Sooo close!
Meet Human Hub, the app that remembers your people for you. Check-ins, birthdays, last conversations, the follow-up you swore you'd send. Completely free to download. It just… does the remembering so you don't have to. (:
Free to start. Works offline.
It's not that you don't care. It's that you have a job, an inbox, a phone full of people you only kinda know, and like... a chaotic brain that doesn't randomly remind you it's been three weeks since you called your sister lol.
Human Hub remembers your people for you. Birthdays. What you last talked about. The question you swore you'd ask next time. So you get to stop being the bad friend and start being the friend (:
Outsource the stuff your brain keeps dropping. Human Hub's got it (:
Logged in two taps after you check in. Or hold the + and just say it out loud. No more "wait, did I already wish her happy birthday?" Human Hub knows. You don't have to.
Tell Human Hub how often you actually want to talk to someone. When you've drifted, they show up in your morning brief. No guilt. No telling yourself you've been a bad friend. Just you, showing up.
Their dog's name. The book they recommended. The hard thing they're going through. All on their profile, ready two seconds before you hit send.
How did Lila's interview go? Type it or voice it and set the date. Human Hub pings you that morning, you ask, the answer goes back on her profile. Future-you is going to be SO happy (and Lila will know that you really care).
Pulled from Contacts, or typed in once. One soft notification the morning of, not at 11pm (when it's too late). Plus a spot for gift ideas all year, so you can be that friend that gets them a gift they'll actually like (;
Notes. Spreadsheets. Calendar alarms. They all become ANOTHER thing to feel guilty about. Human Hub won't be another one. It carries the load, not you.
Your sister gets daily texts. Your college roommate gets a quarterly call. Apps that flatten everyone into a weekly check-in become a guilt breeding ground. Set the cadence per person. No guilt for being a normal human.
Six weeks of consistent texts with your sister: cute. Three months of silence with your roommate: noted. Streaks give you a quick look at who you're showing up for and who you're missing. No leaderboards, no guilt. Just a useful glance.
Type "ask Lila about the move" and pick a date. Human Hub pings you that morning, you ask, and you log the answer. The note lives on her profile so future-you remembers what past-you cared about.
Their dog's name. The book they recommended. The thing they cried about last March. Quick Notes, Memories, Gratitude. All tied to the person, all yours.
You already live in your calendar. Sync up and Human Hub writes birthdays, anniversaries, and follow-ups to a separate Human Hub calendar that lives alongside everything else. Doesn't touch your other ones.
Screenshotted straight from the App Store (:
Privacy
Keeping notes about the people you love means their names have to live somewhere. Here's exactly where that is, who can read them, and the one switch that takes me out of the picture.
Turn it on in Settings, under Your Data. From then on your people's names, your notes and your check-ins get scrambled on your iPhone before anything is saved. The key is made on your device and never reaches us, so what sits on the server is text we genuinely can't open. Not "won't". Can't.
You get a recovery code when you switch it on, and that code IS the key. We keep no copy and there's no reset link, because a reset link would mean we could get in after all. It starts off rather than on, because if you lose your phone and your code together then nobody can get your notes back, not even me. That tradeoff should be yours to make, not mine.
A voice command sends what you said, plus your people's first names, to Anthropic's Claude. That's what turns "caught up with Sam, remind me in two weeks" into an actual reminder on the right person, and a model can't read scrambled text, so that bit gets unscrambled on your phone before it goes. It never touches our database in the clear. Typing sends nothing anywhere.
Turning your voice into words is Apple's speech recognizer, the same one behind the keyboard mic. Offline it runs entirely on your iPhone. Online the audio goes to Apple, exactly as dictation does everywhere else on the phone.
A photo gets its location data stripped on your phone before it uploads, so a picture taken at a friend's house doesn't quietly carry their address. Photos live in your own folder that no other account can reach, but they aren't scrambled the way your text is. That's the next thing on the list.
When the app breaks it sends a crash report tagged with an anonymous account number so it can be fixed. No screenshots, no screen recording, and nothing you typed.
Delete All Data in Settings clears every row, both photo folders, and the account itself. If any part of that fails it says so and keeps your account standing, rather than telling you it's gone when it isn't.
