Happy Herd Happy Herd

Family calendar. Chore list. Harmony.

A real app on every parent’s phone and a board on the kitchen wall — chores, rewards, dinner plans, and everyone’s week, in sync everywhere within a second.

Approve a chore from the carpool line. Add practice from your desk. The wall updates before you lock your phone. Pay $4.99 once — every device, forever. No subscription, ever.

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The story

Built by a dad, not a boardroom.

I priced out the popular family calendars. Six hundred dollars for the screen, then another eighty every year to keep the chore rewards my kids actually cared about. The confetti was behind a paywall.

So I built our own instead: a wall tablet in the pantry where my two kids check off chores, watch the celebration, and fill progress bars toward trampoline-park trips. My wife and I add events from our phones at work. Dinner for the week is planned once, on Sunday. The grocery list updates itself while she shops.

Happy Herd is that app, polished for your family. It runs on any tablet you already own or a hundred-dollar one from the store down the road. The software costs less than the parking at the trampoline park.

— Eric, somewhere in Pennsylvania, probably approving a chore right now

What it does

The whole household, one board.

In your pocket and on the wall

Happy Herd is a full app on your phone, not a remote control for a gadget. Parents run the family from work, the store, or the bleachers; the kitchen tablet and every other device catch up in under a second. Same board, everywhere you are.

Chores kids want to finish

Tap the box, the confetti flies, the money lands in their balance. Picture icons mean even the pre-reader can run her own list. A progress bar tracks the day, and an evening reminder nudges whoever still owes the dog his dinner.

Kids propose, parents approveonly here

Your ten-year-old adds “wash the car — $20” to his own list. You get it as a request, change it to $3, and approve. He learns negotiation; you keep the treasury. No other family app has this.

Rewards worth working for

Chores can pay money, screen-time minutes, or stars toward a goal you set: the ice-cream run, a new game, the big trip. When the bar fills, the whole board celebrates.

A calendar everyone can read

Pick a custom color for every family member and see the week sort itself at a glance. Events show the weather for their day. Paste a school email in and the dates place themselves — no retyping the fall sports schedule. Bring in the calendars you already keep, too: Google, Apple, and Outlook events appear right alongside the family’s own, with two-way Google sync next on the roadmap.

Dinner, answered

Plan the week from your own recipe box, and send the ingredients to a shared grocery list with one tap. The list rides along on your phone in the store aisle.

Every device, one purchase

The wall tablet, both parents’ phones, the kid’s hand-me-down iPad — they all join with a six-letter code and stay in sync within a second. One $4.99 purchase covers all of them, even across Android and Apple.

The arithmetic

Three years of family organization, itemized.

The devices on the market are fine products with one habit we don’t share: after you buy the hardware, the useful parts rent for another yearly fee. Here is the honest math for a family that keeps the board on the wall for three years.

Prices published by the manufacturers, mid-2026. Bring your own tablet — the one in the junk drawer counts.

Our promise

Your family is the customer, not the product.

Zero ads.Nothing on the board is sponsored. No one bids for your kids’ attention at breakfast.
Zero data selling.Your household’s routines are not inventory. Nothing is shared, rented, or “partnered.”
Private by design.Kids never have accounts — only first-name profiles you create and control. No trackers, no profiles built on your family.

The free apps in this category are free because the household is the merchandise. We charge five dollars instead. That is the entire difference, and it’s the whole point.

Price of everything

Two numbers. That’s the whole page.

Free
The download
  • Chore lists for every family member
  • The shared family calendar
  • Family lists — grocery, packing, anything
  • Every device joins with one code
$4.99
Once, for the whole family
  • Rewards: money, screen time, and star goals
  • Meal planning with the recipe box
  • Magic event import from pasted schedules
  • Covers every device and every family member

One parent buys it once, inside the app. Everyone else — the other parent, the kids, the wall tablet, the grandparents’ iPad — inherits it automatically. Families are capped at ten members, which is plenty for a household and unhelpful for the whole cul-de-sac.

Fair questions

Asked by people as skeptical as you.

How can there be no subscription?

Because a family’s chore board is a small amount of data, and we built the whole system around that fact. Your $4.99 genuinely covers the cost of keeping your family in sync. That is the entire business model, on purpose.

What tablet should I buy?

Any Android tablet from the last few years. The $100–150 ones at big-box stores work well. A simple wall mount costs about fifteen dollars, and the app includes a photo screensaver so the board earns its wall space between chores.

Does it work with the calendar we already use?

Yes. Paste the private link from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook and those events appear alongside the family’s own, refreshed automatically. Two-way Google sync — edit in either place — is next on the roadmap. And Happy Herd works completely on its own if you’d rather keep everything in one place.

Is my kids’ information safe?

Kids never have accounts. They exist as first-name profiles inside your family, created by you, visible only to your family. There are no ads, no trackers, and nothing is ever sold or shared — our revenue is your $4.99, not your data. The privacy policy is short because the honest answer is short.

What about iPhones and iPads?

The family board syncs to any device with a browser today, and the App Store version follows the Google Play launch. One purchase covers your household across both.