Zenkith

Each person you know occupies a natural orbit. Some are close. Some are further. Most apps ignore this entirely.

Your circles
of belonging.

Zenkith is a private space for tending to the relationships that matter most — the ones that don't fit neatly into a group chat, a calendar, or a social feed.

What it is

Most communication tools are built for volume. Zenkith is built for depth. It organises your relationships into natural orbital rings — the few people who are truly close, the wider circle of meaningful connection — and gives you a quiet, considered space to stay genuinely present with each of them.

You can send messages, log moments that matter, build a personal atlas of the concepts that run through your conversations, and understand — without anxiety — where your energy is going and where it has quietly drifted.

Kith
Your circles arranged in orbital rings — Inner, Civic, Outer. The temperature of each node reflects how recently you've been in contact, so drift becomes visible without requiring any effort to track it.
Heart
A memory layer built from mementos — brief reflections recorded after a conversation or meeting. Not a diary. A practice of noticing what stays with you. Research suggests deliberate reflection on shared experience deepens closeness faster than time alone.
Zen
Everyone, flat, in one view. One card per person across all your circles, showing the last message and who sent it. For the days when you want to see the whole relational landscape at once.
Atlas
Your own concept map — the subjects and ideas that run through your conversations, arranged into a hierarchy you define. Tag a message #jazz# and it files itself. Over time your atlas reveals what you actually talk about with the people you love, which is often different from what you assume.
What it is not

There is no feed. No engagement metrics. No notifications designed to pull you back. No advertising, and no one can read your messages — not even us. Messages and mementos are encrypted on your device before they leave it, using a key derived from your password that never touches our servers. This is a technical constraint, not a policy promise.

It is not a replacement for WhatsApp or iMessage. It is something quieter: a place to reflect on your relational life the way a journal reflects on your interior one.

Where we are
Private alpha — invite only Live
End-to-end encryption — messages encrypted before leaving your device Live
iOS app — native biometric login via TestFlight Next
Founding membership — one-time pricing, capped at 100 people Beta
Android After iOS
Founding membership

Bet on an early
idea.

When Zenkith opens to beta, a small number of founding memberships will be available — capped at 100. A one-time payment for lifetime access, at a price that reflects the risk of believing in something before it is proven.

Founding members are the people who make the early community real. Their presence shapes what Zenkith becomes. In exchange: access to every feature that exists now and everything built later, with no recurring charge, ever.

$99
one-time · lifetime access
100 memberships available · no further charges

Founding memberships open when beta does — join the waitlist below to be first.
After founding closes, standard pricing will be $6 / month or $48 / year.
If cost is a barrier, write to us.

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