How to use HomeHQ.
Everything from signing in to setting up a wall-mounted iPad. Short pages, actual steps, written by the people who built it.
Getting started with HomeHQ
Install it, sign in, name your household, connect a calendar, add your family. About ten minutes.
Read →How to log in
One button, one Google account. What HomeHQ asks for and why, plus signing out and switching accounts.
Read →Joining a household someone else set up
You were sent an eight-character code. Here is what to do with it.
Read →The family calendar
Adding events, day and week and month views, and how the two-way Google sync behaves.
Read →Chores, points and streaks
Setting up the chore board, who does what, rotations, and how the points work.
Read →Scanning a flyer onto the calendar
Point the camera at a school newsletter or season schedule and pick which dates go on the calendar.
Read →Casa, the assistant
Ask questions about your week, add events and chores by typing or talking.
Read →Wall mode and ambient mode
Turn a spare iPad into the family calendar display on the kitchen wall.
Read →Notifications
What HomeHQ pings about, and how to turn any of it off.
Read →Kids and teens
What a child account can see and do, how to set one up, and what to do about younger kids.
Read →Household, family members and account
Renaming the household, adding and removing people, dietary notes, and deleting your account.
Read →When something is not working
The handful of things that go wrong, and what to do about each.
Read →The questions we get most.
Tap "Continue with Google" on the login screen. That one login also grants the calendar and tasks access HomeHQ needs, so there is no second step. If someone sent you a join code, tap "I have a join code" instead.
HomeHQ is in beta and handed out through Apple's TestFlight rather than the App Store. Install TestFlight, then open the invite link you were sent.
Install the app, tap "I have a join code" on the login screen, sign in with your own Google account, then type the eight-character code. You land straight in your family's household.
Yes. HomeHQ runs on top of Google Calendar and Google Tasks. Anything you add in the app appears in Google, and anything added in Google appears in the app.
Not yet. iPhone and iPad only, with a native Android app planned. Leave your email on the download page to hear when it ships.
Not yet. The Meals tab shows a coming soon note while we finish it.
Nothing. Beta testers are not charged, and you get plenty of notice before pricing starts.
Children see the family calendar but only their own chores, and they cannot tick off or reassign anyone else's. You pick the role when you invite them, and a parent can change it later on their profile.
Email admin@home-hq.com or use the form on the support page. We reply within 24 hours on weekdays.
Bring the calm home.
30 days free. Then $12/mo billed annually, or $14.99/mo. Your whole household, on the iPad and iPhone you already own.