Your family’s cloud, in your home.
The Home Cloud keeps your family’s photos, files, calendars and children’s screen-time rules in your own home. It’s a small server and a router, and it arrives already set up and looks after itself, so there is nothing to learn and nothing to maintain.
A$599 once. You own the hardware. It works without a subscription.
What it does for your family
Everyone’s photos, in one library
The family’s phones back up their photos to it, at home, while they charge. One place to find them all, and albums you share with the grandparents and nobody else.
Bedtime that actually happens
Not a nag on your child’s phone. The internet simply goes off, and it holds even if they factory-reset the device.
Your photos stay in your home.
Only your family can see them. Phones back up to the box on your shelf, not to someone else’s cloud.
The free services were never free
You don’t pay for the photo app, the messaging app or the video feed with money. You pay with a record of your family’s life, sold on to people who want to sell you something.
I saw from the inside what everyone’s data is worth, and what gets done with it: collected on a scale people never picture, sold to advertisers, and used to sell things back to you. That is what pays for the free apps on your children’s phones. I wanted my own family out of that arrangement — and then everybody else’s.
James Mills, founder. Part of his career was spent as an engineer at Facebook.
The Home Cloud is what came of it: the photos, the files, the calendars and the screen-time rules, running in your own home, on hardware you own outright. Why we think you should own it →
In development, prototype under test. Follow the progress →