A household OS for families who care.
One calm household hub. Every part of family life, finally in one place.
Family Heartware replaces the patchwork of group chats, shared calendars, photo dumps, and screen-time worries with one beautifully designed space — built around how real families actually live.
Chapter one
Put the phones down. Together. On a schedule the whole house agrees on.
Most screen-time tools are built for a single parent policing a single child. Digital Sabbath is different — it's a household ritual. You set the windows once (dinner, bedtime, Sunday mornings), and every phone, tablet, and console in the house quietly steps back at the same moment. No arguments. No confiscations. No kid feeling singled out at the table.
Currently used by 41,000+ households to enforce device-free dinners and bedtime hours. Parents tell us it's the first screen-time feature that didn't make their home feel like a courtroom — and the first one the kids stopped complaining about, because everyone goes quiet at once.
See how Sabbath fits the rest of the hub →Chapter two
One memory graph for the whole family tree — with no accounts for the little ones.
The patented Cross-Household Memory Graph links photos, milestones, and voice notes across grandparents, parents, and kids without any account for under-13s. A first loose tooth captured on Grandpa's phone automatically appears in the family album next Tuesday morning. A toddler's babbling voice note from Sunday lunch lands in Mom's "First Words" reel without anyone having to share, download, or text it over.
Built COPPA and GDPR-K compliant by design — the children in your life never sign up, never receive marketing, and never have their data used to train anything. Every shared album and location check-in is end-to-end encrypted, independently audited by Cure53 in March 2024 with zero critical findings.
- Linked households: grandparents, divorced parents, nannies, cousins — each on their own login, all seeing the same tree.
- Milestones auto-clustered: first day of school, lost teeth, recitals, road trips — surfaced as gentle weekly digest cards.
- Voice notes that travel: a child recording a story for Grandma at 7 a.m. lands in her inbox as a keepsake before lunch.
One memory graph, three households, zero accounts for the seven-year-old.
Chapters three through six
Shared albums, location check-ins, screen-time, and the calendar glue that finally stops double-entry.
Four short chapters on the rest of the hub. Each one stands on its own; together they replace the half-dozen apps currently living on your family's phones.
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Shared albums, end-to-end encrypted.
Drop a photo into the family album and it lands on Grandma's tablet before she's finished her coffee. Every shared album is end-to-end encrypted — only the households you invite can open them, and our servers never see the contents. Bridge to SMS only where you've explicitly opted in, and those messages are never E2EE; everything inside the app is.
312,000+ shared events coordinated in 2024.
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Location check-ins that respect everyone.
One-tap "Heading to school" pings the other parent without a full live-location stream running all day. Auto-arrives at pickups and dropoffs. Geofences around school, home, and practice trigger quiet confirmations rather than constant notifications. The kids' devices only share when they're actively checking in — no always-on background tracking.
Independent security audit by Cure53, March 2024 — zero critical findings.
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Screen-time coordination across every device.
Beyond Sabbath windows, set per-child allowances, app categories, and bedtime cutoffs that travel across iOS, Android, Chromebooks, and gaming consoles through one family dashboard. The point isn't to surveil — it's to stop the nightly negotiation that ends with someone in tears.
Built with input from 11 former K–8 teachers on the team.
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Native integrations with 60+ calendars, schools, and speakers.
Google, Apple, Outlook, and Outlook-family calendars sync in both directions. Canvas, Seesaw, and Google Classroom drop school events directly into the family week. Alexa and Google Home read tomorrow's schedule at bedtime. The fastest setup in the category — a family of four is onboarded in under seven minutes, benchmarked against 14 competing apps in a 2024 Wirecutter-style study.
No double-entry. Ever.
A note for evaluators
The questions parents and reviewers ask us first.
- How much does it cost after the trial?
- Thirty days free, no card required. The full Family plan is $8.99/month or $89/year for the whole household — every parent, every kid, every grandparent on the same plan. No per-seat pricing. Single-parent households and families earning under $35k/year are free through the Open Heartware program; over 18,200 qualifying households are onboarded so far.
- Do my kids need their own accounts?
- No. Children under 13 do not create accounts, do not receive marketing, and do not have their data used to train any model. They appear in the family tree as profiles managed by the parents — fully COPPA and GDPR-K compliant by design. Teens 13+ can opt into a private profile of their own.
- What exactly is end-to-end encrypted?
- Shared albums, location check-ins, voice notes, and Memory Graph entries are end-to-end encrypted — our servers cannot read them, audited by Cure53 in March 2024 with zero critical findings. SMS-bridged notifications (when you've opted to mirror a check-in to a carrier text) are not E2EE by the nature of SMS; everything inside the app is.
- Where is Family Heartware available?
- 22 markets are live today, with the app fully localized in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Japanese. Web, iOS, Android, and a kids' read-only mode on shared iPads and Chromebooks. If your country isn't listed yet, the waitlist is open — and pricing in your currency is honored the day you join.
Quietly well-loved by 148,000+ families across 22 countries.