Join your family's calendar on Dotdown.
Your invite code
Open in DotdownDotdown is not in the Google Play Store yet, so there is nothing to install. These are the steps for when it is.
Codes last a week and work once, so you will need a new one by then.
A family calendar by Megalight Games
In DevelopmentSchool, practice, work and the dentist, on every phone at once. Chores that earn points, lists that split by store, dinner planned for the week, and a map that says who got home. Set up on one phone; everyone else joins with a code.
Dotdown is not in the Google Play Store yet, so there is nothing here to download.
Free to use. Premium adds meal planning, what to eat, health records, pets and the browser; Premium with Location adds the map and place alerts. Every family can take thirty days of Premium with Location, free, starting whenever a parent chooses.
What it does
Built by a family that was tired of five apps and a fridge.
Your own events beside the school's calendar, the team's schedule and a Google calendar. Feeds update on their own. Give any event a colour or a picture, put a family photo behind the whole calendar, and keep special days and birthdays alongside everything else.
Who does what, on which days, grouped by how often they repeat and tickable early when someone gets ahead. A kid ticks it off, a parent approves from their phone, and the points add up to whatever you agreed.
Shopping grouped and filtered by store, and any other list you need. Add a recipe's ingredients in one tap.
Plan breakfast to dinner, pick from your recipes, paste a link to any recipe page and it comes in with its ingredients and steps.
A parent asks where to eat, everyone ranks their picks, and the app counts the votes and decides. The winner can go straight onto the meal plan. It suggests places nearby, and remembers what each person never wants suggested.
Allergies, conditions, blood type, who to call, insurance, and medicines with the dose and how often. A medicine can remind you at the times you take it, every day, and a parent can be the one reminded for a young child. Each person's records are private, and a parent decides who sees what.
A plan built for your goal and what you have to train with. Say what is sore and it works around it; say how tired you are and the week adjusts. Every set logged, the next weight suggested.
Each pet's shots, medicines, grooming and appointments, with reminders before they are due and the visits on the calendar.
Share location on your terms. Places have a kind and any size you like, and arrivals and departures report as they happen. A stop can be named for where it is rather than a street address, and the app offers to save somewhere the family keeps stopping. A week of history, then it is gone.
The month, today's chores, the shopping list and a countdown on the home screen. The same family in any browser, on a bigger screen.
How it works
Parents decide what each person sees and changes.
Install, name the family, add the people. It works before anyone signs in; an account is what lets other phones see the same thing.
Send a link. Grown-ups sign in with an email or Google. Kids get a username and the family's code, and no email at all.
Per person: what they can see, add and change, from a young kid who sees the family calendar to a teen who runs their own. Presets to start from.
A change on one phone is on the others in a moment, and everything works offline until it can send.
Pricing
Every family can take thirty days of Premium with Location, free, once: a parent starts them in the app whenever the family is ready, and when they end the family is on Free unless it has bought a plan. One purchase covers the whole family, bought through Google Play on a phone. Nothing is deleted when a plan ends; it all comes back if the plan returns.
Questions
Yes. The calendar, lists, chores with approvals, workouts, kids' logins and the month widget are free for as long as you like, with no advertising. Premium and Premium with Location add more, and every family can try Premium with Location free for thirty days, whenever a parent chooses to start.
Not yet. Dotdown is on Android first. A family with an iPhone in it can use Dotdown in any browser with Premium, including on an iPhone, and see the same calendar as everyone else. If you'd use an iPhone app, leave your email below and we'll write when it's ready.
In the app, go to Calendars, then Add a calendar, then Subscribe to a feed, and paste the calendar link the school or club gives out. Most school districts and team apps such as PlayMetrics publish one. It stays up to date on its own. One feed is free; Premium adds as many as you need and a Google Calendar connection.
With a username and the family's code. No email address is needed. A parent sets up each child's login and decides what they can see, add and change, from the whole family's calendar to only their own chores.
Yes. A parent buys once, through Google Play on their phone, and every member of the family gets the plan on every phone and in the browser. There is a monthly, a yearly and a pay-once price for each plan.
The family goes back to Free. Nothing is deleted: recipes, health records, points and everything else stay where they are and come back the moment the family has a plan again.
Nobody, until you switch sharing on for your own phone. A parent chooses how often phones report and which children can see whom. History is kept for a week and then deleted. Location sharing is part of Premium with Location.
In the app, Settings has a "Something wrong?" section that sends us a report, or write to contact@megalightgames.com. A person reads every message.
Leave your email and we'll write once, when Dotdown is on iPhone. We use it for nothing else, and delete it afterwards.
Privacy
The short version. The whole of it is in the privacy policy.
No ads, no trackers, no selling of anything. The only company that ever sees your data is the one that hosts it.
Every row is guarded by who is in the family and what a parent allowed. A kid's phone cannot see what a parent did not grant, and neither can anyone else.
Nobody's phone shares until they switch it on, and a parent decides which children can see whom. History is kept for a week and then deleted on the server.
Delete your account from inside the app, or from this page if you no longer have it. Export the family's data any time.