One household, every screen
Full-screen on the fridge tablet, two columns on an iPad, one column on a phone. The same shared data everywhere, updating within seconds. Nothing to sync by hand.
Family dashboard app
One shared view of the calendar, chores, grocery list, meals and weather — on the fridge iPad, on every parent's phone, and on the kids' devices. Free for the whole household. Pro is $4.99 a month when you want the automations.
One family account · No credit card · Free forever
The short version: FamilyDash is free for the whole household, it is built to live on a fridge-mounted iPad, it pulls Google and Apple calendars into one view, and kids use it without an email account. Pro adds the automations for $4.99 a month.
The longer version: a family dashboard is not a phone app you remember to check. It is the shared screen the family glances at on the way out the door. FamilyDash renders the same household on every device — full-screen on the fridge tablet, two columns on an iPad, one column on a phone. Add milk on your phone and it is on the fridge a few seconds later. Move a practice in Google Calendar and the fridge picks it up on its own.
Free covers the calendar (one connected calendar plus a share-out link anyone can subscribe to), the full chore engine with rotation and streaks, the grocery list with Shop on Instacart, the meal planner, weather, push notifications, kid routine checklists and kid PIN sign-in. Pro, at $4.99 a month or $34.99 a year, adds the things that save real time: unlimited calendar connections, extra reminders sent to the right person, school emails and schedule photos turned into events, recipe scanning, auto-fill meals, and allowance.
Full-screen on the fridge tablet, two columns on an iPad, one column on a phone. The same shared data everywhere, updating within seconds. Nothing to sync by hand.
Connect Google Calendar with one tap, or paste the link for Apple/iCloud, Outlook, TeamSnap, GameChanger or SportsEngine. Assign events to people so each kid's practice shows on their row. The first calendar is free and unlimited connections are Pro. A free share-out link lets grandparents subscribe from their own calendar app.
Daily, weekly, monthly or one-off. Rotate a chore between kids and FamilyDash tracks whose turn it is, with streaks and confetti. All free. Pro adds rewards in dollars, points or screen-time minutes and one-tap allowance payouts.
Anyone adds an item and it is on every device in seconds, sorted by store department. Shop on Instacart sends the whole list to checkout in one tap, in the US and Canada.
Plan the week's dinners and push the ingredients onto the grocery list. The local forecast with UV index answers the jacket question before school. Pro can auto-fill the week and read recipes from photos or TikTok.
Kids tap “I'm a kid” on any device, enter the family code and their PIN, and see only their own chores, routines and events — no parent settings. Up to 10 kids, all free.
A family dashboard app is a shared screen for the whole household — usually a tablet on the fridge plus everyone's phones — that shows the family calendar, chores, grocery list and meals in one place, so nobody has to ask what is happening today. FamilyDash is built for exactly that: a full-screen layout for a fridge tablet, the same data on every phone, and PIN sign-in so kids can use it too.
The core dashboard is free for the whole household and the free plan never asks for a card. FamilyDash Pro is $4.99 per month or $34.99 per year, which works out to about $2.92 a month. Pro starts with a 14-day free trial, and one subscription covers every parent, kid and device in the house.
The shared calendar with one connected calendar (Google, Apple/iCloud, Outlook or any calendar link) plus a free share-out link; chores with daily, weekly, monthly and one-off schedules, rotation between kids and streaks; the grocery list with Shop on Instacart in the US and Canada; the weekly meal planner; weather; push notifications with one reminder per event; kid routine checklists; and PIN sign-in for up to 10 kids. There are no ads.
Unlimited calendar connections, up to three reminders per event and calendar-wide default reminders, email-to-calendar import (forward a school email and the events appear), schedule-photo scanning (a photo of a season roster becomes events), recipe scanning from photos or TikTok links, auto-fill meal planning, and chore rewards with allowance payouts. Pro is $4.99/month or $34.99/year with a 14-day free trial.
Yes — that is the primary use case. Open familydash.app in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen, and it runs full-screen like an app. Use iOS Guided Access if you want to lock the iPad to it. The layout is designed for at-a-glance reading across the kitchen and for kids tapping their chores with sticky fingers. Android tablets and old laptops work the same way in Chrome.
Yes. Google Calendar connects by signing in with Google and ticking the calendar permission; you then pick which calendars to show. Apple/iCloud calendars connect by pasting the calendar's public link, and Outlook, TeamSnap, GameChanger and SportsEngine calendars work the same way. Changes made in those apps show up on the dashboard on their own. Sync is one-way into FamilyDash; a free share-out link publishes the FamilyDash calendar back to any calendar app. One connected calendar is free and unlimited connections are Pro.
Yes. Kids open FamilyDash on any device, tap “I'm a kid”, enter your family code, pick their name and enter their PIN. They see their own view — their chores, routines and events, no parent settings — on the fridge tablet, their own phone or a borrowed iPad. Up to 10 kids per family, all on the free plan.
Yes. FamilyDash is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad and on Google Play for Android. The web version at familydash.app is the same product and is what most families run on the fridge tablet. Parents sign in with Google, Apple or an email link, invite each other by email, and share one household.
No — that is the point. FamilyDash runs on any tablet you already own or pick up used. The kiosk layout was designed for an iPad mounted on the fridge but works equally well on Android tablets, a laptop or a phone. The shared dashboard, not the hardware, is the product.
Hearth ($699 hardware + $86/yr) and Skylight (~$320 hardware + $79/yr) are dedicated wall-mounted touchscreens. FamilyDash runs the same kind of dashboard on a tablet you already own for $34.99/yr (or free). Total 3-year cost: ~$105 (FamilyDash Pro) vs. ~$958 (Hearth). Full breakdowns on /familydash-vs-hearth-display and /familydash-vs-skylight.
Free forever for your whole household — Instacart checkout included. Pro from $2.92/mo when you want recipe scanning and unlimited calendars.
Push notifications when chores are due, a meal’s checked off, or someone forwards a school email — and the same shared dashboard, just in your pocket.