September 9, 2026
A grown-up can check a kid's chore before it banks points, an event on two of one account's calendars now comes in once, feedback you send us no longer touches Discord at all, we corrected a claim in our privacy policy about limiting health details to specific members, a wall screen reloads itself when it gets stuck, and Cloudflare is on the subprocessors list
- A child's account can no longer change things it was never meant to. Removing a device, disconnecting a calendar and removing a family member were already grown-ups only, but the matching edits were not, and that is the gap. An account we tell parents cannot change household settings could still rename or switch off any device in the house, turn calendars on and off for the whole family, connect a different Google account over the top of yours, and edit any family member's profile, including the email address a password reset goes to. All of it is grown-ups only now, and enforced on our servers rather than hidden in the app. Children keep the part that is genuinely theirs: their own name, colour and photo. Caregivers keep "Sync now", because a sitter checking whether the school calendar has updated is exactly who that button is for, and they line up with adults on the rest, which was already grown-ups only. Two things you can read went the same way: your household's email forwarding address, and the list of invitations you have sent, which carries the email address of everyone you invited.
- There is a new free tool on our website: a home maintenance checklist you build for your own home and print. Tell it whether you are in a house, a townhouse or an apartment, how cold the winters get, and what the place actually has, meaning a yard, gutters, central heating or cooling, a fireplace, a basement, a garage, a deck, sprinklers, a pool, a septic tank or well water. It hands back the list for that home: a short pass to do every month, then a block each for spring, summer, fall and winter, with one line on every job saying why it is there. Turn something off and its jobs leave the sheet, so an apartment is never told to inspect a roof and a house with no fireplace is never reminded about a chimney sweep. It prints properly on paper, it needs no account and no email, and there is no watermark. It is at mynestboard.com/home-maintenance-checklist. These are recurring chores like any others, so if you would rather not rely on a piece of paper surviving until October, the same jobs work as repeating chores inside NestBoard.
- You can now have a grown-up check a kid's chore before it counts for anything. A parent writing about a chore gadget put it plainly: there was no way to approve a star before it was banked, and his five-year-old was claiming credit for washing exactly one spoon. Turn on "A grown-up checks kids' chores" in Settings under Household and a chore a child marks done waits for an adult instead of paying out. Their tap still works and the chore says "Waiting for a grown-up", so it never looks like the app lost it, but nothing lands until somebody approves it: no points, no streak, no allowance, no leaderboard place, no badge progress. That last part is the whole point. The board only counts jobs a grown-up has actually seen. Approving pays out there and then, dated to when the child said they finished, so signing off over breakfast does not cost them yesterday's streak. If it needs redoing, tap "Not yet" and add a reason like "only one spoon got washed". Nothing is taken away, because nothing was ever counted; the chore stays on the list with your note on it and comes back to you when they have another go. Adults and caregivers can approve, children and guests cannot, and grown-ups' own chores are never held. The setting is off unless you turn it on, and turning it on changes nothing about chores already finished.
- Feedback you send us no longer goes near Discord. Back in early September we cut that notification down to an anonymous ping and a link, after it had been arriving with your email address in the title and your whole message underneath. It is now gone completely. When you press send, your note is saved in our own admin and emailed to our own inbox, and nothing leaves NestBoard. The privacy policy used to mention a nudge in our team chat, and that sentence is gone with it, because it would no longer be true.
- Our privacy policy claimed a setting we have never had, and we have corrected the wording rather than quietly leaving it. It said sensitive details, health profiles among them, could be limited to specific members. There is no per-person picker anywhere in NestBoard. What actually holds a health profile back is the role somebody has: adults and caregivers can read a card, only an adult can edit one, and a child or guest account does not see that section at all. The policy and the security page now describe that, and they say plainly that medications and emergency contacts stay visible to the whole household, because a child needs to be able to log a dose and call somebody.
