built by a family · used daily · nothing leaves your home

Built for my family.
Shared with yours.

A curated open source family server kit for Mac. Photos, documents, family memories, local AI and automated backups. Runs entirely on your hardware at home. No cloud. No subscriptions. Nothing leaves your network.

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Terminal — familykit
~ git clone github.com/familykit/familykit
~/familykit ./setup.sh
  ✓ Caddy · Immich · Paperless · Matrix · Ollama
All 8 services running. Time for a coffee.

Your whole family life — captured, organised, and working for you.

🏠
Kit — Document Filing
● online
📄 Digitize your paperwork
💬 Ask anything
🎙️ Capture family memories forever soon
// from the build log

How FamilyKit came to be.

The story behind the project, in our own words.

Origin story

The €900 NAS I Never Built

A 15-year-old Synology, a phone that was always full, and the lucky hesitation that saved me from building the wrong server.

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The hardware

I Bought a Used Mac Studio to Run Local LLMs

How a LinkedIn post, a Gemini chat, and an impulse buy led to the machine that started FamilyKit.

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This runs on a Mac in our house. Because tech should serve families too.

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// how it works

One Mac. Everything connected.

Your phone sends a message, Matrix routes it to your Mac, and nothing leaves your home.

Your Mac · Your Stack
via Matrix
📷
Photos
Immich
💬
Chat
Matrix
🤖
AI
Local LLM
📄
Documents
Paperless
🔒
Backups
Local
🗂️
Code
Forgejo
📱
Your Phone
remote control
Everything runs locally. Nothing leaves your home.

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One mail. Promise.