One physical button to answer
Your parent doesn't learn an app, a wake word, or a touchscreen. They tap the top of the cube. She actually picks up.
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She forgot how to answer the phone. We fixed that.
A small cube that lets every generation in your household reach each other in one tap — no app to learn, no monthly fee, AI that never leaves your home.
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60-day money-back guarantee. No charge until Kickstarter launches.
Built on Immich + Home Assistant + Whisper — the open-source stack tens of thousands of self-hosting families already trust.
The reality nobody markets to you
Every existing family-comm tool fails the only test that matters.
"She forgot how to answer the phone."
The Echo Show on her shelf hasn't lit up in three weeks. Your kid is home alone after school with no smartphone yet, and no way to call you when they need to. You're paying $65 a month for a tablet that's collecting dust on her counter.
FaceTime requires unlocking, finding the right person, and tapping accept: three steps too many for cognitive decline. Echo Show needs "Hey Alexa" said clearly. GrandPad costs $1,500 over three years and your mom still struggles with the icons.
And every cloud option means your mom's voice, your kid's after-school check-in, your photos from the past decade, all of it training someone else's AI on a server you'll never see.
- $65/month for unused tablets
- 2-hour setup that breaks again
- Voice + photos training Big Tech AI
A different shape
One cube. One tap. Every generation. No subscription, ever.
A single matte-black cube sits on the kitchen counter. When you call from your phone, the cube rings — clearly, audibly, with your name announced. Your mom or your kid taps the top of the cube. You're connected.
Every family photo backs up to a private cloud only your family can see. Voice, photos, AI memory — all of it lives on hardware you own, not in a Big Tech data center.
You pay once. You don't pay again. The same cube does kid intercom, senior answer, family photo cloud, and AI memory archive — for one price.
What it does
Six things the cube does that no single device does.
Not feature checkboxes — the actual reason families buy it.
Zero monthly fee, ever
One expected $249–349 hardware purchase (subject to change). Save $1,500+ over three years vs GrandPad. We commit to no-subscription pricing in writing on this page.
AI runs 100% on-device
Voice, photos, anomaly detection, memory transcription — all run locally using Phi-4 + Whisper. Your data never leaves hardware you own. Auditable on GitHub.
One device, every generation
Kid-mode + senior-mode + family photo cloud — same hardware, same purchase. Replaces a kid phone + GrandPad + iCloud for the whole household.
AI family memory archive
Press a button, ask grandma to tell a story, walk away. The cube records, transcribes, and indexes 30 years of memories your grandkids will search someday.
2 TB+ private photo cloud
Every family phone backs up automatically. Semantic search ("show me dad's birthday last summer"). No iCloud, no Google Photos, no $120/yr bill.
From order to first call
Set up in under 10 minutes (based on early prototype testing). Then it just works.
Order. Tell us your family.
Place your order. We collect your family's names + which generation each person is. Your cube ships pre-paired to your account.
Plug it in at your parent's home.
Plug into power. Connect to Wi-Fi once via a QR scan you can guide them through remotely. The cube introduces itself.
Mom taps the top. You're connected.
When you call, the cube rings and announces your name. She taps the top. Audio is live in under one second (based on early prototype testing). Same flow for your kid.
Photos and memories accumulate.
Every family phone auto-backs-up to the cube. Ask grandma to tell a story — the cube records and transcribes. You don't have to do anything else.
Honest answers
The questions you're going to ask.
If you have a different one, email us — we'll add the answer here.
Will my parent actually use it, or will it sit on the shelf like the Echo Show I bought?
The Echo Show needed "Hey Alexa" said clearly — your dad with Parkinson's can't always do that. The cube has one physical button on the top. If your parent can press a microwave button, they can answer the cube. We offer a 60-day money-back guarantee specifically for this — if they're not using it after a month, we refund.
Is this a medical alert device? Can it call 911?
No. The cube is a family communication appliance, not a medical alert device. For medical emergencies use Lifeline, Medical Guardian, or ADT Health — those are certified PERS devices that contact emergency services. Our anomaly detection alerts your family, not 911.
Will I really never pay a subscription?
Correct. Hardware-only purchase, expected $249–349 once. No cellular plan, no cloud-AI subscription, no storage subscription. We commit to no-subscription pricing in writing on this page. Optional accessories (extra storage, second cube for another room) are also one-time purchases.
Where does my family's data go?
It stays on the cube — physically in your parent's or your home. AI processing runs 100% on-device. Remote calls use a relay server only for connecting — no audio or photos are stored remotely. Our software stack (Immich, Home Assistant, Whisper) is open-source and auditable on GitHub. We commission a third-party security audit before public Kickstarter launch.
How does setup actually work? My parent can't set up Wi-Fi.
You configure everything from your phone before shipping the cube. Family names, contacts, photos — all on your end. At your parent's home, the only step is plug in + connect to their Wi-Fi via a QR scan you walk them through. Total time: under 10 minutes (based on early prototype testing). 24/7 setup helpline free for the first 30 days after launch.
I already have an Echo Show / Apple HomePod / iPhone. Why do I need this?
They keep working — we don't replace them. The cube is for the things they fail at: an elderly parent who can't operate the touchscreen, a kid without a smartphone, family photos off iCloud, AI you don't want trained on your voice. If your existing devices already solve this, you don't need us. If they don't — and the failed Echo Show on grandma's shelf says they don't — we're built specifically for what they can't do.
Kickstarter — early-bird
Reserve your cube before early-bird closes.
Expected pricing: $199 early-bird → $249 retail at Kickstarter launch → $349 after (subject to change). Reserve now with email — no charge until Kickstarter launches. Once we ship, if your family doesn't use the cube within 60 days of receiving it, we'll refund every dollar.
Reserve early-bird — $199
60-day money-back guarantee at launch
No subscription, ever
Pre-configured for your family
Ships to US / UK / CA / AU / EU