Which family types does Family Heartware work best for?

Four household shapes have dedicated onboarding paths inside the app: single-parent households, blended and co-parenting families, multigenerational homes with grandparents under one roof or across cities, and grandparents who primarily use the app to stay in touch with grandchildren. Each path has its own default calendar views, permission settings, and memory-sharing defaults.

Do kids under 13 need their own email or account?

No. Family Heartware is COPPA and GDPR-K compliant by design: children under 13 join through a parent-managed profile and never need an email, phone number, or password of their own. Their photos, voice notes, and check-ins sit inside the Cross-Household Memory Graph and are visible only to the family members a parent has approved.

Can I bring my existing shared calendar, photos, and contacts?

Yes. Family Heartware integrates with more than 60 calendars (Google, Apple, Outlook, school portals including Canvas, Seesaw, and Google Classroom), smart speakers, and contact lists. On import, no double-entry is required — existing events, shared albums, and recurring pickups appear in the right household view automatically.

What happens to my family's data if we cancel?

You can export every photo, calendar event, memory note, and check-in history as a single downloadable archive at any time, including after cancellation. We retain your account data for 90 days after cancellation in case you change your mind, then permanently delete it. We never sell household data to advertisers.

Is Family Heartware available outside the United States?

Family Heartware is fully localized and supported in 22 countries as of Q1 2025, including the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Singapore. The app automatically shows waitlist messaging in markets we have not yet entered rather than offering partial functionality.

A household OS for families who care

Find the version of Family Heartware that looks like yours.

Q: How much does Family Heartware cost after the free trial?

The Family plan is $8.99 per month or $89 per year. There are no per-seat fees for additional parents, kids, or grandparents added to a household. Single-parent households and families earning under $35,000 per year qualify for the Open Heartware program, which keeps the full Family plan free indefinitely — over 18,200 households are enrolled today.

Every family is its own small country — different rhythms, different households, different kinds of tired. Pick the one closest to yours and we'll show you how the hub fits in.

No card required · 30 days, full access · set up takes about 7 minutes

Pick your household

Every family looks different. Pick the one that looks most like yours.

Four versions of Family Heartware, each tuned for the coordination problems a particular household actually has. Click through to see how it would work in your week.

For single parents

One grown-up, one inbox, a hundred tabs open.

Custody exchanges, school pickups, the overnight bag that never quite gets repacked. See how the hub handles the choreography of a one-parent week without making you feel like a project manager.

Co-parenting School pickups Backup caregivers

For blended families

Two houses, three schedules, one set of grandparents who want the group chat.

Shared custody calendars, kid-to-kid hand-offs, and the two-address problem nobody quite solves. See how the Cross-Household Memory Graph keeps the story continuous across both homes.

Two-household Kid-to-kid Shared milestones

For multigenerational households

Grandma, the toddler, and you — all in the same kitchen every Sunday.

School runs, elder appointments, the cousin who always forgets to RSVP. See how one shared calendar, one shared photo album, and one shared check-in hold the whole sprawling table together.

Eldercare Big tables Cousin network

For grandparents & extended family

The people who want to see the photos, not run the app.

Read-only memory streams, scheduled video calls, and check-ins that never require a password. See how Family Heartware welcomes grandparents in without making them learn a new operating system.

Read-only Video calls No password

Not sure where you fit? See every feature and decide for yourself, or just start the trial and we'll help you sort it out.

Included in every household

Four tools every family in our directory gets from day one.

Whether you picked single-parent, blended, multigenerational, or grandparents — these four capabilities ship with the hub the moment you onboard. No add-ons, no upsells.

Digital Sabbath

Schedule device-free dinners, bedtime hours, and homework blocks across every phone, tablet, and smart speaker in the house. Currently used by 41,000+ households to enforce the quiet parts of the day.

Cross-Household Memory Graph

Photos, voice notes, and milestones from grandparents, parents, and kids organize themselves into one continuous story — without any account for under-13s. COPPA and GDPR-K compliant by design.

Shared Family Calendar

The real one — pulling from 60+ sources including Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Canvas, Seesaw, and Google Classroom. No double-entry, ever. Coordinated 312,000+ pickups, dropoffs, and school events in 2024.

Encrypted Check-ins

End-to-end encrypted location pings and "I'm home safe" notes, audited by Cure53 in March 2024 with zero critical findings. Precise about which surfaces are E2EE — and which aren't.

A note from the team

Built for the Tuesday after a long weekend, not the brochure version of family life.

There's a version of "family app" you see in screenshots: tidy kitchens, color-coded charts, a sticker awarded for every completed chore. That was not our brief.

Our brief was the Tuesday. The school email that arrived at 11:47 p.m. The lunchbox left on the counter. The grandparent who wants a video call but won't ask twice. The custody hand-off that gets moved, again, by text. The 4.3 hours a week the average family in our 2024 survey told us they were losing to coordination chaos — 2,140 parents, real numbers, no incentive.

Family Heartware was built by a 38-person team that includes 11 former K–8 teachers and 4 licensed family therapists. Not a generic productivity team with a family skin thrown on for Q4. When you email us, you are reaching people who have done the school pickup line and the bedtime negotiation and the Sunday group-chat avalanche.

The app won't make your family perfect. It will quietly take the logistical load off your shoulders so that the part of the week that's actually about each other — the dinner, the bedtime story, the hand on the way to school — has room to happen.

— Maren Kovacs, founder & CEO, and the rest of the Portland crew

Recognized by people whose opinions we trust

The journals, foundations, and security labs that have taken a look.

Parents' Choice Foundation #1 Family Organization App 2023 & 2024

The Webby Awards Best Family App — People's Voice 2024

The Atlantic "Best Ideas of 2023" — Digital Sabbath 2023

Cure53 Security Audit Zero critical findings March 2024

4.8 stars across 9,600+ App Store reviews · 4.7 on Google Play · 148,000+ active family accounts across 22 countries · Carbon-neutral hosting, certified by The Green Web Foundation since day one.

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Start your free 30-day family trial.

No card, no commitment, no setup call. The fastest onboarding in the category — seven minutes, benchmarked in a 2024 study against 14 competing apps. Then $8.99/month for the Family plan, or stay on the free tier for as long as you like.

Single-parent households and families earning under $35k/year qualify for the Open Heartware program — full access, free, indefinitely. Over 18,200 qualifying households have already onboarded.