How HomeHQ compares.
Real prices, where each competitor wins, and where we do. We make HomeHQ, so read these as an argued case rather than a neutral review — the prices and the tradeoffs are checkable, and we've left the awkward ones in.
HomeHQ vs Skylight Calendar
App vs the market-leading wall display, with the three-year cost of each.
Compare →HomeHQ vs Hearth Display
The cheaper answer to the beautiful — but $699 — Hearth.
Compare →HomeHQ vs Cozi
For longtime Cozi families weighing its 30-day free-tier limit — and its lower price.
Compare →HomeHQ vs Mango Display
The closest no-hardware rival — Apple-focused vs everything-else.
Compare →HomeHQ vs Google Calendar
When free is enough — and how HomeHQ builds on the Google Calendar you already use.
Compare →Every option, one table
HomeHQ next to Skylight, Hearth, Cozi, Mango & Google — side by side.
See the table →The short version of all five.
Two of these sell you a screen, two are apps like ours, and one is free. The full pages have the working; here's where each one lands and when you should buy the other thing. Prices verified September 2026.
Worth knowing before you read on: HomeHQ is iPhone and iPad only today, it needs a Google account for the calendar, and there's no free tier. We're also not the cheapest: Cozi, Mango Pro and the 10" Skylight all cost less over three years. Those are the reasons people pick something else.
Skylight Calendar →
A touchscreen that arrives ready to mount — $169.99 for the 10", $299.99 for the 15", $599.99 for the 27" — plus $79/year for Plus, which is where the flyer import and the chore rewards live. Over a million households use one, and the chore rewards have had years of refinement. On the 10", three years comes to $406.99, which is about $25 less than us.
If you already own an iPad, you own the screen: nothing to buy, mount or replace, and the same calendar is on every phone rather than on one wall. Wall mode turns the iPad into the kitchen board and the flyer scanner is in the one plan rather than an add-on. On price we beat the 15" ($536.99 over three years, against our $432) but not the 10".
Hearth Display →
The nicest object in the category — a 15.6" display designed with child-development specialists, with visual routines and a star-rewards system for younger kids. $699 list up front, often discounted, and $9/month (or $86.40/year) for the Membership features, which you need even to set the display up.
HomeHQ has no rewards economy, on purpose: points are recognition, with streaks and a leaderboard, and nothing to cash them in for. If star charts are the reason you're buying, Hearth is the better product. If your kids are older, the $958.20 you'll spend over three years buys you very little we don't do.
Cozi →
A decade-plus of being the default app-first family calendar, on Android, iOS and the web, with the best shared shopping list in the category. Gold is $39/year — $117 over three years, well under a third of what we cost — and covers up to 12 people. The free tier only shows 30 days of calendar. There is now a Cozi Max tier at $79/year with AI event import and meal planning.
Two-way Google Calendar sync rather than Cozi's one-way-in-each-direction iCal, per-member kid views, chores with points, and the kitchen iPad display. On price Cozi wins outright, and for a mixed-platform house it wins on reach too: we have no shared shopping list and no Android app yet.
Mango Display →
The other company that refuses to sell hardware. Mango runs on a smart TV, a $40 Fire TV Stick, an Echo Show, a tablet, or a Raspberry Pi, has a genuinely generous free tier, and Pro is $59.99/year — a third of our price. Pro also covers two-way Google sync, chores and rewards, per-member profiles and a meal-plan widget, so the feature gap is narrower than it looks.
The same no-hardware idea, aimed at an iPad instead of a TV. What we add on top: Casa, which makes the change when you ask instead of handing you a form, the flyer scanner, and a parents-only insights card. If your spare screen isn't an iPad, or the budget is the deciding factor, take Mango.
Google Calendar →
Free, universal, and the thing most families should try first. A shared family calendar plus a calendar per person, shared with edit access and color-coded by hand, covers a lot of ground. We wrote the setup guide ourselves.
HomeHQ doesn't replace it — your events stay in your Google account and sync both ways. What it adds is the household layer: chores, kid views, reminders per person, the flyer scanner, Casa, and the kitchen screen. A Google account is required either way.