Everything a real community needs, nothing it doesn't.
GroupKith is purpose-built for the four things groups of kith actually do together: talk, pray, gather, and follow up. No public feed. No discovery algorithm. No ads.
Group feed
One chronological conversation for the whole community. Drop in a message, photo, link, or a structured post. Reactions and threaded replies keep it organized.
Prayer wall
A dedicated home for prayer requests — one-tap "I prayed," group walls for shared seasons, mark-as-answered, follow-up nudges, and a public wall when communities want to share outward.
Events & RSVPs
Lightweight events created right in the feed. Time, location, RSVPs, sign-up slots for potlucks and rides, and automatic reminders before they start.
Threads
Reply under any message to keep the side conversation in line. Threads live inline so context isn't pulled out of the feed.
Direct messages
One-on-one or small-group DMs with anyone in your community. Same fast realtime delivery as the feed.
Realtime sync
Server-sent events push updates to every device the moment they happen — without burning battery on background polling.
Activity feed
A cross-community digest of what you actually need to see — new prayer requests, mentions, replies, RSVPs — instead of an endless scroll.
Multiple communities
Join your church, your small group, your block, and your family group from one account — switch with a tap.
Private by default
Invite-only communities. No public discovery, no SEO leak, no third-party trackers. The default is privacy — you opt in to share, not the other way around.
Per-community theming
Each community can set its own accent color so it feels like home the moment you open it — without breaking the readable, low-contrast layout.
Search that finds it
Full-text search across messages, prayer requests, and events — scoped to communities you're a member of, never beyond.
Export & portability
Community owners can export the full history of their group — messages, prayers, events, attendees — at any time. Your group's data is your group's data.
The chat app is the wrong tool.
A group of 30 people in a chat thread loses everything important within an hour. Prayer requests scroll past lunch plans. Event RSVPs get buried under photos. Important things get answered with thumbs-up reactions and never followed up.
GroupKith adds the structure a real community needs — while keeping the same fast, casual feel.
- Prayer requests get their own surface, not a buried message.
- Events have RSVPs and reminders, not a "going?" reply chain.
- Side conversations live inline as threads, not in a separate screen.
- Realtime sync across iOS, Android, and the web — no missed updates.
- Invite-only by default — never publicly indexable.
- No ads, no algorithm, no data sale — ever.
Ready to bring your group home?
Download GroupKith and invite your people — or jump straight into the web app. Setting up a community takes about 60 seconds.