AURA · FAMILY
Know they're really with their phone. In 3 seconds.
Texts can be faked. Voices can be cloned. Aura's 3-second morning Pulse shows you Mom and Dad are really okay — without tracking where they are.
Free to join a Kin Circle. Premium from $19.99/mo after 7-day trial. Cancel anytime.
★ The 3-second morning
“Coffee's brewing. I open Aura. Pulse shows: Mom — meds taken 7:14am · phone held · wrist calm. Dad — meds taken 6:30am · phone held · wrist calm. Both okay. I close the app. The rest of my day starts.”
— Daughter, Atlanta · 42 · both parents in their 70s · daily Pulse since February 2026
Three seconds. The morning coffee where you notice everything is still standing.
What's in your Pulse
The dashboard for the people you worry about.
7:14am
Mom took her morning meds.
Streak: 47 days.
A $1 NFC sticker on the pill bottle turns the daily tap into family-visible confidence — no nags, no reminders, just confirmation it happened.
7:18am
Dad held his phone for 3 seconds this morning.
Presence, not GPS.
A Secure-Enclave-signed proof that the real person is actually with the trusted phone. No location. No coordinates. Just who's really holding it.
calm
Mom's HRV looks calm — no duress pattern overnight.
Passive Apple Watch monitoring.
Aura never raises false alarms; it just shifts a color when something looks off.
her own hands
Same micro-tremor, same grip pattern, same orientation rhythm as the last 30 days.
Behavioral co-witness.
If someone else picked up Mom's phone, Pulse would flag it.
Green is reassurance. Anything else is “look more carefully.”
When something feels off
Before you panic, Pulse.
The morning Pulse is the daily ritual. Verify is the safety net inside it. When a call, a text, or a wire request feels wrong, send a Pulse to the kin's phone — three seconds later you know whether the real person is actually with it.
AI can fake a voice. It can't hold your mom's phone.
★ The Tuesday afternoon scam
“Mom called crying — said she'd been arrested, needed $8,000 for bail wired immediately. The voice was hers. Even the way she said my name. I opened Aura and tapped Verify Mom. The screen said ‘Not Verified — caller could not sign from Mom's phone.’ I hung up. Called her real number. She was at her bridge club. The scammer had cloned her voice from a Facebook video.”
— Daughter, Phoenix · Mom is 78 · attempted scam Apr 2026 · $8,000 saved · resolved with one Verify tap.
Verify is built into every Kin Circle and works even if you've never used it before. One tap. Three seconds. Verified or Not Verified — never a maybe. AI voice clones can sound like your mom; they cannot hold her phone.
How we know
Built on the same chip Apple uses to protect payments —
and the threats Apple can't.
Layer 1 · Kin Pulse · 3-Second Presence Proof
Three seconds of held phone produces a TEE-signed timestamp — proof a conscious human is actually with the trusted device, not just that the device is “online.” Not GPS. Not heart rate. Not location. Just presence — who's really holding it.
Layer 2 · Steady · Meds, Routines, Anchors
A $1 NFC sticker on the pill bottle, the purse, the coffee tin — turns a daily tap into a family-visible streak. Daily proof your meds got taken — no nags, no reminders. Multi-sticker grouping (bathroom + purse = one streak). 30-day local log; family sees nothing else.
Layer 3 · Wrist Sentinel · HRV Duress Pattern
With Apple Watch paired, Aura monitors heart-rate variability passively. A duress pattern — fear, fight-flight, sustained stress — flags the next presence event silently. No panicked notifications; just a color shift family can see when something might be off.
Layer 4 · Continuity Check · Behavioral Co-Witness
Aura learns how YOUR kin holds their phone. The micro-tremor, the grip, the orientation rhythm. After 20 holds it can flag when someone else picked up the phone — even briefly. Not biometric identification; behavioral consistency. The kind of warning a roommate would give you.
Layer 5 · Kin Verify · Deepfake-Resistant Calls
Aura asks the kin's phone to sign a fresh challenge with its Secure Enclave key. An AI clone can sound like your mom; it cannot sign with the chip welded inside her phone. Binary: Verified or Not Verified. No probabilistic confidence scores, no maybes.
Layer 6 · Personal Add Link · No-Typing Enrollment
Apple Sign-In hid your kin's email and they don't have a phone on file? Aura sidesteps the entire discovery problem. One link. iMessage, QR, AirDrop. One tap to accept. Works for the 70% of Apple Sign-In users who'd otherwise be unfindable.
Layer 7 · Zero-Surveillance by Default
Family-safety apps fail because they feel like spy apps. Aura defaults all sharing OFF and asks one question — “Who are they to you?” — to compute sensible per-relationship defaults. Spouse → mutual sharing. Adult-watching-elderly-parent → one-way in. Sibling → off. The product reads as care, not surveillance.
The average sandwich-generation caregiver spends 15 hours a week on parent care (AARP, 2024). The morning Pulse takes 3 seconds. Compounded across a year, that's about 18 minutes.
Why you can trust it
If you trust Apple Pay, you can trust Aura.
Apple Pay proves the cardholder authorized the purchase
→Aura proves the kin held the phone — really
Face ID locks your iPhone
→Aura locks your Kin Verify replies
Secure Enclave protects banking transfers
→Same chip signs every kin presence proof
App Attest blocks fake banking apps
→Same layer blocks spoofed Aura calls
What you get
Built for the family who actually checks on each other.
Family · Free Forever
$0
forever · no card required
- ·Join unlimited Kin Circles you're invited to
- ·Daily Pulse view (read-only)
- ·Receive Kin Verify requests from your family
- ·Personal Add Link (your link is always free)
Aura Premium · 7 Days Free
$19.99
per month after trial · cancel anytime
- ·Send unlimited Kin Pulse + Kin Verify requests
- ·Up to 4 kin in your Pulse
- ·Steady · daily medication / routine taps
- ·30-day Safety Log archive
- ·Personal Add Link sharing
Pro Family · 7 Days Free
$24.99
per month after trial · cancel anytime
- ·Everything in Aura Premium
- ·Up to 8 kin in your Pulse
- ·Continuity Check · behavioral co-witness
- ·Steady multi-sticker grouping (purse + bathroom = one streak)
- ·Per-kin Comfort Window tuning
Guardian · 7 Days Free
$34.99
per month after trial · cancel anytime
- ·Everything in Pro Family
- ·Up to 12 kin in your Pulse
- ·Wrist Sentinel · HRV duress detection (Apple Watch)
- ·90-day Safety Log archive
- ·Priority support · same-day response
- ·Advanced anomaly alerts
Why Aura
Not just where the phone is.
Who's really holding it.
LOCATION TRACKERS (LIFE360, FIND MY)
Tell you where the phone is. Don't tell you whether it's been borrowed, stolen, or handed off. Don't help when the threat is someone calling pretending to be them. Kids resent being tracked; aging parents resent it more.
“MEDICATION REMINDER” APPS
Nag your loved ones to take their meds. Loved ones resent nags. Self-only by design. Don't produce family-visible proof, don't integrate with verification, and don't help when someone calls pretending to be the patient.
AURA
The 3-second morning Pulse, plus voice-clone-resistant Verify when it matters. Daily presence that doesn't read as surveillance. Built on the Secure Enclave chip Apple uses for payments. Care, not surveillance.
FAQ
What about…
Three seconds. That's the whole morning check-in.
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Not just where the phone is. Who's really holding it.