Real questions from real people, answered honestly. (:
Uhh.. technically yes, the way a love letter is technically an email. But missing the WHOLE point.
Human Hub doesn't track 'deal stages' or 'opportunity scores' (that's a different breed of app for a different breed of people). It tracks birthdays, last chat dates, and the question you keep meaning to ask. Honestly if 'caring enough to remember' feels weird to you, the people in your phone are just gonna keep drifting (:
Friction. Spreadsheets ask you to remember to open them. Notion asks you to maintain a database.
Human Hub does the part those tools skipped: it tells YOU when to show up. Voice in 20 seconds, one notification in the morning, no custom hacks to make it work for you.
I get it. ADHD makes texting back feel like an impossible ask, and people kind of appear and disappear in your life depending on whether they're right in front of you. Every productivity app you've tried is in a graveyard on your phone.
Human Hub is built for that brain (mine too lol). The whole point is you don't have to remember IT. It remembers for you. Voice in 20 seconds while walking. One morning brief, then it leaves you alone. If you skip a week and come back, nothing breaks.
Nope! Human Hub starts empty. Add the 10 to 30 people who actually matter to you. The whole point is to make it smaller than your phonebook, not bigger.
In fact, I recommend that you only add one person at a time. A focused Hub is easier to stick with (;
No, never. Your people are yours. Human Hub doesn't sell them, rent them, or train any model on them, and there's no ad network or tracking SDK in the app.
Turn on Private Mode in Settings and your names, notes and check-ins get scrambled on your phone before they're saved, with a key that only ever lives on your device. What we store is text we can't read. Leave it off and your data still sits behind row-level security, so no other user can reach it.
Two honest ones. A voice command sends what you said, plus your people's first names, to Anthropic's Claude so it can turn "caught up with Sam, remind me in two weeks" into a real reminder. Typing never sends anything out. And your photos are stored safely but they aren't scrambled the way your text is.
Delete All Data in Settings removes every row, every photo, and the account itself.
The truly free apps are free because they sell your data, run ads, or stop getting updated the minute iOS breaks something. None of those felt right for an app about the people you love.
Pro pays for one person (me, lol) to keep this thing working and growing.
The free tier is pretty substantial though! 15 people forever. You need Pro at person 16+ (:
Yes! Recent data is cached locally so you can look up contacts and see history on a plane or in a dead zone. Anything you log offline queues up and syncs the next time you're online. The only thing that needs a connection is the voice parsing.
iOS first because that's where I could ship a polished version solo (I'm one person lol). Android is on the waitlist (link up top). You'll be the first to know!
Made by a girl tired of letting her friendships drift away.
The thing is: I love my people. I'm just not naturally great at keeping up with them. My friends are scattered across cities. My brain only thinks about whatever's in front of it. The drifting wasn't on purpose. It just kept happening lol.
I had systems scattered all over the place. Notes. Spreadsheets. Notion. Calendar alarms. They all worked...kinda. But when they didn't, they felt like ANOTHER thing I felt guilty about not maintaining.
The problem wasn't me though (and it's not YOU either!). It was that none of those tools were actually built for this. They were built for tasks and projects and productivity. Not for the human-shaped hole in your life that's reserved for the people you love.
So I made Human Hub. It remembers everything I used to forget: check-ins, birthdays, events, the questions I swore I'd ask, and the little things people told me about themselves. I get to be present (like, actually present) with my people. And keeping it up-to-date takes one 20-second voice command.
I built Human Hub for myself: a girl who cares deeply and knows that real connection is intentional, not passive.
Turns out I'm not the only one (:
Human Hub is only me, no growth team. Just a lil app made by someone who wants a little more love in the world. ❤️
Love you lots,
Melanie · hey@hellomelmo.com
Try Human Hub free for 7 days. If you don't feel different about how you show up for your people, cancel before it charges. Honestly though, it probably won't come to that (;
Your people stay yours. Human Hub works offline. Setup takes like 4 minutes.
iOS 16+ · Android coming · Human Hub © 2026 · Made with love by Melanie
