Story
The truck and the pond
“So your grandfather had this truck, and the brakes were more of a suggestion…”
A weekly family ritual · Private by design
Make time to actually hear each other.
A guided weekly check-in for your family: what happened, what matters next, and one small kindness. Start together on one phone.
Free weekly gatherings. No credit card required.
Core ritual is free
Private family space
Your family’s words stay with your family.Haklo is private by design. We don’t sell your data. We don’t use your content to train AI. Your family’s story is yours alone.Learn more about privacy
The ritual
The same four rounds, every week.
Most family traditions die the same way: they ask for too much on a night when nobody has the energy. Haklo is built for tired, ordinary weeks, which is most of them.
Round 1
Check in
Start with one honest thing from the week: a good moment, a hard one, or whatever is still on your mind.
How this round worksRound 2
Goal
Name one thing you are working on, and keep it in view until next week.
How this round worksRound 3
Priorities
Say what is coming up before the week fills in around it, so the family knows what needs attention.
How this round worksRound 4
Kindness
Pick one quiet kindness for someone in the room. No credit, no announcement.
How this round worksFrom a real family
Haklo has become one of those things my wife and I genuinely look forward to every week.
My wife always insists on naming our gatherings, and it usually turns into an inside joke.
Special WeekHectic Week
Looking back at those photos and conversations reminds us how quickly life moves, and how many little moments we would have forgotten otherwise.
Stronger connectionMake time for what matters
Capture the momentsPhotos and conversations that matter
Look back togetherSee how your family grows over time
Something to hand downA record your kids will actually want later — or give a family a year
Start small
Before your first gathering.
One phone, your people, and a little time to hear each other.
Does everyone need an account or their own phone?
No. Start the gathering on one phone and pass it around. Add your family members as profiles; teens and adults can be invited to their own accounts when they want to participate from their own devices.
How family setup works →Can younger children join in?
Yes. Children under 13 participate through a parent’s account, without a separate login. A parent gives consent when adding their profile. They do not receive AI coaching.
Adding children to your family →What if someone lives elsewhere or misses the gathering?
They can add their part from their own account while the gathering is open. Your family chooses the window, so everyone does not have to be available at the same time.
How away participation works →What if my teenager is reluctant?
Ask them to try one short check-in. One sentence is enough; leave room to listen without turning it into advice or an interrogation. Haklo supplies the prompts, but willingness takes time. There is no promise that every teenager will take to it.
More on getting started with teens →Do we need Plus to try a gathering?
No. Weekly gatherings, family chat, gathering history, and saving entries to the Record by hand are free. Plus is optional: it adds coaching, Librarian suggestions you review, and Voice recording with consent and review before saving.
What Plus adds →Pricing
Start with the ritual. Add support when you want it.
Start free with the full weekly gathering. Plus is optional, with one subscription for the family. No credit card is required to start.
Free
$0
The full weekly gathering, free, and small enough to actually keep doing.
- Weekly gatherings — around the table or over a video call
- Four guided rounds: check in, goal, priorities, kindness
- Family chat — the everyday conversation, for every family
- Family memory with gathering history and participation
- Save entries to the family Record by hand
Enough to build the habit and find out if it fits your family.No credit card required to start.
Between gatheringsRecommended
Plus
$9.99/mo · $79.99/yrper familyBest value — save 33%
One subscription. The whole family.
More help between Sundays, without making the week feel like a to-do list.
- Stories — record a family story in your own voice New
- Our Roots — notice and name the values your family lives out New
- Midweek check-ins rooted in your family’s actual priorities
- Personal coaching, Family Pulse, and encouragement drafts
- Optional Librarian suggestions and questions answered from your Record
- AI gathering summaries, deeper arcs, and longer-view patterns
- Gathering recording — consent first, review before saving
- A photo alongside an away member’s weekly contribution
Give a family a year of Haklo — one purchase, no expiry date. See the gift →
Try your first gathering this week.
Free weekly gatherings. One phone is enough to start.
Between gatherings
A place to talk. A place to keep the useful things.
The dentist moved to Tuesday. Save the message to your family’s Record so you can find it later. Family Chat and filing by hand are free.
With Plus, the optional Librarian suggests entries from your chat. It is off by default and never posts in the conversation. Your family confirms or edits each suggestion before it is saved, or dismisses it.
See Chat and the Record →
Real app screen
The librarian flags things worth keeping. Your family reviews each one before it is added to the record.
Record
A little of this week, kept.
The goal they were working on. The small win you nearly forgot. Your gathering history keeps what your family shared, week by week, so you can come back to it together.
Explore your family’s Record →
AI that helps your family. Content that stays yours.
Haklo uses shared content to provide AI features. Your content is not used to train AI models. People at Haklo do not routinely review your family’s content. AI processing helps power transcription, coaching, and requested Librarian reviews.
Clearing your coaching messages leaves your family’s Record untouched. Saved gathering answers, family preferences, and generated arc context remain available for future coaching.
See what is kept, what coaching uses, and what clearing removes →Private by design
Your family’s words belong to your family.
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Only your family sees it
Your family has a private space, with no public feed. We don’t sell your family’s data or use your content to train AI.
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You choose what to keep
The optional Librarian waits for your review. Voice asks for consent before recording, and the transcript stays a draft until you choose to save it.
From the founder
“I built Haklo for my own family first: three kids close to leaving the house, and a pattern I didn’t want to inherit.”
Clay Nelson, founder of HakloRead the story →LinkedIn
Not sure yet?
Read before you download.
For parents of teensHow to talk to your teenager without it turning into an argumentSeven shifts that lower the temperature — most of them about listening, not talking.Read →The first askHow to get your family bought into a family meetingWhy the first ask matters more than the meeting itselfRead →Start hereA family meeting agenda template that actually gets usedFive parts, about twenty minutes, and a format simple enough that nobody dreads it.Read →
Start small
Pick a night. Start this week.
Signing up takes a few minutes. The actual work is just showing up enough Sundays that it becomes a thing your family does.
Your family’s words stay with your family. No ads, and nothing sold.