Followire is a network whose connections are family. You record how you are related to the people around you — the app works out everything else, and draws the wire between any two people.
The idea
Nobody should have to work out what to call someone. In Followire you only ever say the simple thing — this is my mother, this is my brother, this is my son. Everything further away is worked out from the shape of the path between you.
You enter the six on the left. The app derives the right-hand side — and keeps deriving, however far out the wire runs.
The wire
Tap anyone, or simply keep scrolling. They take the centre and their own family opens around them, each relation named as they would name it. Everyone else stays on the wire, quietly, waiting to be reached.
Tap a face — or scroll
Between any two people
Open someone’s profile and the wire lights the route between you — every person standing in between, and how many steps it takes to get there. The question families ask at every wedding, answered before anyone has to count on their fingers.
And everything you would expect
A map nobody uses is a diagram. Followire carries the day-to-day too, so the wire stays alive.
One-to-one and group chats, with photos, voice notes, replies and everything shared in one place.
Call one person or the whole group, with the call showing how everyone on it is related.
Posts, photos and stories — shared with exactly as much of the wire as you choose, and no further.
Weddings, birthdays and functions raised so the family sees them without anyone having to send a message.
Immediate family, a set number of steps out, or your whole cluster — you choose how wide the room is.
Pan, pinch and zoom the wire in two dimensions or three, and come back to yourself with one tap.
Where this goes
Every family is its own cluster today. But families join — at every wedding, two of them become one, and a single new link is all it takes.
Followire is built for that. Clusters connect to clusters, and the map grows outward until the question stops being whether two people are related and becomes how far apart they are. We think that number is smaller than anyone expects.
Get in touch
Followire is in private testing. If you would like to know more, or to be told when it opens up, write to us.