More than a shared calendar
Family life, handled.
FamilyStatus brings together what’s happening, what needs preparing, who’s doing it and what still needs attention — so running the family doesn’t depend on one person remembering everything.
In private testing with real family life. Early access is limited.
Jo & ChrisThe invisible work
Someone always seems to know everything.
In many families one adult quietly becomes the household’s memory — the person who has to remember, explain, delegate, chase, and answer the same questions again. Everyone else is willing to help. They just have to ask first.
Before FamilyStatus
- “What’s happening tomorrow?”
- “Do I need to pick anyone up?”
- “Where’s the PE kit?”
- “Did school say anything about Friday?”
One person answers. Everyone else waits to be briefed.
With FamilyStatus
- “I can see you’re in the office Thursday — I’ll do the pickup.”
- “I’ve seen Isla needs her dance kit tomorrow — I’ll get it ready.”
- “I’ve added that to the shopping list.”
Nobody has to be briefed before they can help.
How it works
A calendar answers “what’s happening?”. Family life has more questions than that.
Take one ordinary Thursday. Chris is in the office. Maya has gymnastics after school. Isla and Ruby have dance on Friday, and school has just moved Theo’s assembly. Here’s how FamilyStatus handles it.
01 Bring family information together
Turn messages into family context — without making another inbox.
Has school or a club changed anything?
School dates, clubs, work days, homework and meals live in one place. Forward a school or club email, or connect a term-dates page or club calendar, and FamilyStatus shows what it appears to say — with the lines it read.
Nothing changes the family’s plans until somebody chooses “Add this”.
Representative product view · fictional family · this screen is still to move to the new visual design 02 See what needs attention
Quiet when everything’s covered. Clear when something needs somebody.
Does anything need preparing — and has anyone taken it on?
Friday’s dance class means a kit is needed by 8pm on Thursday. Nobody has it yet, so Tomorrow says so — once, plainly. Everything already covered stays out of the way.
Planned, taken on and actually done are kept apart, so nothing falls between two people.
Representative product view · fictional family 03 Look ahead
Look ahead before tomorrow becomes a problem.
Does the week actually work?
Plan shows the next few days: who’s where, clubs, meals, preparation and the jobs that go with them. Thursday’s pickup and Friday’s kit are marked before anyone is caught out. A quiet week looks quiet.
A look-ahead you can act on — not a calendar grid.
Representative product view · fictional family 04 Make it easy to take responsibility
Make it easier to help than to ask.
Who’s doing it — and is it done?
Jo can see Chris is at the office at 5.15pm and taps “I’ll do it” for the pickup. Chris takes on the dance kit, and marks it Ready once it’s packed. Assign gives a job to someone else, and says if they aren’t free at the time.
Taking something on doesn’t tick it off. It still has to be done.
The same job at three moments · fictional family 05 Keep everyone appropriately informed
Everyone sees their part of the picture.
Who needs to know?
Adults in the household work from the same plan. Children can see their own day. A child’s other home can see what’s been shared for that child — without either household’s private planning being shown to the other.
Visibility doesn’t come with authority. Seeing something isn’t running it.
- Adults in the householdThe whole plan — Today, Plan, homework, lists, and what’s come in from school and clubs.
- A child with their own accountTheir own day: what’s on, what to take, getting there and back, food, and anything different.
- An adult in the child’s other homeWhat’s shared for that child, such as school and homework — not this household’s plans.
- Your phone’s calendarTimed plans, read-only, so ordinary alerts still work.
Who sees what · as FamilyStatus works today
About these screens: they are representative product views, rebuilt from FamilyStatus’s current design with a fictional family in place of the real household it is tested with. Layout, states, actions and wording follow the application as it is today; they are not screenshots.
Who it’s for
Your family, as it actually works.
Busy families
Too much information in too many places — school emails, club messages and somebody’s memory.
Two working parents
Work days and family responsibilities in one view, so the pickup is sorted before it’s a problem.
Blended families
Children can belong to more than one household, and each home keeps its own planning.
Children growing into responsibility
Children see what’s relevant to them and play their part, without running the household.
Privacy and trust
Family information deserves careful boundaries.
FamilyStatus holds personal things — children, schools, where people are. It’s built around sharing what’s appropriate, not sharing everything.
- Households stay separateOne household can’t see another’s information.
- Children’s access is deliberately limitedA child’s account can’t reach household settings or administration.
- Linking isn’t joiningAn adult linked to a child doesn’t become a member of the other household.
- Nothing is overwritten silentlySchool and club information is reviewed before it changes family plans.
- Not a mailboxFrom a forwarded email, FamilyStatus keeps what it needs, not the message itself.
- Narrow access behind the scenesParts that run without a signed-in person can reach only what their job needs.
Where we are: FamilyStatus is early. The formal privacy and security work needed before it opens more widely — including a full privacy notice and independent testing — is still being done. The privacy page says what is and isn’t finished.
Interested in FamilyStatus?
FamilyStatus is being developed and tested with real family life. Tell us about yours and we’ll be in touch as places open.
Early access is limited while the product and privacy controls are being developed.