The Ken Register your interest

Catch up with your loved one, with no tech dramas.

  • Intuitive to use
  • Remote management
  • Approved contacts only
  • Scam-safe
Register your interest See how it works £249 plus £4.99 per month. Not on sale yet: the first production run goes to the manufacturer this autumn. We will email you the day it goes on sale.
The Ken, a touchscreen
  • Big photographs to call from, each with a name and how they are related.
  • Nothing to swipe, pinch, drag or double-tap. If they can see it, they can press it.
  • A big bright screen, speakers loud enough for the room, and a microphone that hears a normal voice.
  • Only the people you approve get through. Cold callers and adverts never reach the screen.
  • It has no phone number, no inbox, no browser and no apps to install, so a scammer has nowhere to reach them.
  • The camera and microphone wake for a call and sleep the moment it ends. Nothing sits listening for a wake word.
  • They ring out whenever they like. Calls go both ways.
  • Contacts, photographs and settings all change from your phone, wherever you are. Nobody has to be in the room.
  • When something puzzles them, help is two presses away on the Ken itself. The Ken sorts out the common things at any hour, and a person at Ken HQ picks up the rest from nine to five.

Start to finish

How it works

You set it up from wherever you are. They plug it in and pick up.

  1. Order online

    • Add the contacts you decide.
    • We set the Ken up to your account while it is in the post to you.

  2. Plug it in

    • Plug it in and choose the home Wi-Fi.
    • Enter the code we email you.
    • Nothing to install, and they don't need to create an account.

  3. Start chatting!

    • Their family are on the screen as faces.
    • Every call arrives the same way, with the caller's photograph.
    • Single-button answering.

Designed for them. Peace of mind for you.

When a phone becomes too much, people lose touch. The Ken is designed for exactly that, with full remote management for you.

The raised numbers point at the research behind The Ken.

On their screen

  • One screen, one purpose1, 2, 8

    No apps to crash. The home screen never rearranges itself.

  • A message that waits

    Nobody in? The caller leaves a voicemail or a Videomail. It waits on the home screen with their photograph on it.

  • Birthdays and medication

    Prompted on the day, or a week before.

From your portal

What you see in your family portal

A scam needs a way in. The Ken hasn't got one.12

The people you approved
A single button which answers
Remotely managed from your phone
A full audit trail in the portal
A phone number to call
An email inbox to phish
A web browser to wander into
An app to be talked into installing

In 2025, over £500m was lost by people talked into paying a scammer.13

You do not become their IT department

Ken HQ is built into the Ken. Two taps on the Ken reaches us: Help, then Call Ken HQ. Nobody has to describe a problem down the phone to you first, and nobody has to wait for your next visit.

Two taps, from the Ken itself
The common things answered on the spot by the Ken itself, at any hour
A person at Ken HQ, nine to five, Monday to Friday
We can change a setting for them while they are on the call

The Ken and the subscription

The Ken requires a subscription to send messages and make calls - starting at £4.99 per month. Every feature is included. We don't believe in paywalls or lock-outs.

The Ken bundle
£249 + £4.99 / month
One-off Ken, £10 UK delivery per order, 30-day return. Subscription billed monthly, cancel any time. Wi-Fi required (no SIM card).
The Ken10-inch touchscreen, which you can set up and personalise before arrival.
Unlimited UK callsVideo or voice, the caller chooses. No per-minute charge.
The portalAdd, remove and re-order contacts. Approve who can call or message.
iPhone and Android appBoth in testing. Included for everyone in the family.
Group callsEveryone on one call, on the app, a laptop, or their own Ken.
RemindersBirthdays and medication, set from the portal.
Voicemail and VideomailLeft on the home screen when nobody answers.
Ken HQTwo taps on the Ken, or a UK number for you.
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