A private family calendar for the whole household

That is the short answer if you came looking for a shared family calendar without ads. One bill for the house at $9.99/mo, after a 14-day trial that takes no card — free while we’re in early access, no card and no clock, and members never pay however many of them there are. The rest is the longer answer: what the calendar does, what a nine-year-old sees, what a grandmother in two families sees, and what will not suit you.

What “private” means here

• One family per address. The database itself refuses to hand back another family’s rows — not a filter a future feature can forget.
• No ads, no trackers, no feed, no AI. No advertising business to feed, nothing reading your family’s events, and no third-party script in the hub at all — the only one in the product is Cloudflare’s cookieless page counter on this public site, which never runs where your family signs in. The subscription is the whole business model.
• No public links to guess. Everything is handed only to a signed-in member of your house.
• Described honestly. Our own server in the United States, behind Cloudflare, encrypted on the way there, backed up nightly. We can reach the database to fix a fault or restore a backup, as every service you use can — the Privacy Policy and the Security page say so.

The cards that carry the household’s time

A hub is a grid of cards; fifteen come with it, the rest in four small bundles.

• Calendar. The shared one: colour-coded by person, added to by anybody in the house, and when a plan changes it changes for everyone at once.
• Countdowns. Twelve days until the beach house — the fridge-door countdown, live on every screen.
• Family Dates. Birthdays and anniversaries that come round every year, so remembering them stops being one person’s job.
• Rides. Who is driving whom, and when — this one is in the Home & Kitchen bundle rather than the base hub, and we would rather say so on the way in.

A Saturday, card by card

The Harpers are invented for the illustration. Maya opens the hub on the kitchen tablet at seven. The Calendar card has Saturday down one column: nine o’clock soccer in Leo’s marigold, half eleven farmers market for everyone, two o’clock piano in June’s rose, half six pizza night. The market runs long, so she moves the piano lesson to three. Every screen in the family now says three.

Leo is nine. He signed in with a member name and a password — he has no email address and does not need one to see his own family’s week. His hub wears the camo skin, and he has dragged the Calendar to the top of his deck and hidden the Meal Planner, which took it off his deck and nobody else’s. He is looking at his mother’s Saturday; it just looks like a command post.

Grandma Ro reads the same hub on a laptop in the Steel skin, quiet blue-grey with larger type. Countdowns tells her the beach house is twelve days off; Family Dates reminds her June’s birthday is the Thursday after. Nothing on her screen is selling her anything.

One grandmother, two families, one login

• One account, several hubs. Invited into her daughter’s hub and her son’s, Ro joins both with one email and one password. The family name at the top of the sidebar becomes a menu and the other hub is one tap away.
• Two calendars, on purpose. She reads each family’s week inside that family’s hub, and neither sees the other’s. No screen in this product merges two households’ days, because that is the screen that leaks.
• Connected families send; they never share. Owners on both sides can link two hubs, and a link is permission to send: what you post to a linked family is copied into their hub as their own row, and nothing is ever read back across the line. “Send Ro the recital picture” works; “let Ro browse our album” does not.

Who this is not for

Four reasons to close the tab now rather than in week three. There is no native app yet — it is a website, and an old tablet on the kitchen counter makes a lovely always-on family display, but there is nothing in an app store and no lock-screen notifications. Nothing syncs in from Google Calendar, Outlook or iCloud, so if your work diary has to appear here automatically this will frustrate you. Circles do not cover the calendar: messages, photographs and clips can be addressed to a named group inside the family, and events cannot — every event is visible to every member. And there is no location sharing, ever: Who’s Around says who has been active in the last ten minutes and nothing else. No map, no arrival alerts, by design.