Calendar
One calendar the whole family can read.
A colour per person, everything in one place, and a guest link for the people who need to know about one event and nothing else.
You’re invited: Alfie’s football, Saturday 2pm
Hi Nana, Sarah has invited you to this from the family calendar. Can you make it?
You’ll see this event and nothing else. No app or account needed.
Guest links and RSVP
Send one event to a grandparent, an aunt or a friend’s parent with a link. They get an email with the event and two buttons, they say yes or no, and they never have to install anything or make an account. It is the thing families ask us for most.
- A link per event, revocable at any time
- They see the event and nothing else in your calendar
- RSVPs come back into the app next to the event
A colour per person, held everywhere
Sarah is blue, Josh is orange, Mia is green, Alfie is gold. The same colour follows each person through chores, lists and the briefing, so a glance is enough to know whose day just got complicated.
School term dates, without the admin
Every school in England is in Kinmeadow. Choose your child’s school and its calendar arrives on yours: the first and last day of each term, half-terms, INSET days, the Christmas and Easter holidays, each one a whole day on the family calendar, colour-coded by child, so Alfie’s INSET day and Mia’s last day of term sit beside the dentist and the football. No typing dates in from a PDF, and no missing the INSET day that was on page two of the newsletter. Part of Basic.
- Compiled from what the school publishes, and it says so: “12 dates, compiled from the school’s published calendar”, with the page they came from
- Compiled once per school and kept up to date each term, so you are not the one maintaining them
- Term dates, INSET days, holidays: on or off, per child
Where it is, and when to leave
Type the first few letters of a place and the address comes back as you type, so the football pitch, the dentist and the party venue are on the event with their real address and a Directions link. The places the family goes to all the time, the school, Nana’s, the pool, are familiar places: one tap, no typing. And with a place on the event, Kinmeadow works out when to set off from your own front door, by car, on foot, by bike or on public transport, and reminds you in time.
- Real-time place lookup as you type, with the address and a Directions link
- Familiar places: the school, the grandparents, the pool, one tap each
- A set-off reminder timed from your home and how you travel. Part of Pro
Built for how a week runs
School holidays and INSET days are their own kind of entry, alongside appointments and trips, so the calendar can show you the school week on its own when that is the question. Times are written the way you say them. Cancel something and it stays on the calendar saying it is off, which is not the same as deleting it.
The calendars you already keep, in this one
Connect your Microsoft calendar (Hotmail, Outlook, or a work or school account), your iCloud calendar, or the calendar already on your phone, and its dates sit beside the family’s own, kept up to date on their own. You choose which calendars show, and each one is private to you until you say otherwise. A work calendar is not the household’s business until its owner decides it is. Part of Pro; the phone’s own calendar is free.
- Read-only: we never write to a calendar you connect
- Every calendar off by default, and private by default when on
- Disconnect, and every date it brought with it goes too
Questions
About calendar
Can grandparents see the calendar without joining?
For a single event, yes. Send them a guest link and they get an email with the event and two buttons. They can reply from that email without installing the app or creating an account, and you can revoke the link whenever you like.
What does a guest see?
That one event: the title, the time, the place, and who from the family is going. Nothing else in your calendar, and nothing else in the app.
Does everyone need their own phone?
Each member has their own login, so the app knows who ticked what and whose colour is whose. A household is up to 4 people on Basic and as many as you like on Pro, and anyone outside it can still be sent a guest link.
Does it work with the calendar I already use?
Yes. Connect a Microsoft calendar (Hotmail, Outlook, or a work or school account), an iCloud calendar, or the calendar already on your phone, and its dates are shown beside the family’s own. It is read-only, so nothing in the app ever changes the calendar you connected.
Will the rest of the house see my work calendar?
Not unless you say so. Every connected calendar starts off, and every one you switch on is private to you until you share it. Switch one off again and its dates leave the family calendar with it.
Is my child’s school in it?
If it is a state or independent school in England, yes: the list comes from the Department for Education’s register. A growing number of schools in Wales are there too. Pick the school, choose which child it is for, and the dates arrive on the calendar in their colour.
Where do the term dates come from?
From the school itself. Schools publish their term dates on their own websites, usually as a PDF. Kinmeadow reads what the school has published, compiles the dates, and shows you where they came from. If a school’s website cannot be read, it says so. Nothing is ever guessed at.
Do I have to keep the school dates up to date?
No. The dates are compiled once per school and shared by every family at that school, and they are checked again each term. You choose what shows, per child: term dates, INSET days, holidays, or all of it.
How does it know when to set off?
From the place on the event, where you set off from, and how you travel. Put your home address on your own profile, choose car, walking, bike or public transport, and it works out the journey and reminds you in time to leave. Your address stays on your profile, private even from the rest of the house; the app never tracks where anyone is.
What are familiar places?
The places the family goes to all the time: the school, the grandparents, the pool, the club. Save them once and adding one to an event is a tap, with the address and the set-off time already worked out.
Can I set something to repeat?
Yes. Weekly swimming, the bins every other Tuesday, the monthly standing order: set it once and it stays out of the way. Repeating events are part of Pro.
What happens when something is cancelled?
Cancel it and it stays on the calendar marked as cancelled, so everyone knows it was on and now is not. Delete it and it goes entirely. They are different things, and the app treats them differently.
The rest of it
Everything a family needs, in one app.
Meadow
It reads your email and calendars, builds the shopping list, tells you when you are free, and writes your briefing morning and evening.
Read moreSchool term dates
Every school in England, and its term dates, INSET days and holidays on the family calendar in your child’s colour.
Read moreLists and meals
Shopping lists that update in the shop, a recipe box, and a meal plan that knows what the week needs.
Read moreChores and rewards
Jobs with a date and a person on them, rewards a child can claim, and a parent who approves from wherever they are.
Read moreRecords and renewals
Cars with MOT and road tax dates found for you, files with an expiry date on them, and a nudge well before anything runs out.
Read moreVehicle reminders
Type the number plate and the MOT and road tax dates are found for you, put on the family calendar, and reminded a month out and a week out.
Read moreThe wider family
Encrypted chat that reaches grandparents in their own house, a family tree children can follow, and wishlists so presents are easy.
Read moreStart free
Move the family over this weekend.
The calendar, the lists, the chores and the family tree, free for as long as you like.