Faimily
Forward the school email.
It's on everyone's phone.
FAIMILY reads the dates out of the emails you already get, asks you once if it got them right, and puts the day where the whole family can see it.
- Forward it. Any email with a date in it. Nothing to type.
- Tap yes. It shows you what it found. You say yes or no.
- It's on everyone's phone. Kids with a phone get a link. Kids without one get the fridge: a small screen in the kitchen, if you want one.
No app to install. No typing. The dates come to you.
That is the whole thing. Half a minute.
Forward it. That is the whole setup.
Nothing gets on the wall
until a person says yes.
The queue below is the product. Every guess shows the email it came from, what it concluded, and waits.
replaces Dance at 6:30 pm Thursdays — that one stops
The bit nobody else catches
Two kids can't clash.
One parent can.
Nothing is wrong with Ben at karate and Ana at dance. Both at six, in different places, is a perfectly ordinary Thursday — until you notice Dana is down to drive to both. No other calendar sees it, because none of them store who drives.
not a scoreboard —
just the gaps.
The person being scheduled
Kids get a say.
Quietly.
Every other family app takes input from the adult doing the coordinating. The child is data in somebody else's calendar. How an eight-year-old feels about Thursdays is not in any inbox — no model can infer it, because it does not exist until she says so.
What it learned, and how to correct it
You can read its mind.
And change it.
It writes down how the household actually runs. Plain sentences, in a list, with a button on every one.
logistics · seen 6× · last 1 Sept
constraint · seen 3× · last 20 Aug
routine · seen 4× · last 27 Aug
Everyone else's assistant learns silently. Ours hands you the list.
Where it lives
Free on your phone.
Better on the counter.
The phone is where one parent does the work. The screen in the kitchen is where the whole family sees it: always on, nothing to unlock, and readable by a child who has no phone.
You do not have to buy one. A tablet out of the drawer does the same job for $0, and we sell no hardware.
Where the work actually happens.
This is where the work happens: confirming what the school email said, adding the thing you were told at the door, saying who is driving. It is also the only screen that can reach you when you are not in the kitchen.
The notification carries nothing. It is an empty tap on the shoulder — your phone wakes and asks our server what it was about. Google and Apple never see a child's afternoon.
Everything after this is optional. A screen on the wall is the same day, shared with the people who do not have a phone yet.
| Screen | Cost | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your phone | $0 | Where the confirming and the adding actually happen |
| A dead tablet | $0 | Retired, not broken. It is plugged in, so the flat battery does not matter |
| TRMNL (OG) ePaper, 7.5″ | est. CA$196 | Three months on a charge. No glow. Cannot become a tablet, which is the point. Get one from TRMNL, US$15 off* |
| TRMNL (X) ePaper, 10.3″ | est. CA$322 | The fridge board. The week, not just the day. Get one from TRMNL, US$15 off* |
Panel prices are TRMNL's, shown as their Canadian store showed them on 5 September 2026 — US$139 and US$229 before conversion. Shipping and any duty are on top. We do not sell the hardware and we do not set the price, so treat every figure here as an estimate and check theirs before you buy.
* A referral link, and we say so: it takes US$15 off your price (about CA$21, moving with the exchange rate), and TRMNL pays us a small commission. If the discount does not show at checkout, enter the code FaimilyWall. You do not need a panel: FAIMILY is the same on the phone and the old tablet above, for $0.
| Mon7 | Tue8 | Wed9 | Thu10 | Fri11 | Sat12 | Sun13 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ana | ♫ 4:00 pm Choir | ▣ 8:45 am Picture day ♫ 4:00 pm Choir ≋ 5:00 pm Swimming ▲ 6:00 pm Karate ✧ 6:00 pm Dance | ≋ 10:00 am Swim meet | ||||
| Ben | ⌂ 6:30 pm Cubs | ▪ 4:00 pm Tutoring | ≋ 7:30 am Swim squad ▪ 4:00 pm Tutoring ⬤ 5:00 pm Football ⌂ 6:30 pm Cubs | ⬤ 9:30 am Football | |||
| driving | ↻ Dana | ↻ Nan | ↻ Nan | ↻ Dana↻ Nan↻ Sam | ↻ Sam |
They are not the same picture at two sizes. The 7.5″ is widescreen and one bit — black or white, nothing between, so a clash is an inverted block rather than red, which reads harder across a kitchen anyway. The 10.3″ is nearly square, has sixteen greys to spend, and draws the whole week — a row per child, a column per day, and who is driving underneath. That is the shape the paper calendar on the fridge always had. Same wall, two different drawings.
A wall calendar assumes you can read.
Which leaves out the person in the house who most needs to know what today is. Every activity carries a symbol, so a four-year-old can look up at the fridge and know there is swimming.
Drawn flat, not emoji — an ePaper panel has one colour to spend, and a coloured picture turns to mud on it.
ben knows the wavy one
means swimming.
Where the data sits
Canadian.
Properly.
Every serious competitor is American, and so is their storage. Your children's weekly routine sits in a US cloud, reachable under the CLOUD Act. That is not a slogan for us — it is an architecture.
We forward a school
newsletter to a server
in Kelowna.
Not to Virginia.
What it costs
Two ways in.
The software is free, and always will be. What you are paying for is not having to run mail, a server, and backups for the rest of your life.
- The whole thing. Open source (AGPL) at launch
- Your server, your mailbox, your own AI
- Nothing phones home. No account with us
- Two commands to a running household
- Everything, AI included. The price of one streaming service
- Grandparents and carers, with access that expires
- Household memory and clash alerts
- A person answers your email
A grandparent gets Tuesdays until December, and then stops. Not an account with your whole life in it — and not something you pay extra for. The safe way to share should never be the expensive one.
Not a bigger plan. Each home has its own FAIMILY — on any plan above, including the free one — and linking them will cost nothing. Neither parent’s calendar should ever depend on the other’s goodwill, or on the other’s credit card.
Not built yet, and we would rather say so. Across two homes the rule is: coordinate the child, never the adults. Ana has karate at six crosses between homes; who is driving her does not.
We are in a small beta with a few families. Ask for a place, and a person writes back.
Whichever you pick, you can leave. Export is one button and one file, and that file loads into your own copy with one command. We would rather earn the $10 every month than trap it.