What to expect when you bring Hearth home

Hearth ships ready to go: the device, a power cable, and a path that does not start with a spreadsheet. Kin is the companion app that handles most of what you would otherwise scatter across settings screens and support tickets.

Kin is where you place Hearth on the network, name your household, and invite the people who share it. There is no account tied to a cloud service you did not choose, no activation key hunt, and no subscription required just to begin.

Everyone installs Kin on the phones and tablets they already carry. When you are home on the same network, Kin finds Hearth automatically. You should not need cryptic pairing codes for every device unless something unusual is going on.

When you step away from the house, Kin connects you back to the Hearth that stayed home, so you are not leaving a second copy of your life on a stranger's cluster. It works like a private extension of the place you trust.

The first quiet win is speed. Inference runs on hardware in your home, not on a spinner waiting for someone else's rush hour.

Hearth is allowed to remember. Context builds across weeks, not only inside a single chat that forgets you when you clear a tab.

You should not live inside upgrade nags, surprise terms changes, or suggestions that exist because a business model needed a click. When something has to change, we owe you a plain explanation.

Hearth works best on a solid wired Ethernet connection when you can give it one. Wi-Fi is supported too; we care that the link is steady because the box is meant to run quietly in the background for years.

Each person in the household gets their own private space and context inside Kin, with shared space where you want it.