Five steps from "just downloaded" to a family that runs itself.
1
Download myna & start your family
Install myna on your own phone from the App Store or Google Play and sign in with Google (or Apple, on iPhone). Give your household a name and set a parent PIN. You become the first parent, the one who sets everything up.
2
Set up the family hub
Install myna on a spare tablet, choose "My family already uses myna" and enter your family code (it's on the Invite family card in MANAGE). Then choose "Set up as family tablet" and give it a name. Stand it on the TV console or mount it on the wall, wherever everyone gathers. The hub needs no login, and its settings sit behind your parent PIN. You can add more hubs later, or replace one.
3
Add everyone
Open MANAGE → Add member to create a profile for each person, as a parent, kid, helper or relative. Roles decide what each person sees and can do. Then tap Share on the Invite family card to send them your family code and invite link. To invite your partner, add their Google or Apple email when you create their profile, and their phone links itself when they sign in.
4
Set up a child's phone
Install myna on the kid's phone, choose "My family already uses myna", enter the family code and pick their name. On Android, turn on Guardian when prompted (it's an Accessibility service, and it keeps the phone locked to myna). On iPhone, myna uses Apple's Screen Time: run "Seal this device" when it's offered during setup (or later from that phone's settings gear). Either way, the phone becomes a safe, family-only device.
5
Meet Aunty
You pick Aunty's voice during setup (tap any one to hear her first), and you can change it any time in MANAGE → Aunty Voice. Open the Aunty chat and start telling her things to remember: allergies, the wifi password, shoe sizes. She's your household's second brain.
Features, one by one
What each part of myna does, and how to use it.
The family hub
Turn any spare tablet into the always-on heart of the home: no login, just big faces anyone can tap.
Call from the hub: tap a face, choose Voice, Video or Message, then pick who you are.
Drop In from a parent's phone (tap "Drop in" on Home) and the hub answers by itself, like an intercom.
Family announcements appear on every device and are read aloud on the hub.
Pin it where the family actually gathers: the console, the kitchen wall, the hallway.
Got two gathering spots? Add a second hub and they stay in sync.
Aunty, your household's second brain
Aunty is your family's second brain. Tell her once, and she remembers for everyone, then files, reminds, and answers when anyone asks.
The family wiki: allergies, shoe sizes, wifi passwords, all saved privately. Parents save things (relatives can suggest, and a parent approves).
Who hears what: parents can ask about anything. Kids and relatives get everyday basics only. Helpers hear only what a parent asks Aunty to pass on.
Snap any document: passport, insurance, school letter. She reads it, files it, and reminds you before it expires. Sensitive numbers live in an encrypted vault.
Email her your bookings: your family gets its own address. Forward e-tickets and school notices, and they come back filed, dated and summarised.
Send a photo of a school timetable and she sets up the nightly "tomorrow's classes + PE attire" reminder by herself.
Pick the Aunty that sounds like family
From kopitiam matriarch to Brooklyn grandma, choose the voice your family will recognise. Tap any one to hear her before you pick.
Set a household voice everyone hears on announcements, reminders and nags.
Each Aunty has her own personality and warmth. Pick the one that feels like home.
Change her any time in MANAGE → Aunty Voice.
Messaging, calls & announcements
Everything the family needs to talk, and nothing it doesn't. Built for phones and the hub alike.
Family and group chats with voice notes (with transcripts), swipe-to-reply, forwarding, a double-tap ❤️, and scheduled messages (long-press send).
Search inside a chat, pin important messages, and find every photo and video in the chat's gallery.
Messages translate automatically into each person's language, with a play button to hear them.
Aunty spots things worth doing in a message and offers an Add or Update task card.
Voice and video calls to anyone. Drop In to a hub and it answers by itself, like an intercom.
Announcements (parents only) appear on every device. The hub reads them aloud, and phones get a banner and a chime. Voice announcements are also spoken on kid and helper phones, unless that person has turned off "Read announcements to me" or it's their quiet hours. Mark one urgent and it skips quiet hours and asks everyone to acknowledge it.
Call history sits right in the chat thread, with missed calls flagged.
A child's first phone, no harm done
A real phone for staying in touch, with none of the rabbit holes. Aligned with Grow Well SG, endorsed by tired parents.
Locked to myna by default: no browser, no app store, no social media. You choose which other apps are allowed (Maps, a school app), always or only on request.
The Phone dialler is always there, because safety doesn't wait.
Android: allowed apps, a daily limit per app, and school and bedtime schedules.
iPhone: works through Apple's Screen Time. Choose allowed apps, filter adult sites, hide built-in apps, and set bedtime windows when the whole phone sleeps. Installs, deletes and purchases are off.
"Ask Mama": your child asks for an app or more time, and you approve for as long as you like, a different length, or for good. On iPhone you can also let an app run on its own up to a set number of minutes a day.
Gentle spoken reminders land on the kid's phone in your family's voice.
Helpers feel like family
Bridge the language gap without anyone feeling left out, and give exactly the right level of access.
Tasks, messages and voice notes translate into the helper's own language, including Bahasa Indonesia, Tagalog and Burmese, and Aunty speaks to her in it. (For those three, the app's own buttons stay in English.) Hearing translations read aloud is part of Family Pro.
When your helper's phone first connects, Aunty messages you to offer to set up her language, read-aloud and play button. Just reply in plain words.
Added a helper who never installed myna? Aunty sends her the join link once.
Give helpers the access they need, nothing more. You can even lock a helper's work phone to only the apps you allow.
Add relatives too. Everyone reads and hears the family chat in their own language.
