FamilyDash

FamilyDash is a hosted dashboard built around one shared household screen: chores, a calendar, a grocery list and a weekly meal plan, kept in sync across every phone, tablet and laptop signed into the same family account. Its own site describes the target setup as "the wall-mounted kitchen tablet," though nothing about the product requires one; the same board works from a phone or a laptop browser (familydash.app, read 2026-09-29). It is built and supported by one developer, Jeremiah Maddock, whose name appears as the App Store seller and whose closing line on the homepage, "Jeremiah & fam," matches that scale (apps.apple.com, familydash.app, read 2026-09-29).

The Google Play listing puts the intended audience plainly: "Families with school-age kids who are tired of group texts about whose turn it is to feed the cat. Parents who want the whole household on the same page without nagging" (play.google.com, read 2026-09-29). It is a weaker fit for someone who wants a personal, single-user widget board rather than a shared family one; DashSuey or Dashly cover that case more directly.

Chores rotate between kids automatically so the same child is not always stuck with the dishes, and each kid sees only their own list with a running streak. Allowance is tracked automatically as chores are checked off, though the actual payout feature sits behind Pro. Kids sign in with a family code and a PIN rather than an email address, and a parent PIN can now lock the shared tablet's settings while still letting kids check off their own chores, a change the App Store's "what's new" list dates to the current build (apps.apple.com, read 2026-09-29).

Separate from chores, picture-based routine checklists for morning, after-school and bedtime use icons instead of words, so a child who cannot read yet can still work through the list unprompted; this is free for every household. The calendar connects one outside calendar for free (Apple, Google, Outlook, or a school or sports feed) and unlimited calendars on Pro, and the board can also publish its own events back out to a family member's personal phone calendar. The grocery list sorts items by store aisle rather than alphabetically, accepts additions from any phone, and supports a "Hey Siri, add bananas" shortcut. Checkout runs through Instacart with one tap, covering close to a thousand store banners by the site's own count of nearby chains (familydash.app, read 2026-09-29).

Meal planning lets a parent drag recipes onto specific days, and the grocery list writes itself from whatever is planned. A Pro feature turns a photo of a cookbook page, a magazine clipping or a pasted TikTok link into a saved recipe with its ingredients already sorted into the list. The interface also switches to a dark theme at sunset and is built to run unattended on a screen paired with a kiosk app such as Fully Kiosk, waking on motion rather than staying lit all day (play.google.com, read 2026-09-29).

Sign in at familydash.app with a Google account, an Apple account, or an email magic link, or install the app from the App Store or Google Play. No credit card is asked for to start on the free plan. Kids join the same household separately: they sign in with the family's own code plus a personal PIN, so no child needs an email address or a password of their own.

Free covers unlimited chore tracking, the picture routine checklists, the grocery list with Instacart checkout, a weekly meal planner, a weather tile, unlimited kid accounts, one connected calendar, and push notifications with one reminder per event. FamilyDash Pro is $34.99 billed annually, about $2.92 a month, or $4.99 a month paid monthly, with a 14-day free trial and cancellation any time from the account. Pro adds unlimited connected calendars, up to three reminders per event sent to everyone assigned to it, forwarding a school email straight into the calendar with AI, recipe scanning from a photo or a video link, an auto-fill meal planner, and chore rewards paid out as allowance (familydash.app, apps.apple.com, read 2026-09-29).

FamilyDash's own Google Play listing does not agree with its website or its App Store listing. Play states Pro costs $4.92 a month billed annually or $6.99 a month paid monthly; the website and the App Store both state $2.92 a month billed annually ($34.99 a year) or $4.99 a month, a real difference rather than a rounding gap (play.google.com, familydash.app, read 2026-09-29). The same Play listing also names Kroger as the one-tap grocery checkout partner, while the website and the App Store both describe checkout through Instacart. Whichever pricing and checkout partner are current, the Play description does not match the other two, and a reader comparing the three would see conflicting numbers.

The Android build is also the newer, less proven side of the product: Google Play shows just 100+ downloads as of this read, against a more developed iOS listing with a version history and store replies from the developer. Grocery checkout through Instacart is also limited to the US and Canada, per the App Store's own listing, so it does not help a household shopping outside those two countries. Support runs through one address, familydashapp@gmail.com, listed on the Google Play page; none of the three listings names a separate support team (play.google.com, read 2026-09-29).