- An event that sits on two of your calendars now arrives once. If you tick your own Google calendar and your partner's shared one under the same account, and an event is on both, it used to come in twice and sit on the board as a pair. One account now brings an event in one time, however many of its calendars are showing it. The copy belongs to whichever of those calendars brought it in first, so if you untick that one the event goes with it and comes back under a calendar you still have ticked at the next refresh, or straight away if you tap Sync now. Two separate accounts that can both see the same calendar still keep a copy each, because disconnecting either one has to take away its own events and leave the rest, and two different events that happen to share a name and a time are never merged.
- If you renamed Chores to something else, the app now uses your word in the places that were still ignoring it. The guided tour said "chore" in about a dozen steps, and the reminder that pops up in the corner when something is overdue was headed CHORE DUE no matter what you had called your list. Both read back your own word now, and so do the family and allowance pages, the screen time settings, the search box, Robin's greeting, the project pages, and the notification and Alexa sections of Settings. Where the word follows an "a", it becomes "an" for a word that starts with a vowel, so it reads "add an errand" rather than "add a errand". Households that never renamed anything see exactly what they saw before.
- Every X that closes something now sits properly in its circle and is easier to hit. The mark used to be a text character, and a text character carries invisible space above and below it, so it looked like it was riding high no matter how carefully the circle was centred. It is a drawn shape now. The tap target used to be only as big as the circle, which on the smaller ones was 28 pixels against the 44 a thumb needs, so the circles look the same size but the area around them counts too, and each one shows a focus outline when you tab to it. This is the same fix that landed on the overdue reminder popup, now applied to the rest of the app: the search box, the Help articles, Robin's chat window, the banners across the top of the page, the welcome cards on the dashboard, the pop-up messages in the corner, and every window with an X in its top corner. On the reminder card itself, the small grey line under the title, the one that names who it belongs to and when it is due, was too light against the tinted background to pass the contrast standard, and "Remind later" now looks like a button rather than plain text sitting next to one.
- A wall screen now gets itself unstuck. If you keep NestBoard up on a tablet in the kitchen, there is nobody standing there to tap reload when something goes wrong, so a screen that got stuck stayed stuck until somebody walked past and noticed. It now watches itself. If the app never finishes loading, or loads and then cannot reach us for a quarter of an hour, or hits an error that stops the page, it reloads on its own. It will not do that while a window is open or while there is anything typed into a box, because losing what you were part way through writing is worse than looking at yesterday's board for a few more minutes, and it waits a minute and a half after the last time anyone touched the screen. If three reloads do not clear it, it stops trying and puts a short message up rather than flashing at you all evening. None of this happens on a phone or in a normal browser. It only runs on a device you have switched on as a kiosk under Settings.
- The Family step in setup is clearer about the one question it is actually asking. It wants to know who else is in your household, and it takes either answer: add your partner or co-parent and we email them a link to join, or choose "It is just me for now" and setup carries straight on. That second option is one click, it is always on the screen, and it settles the question for good, because a household with one grown-up is a normal household. Some new households will see the step ask a little more firmly than others while we work out whether the question is worth asking that way at all. Nobody is required to invite anyone, on either version.
- Cloudflare is now listed on our subprocessors page. It handles email sent to our addresses on its way to the mailbox we read, which makes it a company that touches your data, so it belongs on the list. It is only email. Cloudflare does not sit in front of the app or our website, so it never sees your browsing, your session, or anything inside your household.
- Disconnecting a calendar now hands the permission back to Google, not just to us. Our privacy policy and our security page both said connected calendar tokens were revoked immediately, and until now nothing in NestBoard ever called a revocation endpoint. Pressing Disconnect deleted our copy of the sign-in and left the permission itself alive in your Google account until you went and removed it by hand. It does the real thing now: we delete the stored sign-in and tell Google the grant is finished, so NestBoard drops off the list in your Google account on its own. The same teardown runs if you delete your account and you were the last person in the household, rather than waiting out the 30-day window. Microsoft is the exception and we would rather say so than paper over it: they give an app no way to revoke its own Outlook access, so an Outlook disconnect deletes the stored sign-in on our side and you can remove NestBoard in your Microsoft account's app permissions if you want it gone there too. If a provider happens to be unreachable at that moment, your disconnect still goes through; you are never stuck with a connection you cannot remove.