Calendar, tasks & nags
Aunty never forgets, so you don't have to. The chores, the lessons, the pickups, handled.
Recurring tasks (daily, weekly, monthly). Turn on task extraction in your household settings and Aunty picks tasks out of text messages too (Family Pro).
Automatic and on-demand nags: schedule them, or fire one off the moment you remember.
Gold stars celebrate completed chores and make good habits fun for kids.
Two-way sync with Google Calendar, and Apple Calendar sync on iPhone (it runs on the phone itself). Plus smart shopping lists that sort themselves into categories.
Everyone home, on one screen
Peace of mind, not surveillance. See where your kids are at a glance and get a gentle ping when they arrive.
See your children at school, home or grandma's, at a glance.
Save places like school or grandma's and get a notification when your child arrives.
When someone gets home, it shows up on the hub.
Location is opt-in per person and set up from each phone.
Account & billing
Is myna free?
Yes. Family Free is free for good, and it covers what a household needs to run: the kid's phone lock and allowed-apps list, family messaging, voice notes and as many voice calls as you like, the shared calendar, tasks and the shopping list. Aunty still speaks on the free plan, in short lines. Every new household starts with 21 days of Family Pro, with no card needed.
What are the limits on the free plan?
Family Free gives you, each day, 10 chats with Aunty and 5 voice-note transcriptions. Each month, you get 5 video calls and 5 Drop Ins of up to 3 minutes each. Calls end automatically after 10 minutes (30 on Family Pro). Voice calls are unlimited. Turning down your child's requests is always free; approving them is part of Family Pro.
What does Family Pro include, and what does it cost?
Family Pro covers the whole household: one parent subscribes and everyone in the family gets it. It adds Aunty at full voice (reading messages out in full, premium voices, nags that escalate until the thing is done), voice chat with Aunty, translation for your helper spoken aloud, daily app limits with bedtime and school-hours windows, approving your child's requests from your phone, live family location and location history, task extraction from chat, two-way calendar sync, unlimited video calls and Drop In, and longer calls. In Singapore it's about S$10 a month or S$100 a year; the App Store or Google Play shows you the exact price in your currency before you pay. When the 21 days end, your household moves to Family Free unless you choose Pro. Nothing is charged without you subscribing.
How do I subscribe or cancel?
Subscriptions are handled through the App Store (iPhone) or Google Play (Android). Manage or cancel any time from your store account, and your access continues until the end of the period you've paid for.
How is my family's data handled?
Your family's information stays private to your household. Sensitive numbers from documents are kept in an encrypted vault, and we follow Singapore's PDPA everywhere myna ships. See our Privacy Policy for the full detail.
Troubleshooting
The handful of things that occasionally trip families up, and the quick fix for each.
Updates
How do I update to the latest version?
On a parent phone: open MANAGE, scroll to the bottom, and tap "Check for updates". On a child's phone or a hub tablet: tap the settings gear, unlock with your parent PIN, then "Check for updates". Give it a moment, then reopen myna.
An update doesn't seem to apply
Fully close myna and reopen it once. Updates finish applying on the next launch. If a device hasn't been connected for a while, connect it to wifi and check again.
Kids' Android phones & Guardian
The safety lock isn't working and my child can open other apps
Guardian (an Accessibility service) needs to be switched on. Open myna on the child's phone and follow the Guardian setup, which takes you to Settings → Accessibility to enable it. Once it's on, the phone locks to myna.
Guardian keeps turning itself off
Android automatically disables Accessibility services for any app that has been "force-stopped" (including from a "clear all" / aggressive task-killer). If Guardian is off, the usual cause is a force-stop. Just reopen myna and turn Guardian back on, and avoid force-stopping the app.
I can't enable Guardian on a newer phone
On Android 13 and later, newly-installed apps can be blocked by "Restricted settings". Go to Settings → Apps → myna → tap the ⋮ menu → "Allow restricted settings", then return to myna and enable Guardian.
Calls & audio
A call has no sound, or comes out of the wrong speaker
Use the speaker button on the call screen to switch between earpiece and speaker. If you're on Bluetooth, audio follows your headset. Disconnect it to return to the phone.
The hub didn't auto-answer a Drop In
Wake the tablet's screen and keep the hub plugged in. A hub that has gone into deep sleep may miss an auto-answer; keeping the screen on (or the device charging) keeps it ready.
Aunty & reminders
Aunty isn't speaking out loud
The most likely cause is that person's "Read announcements to me" switch. Check it in their settings and make sure it's on. Then check their quiet hours: each person can have their own, and during them reminders arrive silently. Finally, check the device volume. On Family Free, Aunty speaks in short lines rather than reading everything out in full.
Aunty didn't save something I told her
Only a parent can save things to the family wiki (a relative's suggestions wait for a parent to approve). Ask her directly from a parent's phone: "remember that Charlie is allergic to peanuts". She confirms when she has saved it. If you're ever unsure, ask "what do you know about…" and she'll read it back.
Location & members
I'm not getting location updates for a phone
On Android: set myna's location permission to "Allow all the time", and turn off battery optimisation for myna so it can update in the background. On iPhone: go to Settings → myna → Location and choose "Always".
I can't add my partner as a parent
Add member only creates their profile. To connect their phone, open MANAGE, find the Invite family card and tap Share to send them your family code and invite link. They install myna, choose "My family already uses myna", and enter the code (on Android, opening the link fills it in). Then they pick the name you added for them, or add themselves as a parent. Easier still: add their Google or Apple email to their profile, and their phone links itself when they sign in.
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