The Relative Choice™ App

The first platform built to match adults with chosen family.

Beta testing begins Fall 2026.

Something that has never existed before — a way to find the specific family relationships you’re missing, matched to you based on shared values, lifestyle, and how you want family to look in your life.

Want to see it rather than read about it? Watch our short explainer video here.

Members of “We Are the Family You Need” — A Virtual Chosen Family Community by Relative Choice™ will be first in line for beta testing and will receive exclusive discounts when the app launches. Not a community member yet? Join us here.

Scroll Down

There’s nothing else like this.

That’s not marketing

it’s just true.

Friendship apps match you with people to hang out with. Dating apps match you for romance. Support groups give you a space to talk.

None of them are trying to help you find a grandparent figure for your children. Or the grandkids you always wanted to spoil. Or the parental figure you never had. Or a sibling who just gets it. Or the son or daughter you always wanted. Whatever role or roles will make your family complete, we have your back.

Relative Choice™ is built around family roles — because that’s what’s actually missing for most people. Not more acquaintances. Not more coffee dates. Family. The specific, irreplaceable kind of connection that holds you when everything else falls apart AND celebrates every win alongside you. The family bond that isn’t defined by DNA. It’s defined by choice.

Scroll for more

Built around roles, not just compatibility.

Step 1: Tell us what you’re looking for.
Set up your profile with the family roles you’re hoping to find — and the ones you’re happy to offer. Looking for grandparent figures for your kids? A sibling relationship built on shared values? Someone to be the older brother you never had? Grandkids to spoil? A daughter or son? This is where you start.

Step 2: Get matched on what matters.
Our matching is values-based — not just age or location. We look at how you live, what you believe in, what family means to you, and what you’re genuinely able to offer. The goal is compatibility that goes deeper than surface level.

Step 3: Connect at your own pace.
Start conversations, build trust, take your time. There’s no pressure to meet anyone before you’re ready. The goal was never endless digital chat. It’s real connections that become real family.

Scroll Down

Whatever’s missing – there’s a role for it.

Grandparent figures:
For parents who want their children to know what it feels like to have a grandparent in their corner. For older adults who have so much love, wisdom, and time to give — and the right people to give it to.

Parent figures:
For adults who could use that steady, been-there-done-that presence in their lives. And for those who have exactly that kind of love and are ready to offer it.

Siblings:
For only children who always wondered what it would feel like to have a brother or sister who just gets it. For anyone who has brothers but always wanted a sister. Sisters but always wanted a brother. More of both. Any of the above.

Aunts and uncles:
For the cool aunt or favorite uncle who wants more kids to show up for. And for the children in your life who deserve exactly that kind of person in their corner.

Adult children:
For anyone who has that parental love to give and is ready to give it. And for anyone who could use exactly that kind of presence in their life.

Family units:
For people who want to connect with a whole family, not just one person. And for families who simply have room for more.

Scroll for more

Does any of this sound familiar?

  • Have you ever sat in a doctor’s office and paused when they asked for an emergency contact?

  • Do you spend holidays, birthdays, and too many ordinary days wishing there was family to spend them with?

  • Have you watched other people celebrate with family and felt that quiet ache of wanting exactly that?

  • Would you love to have family to share a meal with? Take a trip with? Call when something wonderful happens — or when something doesn’t?

  • Have you ever wanted family to talk over a big decision with? Family who knows you well enough to give you the honest answer?

  • Has it been too long since you gave — or got — a real hug from family who means it?

  • Have your children ever been the only ones without a grandparent in the audience?

  • Do you have so much love to give and just need the right family to give it to?

If any of this landed — even a little — this was built for you.

Supporting chosen family through difficult times - Relative Choice
Scroll Down

Built to be safe from the ground up.

Opening yourself up to new family connections takes courage. It requires trust. And that trust has to be earned.

The Relative Choice™ app is built with safety as a foundation, not an afterthought. Every account is verified to make sure a real person, not a bot, is behind the account. Conduct is monitored, and there’s zero tolerance for anything that isn’t in keeping with the spirit of what we’re building. And every precaution used by today’s leading platforms that can be implemented is being implemented.

This is chosen family. We treat it accordingly.

Scroll for more

What you need to know.

  • Beta testing begins Fall 2026. The app is ready and waiting. Beta testing begins Fall 2026, because getting the right people in the door first matters more than releasing the app now.

  • Want to be first through the door? Beta testing begins Fall 2026 — and the first people we’re calling are the ones already gathered at “We Are the Family You Need” — A Virtual Chosen Family Community by Relative Choice™. Your spot is waiting, as well as your discounts and your chance to help shape the app before anyone else sees it.

  • US only at launch. The app will be available in the United States first. International expansion is planned — but not at launch.

  • iOS and Android. Available on both platforms when it launches.

  • Values-based matching. Not just demographics. Matched on how you live, what you believe, and what family means to you.

Scroll Down

Don’t want to wait?

You don’t have to. “We Are the Family You Need” — A Virtual Chosen Family Community by Relative Choice™ is your virtual extended family, already there and waiting. Activities, forums, peer-led support circles, and a place to belong — no tough questions, no effort required. Just show up.

The app and the community are two sides of the same coin. One gives you a specific chosen family built one relationship at a time. The other gives you an extended family already waiting. Together they give you everything.

So you don’t have to wait. You can have both!

Join the Founding Family
Join the App Waitlist

Scroll for more

Ready?

Get on the waitlist now and you’ll be among the first to know when beta testing begins Fall 2026.

We’ll only contact you about the app. No spam, no nonsense.

Supporting chosen family through difficult times - Relative Choice