How to manage every family expiry in one place — licenses, warranties, subscriptions.

Once you split household expiries by type, the right place to store them and the right way to be reminded becomes obvious. Kigen's screens are organized around these four buckets.

• Renewal (license, passport, vehicle inspection): missing it means re-issuance or a violation
• Warranty (appliances, phones, home equipment): missing it means paying full price for repairs
• Billing (subscriptions, utilities): missing it means continued auto-charges you didn't want
• Consumption (medicine, food, cosmetics): missing it means reduced effectiveness or quality

Driver's licenses need months of planning; warranties only matter near expiry; subscriptions are best reviewed a month ahead. A blanket 'remind me 30 days before' setting becomes noise — people stop reading it.

In Kigen, each bucket has different default lead times. Licenses and passports start nudging 60 days out, warranties at 7 days, and subscriptions get a two-step ping at 3 days and 1 day. You hear about it only when it's actually useful.

When one person tracks everything, it's never clear who actually handles each deadline. A shared list makes the split visible — 'I'll do this one', 'can you grab that one' — and reduces small household frictions.

Vaccination schedules for kids, car inspections, pet vaccine boosters: deciding who handles each one every time is exhausting. Kigen lets you assign an owner to every expiry, so you see at a glance whose turn it is.

Expiry trackers don't stick when entering items is tedious. Drivers' license fronts, warranties, subscription billing emails, vehicle inspection certificates, passport photo pages — being able to just snap them and have the dates extracted automatically removes the friction.

Kigen uses Apple Vision for on-device OCR. Expiry candidates appear in one to two seconds after capture, and because nothing leaves the device, even sensitive documents are safe to scan.

Trying to be 'perfect' at expiry management is the surest way to burn out. A five-minute glance at 'what expires this month and next' at the start of every month is almost always enough. Kigen's home screen is built so that this monthly check fits on one screen and takes one thumb.