The family life organizer, on your wall
Calendars, chores, lists, meals and routines in one calm place: on a tablet on the wall, on every phone, and simple enough for kids. Free, open source, and on your own server, so it stays yours.
Not one more app for one busy grown-up. Kinwall is where the whole household keeps its plans, jobs, lists, meals, medicines, contacts and memories, so nobody has to carry it all in their head.
Today, what's next, who's doing what and what's for dinner, readable from across the kitchen.
Add to the grocery list in the store, move practice from work, get the reminder when it's time to leave. Share a recipe, a menu or a party invite to Kinwall and it lands in the right place.
Their own chores, routines and rewards, on the wall or their own tablet, without a grown-up in the loop for every tap.
Use all of it or just a few parts. Turn off what you don't use and it disappears from every screen.
The first thing every screen shows, readable from across the room.
The calendars you already use, merged and color-coded by person.
Chores kids can see, finish and feel good about.
Groceries, shopping, to-dos and reusable lists, shared live.
Plan the week, review the ingredients, and send them to the grocery list. More about meals.
Gentle nudges, so nobody has to be the nag.
Off until a parent turns it on, and always encrypted.
The family's pictures and the kids' art up on the wall, and the books on your shelves.
Keep using work, school and team calendars. Kinwall pulls them onto one wall, one color per person, and changes go back where they came from.
Google, Outlook and iCloud sync both ways, free/busy included. ICS feeds (school, clubs, teams) are read-only.
Filter a calendar by keyword, skip all-day noise, or hide one event or a whole series. Connecting calendars.
Kinwall is built to be used by kids, not just about them. No ads, no streak guilt, no dark patterns.
Pair a tablet as a kid's device: it shows only their events, chores and lists, and grown-up settings stay behind a parent's passkey.
Late still earns partial credit, and a streak survives an off day. Kids ask for a reward, and a parent can OK it.
Ask "Which movie tonight?" or "Tacos or pizza?" and the whole family votes, kids included. A dinner poll can plan the meal.
Tap an avatar for that person's day: events, when to leave, chores to tick off and a peek at tomorrow.
Plan the week's meals, and the ingredients land on the grocery list, sorted by store and aisle. In the store, Shopping mode walks the aisles in order.
Each kind of list remembers its own things: the market's aisles for food, the hardware store's for screws.
Keep the family's restaurants with their menus and favorites. On order night, everyone adds what they want, and the whole order is in one place.
Import from a link, scale for guests, and follow the steps with timers. Meal kit recipes can arrive on their own through the recipe import API.
Designed with neurodivergent family members in mind, and aiming for WCAG 2.2 AA throughout. See the accessibility docs.
What's happening and what's coming, with a countdown, on every view.
A calm banner 10, 5 or 1 minute before the next thing or the leave-by time, with an optional chime.
Flat, calm colors and no motion, for a screen that needs to stay quiet.
Seven typefaces, including Atkinson Hyperlegible and a dyslexia-friendly one, with four text sizes.
Every color comes with a name, emoji or avatar, and Kinwall warns when two people's colors look alike to color-blind eyes.
An optional Temp check, energy battery and evening check-in, plus 🌱 tips for routines, focus and feelings.
For a tablet that stays on all day and all night.
Big targets, swipe between weeks, and it drifts back to today on its own.
During the night hours, walls dim to a drifting clock or a slideshow of family photos and drawings, and reminders wait until morning.
Eighteen color schemes checked for contrast, a seasonal switch or your own, light and dark. The whole family can share one, or each screen picks its own.
A family calendar says a lot about a family. Kinwall keeps it with you. Privacy and what's encrypted.
Your calendar, chores and photos live in a database you own. No ads, no tracking, no one else's cloud.
Parents sign in with a passkey (Face ID, a fingerprint or the screen lock), with recovery codes as a backup, and the phone app signs in the same way. Wall screens and kids' tablets pair with a code and never see the family's settings.
Medicines and checkups are always encrypted. Webhooks never see what's in them, and connected apps can't see them until you turn that on.
Export your family's data as one file (photos as a zip) and import it into another Kinwall, or delete it all yourself.
Every feature is in the open-source app (AGPL). What you see in the demo is all of it.
The code is on GitHub, so anyone can check what it does with your data.
Everything the app does goes through the same documented API, so your automations can do it too.
Calendars, to-do lists, points and chore sensors, and a switch for the Night screen. The integration.
A standard API with OAuth sign-in: connect any MCP-compatible client you choose to add events, plan meals or check the list, with your permission. MCP server.
OpenAPI docs at /docs, and signed webhooks for your own automations, including n8n.
Learning games are small sandboxed web pages. Start from the hello-world starter.
Pick what you have. New to running apps at home? The easy guide walks you through it.
Already run Home Assistant? Install Kinwall as a Home Assistant app (add-on), then add the integration.
Home Assistant app guideOne container, one folder of data, amd64 or arm64.
docker run -d --name kinwall -p 8080:8080 \
-v ./data:/data \
-e PUBLIC_URL=http://<your-server>:8080 \
ghcr.io/johnduprey/kinwallFits Cloudflare's free tier, with HTTPS included. One setup script from a clone.
Cloudflare guideThen put it on the wall: pair the tablet with a code, and everyone else opens it on their phone.
The demo runs entirely in your browser with a sample family. Tick off a chore, plan a dinner, walk the grocery store. Nothing is saved.