A household OS for families who care.
Beautifully simple tools for modern households who care deeply about staying connected — one calm hub instead of seventeen half-working apps.
Reviewed in The Atlantic, awarded by Parents' Choice, 4.8★ on the App Store.
“Before Family Heartware, our week lived in a group chat that none of us could find, a fridge calendar nobody updated, and three different photo albums. Now there's one place. Sunday dinners are quiet again — and my kids actually answer when I text.”
Awarded · The Atlantic's Best Ideas of 2023
Digital Sabbath is the only built-in family ritual that schedules recurring device-free windows across every phone, tablet, and smart speaker in your house — dinnertime, bedtime, Sunday morning pancakes. Lights dim. Notifications hush. The kitchen table comes back.
It's opt-in per person, gentle by default, and used by 41,000+ households to protect the small hours that used to disappear to a glowing screen.
See how Digital Sabbath works →
The Memory Graph · patented
The Cross-Household Memory Graph links photos, milestones, and voice notes between every member of your family tree, without requiring accounts for children under 13. Grandma's Sunday morning voice note about her first piano lesson lands on your fridge album automatically. Your eight-year-old can contribute drawings without ever sharing an email.
It's COPPA and GDPR-K compliant by design — not as an afterthought — and audited by Cure53 in March 2024 with zero critical findings.
Read the Memory Graph white paper →One hub, instead of
Family Heartware was built for the way real families actually live — not the way productivity apps think they should. Here is the chaos it quietly replaces.
01
Eight threads across two platforms, a missed pickup, and a key code lost in the scrollback. Family Heartware routes logistics, not just messages — pickups, dropoffs, school events, 312,000+ of them coordinated last year alone.
02
Native two-way sync with 60+ calendars, smart speakers, and school portals — Canvas, Seesaw, Google Classroom. No double-entry, ever. The dentist and the field trip show up in the same week, in the same place.
03
End-to-end encrypted shared albums that quietly organize themselves by child, by year, by kitchen-table moment. The Memory Graph links Grandma's photos to yours without anyone creating another login.
04
Digital Sabbath gives you a calm, opt-in family ritual instead of an arms race. 41,000+ households use it to protect dinnertime and bedtime — without the surveillance feeling of parental-control hardware.
Average family reclaims 4.3 hours a week previously lost to coordination chaos (n=2,140, internal 2024 survey).
