Hestia

The family wall calendar

Everyone's week, on the wall.

The month at a glance, today's plans, the weather and your favourite photos, on the screen everyone walks past. An old monitor, a TV, a Chromecast or a tablet will do.

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  • $2.50 a month, or $20 a year
  • Nothing to install
  • Private unless you share it
The wall: a family photo at the top left, the time and today's plans, the weather and the forecast beside it, and October's calendar underneath.
The same wall on a phone, with the sheet for adding an event open: Pumpkin patch, Wednesday, repeating yearly.

Tap a day to add an event from any phone

The same photo on every screen, at the same moment

Works with
  • Google Calendar
  • iCloud shared albums
  • Any iCal feed
  • Chromecast
  • Android TV
  • Any web browser

Your photos

Photos that look framed by hand.

Upload pictures from your phone or point the wall at an iCloud shared album. Hestia finds the people in every photo and crops around them, so nobody loses the top of their head.

  • Reframe from your phone. Drag, pinch or zoom the photo on the wall itself. Every screen redraws within seconds.
  • One slideshow, everywhere. The kitchen TV and your phone show the same picture at the same moment, and touching it holds it there while you adjust.
  • More of the good ones. Mark favourites to see them twice as often. Photos taken this month come up more often too.
The wall on a phone while someone adjusts the photo: arrows to step through photos, a centre cross, a zoom bar at 1.1x, and a Framing saved note.

Make it yours

Lay it out the way your family lives.

Press the pencil on your wall and move the tiles around. Drag to place, pull a corner to resize. Portrait and landscape screens each keep their own layout.

  • Photo
  • Clock and today
  • Weather
  • Weekly forecast
  • Month
  • Coming up
  • Chores
  • Meal plan
  • Countdown
  • Note
  • Phone editor link
  • Wi-Fi share
  • Sunrise and sunset
  • Moon
  • Trash day
  • Who's home
  • Empty space
The layout editor: the wall on the left with dashed outlines around each tile, and a panel on the right listing tiles to add.
A wall with chores, the week's dinners, a countdown to a cabin weekend, a note, a QR code and the coming days.

Any screen

The old monitor in the hall is perfect.

Hestia is a web page, so anything with a browser can be a wall. Light by day, and dark from sunset to sunrise so it never glares at night.

The wall on a landscape TV in its night colours: photo and two small tiles on the left, the month on the right.

  • A browser in fullscreen

    An old laptop, a spare monitor or a Raspberry Pi. Open your wall, press the fullscreen button, done.

  • A smart TV

    In the TV's browser, open /tv on this site. It shows a code; type it on your phone and the TV turns into your wall.

    The TV pairing screen with a large code and a QR code.

  • Chromecast and Google TV

    Press the cast button on your wall in Chrome and pick the TV. An Android TV app is on the way.

  • A tablet on a stand

    Leave it charging on the counter. Anyone can tap a day to add a plan, right there.

See five setups, with what to get

Colours

Quiet colours that change with the year.

One warm palette by default, paper by day and woodsmoke after dark. Or let the wall wear a different pair each month. Or pick every colour yourself.

Set up in five minutes

Three steps, then leave it alone.

  1. 1

    Sign in with Google

    Or get a sign-in link by email. There is no password to remember.

  2. 2

    Pick your wall's address

    Something like /the-parkers, chosen once. Then connect your calendar and add a few photos.

  3. 3

    Open it on the screen

    Pair a TV with a code, cast it, or open it in any browser and press fullscreen.

Pricing

One simple price.

One wall for your household, on as many screens as you like, with every feature.

Monthly

$2.50a month

Pay as you go.

Create your wall

Save $10

Yearly

$20a year

Works out to about $1.67 a month.

Create your wall
  • Every screen in the house
  • Google Calendar and iCal feeds
  • Your photos, framed around the people
  • Layouts, tiles and colours

Questions

Good to know.

Who can see our wall?

Only you, the screens you pair, and the people you invite, like grandparents, who can look but not change anything. Each screen and each invite has its own link that you can remove any time.

Which calendars work?

Google Calendar, with as many of your calendars as you like and one chosen for events added on the wall. Apple, Outlook and school calendars work too, through their private iCal address.

What does Hestia do with my Google Calendar?

It shows the events of the calendars you choose on your wall, and adds the events you create by tapping a day. It never changes or deletes your events, never reads events from calendars you did not choose, and never shares or sells anything. Disconnect any time in Settings. The privacy policy has the details.

Where do the photos come from?

Upload them from your phone or computer, or paste the link of an iCloud shared album and new photos appear on their own.

Do we need special hardware?

No. Anything with a modern web browser can show the wall: a spare monitor and an old laptop, a smart TV, a Chromecast or a tablet.

What does it cost?

$2.50 a month, or $20 a year if you pay for the year at once. That covers your household's wall with every screen and every feature.

Where are the setup guides?

At hestiacalendar.com/help: step-by-step guides for TVs, Chromecast, tablets and a Raspberry Pi, and for Google Calendar, other calendar links, iCloud albums and Google Photos.

Can I leave?

Any time. Settings, then Account, deletes your wall, its photos and your account straight away.

Put your family's week where everyone can see it.

$2.50 a month or $20 a year. Takes about five minutes to set up.

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