nesta.

Your family's private messenger

Nesta is a private messenger for one household — no public feed, no strangers, no ads. Grown-ups hold the keys; children join with a parent-issued QR and never need an email or a password.

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Also on Google Play and iOS TestFlight.

Everything Nesta does, in the order a family meets it

Every feature below shows exactly where it lives in the app.

Part 1 · Set up the household

From a blank phone to a family, in minutes

The setup path is deliberately short: one adult signs in and creates the household; everyone else joins through a grant — a QR, a link, or a short code.

Install or open anywhere

Play Store, App Store/TestFlight, or the installable web app at nesta.tinykite.co. Nothing asks for an account until someone chooses to have one.

app launch → Welcome

Adult sign-in

Email & password, Google, Apple, or passkeys in the native apps; the web app hands off to the central account hub and returns signed in. Forgot-password works from the screen or the emailed link.

Welcome → Sign in

Create a household

Name the family and yourself — you're the first admin and this device is active immediately. No code needed for the founder.

Welcome → Create a household

Add a child — first name only

Type their first name; Nesta provisions a hidden account and hands you the complete pass-along: a QR code, a shareable link, and a typed fallback code. No password is shown because none is needed.

⋮ → Household → Members → Add child

Child joins: confirm and you're in

Scan the QR, tap the link, or type the code — the grant already knows who it's for, so the child sees “Setting up Rohan's device?”, taps Yes, that's me, and lands in the family chat. Zero typing, zero credentials.

shared link / QR / Welcome → Join

Links & QR codes open the app

The join link is a verified app link: with Nesta installed it opens the app directly (Android App Links, iOS Universal Links); without it, the web app takes over. The join screen also scans QR codes itself.

any shared join link

Invite another adult

A one-time invite code for another grown-up, with their authority — member or co-admin — fixed at issue time.

Members → Invite an adult

Adult joins with an invite

Enter the code, sign in or create an account, pick a chat name — the device activates automatically and lands in chat.

Welcome → I was invited by my family

Part 2 · Everyday use

The family's day-to-day

A familiar messenger, scoped to one household.

Chat home

All conversations with previews, timestamps, and unread badges. The household group chat exists from day one.

home

Direct chats

Pick any family member to open a one-to-one conversation.

home → new chat

Messages with real delivery ticks

Pending, sent, delivered, read — plus date separators, an offline banner, and an outbox that retries failed sends or lets you discard them.

any conversation

Photos, videos & files

Attach from the gallery, shoot with the camera, or send a document — rendered as media bubbles with download handling.

conversation → paperclip

Voice notes

Hold the mic, watch the live level meter, slide to cancel; playback with waveform.

conversation → hold mic

Notifications that respect privacy

A push says WHO wrote — never what. The relay stays content-blind; tapping the alert deep-links into that conversation. iOS APNs and Android FCM, registered the moment a device is in.

automatic after joining

Part 3 · Say it your way

Warm, expressive, familiar

The little touches that make a family chat feel like family — react, reply, and add a bit of personality, all in the messenger you already know how to use.

Emoji that look the same everywhere

An emoji button opens a searchable picker with skin tones and a recents tab. Every emoji shows as the same friendly glyph on iPhone, Android, and the web — so what you send is exactly what everyone sees — and a message of just one to three emoji arrives large and gently animated.

conversation → emoji button

React to a message

Long-press any message to react with an emoji; reactions gather into little animated chips with a count. One per person — tap your own to take it back.

long-press a message → react

Reply and quote

Swipe right on a message — or long-press and choose Reply — to quote it above your answer; tap the quote to jump straight back to the original.

swipe right / long-press → Reply

See when someone's typing

A gentle “Maya is typing…” appears right in the chat and in the chat list, so you know a reply is on its way. In a group it rolls up to “3 people are typing…”.

any conversation

Fix a typo — edit a message

Long-press your own message and choose Edit within fifteen minutes of sending; the message keeps a small “edited” label so nothing ever feels hidden.

long-press your message → Edit

Delete a message

“Delete for everyone” takes your message back for the whole family within two days — and a household admin can remove any message — while “Delete for me” simply tidies it away on your own device.

long-press a message → Delete

Animated stickers

A sticker button opens a tray of big, playful animated stickers. The first pack is Nesta's own family-friendly set, built right in — no third-party service in the loop.

conversation → sticker button

Part 4 · Manage the household

Parents hold the keys

Oversight is about devices and membership — never message content.

Members roster

Active members only, no “kid” labels anywhere. Admins get per-member actions; everyone sees the family.

Household → Members

Set up a device for anyone

Admins mint a short-lived, single-use device grant for any member — the same QR + link + code hand-off as add-child.

Members → member ⋮ → Set up a device

Add your own devices

Any adult — admin or not — self-issues a grant for their tablet, browser, or next phone. Children always go through an adult (that's the security model, not a limitation).

Settings → Add another device

Approve & revoke devices

Every device is listed with its status; new web logins for kids wait for approval, and anything can be revoked instantly. The pending device waits on a friendly screen.

Household → Devices

Your name is yours

Everyone — kids included — edits how their own name appears. Renames re-label chats and the roster; admission and login are untouched.

Settings → profile card → edit

Reset a child's password

Only for the rarely-needed credentials fallback — a new one-time password, shown exactly once.

Members → child ⋮ → Reset password

Remove a member

Removes them entirely: devices stop being served, a child's hidden account is deleted, their name is freed — and past messages keep rendering under “old ‹name›”.

Members → member ⋮ → Remove from family

Sign out

Confirms, revokes the session, and wipes this device's binding and local message mirror. Rejoining needs a fresh grant.

Settings → Sign out

One household. Nothing else.

No public feed, no strangers, no ads — and children never need an email or a password.

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