- We stopped describing our under-13 flow as COPPA-compliant, because that is a legal judgement we are not in a position to make about ourselves. Nothing about the flow has changed. What changed is that seven pages and the answers search engines read now describe what actually happens instead: when you add a child, we ask you to confirm you are their parent or legal guardian and are consenting on their behalf, and we record the date you confirmed it. We do not check that against anything, and we do not work out a child's age by ourselves. Our children's privacy page has always spelled that out in full, and the rest of the site now matches it.
- Robin has two fair-use limits, and until now we had never told anyone what they were. Robin answers up to 30 questions per household per day, and there is a monthly ceiling on what those answers cost us to run, currently $1.50, which works out at a few hundred ordinary questions. Almost no household reaches either one. They are on the pricing page and in the help now, next to the line that says every feature is included, because a limit you only meet by hitting it is not a fair thing to spring on somebody paying. Two things a household hitting the monthly ceiling used to see are fixed as well. The app was telling paid-up customers their subscription was required, which was simply wrong and is the kind of message that makes you check your bank statement. And a wall tablet announced it out loud as "Something went wrong on my end", which makes a working product sound broken in the most public place it lives. It now says it has reached the limit and points at the screen, which carries the date it lifts. If your household genuinely needs more Robin than that, email hub@mynestboard.com and we will raise your ceiling rather than sell you a bigger plan.
- You can finally mark an event adults only, and add a caregiver or a guest to your family. Both were things we described in the privacy policy, on the security page and across a dozen help articles, and both were real everywhere except the one place you would have gone looking. The server has hidden adults-only events from child and guest accounts, and kept them out of the calendar subscription link, for a long time; no form could ever set the flag. Tick Adults only under the alarm row when you add or edit an event, and the event detail shows a badge afterwards so you can check it took. The Family page now offers all four roles with a line under each saying what it can reach, instead of only Adult and Child. Caregiver is for a grown-up who is not a parent, like a sitter or a grandparent: they read health profiles, approve chores and see adults-only events, but cannot touch settings, billing or money. Guest is a visitor with a child's limits. One quiet bug went with it: opening an existing caregiver or guest on the Family page and pressing Save used to promote them to a full adult.
- We read back everything we tell you about NestBoard and checked each claim against the code that would have to make it true, because three things we say turned out to be wrong in a single day and we found all three by accident. This is what that turned up, corrected. Our security page said we enforce no password rules beyond length. We do, and it now lists them, the same ones printed under the field when you choose a password. Three places told you that forwarding email to hub@mynestboard.com puts things on your calendar. It never did: hub@ is our own inbox where a person reads what you send, and the address that reaches your household is the personal one in Settings under Email forwarding address. Two emails we send were overstating things, one saying an unsubscribe link stops all mail when password resets still come through, and one telling you an invite was "never opened" when all we know is that it was never accepted. The help article on Alexa still said the skill was in Amazon's review. It has not been submitted yet, which the Alexa panel in the app had already been corrected to say. The Features page offered a caregiver-only view of medications, which does not exist, and quiet hours "per member, per day", which is one setting for the whole household. It also promised a limit of 30 saved recipes, when there is no limit, and named a theme "cream" that has never been called that. Our meal planner said allergies recorded on a Family profile are avoided automatically. They are not, so if an ingredient must never appear, it belongs on the never-suggest list, and both the app and the help now say so plainly. The leaderboard published its scoring formula under a promise of no black box while leaving two of its terms out, so shared events and meals cooked are now in the formula where they belong. Voice in our Android app sends a short clip to be transcribed, like the iPhone app does, rather than staying on the device as the help claimed. And deleting something never removed it from a connected Outlook or iCloud calendar, because those only read into NestBoard. None of this changes how NestBoard works. It changes what we told you about it. Every correction now has a test behind it that checks the claim against the code, so a wrong one cannot quietly come back.
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