a bōc of names · built on Loam
cȳþþ ond cynn
Your people, kept close.
Kin is the family you are born to; kith — an old word, worn smooth by centuries — is the people you come to know: your neighbours, your fellows, your circle. Kith the app is your address book, held on your own devices and shared, when you choose, with none but those you name.
Ne biþ nān man frēondlēas þe gōde cȳþþe hæfþ.
“No one is friendless who has good kith.”
Most address books hold a name and a number. In Kith, a contact can also carry a Loam identity — a verifiable key. That one field turns a person into someone you can grant: an editor on a shared Scala calendar, an admin in a Qaku room. The same person, proven, across every app in the ecosystem — because the address that signs their events is the address you keep.
Your book lives on your devices, encrypted on the wire. No server holds your contacts — privacy is who has the key, not who you trust to keep it.
Share a book with a kith://join link — or scan its QR — and contacts converge across your phone and desktop over Loam's peer-to-peer transport. Edit offline; it reconciles.
Bring your existing contacts in, take them out. Standard vCard import/export, with the Loam key carried along as an extension — friendly to the rest of the world.
A Basecamp module on the desktop and an Android app, folding the very same records byte-for-byte — one book, everywhere you are.
Desktop · Logos Basecamp
Install Kith + Kith UI from the Basecamp package repo:
apps.vpavlin.xyz
Android · F-Droid
apps.vpavlin.xyz/fdroid/repo