Free.

The whole house. No trial, no card, nothing to pay.

What's included.

  • The whole family's calendar — day, week, month and agenda views, with an entry that can repeat weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly
  • Wall Mode on as many spare tablets as you own
  • Each child's school timetable, and what to pack for tomorrow
  • Chores with an owner, a rhythm and reward stars
  • Meal planning across the week, and shared lists that update live on every phone
  • Bills with amounts and due dates, and countdowns to the trip, the MOT and the birthday
  • Every phone in the house signed in
  • The weather, and warm night colours from sunset
  • Export or delete everything you have put in, whenever you want

Lodestead

£0 for every household

Kept running by donations from families who want to chip in.

Start free

No card. No trial. Nothing locks.

Donate to Lodestead — any amount, it unlocks nothing.

Questions.

How is this different from a shared Google Calendar?

A shared Google Calendar only works when somebody opens it. Lodestead is built to be looked at without being opened: a spare tablet on the kitchen wall shows the household's week all day, so the bill due Thursday and the concert on the 12th sit in front of everyone whether or not anyone thought to check. It also holds what a calendar has no field for — chores with an owner, the week's meals, a shopping list that syncs live, and bills with amounts and due dates.

Do I need to buy a special screen?

No. Lodestead runs on the phones and tablets you already own, and there is no Lodestead hardware to buy. Any spare tablet — propped on a shelf or mounted on the wall — becomes the family display, which is the difference between spending nothing and spending £300 on a dedicated device.

What tablet works for Wall Mode?

Any tablet with an up-to-date browser: an old iPad, a Fire tablet, an Android tablet. Open lodestead.com/wall on it, then type the six-character pairing code it shows into your own phone. A 10-inch screen or larger is easiest to read across a kitchen. Leave it on the charger — it stays on all day and dims itself overnight.

Can the kids have their own logins?

They do not need one. A single household account covers everyone, and children are family members rather than accounts: each has a name and a colour of their own, and can tick their own chores off on the wall display without an email address or a password. Only adults can change settings.

Will it remind me about bin days?

Yes. Add the collection as a repeating entry — blue bin every other Friday, black bin on the weeks in between — and it appears on the wall display on the morning it is due, alongside everything else happening that day. You set it once and it comes back on its own.

Why is it free?

Because a calendar a family relies on should not stop working the day a card expires. Lodestead costs very little to run, so it is free for every household and kept going by donations from families who want to chip in. Donating unlocks nothing — everyone gets everything.

What happens to our data?

It stays yours. You can export the lot or delete the whole household yourself at any time. Lodestead does not sell household data or run advertising trackers, and being free does not change that.