A private home for one family
Steading is an invite-only app for one extended family — a place to talk, and a permanent archive for the family’s photographs.
It is not a social network. There is no public sign-up, no feed of strangers, no advertising, and nothing to discover. Membership is by invitation from the family’s administrator, and every member is a relative.
What it does
- Conversation in topic channels and direct messages
- A photo and video archive, with comments, albums, and people-tagging done by hand
- Search over the family’s own history, including plain-language questions
- Sending a photograph to a family member’s digital picture frame
- Birthday and anniversary reminders drawn from the family’s own calendar
What it deliberately does not do
No facial recognition. People are tagged in photographs only by a person choosing to tag them. Steading does not compute or store biometric identifiers for anyone, including children.
There is no advertising, no advertising analytics, and no sale or sharing of anyone’s information. The app exists to serve one family and has no business model beyond that.
Children
Steading supports accounts for minors, each linked to a parent or guardian who controls what that account can do. Where a guardian is able to read a child’s private messages, the child is always shown that plainly, in the app, on the screen where those messages appear — and is notified if the setting changes. A child is never allowed to believe a conversation is private when it is not.
Status
Questions: hello@steading.family