The Family Wall

Your whole family, on one screen.

Prop an old iPad on the counter — or wire any spare screen to the wall — and it becomes the calm center of the house: everyone’s routines, the shared calendar, tonight’s dinner, the shopping list, the pets, who’s home, and JQ, your family’s home assistant. No hardware to buy.

Works on the glass you already have. Every panel is optional — show only what your family wants.

7:42
Thursday, July 18
☀️78°
The Kitchen
🍽️ Tonight: Taco night
🦊
Ada
2/3 · 🔥5
🐻
Sam
3/3 · ⭐12
🐧
Kai
1/2 · 🔥3
🐾 Rex fed ✓🏠 Mom home🛒 Milk, Eggs📝 back at 5!
No box to buy

Skylight and Hearth sell a $150–300 screen. This is a full-screen site on a device you already own.

The whole household

Everyone edits from their phone; the wall shows it. Kids tap chores done right on the glass.

Calm, not noisy

It leads with what matters today and drifts to an ambient screensaver when idle.

Everything a family forgets — in one calm place

Routines

Each person’s day at a glance. Tap to check things off right on the wall — with 🔥 streaks, ⭐ points, and a green/yellow/red freshness dot for how recently each was done.

Chores that earn

Post a chore worth points; kids see what they can earn on the wall, and the credit lands in their balance when it’s done.

JQ plans the day

Tap “Plan the day” and JQ proposes a realistic schedule from each person’s routines, calendar, sleep and goals — drag to reorder, drop what doesn’t fit, keep it as the day’s plan.

One shared calendar

Overlay everyone’s Google Calendars — color-coded, as an agenda or a full week grid. See what’s actually going on.

What’s for dinner

Plan the week’s dinners together. Tonight’s meal shows front and center so nobody has to ask.

Shared shopping list

Everyone adds to one list from their phone. Grab something? Tap it off the wall on your way out.

Home upkeep

Furnace filter, dryer vent, bathroom deep-clean — everything the house needs on a cadence, shown green/yellow/red by how overdue it is. Tap “Done” to reset the clock.

Upkeep, room by room

Group upkeep tasks and screens by room — kitchen, bathrooms, garage — so a room lights up when something in it comes due. It’s just labels on your own wall; nothing about your home is shared.

Have the pets been fed?

A shared feeding tracker so nobody double-feeds the dog. Anyone taps “just fed” — the count is shared.

Who’s home

A glance tells you who’s home, out, at school, or at work — tap your name to flip it on the way in or out.

Notes board

Sticky notes for the family. “Gone to the store, back at 5.” Anyone posts; everyone sees.

Weather

Today’s weather right on the wall — so “bring a jacket” happens before they’re out the door.

Sleep stories

A calm bedtime mode with narrated sleep stories and a sleep timer — or hear the whole story in your own voice.

Family intercom

Send a spoken message to a screen in another room — tap-to-talk across the house, with quiet-hours respected.

Cartoon avatars

Turn a photo into a friendly cartoon avatar — playful, and less identifying than a real photo. The photo is used to make the cartoon and never stored.

Gentle growth nudges

Optional invitations that steer a child toward making a story, a science experiment, or a first step toward a goal — you choose which, off by default.

Bedroom screens

Add a personal screen for a kid’s room — reminders there go to them, quiet-hours keep it calm, and a PIN locks it to your family.

Ask JQ

Your family’s home assistant, right on the wall. “What’s for dinner?” “Add milk to the list.” JQ answers — and acts — from what’s on the wall.

Kids’ chat (safe)

Give a child their own friendly JQ screen — off by default, every message checked and logged for you, with topics and limits you control.

Weekly recap

A “this week” digest — routines done, chore credits earned, upkeep due — on your dashboard, and optionally emailed to you.

Beautiful backgrounds

Rotating outdoor photos of your area, a Ken-Burns screensaver, or your own journal art — with gentle ambient soundscapes when idle.

In your own voice

The wall can speak in your voice.

Clone your voice once, and the everyday moments a parent can’t always be there for can still land in a voice your kids know. Warm, never creepy — you decide what it says, and it only speaks the words you set.

Good morning

A short spoken hello when the day starts — and “walk me through my morning,” which reads a child’s routine aloud, one calm step at a time.

Kind nudges

Chore and reminder buttons that speak gently in your voice — “hey bud, teeth then backpack” — instead of a nagging beep.

Goodnight

A tucked-in “goodnight, I love you” at bedtime, in your own voice, for the nights you can’t be there to say it yourself. (Full sleep stories below.)

Intercom

Speak to a screen in another room from your phone — “dinner’s ready” — heard in your own voice, quiet-hours respected.

