Lost contact
Rosewood Park, summer 2003
We played football on the top pitch nearly every evening for one summer. You had a Brazil shirt with the number 9 flaking off and you always went in goal when nobody else would.
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Reconnections that matter
Who are you trying to find?
noknokk helps adults reconnect through remembered moments — a place, a year, a sentence, a fragment — with identity kept private until both people consent.
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Free to post, always. Safe, double-blind and 16+ only — not a records, tracing, investigative or emergency service. How we keep this safe
Reconnection model
Not dating
Memory
One side of the story is safely recorded.
Match
Private signals are compared without public exposure.
Consent
Only mutual yes unlocks the next step.
16-second overview
How noknokk works
One memory, two halves, and a protected introduction only if the signal is mutual.
Signals from the archive
“You lent me an umbrella in November.”“Top pitch, every evening, that one summer.”“A first name, a bedroom, a street, a year.”“Back seat, upstairs, paperbacks folded back.”“The foster carer with the blue front door.”“Two hours in the queue arguing about Spider-Man.”“Night shift, ward 4, the tea machine that never worked.”“Festival gate, 2014, red raincoat.”“You lent me an umbrella in November.”“Top pitch, every evening, that one summer.”“A first name, a bedroom, a street, a year.”“Back seat, upstairs, paperbacks folded back.”“The foster carer with the blue front door.”“Two hours in the queue arguing about Spider-Man.”“Night shift, ward 4, the tea machine that never worked.”“Festival gate, 2014, red raincoat.”
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Human details, protected
What a memory can look like
No public contact details. No pressure. Just enough signal for the right person to recognise the moment.
Everyday memory
Bus route 42, weekday mornings
Back seat, upstairs, always reading paperbacks with the covers folded back. You lent me an umbrella in November and got off two stops before the hospital.
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Family fragments
A first name, a street, a year
You may not have records or dates. Sometimes a bedroom, a foster placement, a school gate, or a remembered nickname is enough to begin safely.
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Every connection has a story.
We help you find the people and moments you thought were gone for good — a kind word, a shared laugh, a feeling you never forgot.
Two ways in
Start where your story fits
Same archive, same protections — a different first question depending on who you're looking for.
For care leavers and separated families
Looking for a sibling, a mother, a father
Foster care, adoption, family separation, or a move nobody explained can leave people with memories instead of records. Fragments are enough to begin.
- Siblings split between placements
- A birth parent you never met
- Foster carers and the people in between
- No names or dates required to begin
For old friends and lost contacts
The person you never forgot
School, work, a commute, a trip, one conversation that stayed with you. Ordinary moments that turned out to matter.
- A classmate or a teacher who changed something
- A familiar face you never got a name for
- Travel, festivals, one long night
- A stranger who helped you on a bad day
How your privacy works here
Read the full safety rulesNobody sees your name until you both say yes
Identity, photo and contact stay sealed on both sides until each of you accepts.
No DNA, no records, no people-search
We hold no birth, adoption or care files and buy no data. Only what people choose to write.
A permanent do-not-contact switch
Turn it on and you stop appearing to anyone, in both directions, for good.
No public profiles
There is nothing to browse about you — only the memory you chose to post.
Simple, controlled, consent-led
How it works
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Describe the memory
Capture what you remember: who, where, roughly when, and the details only the right person would recognise.
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Signals are matched
The system compares places, dates, details, wording and context without exposing identity too early.
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Both people consent
Names, faces and contact only unlock after mutual acceptance, safety checks and a verification question.
Access
Free to post. Pro to connect.
You never pay to be found. You pay only when you decide to reach back.
Free
Post and be found.
- Unlimited memory posts
- See your match count
- Redacted match previews with the match reason
- In-app notifications
Most people upgrade here
Pro
$9 /month · or $59/year
- Accept matches and unlock identities
- Private 1:1 chat
- Priority match runs
- Match alerts by email