Family Hub

What’s on today, for the whole household.

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What it does

Today at a glance — the date, your weather, what is on, and whose jobs are due
A shared calendar — add anything, and repeat it daily, weekly or yearly
Your existing calendar — connect Google in one tap, or paste a link from Apple or Outlook
Jobs and rewards — jobs for each person, points for the kids, rewards to spend them on
Meals and shopping — plan the week, then send the ingredients to a shopping list sorted by aisle
Two adults, one household — your partner gets their own login and sees the same calendar, jobs and lists

Getting going

Make an account
Your email and a password. You will get an email with a link to click, which proves the address is yours so you can always get back in.
Set up your household
Give it a name, then add everyone in your house. Kids do not need accounts, they are just a name and a picture you choose.
Put it on your home screen
On iPhone: tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android: tap the three dots, then Install app. It then opens like any other app.

The questions people ask

Can my partner have their own login?
Yes, and they should. One of you sets the household up and gets a six character code from the Family screen. The other signs up with their own email and password, enters the code, and lands in the same household. You both see and change the same calendar, jobs, meals and shopping list, and neither of you is sharing a password. If the code ever gets passed around too widely you can replace it, and the old one stops working straight away.
Can other families see my calendar?
No. Every household is separate, and that separation is enforced by the database itself rather than only by the app, so it holds even if something in the app goes wrong.
If I connect my Google Calendar, what can this app do to it?
Read it, and nothing else. It asks only for permission to see your calendar, so it cannot add, change or delete anything. You can disconnect any time from inside the app, or withdraw it from your Google account settings.
Google says the app is not verified. Is something wrong?
No. That warning appears for any app that has not been through Google's formal review, which is a paid process aimed at commercial software. Tap Advanced, then continue. It only appears once.
How safe is my information?
Everything travels encrypted, passwords are hashed and never visible to anyone, and a signed-out visitor is granted nothing at all. It is not encrypted end to end though, so the hosting companies technically could access the database, as with any normal app. Treat it as fine for netball training and bin night, and not the place for anything you would be upset about a hosting company being able to see.
Does anything about my household leave the app?
Only the web address of a recipe, and only when you paste one. A few big recipe sites refuse to be read by an app, so the address is passed to a page-reading service that fetches it instead. That is a public link to a page anyone can open. Nothing about your household, your calendar, your children or your lists is ever sent anywhere.
Can I get my information deleted?
Yes. Ask, and your account and household are deleted in full, including every event, job and list.

Both of you, not just one of you

A household is meant to be shared. Set it up, then send your partner the six character code from the Family screen. They sign up with their own email and password and land in the same household.

You both see and change the same calendar, jobs, meals and shopping list. Nobody is sharing a password, and nobody has to ask the other one to add something for them.

Being straight with you

This is a small app run privately by one person for a handful of households, not a business. It is free, there is no support desk, and it runs on free hosting so it may occasionally be slow.

Keep anything that genuinely matters, like medication times or medical appointments, somewhere you trust as well.