Your family's week, chores and dinners — on everyone's phone
Add a swim lesson, a chore or tonight's dinner on your phone, and the other parent sees the same thing on theirs. One plan covers the whole household.
Everything that used to be on the fridge.
Free to start. The yearly and monthly plans begin with 7 days free.
What's on your phone
Today and the week are free on every phone. A plan adds chores to assign, dinners, shared lists and the setup interview, for everyone in the household.
The week
Today, the week and the month at a glance, with the calendars already on your phone — iCloud, Google, Outlook, Yahoo or a subscribed link — read where they live and never edited. Events appear as fast as your phone's calendar sync brings them.
Chores
Give each child their jobs and let them rotate on their own — every time, or a week each. Check them off as they get done. Children never need an account; every profile is made and managed by a parent.
Dinners
Plan the week's dinners, with ideas that account for how your family eats, and send a recipe's ingredients to the shopping list in one tap.
Lists
Shared shopping and to-do lists, added to by typing or by talking, and the same on every phone in the house.
Set it up by describing your family
Tell Fridgeside who lives at home, what they do each week, and how you all eat. It drafts the week — profiles, activities, chores and dinners — and you review every line before a word of it is saved.
Share it with the other parent
Invite the other parent through iCloud sharing, and they see the same week on their own phone. A change made on one phone shows up on the other, and on the wall if you have one.
Got an old iPad? It becomes a $300 wall calendar too.
A wall calendar screen costs $180 to $600, plus a plan of around $79 a year. Browser-based family dashboards skip the hardware but still run about $60 a year and leave you managing a kiosk browser.
The iPad in the drawer costs nothing, has a sharper screen than most of the dedicated ones, and is probably not being used for anything else — especially if it has stopped getting iPadOS updates. That makes it a poor daily driver and a very good single-purpose wall display.
Works on an iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4, or newer.
What goes on the wall
The week
Seven days at a glance, reading the calendars already on the iPad — iCloud, Google, Outlook, Yahoo or a subscribed link. Add them once and they show up. Fridgeside only ever reads your calendars; it never edits them.
Chores the children tap themselves
Each child gets a color and a column. Jobs rotate automatically — every time, or a week each — and a streak builds when they keep it up. No accounts, no logins: children never sign in to anything.
Tonight's dinner
What you're eating, who's cooking, and the recipe steps behind a tap so whoever's at the stove doesn't need their phone. After eight in the evening the board moves on to tomorrow.
Questions people actually ask
Will it work on a really old iPad?
Any iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4, or newer. Age alone is not the rule — the iPad mini 3 shipped the same month as the Air 2 and stops at iOS 12. If it turns on and joins Wi-Fi, it can be a board.
Won't the screen keep turning off?
Set Auto-Lock to Never and turn off Auto-Brightness, and Fridgeside keeps the screen awake itself. It also dims the board down to a soft night view in the evening, so it isn't glaring into a dark kitchen.
What stops the kids swiping over to YouTube?
Guided Access locks the iPad to one app in about a minute. If it's going on the wall permanently, Single App Mode is the sturdier option — it survives a restart. Both are covered in the setup guide.
Is it safe to leave an old iPad plugged in all the time?
Generally yes, and there's a short section in the guide on being kind to an aging battery — including the one thing to check before you mount anything.
What happens if I stop paying?
You keep Today and the week on your phone, events added by hand up to 30 days ahead, your chores and lists to view, and the wall as a clock with today's events. Nothing you've set up is deleted.
Pricing
Free: Today and the week on your phone, events added by hand up to 30 days ahead, chores and lists to view, and the wall as a clock with today's events.
$39.99 a year or $6.99 a month, each with a 7-day free trial — or $129.99 once, if you'd rather not have another subscription.
One plan covers the whole household. It unlocks everything, on every phone and wall that shares it.