Voice is opt-in and consent-first: you record and confirm your own voice, nothing speaks without words you’ve set, and kids never trigger a paid render — the wall reuses what you’ve already recorded. The voice features are part of Family Wall Plus; everything else on this page works free.

A cozy child’s bedroom at night — a glowing nightlight, an open storybook on a quilted bed, and a crescent moon in the window
Bedtime

Sleep stories, read in your voice.

When you can’t be there to tuck them in, the wall can. Bedtime mode dims the room, starts a calm story, and — with your voice clone — reads the whole thing start to finish in the voice they know best.

A calm bedtime mode

The wall dims to a warm, quiet screen with a gentle sleep timer, so the room winds down on its own.

Your voice, the whole story

Full sleep stories narrated in your own cloned voice — or a soft default narrator on the nights you’d rather not.

A goodnight that’s yours

End the day with a short “goodnight, I love you” in your voice, even when you’re away.

Voice is Family Wall Plus and consent-first: you record and confirm your own voice, and kids never trigger a paid render — the wall reuses what you’ve already made.

A sunlit doorway with a soccer ball, a bicycle, an art easel, wooden building blocks, and a small science kit — an invitation to play
Off the couch

A nudge toward the good stuff.

Screens are easy; momentum is hard. The wall gently points kids toward the things they’re glad they did — make something, build something, get outside — turning “I’m bored” into a first step.

Gentle growth nudges

Optional, parent-chosen invitations — start a story, run a science experiment, take the first step on a goal. Off by default; you pick which.

Chores that earn

Real tasks worth points that add up to something they chose to save for — motion with a payoff.

JQ plans the day

One tap turns a blank Saturday into a doable plan — activities, outdoors, and downtime balanced around what’s actually on the calendar.

You set the tone — encouraging, never nagging. Nudges are quiet suggestions on the wall, not alerts on a phone.

Kids’ AI, done safely

A child’s JQ chat is off until you turn it on. Every message your child sends and every reply JQ gives is checked for safety and logged for you to read. You set the age level, off-limits topics, and a daily limit — and you can turn it off anytime. Safety isn’t a setting; it’s how it’s built.

Every family’s wall is different

Real days, real families — one glanceable screen.

Good evening
7:45
Sunday, March 9
77°
The Chens
2/5 done
Dinner is at 6:30!
Gone to soccer, back at 5!
Grandpa
Great job on the spelling test ⭐
Grandpa
Recital Thursday 6pm 🎻
Ada
🐾 Fed?
Shadow
1/2
Pickles
✓ Fed
Tonight’s dinner
Homemade pizza
leftovers Friday
🛒 Shopping
PastaYogurtBananas ·3
Grandpa
29🔥 3
  • All set 🎉
Ada
17
  • Reading (20 min)
  • Piano practice
  • Water plants
  • Pack backpack
Good evening
6:18
Saturday, July 18
49°
The Bergströms
2/5 done
Dinner is at 6:30!
Trash night!
Ruby
Great job on the spelling test ⭐
Ruby
🐾 Fed?
Nugget
0/1
Shadow
✓ Fed
Tonight’s dinner
Burgers on the grill
Aunt Bea
Out
🔥 10
  • All set 🎉
Mom
School
🔥 4
  • Brush teeth
  • Take out recycling
  • Make bed
Ruby
Out
  • Reading (20 min)
  • Take out recycling
Good evening
6:18
Monday, June 3
52°
The Nakamuras
11/14 done
Fed the fish 🐟
Ezra
Gone to soccer, back at 5!
Aunt Bea
Great job on the spelling test ⭐
Ezra
Tonight’s dinner
Burgers on the grill
🛒 Shopping
PastaChicken
Aunt Bea
Out
36
  • Brush teeth
  • Set the table
  • Reading (20 min)
Ezra
Home
14🔥 13
  • Reading (20 min)
  • Make bed
  • 10-min stretch
  • Pack backpack
Theo
Out
3
  • Water plants
  • Homework
Ruby
School
4🔥 20
  • 10-min stretch
  • Morning vitamins
  • Make bed
  • Take out recycling

Give your family one screen that just… helps.

Set it up in a few minutes on a device you already have.

Will it run on my old device?

Almost certainly. The wall runs in the browser, so any reasonably modern one works. Minimum:

  • iPad / iPhone: iOS or iPadOS 15.4 or newer (Safari 15.4+)
  • Mac: Safari 15.4+, or a recent Chrome / Edge / Firefox
  • Windows / Android / Chromebook: a Chrome, Edge, or Firefox from the last ~2 years

If a device is too old, the wall shows a short heads-up with these requirements instead of a blank screen — and a one-tap way to report it, so we can help.

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