what actually happens

The district calendar you already have: the PDF that came home in a backpack, or the one attached to the newsletter. We read the dates out of it — closures, half-days, early dismissals, the in-service day nobody remembers — and show you what we found before anything reaches your calendar. If a date is wrong or missing, you fix it there. One file, and the only part of this nobody can do for you.

You get one link. It goes into the calendar app already on your phone, once, and every school in the house arrives on it — colour-coded by kid, so a date always says whose it is. This is the step people expect to be hard, so here it is per app:

apple

Settings → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar, and paste the link. It syncs to every device signed into the same Apple account.

google

calendar.google.com → Other calendars → From URL, and paste the link. Google refreshes subscribed calendars on its own schedule, often not the same day. A same-morning closure arrives by email, not by waiting on this refresh.

outlook

outlook.com/calendar → Add calendar → Subscribe from web, and paste the link.

With Fridge Household ($29/year), connect the school's calendar URL and turn on monitoring. We check that source and send a closure by email. Your subscribed calendar picks the change up when the phone app next refreshes, which can be hours later. Your first successful file import is free; an uploaded file is a snapshot of the dates it contains.

One household can publish a school's community page: the school-wide days off and events, at an address anyone can open. Another family at the same school subscribes in one click and gets the same Sunday digest. The page carries dates, never documents, and nothing about any child; every change to it is reviewed by one of the people who keep it before it shows.