HomeHQ vs Mango Display.

Mango is the closest competitor we have, and a strong one. Neither of us sells hardware, both of us run on screens you already own, and Mango's Pro tier covers most of the same ground for less money. The real split is what each one is built around: Mango starts from the screen on the wall, HomeHQ starts from the phone in your pocket.

Choose Mango if your spare screen is a TV, a Fire TV Stick or an Echo Show, if anyone in the house is on Android, or if $59.99 a year against our $143.99 settles it.

Choose HomeHQ if the household runs on iPhones and iPads and you want a native app with an assistant you can talk to, a flyer scanner, widgets and reminders, not only a dashboard on a wall.

Choose Mango if…

• →Cheaper, and by enough to matter: Mango Pro is $59.99 a year against our $143.99, and Mango's free tier runs two screens for nothing.
• →Your spare screen is a Fire TV Stick, an Echo Show or a smart TV. HomeHQ cannot run on any of those.
• →Someone in the house is on Android. Mango supports them today; our Android app is still coming.
• →You want chores with points kids can actually cash in. Mango's Chores & Rewards does redemption; we deliberately don't.
• →You already live in Todoist or Microsoft To Do and want the family screen to read from it.
• →You want a wall dashboard with a wide catalogue of widgets — news, transit, sports, photos — not only family scheduling.
• →You are a tinkerer. Mango will run on a Raspberry Pi and a browser on almost anything.

Choose HomeHQ if…

• →The household is iPhones and iPads, and you want a real app on each phone rather than a screen in one room plus a browser dashboard.
• →You want to hold a button and say "add swim practice Tuesdays at four" and have Casa do it, then edit or undo it in the same breath.
• →The school sends paper. HomeHQ's camera scan reads the flyer and proposes the dates for you to tick off; Mango has no equivalent.
• →You want the week's problems pointed out — the double-booked Thursday, the kid who somehow has every chore — rather than only displayed.
• →You want chore deadlines, a morning brief and a Sunday recap arriving as notifications on your phone.

One calendar. Everyone sees it.

HomeHQ runs on the Google Calendar your family already uses. Connect it once and every change shows up everywhere — the kitchen iPad and every iPhone show the same plan. Nothing to migrate, nobody to convince.

• ✓Change it on any phone — it's right everywhere, including Google Calendar itself.
• ✓Color-coded per person, automatically.
• ✓Add an event on your phone; the kitchen display picks it up within a minute.
• ✓Or snap a paper flyer — HomeHQ reads it and proposes the events; you tick the ones to add.
• ✓It's your real Google calendar — your data stays in your own account.