Make streets smaller, everywhere.

Kylala exists because the people best placed to help you live twenty meters away, and no tool was built for exactly that. We build the map where neighbors ask for a hand and give one: free in both directions, private by construction, worldwide by default.

We hold three promises as constraints, not slogans:

Free in both directions; no subscription exists. No response quotas, no premium queue, nothing to cancel.
Privacy that holds. No real names, no phone numbers on our servers, addresses never shown, deletion that really deletes.
Honesty as a habit. We describe others fairly, publish how the service runs, and design so that the app is needed less as a street gets to know itself.

Why it exists

Every neighborhood app before us chose one of two roads: sell the helpers a subscription, or sell the neighbors’ attention to advertisers. We are building the third road, mutual aid as infrastructure: asking is free, helping is free, and nobody’s identity, address or attention is the product. The product is a live map of a street where a ladder finds a borrower, a parcel finds its door, and a home gets watched while its people are away.

What we read first

Before opening the street to anyone, we read what the incumbent asks of you: its 142 live help-center articles and its terms, a sample of 500 of its reviews (May to August 2026), and every rival’s site, checked live on 5 August 2026. What that reading ruled out for Kylala: real names, ads, paid help, a fear category, subscriptions, deals on residents’ data.

What is live

Kylala runs in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian, in the browser on any phone or laptop, and installs from there with no app store. It covers every street: building circles are drawn from OpenStreetMap wherever neighbors are, so there is nothing to apply for and no waiting list. Built and running: eight kinds of asks with hands raised and picked, circles with stewards and one shared room, announcements, parcel notes, home watch with check-in reports, standing offers, notifications with quiet hours, one account on every device, blocks, reports and appeals, and deletion that deletes. If you run your neighborhood’s group, write to us: a circle for your block with you as steward, and the steward tools a group chat lacks: knock approval, invite codes, one message to everyone.

Who is behind it

Kylala is independent: no advertiser, no data buyer and no parent company behind it. The three promises above bind it in writing; the privacy policy says what is kept and what never is, and this page says what runs and how to partner. One door for questions, press and partnerships: hello@kylala.com; we are also on LinkedIn.

Work on Kylala

If the mission reads like something you would give your best hours to (engineering, design, community, languages), introduce yourself: hello@kylala.com. Tell us what you would build first; that says more than any CV.

Partnerships, sponsoring & investment

Kylala runs deliberately lean and grows on its own terms, and we talk gladly with people who can bend the curve: companies that want to sponsor a free, ad-free public good their customers actually live on; institutions that want their residents’ streets connected without buying their data (that part is non-negotiable); and investors who read “free in both directions” as strategy rather than charity. For any of these, one door: hello@kylala.com.

The map is the argument

Everything above is words. Open it, see your street, and you’ll know in a minute whether this is worth your time.

Step onto the street