself. "Passwords: 1Password — emergency kit printout in the fire safe" is a pointer. The password itself never appears. Institution + last 4 digits is enough for your family to find any account; banks handle the rest through their own verified processes.
Can my partner see it? Can we share it?
v1 is one binder on one device, by design — sharing and sync mean servers, and we started with the version that needs none. The handoff today is physical and simple: print the emergency pack, or keep an encrypted export where your partner knows to look. Walk them through it once a year (the review checklist reminds you).
What does the AI coach see?
The free guide runs entirely on your device — nothing leaves. The paid live coach sends only your question and your section fill-levels (like "Insurance: 60%") — never names, numbers, or any binder content. Numbers are scrubbed from questions before they're sent, and conversations aren't used for anything else.
Why I built this
A note from the person who made KitKept
I built KitKept because of a quiet question I couldn't shake: if something happened to me tomorrow, could my spouse actually find any of this? The mortgage lender, the life policy nobody talks about, which drawer the will is in, where the water shutoff is. I'm the one who knows where everything lives — and all of it lived in exactly one head. Mine.
Every "digital vault" I looked at wanted me to upload my whole life to their servers first. That never sat right, and I don't think it should sit right with you either. So KitKept is built the opposite way: it stays on your device, it holds pointers instead of secrets, and there's genuinely nothing here for me to see, sell, or lose — because it never reaches me.
It's a calm hour that could save your family a terrible week. That's the whole idea.
— Mike, Apps 4 That
Optional, and separate
Want the free Household Readiness Guide?
Your kit never leaves this device — that's the whole point. The email below is a separate, optional way to get a short guide on getting your household ready and hear how to use KitKept well. We never see what's in your binder, and it's one-click to leave.