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The family calendar

HomeHQ does not build its own calendar. It sits on the Google Calendar your family already has.

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iPad · iPhone · Built on Google Calendar · 30-day free trial
The short version

Everything you add in HomeHQ appears in Google Calendar, and the other way around.

The Calendar tab has day, week and month views. Tap any day for the detail panel.

Add an event with the + button on the speed dial, by scanning a flyer, or by asking Casa.

Good to know

How the sync works

Your household picked one Google Calendar during setup. That calendar is the source of truth. HomeHQ reads from it and writes back to it, so an event added on your partner's laptop turns up in HomeHQ, and a chore you add on the iPad turns up in Google.

The app refreshes about every minute while you are using it, and every five minutes when it is sitting idle. Pull down to force it.

Everyone in the household is granted access to that calendar, so the choice only has to be made once.

Step by step

Adding an event

1

Use the speed dial

The round button at the bottom of the screen opens four actions: Ask Casa, Add event, Add chore, and Scan a flyer. It is on every tab except Settings.

Add event asks for a title, a day, a time and who it belongs to.

2

Or scan a flyer

Faster for anything printed. Point the camera at a school newsletter or a season schedule and HomeHQ pulls the dates off it.

3

Or just ask

Tap Ask Casa and type "add swimming Tuesday at 4 for Maya", or hold the speed dial down and say it out loud.

Good to know

Getting around

The dashboard shows today: what is next, who has what on, and how the chores are going.

Week view lays out each day as a full-width row rather than cramped columns, which is far easier to read across a room. Month view gives you the grid, and tapping a day opens the detail panel beside it.

Colours come from each family member, so you can tell at a glance whose afternoon is about to fall apart.

Common questions

Questions people ask.

Not today. HomeHQ is built on Google Calendar, and iCloud or Outlook calendars will not appear. Many families subscribe to their other calendars from within Google, which works.

Yes, in Settings under Integrations. Changing it applies to everyone in the household, not just you.

No. It only touches the one calendar your household chose.

Yes, within a minute or so. Wall mode refreshes on its own.

You can edit or delete a single occurrence or the whole series. Changing the repeat pattern itself still has to be done in Google Calendar.

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30 days free. Then $12/mo billed annually, or $14.99/mo. Your whole household, on the iPad and iPhone you already own.