Followire is a network whose only connections are family. Name the people closest to you; the app draws your family as a map, traces the path to anyone on it, and the family itself confirms every relation.
Free. No advertisements. Nothing is sold.
The idea
In Followire you only ever say the simple thing: this is my mother, this is my brother, this is my son. Everyone further away is reached by a path of those same words.
On the Wire each direct relation is shown by its icon instead of the word. A diya 🪔 beside a face marks a relative who has passed away.
Trace path
Tap the Trace path tool, then tap anyone on the wire. The app finds the shortest chain of confirmed relations from you to them and lays it across the top of the screen as a row of faces.
Confirmed by the family
Nobody can claim to be your brother. A relation is asked for by user ID, accepted by the person, and then confirmed by their own family. That is what makes every path worth trusting.
Hold your own face, choose one of the six relations, and enter your relative’s Followire ID.
Your relative sees exactly what you claimed and accepts or rejects it.
Their direct relatives are asked once. One Yes confirms it; one “Not true” ends it.
In the app today
A map nobody uses is a diagram. Followire carries the day-to-day too, so the wire stays alive.
Every relative is a face with a relation icon, when they were last seen, a green light when they are online, and a mood if they set one. Give anyone a nickname only you see.
One-to-one and groups, with photos, voice notes, documents, replies and reactions. Strangers get one message, which waits as a request until you say yes.
Posts and stories reach exactly as far into the family as you choose: everyone, your whole Knot, or a number of hops, with anyone you name left out.
Add a late relative and they keep their place on the wire, marked with a diya. Add a child and look after their profile until they are eighteen and it becomes their own.
A story lasts a day. A mood sits beside your face on the wire, so the people close to you know how you are without asking.
No advertisements, nothing sold, no tracking. Delete your account from inside the app whenever you like.
On the way
Because every face on Followire sits on a confirmed relation, each new feature knows who the people in it are. Nothing here needs a contact list, an invite link, or a group nobody can find again.
Call one person or a whole room of relatives. Everyone on the call is shown with how they are related to you, so even the cousin you have never met arrives with a name you understand.
Raise a wedding, a naming ceremony, a birthday. Invite the relatives it concerns straight from the wire. Every guest adds their photographs to the same box, so the family’s album of the day builds itself, in one place, without a single forward.
Chat and voice rooms drawn from the wire itself: all the cousins, all the sisters, everyone of one generation. The membership comes from the relations, so a new cousin is already in.
Go live in sound alone and let the family listen in: a grandmother’s story, a wedding announcement, a song. It stays in the feed afterwards, with the same reach as any post.
Birthdays, anniversaries and remembrance days, gathered from the profiles on your wire into one family calendar, with a quiet reminder the day before.
Record a grandparent telling how the family came to be, and pin it to their face on the wire. Their grandchildren’s grandchildren will find it exactly where they are.
Choose Telugu, Hindi, Tamil or another language and the direct relations on every path appear in it, so the chain reads the way your family speaks.
Export your Knot as a poster, laid out and named exactly as it is on the wire, for the hall at the next family function.
Where this goes
Today every family on Followire is its own knot: a few hundred people, lit gold, on a globe of other families.
Get the app
Sign up with your email or Google, add a photo, and ask your first relative. The rest of the family follows one hop at a time.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or something not working? Write to us, or see the Support page.
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