Mini-chem solves chemical kinetics for gas giant atmospheric modeling. It is pared down from large chemical networks to make use of "net forward reaction tables"; this significantly reduces the number of reactions and species required to be evolved in the ODE solvers. The code's NCHO network consists of only 12 species with 10 reactions, making it a lightweight and easy to couple network to large scale 3D GCM models, or other models of interest (such as 1D or 2D kinetic modelling efforts). Mini-chem is written in Fortran and has three main parts: the input routine, the chemistry routines, and the still ODE solver.