FOR PARENTS.

What it is

• Each person has a little clay monster, their tint, and picks one of ten moods (a color and a word). If they want, they add a more precise word from a fixed list, how strong it is (1 to 3) and a reason from a fixed list, like “school” or “family”.
• The monsters stand on a shared wall: a group of 8 people max, all invited by link. The group sees it in the app, on a home or lock screen widget, or in a floating bubble on Android, without opening the app.
• One tap, little signs from a closed list, like ✌️ “thinking of you”, 🫂 “with you” and 🤗 “a hug”, or an invite like ☕ “grab a coffee?” with three ready-made answers. Never a comment: no chat, no photos.
• If someone stays in the “dark” mood for a while, their group sees it on the scene and can send them a sign in one tap. Nobody is pushed to do it.
• If someone publishes the “dark” mood several days in a row, the app shows that person, and only them, a gentle message with a helpline (in the US, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline; in France, the 3114) and a shortcut to write to someone. Nobody else sees it: not the group, not you.
• Short daily games, all optional: ÉCHO, “Do you know me?” and “This Big”. ÉCHO is the only free text in the app: one word, 20 characters at most, checked by our server and reportable.
• Clay stickers and short phrases made from a fixed list of words, to put on the group’s wall, and walls to choose from, all from fixed collections. On Sunday, the group’s week becomes a short comic.
• An account can be in up to four groups: friends and family, for instance.
• Anyone can pause at any time (“ghost mode”), for an hour, until the evening, or for as long as they want: their monster simply leaves the group’s wall for that time, they come back on their own when the time is up, and nobody is told: not the group, not you.

What it is not

• No feed, no discovery, no strangers. A group is 8 people max (some older groups have a few more) and can only be joined with an invite link from someone in it.
• No messaging: people answer each other with signs from a closed list.
• No “seen”, no follower counts, no permanent ranking, no streak pressure. Nobody knows who looked without reacting. ÉCHO gives a crown of the day to the word the group found most unexpected: it is a game, not a ranking of people.
• No email, no phone number, no password, no real name required. A first name or nickname is enough.
• No location, no photos, no contacts, no ads, no tracking across apps, nothing sold to anyone. Nothing to buy either: during the beta, the walls and stickers of the shop are free, and tint+, a future option for the whole group, is only a waiting list for now.

Ages and your approval

Tintee is for people 13 and older, everywhere: it does not accept children under 13. In the European Union, a young person can sign up alone from the age of digital consent in their country (15 in France). Below that age, the app asks for your green light:

1. Your child gets a short code in the app and sends it to you however they like.
2. You open Tintee (or the link they sent), type the code, read one screen, and approve. No account to create, no group to join.
3. You never see their mood, their group or their friends. Tintee is not a monitoring tool.
4. You can withdraw your approval at any time from “me” in the app: the account and its data are deleted.
5. Uninstalling the app does not delete the account. An account with no sign of life (not opened, no mood, no device still registered) is deleted automatically, usually after 90 days and at most after 180; the person who created a group can also remove a member from it.

On iPhone and Android, the app can also ask the App Store or Google Play for the age range they know, for example one you set up with Family Sharing or Family Link. If the store says your child is under 13, or that you have not approved, the app does not create an account. The age range stays on the phone: Tintee does not keep it or send it anywhere.

The current beta is for adults only (18+).

Data, in one paragraph

Tintee stores a first name, the look of your child’s tint, the current mood with its optional word, strength and reason and the phone’s time offset from UTC, their groups, what they stick on the group’s wall, a device token for notifications, and the parent approval when there is one, all in Google’s European data centers (Belgium). Game data is short-lived: ÉCHO words and guesses are deleted after 8 days, the Sunday comic after 16 days at most and wall stickers after 14 days at most. The month of the crew keeps one mood per day for 13 months. No photos, and nothing to pay: during the beta, the shop is free. The privacy policy lists every item and how long it is kept.