Now testing in Kenya

Call home.
Even if home
doesn't have an app.

Yiimi connects your phone to any phone — smartphone or the simplest handset — with a real call or a real text. Nobody on the other end has to install anything.

smartphone app · · · any phone, anywhere
Real phone callsReal SMSNo app needed on their endBuilt for Kenya, Africa & the diaspora
The problem

An app can only reach the people who installed it.

Every messaging app quietly leaves someone out — the relative who's never needed a smartphone, the friend without steady data, the number that's simplest, oldest, and still the one that matters most. Yiimi doesn't ask them to change anything. It reaches the phone they already have.

Call anyone

Place a real call from the app straight to their real number. It rings like any other call, because to them, it is one.

Text anyone

Send a message that lands as a normal SMS, no matter what phone it arrives on.

They install nothing

The person you're calling never needs an account, a download, or a data connection. Just their phone, same as always.

Where it's used

Built for the calls that matter most.

Yiimi wasn't designed around a single use case — it was designed around a single gap: someone you need to reach, and a phone that doesn't run apps.

01

Family & diaspora

The most common reason someone opens Yiimi: a parent, a grandparent, a childhood friend — still reachable by their same, familiar number, wherever you've moved to.

02

Healthcare & pharmacy follow-ups

Delivery updates and prescription check-ins that reach a patient's real phone, not just the ones running the right app.

03

Community & field outreach

Coordinators reaching the people in their community directly, without asking anyone to download something first.

04

Everyday business

A local shop, clinic, or service that wants every customer reachable — not just the ones with the right phone in their pocket.

“I've been trying to get my father to use a smartphone for years. With Yiimi I stopped trying — I just call his same old number, and it works.”

— Amina, early tester, London