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A weekly family ritual · Private by design
A twenty-minute weekly check-in for your family.
Haklo walks you through four turns — an honest moment from the week, one goal, what’s coming up, and a quiet kindness — each person answering one at a time. Same room, or over video with whoever’s far away.
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
What Haklo does
You get a simple way to start, follow through, and remember.
One guided gathering, a little support between Sundays, and a private record of what your family said, in their own words, that you couldn’t rebuild from memory later.
Coach
Get help following through
Plus brings back what your family named on Sunday, so you are not starting the next week from scratch.
Chat Record
Save the useful stuff
Dates, links, and small decisions become record entries, once your family reviews them.
Memory
Look back later
Past gatherings stay sorted by week, so you can see what your family was actually dealing with back then.
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 worksNot 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 →
Between gatherings
Family chat that leaves a record behind.
The gathering is the Sunday ritual. The other six days, your family talks the way it always does: the dentist moved to Tuesday, the wifi password changed again, nobody can find the library card number. A librarian reads along and keeps a tidy record of the things you’d hate to forget. Family Chat is free for every family. The librarian is part of Plus.
The talking is the filing. Nobody is assigned to type anything into a form.
It asks first. Every entry it proposes is yours to confirm, edit, or delete.
When something is worth raising on Sunday, it hands it to the gathering.
Chat is free for every family. The librarian that files from it is part of Plus.
Real app screen
The librarian flags things worth keeping. Your family reviews each one before it is added to the record.
Nobody drifts apart on purpose. It happens by default.
The week is full and nothing pulls the other way. Haklo is a standing reason to sit back down together.
What it feels like
A record of what your family actually said.
One gathering is a nice evening. A year of them is something else: a record, in your family’s own words, of what you were worried about, proud of, and working on, week by week.
The home screen opens to one thing: the next gathering, ready to start.
Coach reminds you what your family set out to do, without making the week feel like homework.
Memory keeps every past gathering, sorted by week, so it does not just scroll away.
From 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
Memory
The part of Haklo you keep.
The meeting is the easy part to explain. What matters more is what builds up over a year of them: the worry that keeps coming back, the kid who is clearly changing, the shape of a season you would never reconstruct from memory.
Gatherings
Every week you met, and the ones you missed: check-ins, priorities, kindnesses, who was there.
What this holds HeardA place to tell someone something you didn’t manage to say out loud at the table.
What this holds Coach PlusReminders that come from what your family actually said, not from a generic tip list.
What this holds RhythmA simple count of how often you are actually doing it, so it stays a habit and not a once-in-a-while thing.
What this holds Our Roots Now live · PlusThe sentences your family keeps living out. Haklo notices a pattern across your gatherings; whether it’s true, and what to call it, is yours.
See how it worksBefore the price
How does Haklo make money? Plus. That’s the whole answer.
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Only your family sees it
There is no public timeline, no followers, no algorithm deciding what shows up. It is a private space for one family, and that is the whole design.
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The subscription is the privacy model
Haklo is paid for by Plus subscriptions, not by your data. Nothing your family says is mined, profiled, or sold — and because families pay, nothing ever has to be. Cozi runs on ads; the group chat runs on Meta. That is the difference a competitor can’t copy without breaking their own business.
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
Pricing
Start with the ritual. Add support when you want it.
Free is the whole ritual, not a trial. Plus is one price for the whole family, not per person — and it’s the only way Haklo gets paid, so nothing your family says ever has to be.
Free
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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
- Up to six family members
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/yrper familyBest value — save 34%
One subscription. The whole family.
More help between Sundays, without making the week feel like a to-do list.
- Midweek check-ins rooted in your family’s actual priorities
- Coach prompts for encouragement, reflection, and follow-through
- The Family Chat librarian — a record that files itself from the week’s conversation
- Deeper memory, arcs, and longer-view family patterns
- Early access to new family support tools as Haklo grows
Give a family a year of Haklo — one purchase, no expiry date. See the gift →
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.