Everything a home actually runs on.

A calendar that holds a household, not a person.

Per-member colors. Day, week, month, agenda. Recurring and multi-day. The boring details done quietly right.

• Per-member colors with optional accent overrides
• Day / Week / Month / Agenda, all keyboard-navigable
• Recurring events with smart end conditions ('until school ends')
• Multi-day, all-day, vacation, and travel events
• Location autocomplete + one-tap directions on every event
• Event comments for running-late notes, drop-off updates, post-game recaps

Sync: bring in every calendar your household already uses.

Every calendar reads in, and Google also takes NestBoard events back out. Including the calendar most apps ignore: confirmation emails.

• Google Calendar, syncs in, and NestBoard events write back out
• Outlook / Microsoft 365, syncs in, read-only for now
• iCloud / Apple Calendar, read-only
• School portals & sports league calendars
• Forwarded emails become events automatically

Chores: rotate without resentment.

Assign once, rotate forever. NestBoard remembers who did what last and quietly nudges whoever's up.

• Shared household pool, anyone in the family can claim and complete
• Per-chore difficulty for fair load balancing
• Streaks, history, and a quiet leaderboard
• Kid-friendly check-ins with celebration animations
• Allowance tied to chore completion (optional)

Shopping around? We ranked the best family chore apps side by side, ours included, so you can see how they compare before you pick.

Medications: per-person spacing rules, gentle reminders.

Useful for kids, useful for aging parents, useful for anyone with a daily routine. Medications are shared with the whole household, so a grown-up and a kid both see the same list.

• Per-person dose, frequency, and spacing
• Shared bottles to track one supplement across multiple family members
• Doses-remaining counter that auto-decrements as anyone takes a dose
• Visible to everyone in the household, so whoever is on duty can log a dose
• Dose reminders reach the right people, including the family hub screen

Pantry & groceries: one list. Anyone. From anywhere.

Add 'oat milk' from the kitchen, see it at the store. Mark it bought, it disappears. No ledger, no points.

• Shared list synced across web, tablet, mobile
• Multiple shopping lists for Costco, Trader Joe's, Target, you name it
• Voice-add ('Robin, we're out of cumin')
• Pantry tracking with expiry alerts so nothing rots quietly
• Barcode scanner for quick add
• History, so 'we bought oat milk 6 days ago'

Alerts & routines: custom sounds, quiet hours, real routines.

Set up the rhythms that already exist in your home. NestBoard remembers them so no one has to.

• Custom alert sounds per household (10 included, upload your own)
• Quiet hours for the whole household, so nothing buzzes overnight
• Daily routines: morning, school drop-off, bedtime
• Lightning storm proximity alerts (Florida-tested)
• Web push, Android push, iOS push

Robin: an assistant that shows its work.

Reads what your household shares, never the open internet, never your private email. Adds events and chores from what you give it, and tells you exactly what it did.

• Voice dictation: tap the mic, speak naturally
• Drop in an image or PDF, and Robin reads handouts, screenshots, school PDFs
• Forwarded emails parsed into events, chores, and groceries
• Two surfaces: floating popup or a full-screen chat page
• One household conversation, so your spouse can pick up where you left off
• 'Who’s free Saturday afternoon?' answered from the calendar
• Privacy contract: no training on your data

Meals & recipes: plan the week without the 5pm panic.

Pull recipes from anywhere on the web in one paste. Get pantry-aware AI suggestions when the fridge is empty and inspiration is gone.

• Import any recipe by URL (NYT Cooking, AllRecipes, BBC Good Food, most food blogs)
• AI dinner suggestions based on what’s already in your pantry
• Weekly meal plan with breakfast / lunch / dinner / snack slots
• Add missing ingredients to your shopping list in one tap
• Save the winners to a shared recipe library with no limit on how many

Money & allowance: kid allowances + family savings, without spreadsheets.

Wallets that track lifetime earnings, savings goals with progress bars, and shared family goals (Disney trip, new fridge). Off by default if not your thing.

• Per-kid wallet: balance, lifetime earned, manual top-ups
• Auto-conversion of chore points to dollars at your chosen rate
• Personal savings goals, so kids see the bar fill in
• Household savings goals for a vacation, new appliance, group splurge

Kid life: school, carpool, and the stuff that breaks at 7:42am.

A school assignment list that doesn’t require an account, a carpool log so you actually know whose turn it is, and routines that walk a tired kid through their morning.

• School subjects + assignments per kid, with due-date sorting
• Carpool tracking: today’s rides, this week’s schedule, who drove last
• Daily routines (morning, school prep, bedtime) with step check-in
• Family Board, a shared message wall with pinned notes
• Wishes / gift list, so kids and parents can add ideas before birthdays

Kiosk & devices: built for the wall tablet AND every phone in the house.

Run NestBoard on a kitchen tablet, or an old one you already have, as your family’s ambient calendar. Plus phone access for everyone. One household, every screen.

• Idle mode with photo slideshow, so your tablet looks like a frame, not an app
• Per-device Kiosk mode so a spare tablet shows the dashboard full-screen
• Multi-device manager: name each tablet/phone, see when each was last seen
• Web app today, iPhone on the App Store, Android on Google Play
• New device email alert when an unknown device joins your household

Household & privacy: a system that respects each person.

Add adults, caregivers, kids and guests, each with permissions that suit them. Adding a child asks you to confirm you are their parent or legal guardian. Real privacy: your data is yours, never trained on, exportable any time.

• Adult, caregiver, child and guest roles with the right defaults for each
• Adding a child records a parent or guardian confirming they consent on that child's behalf
• Activity feed: see who did what (chore complete, event added, recipe saved)
• Nine brand themes (Bone & Ink, Midnight Studio, Linen Scandi, Garden Path, Sunday Funday, Woodland, Celestial, Tidepool, Storybook), pick what fits
• Export everything anytime, delete your account in one tap

A calm planning space for the home tasks that start as an idea.

Replace the master bath blinds. Kitchen refresh. Some things need thinking before they are doable. Capture the idea, hold the decisions, then hand it off to a chore when it is time to act.

• A simple lifecycle: idea, planning, ready, in progress, done
• Budget, contractor notes, decisions, and a target date in one place
• A checklist of steps, each one its own little task
• Graduate a project (or a single step) into an assignable chore in one tap
• Ask Robin to add a project or turn one into a chore when you are ready