Family operating system

One calm place for family.

The shared calendar, AI inbox, chores, meals, and photos your family already runs on — privately, on every screen in your house.

No credit card · Works on phones, kitchen iPads, and Family Hub fridges

Why we built this

Family apps shouldn't sell out your family.

We use the family OS for our own families. So we built one we'd actually trust with our kids' schedules, photos, and routines.

  • Encrypted, per family

    Every family gets its own encryption key. Lumera's servers store ciphertext; only your password (and an optional 2FA-gated recovery path you choose) can decrypt it. Not advertisers. Not training data. Power users can switch to self-custody — Lumera then literally can't recover the family.

  • Built for the kitchen

    Designed to live on a Family Hub fridge or kitchen iPad first, phones second. The wall view is ambient, glance-friendly, and reads from across the room.

  • Less data entry

    Forward any email — school newsletter, soccer signup, birthday invite — and Lumera files it into the right place. Voice notes from the kitchen, photos of paper handouts, and birthdays all flow in without typing.

What's inside

The pieces of family life, finally connected.

Everything talks to everything else. Your calendar knows about your kid's chores. Your inbox knows about your wishlists. Your meals know about the school lunch menu.

  • One calendar for everybody

    Two-way sync with Google, Outlook, and Apple. Each kid + parent gets their own color. Birthdays auto-recur. Conflicts surface before they bite.

  • AI inbox for forwards

    Forward the soccer-signup email, the birthday invite PDF, the school lunch menu. Lumera reads it, suggests events, projects, or knowledge notes — you approve with one tap.

  • Chores that pay screen time

    Set chores per kid or open for any taker. Verified completions credit screen-time minutes or points toward rewards your kids actually want.

  • Meals + groceries together

    Plan dinner once. Per-attendee meal selection for picky eaters. Recipe cookbook with one-tap add-to-grocery. School lunch menus show up automatically.

  • A private photo wall

    Drop family photos into a shared library that powers the kitchen slideshow. AI picks weekend highlights. No public feeds, no facial-recognition data leaving your family.

  • Wishlists + public registries

    Each kid has a wishlist they can earn into. Birthday parties get shareable public registry pages with masked claims — guests don't see who claimed what.

Wherever your family is

One household, every screen.

  • Family Hub fridge
  • iPhone + Android
  • Kitchen iPad
  • Browser
  • Voice notes
  • Email forwards

Pricing

Simple plans. Real free tier.

All plans encrypt every byte that touches Lumera's servers. The paid tiers unlock more devices, storage, and the AI inbox.

  • Free

    For families just trying it out.

    $0

    Forever, no card.

    Start free
    • Up to 3 family members
    • 1 connected calendar (Google, Outlook, or Apple)
    • 100 chore completions per month
    • 30-day inbox history
    • 50 family photos
    • Kitchen iPad / fridge pairing (1 device)
  • Family

    Everything Lumera does, for households all-in.

    $5/ month

    or $48/year — save $12

    Start a free 14-day trial
    • Unlimited family members
    • Unlimited connected calendars (Google, Outlook, Apple)
    • AI inbox — forward emails, photos, PDFs
    • Voice kiosk on every device
    • Unlimited chores + screen-time rewards
    • Birthday automations
    • School calendar + lunch-menu auto-import
    • Recipe cookbook + per-attendee meal planning
    • Public registry pages for birthdays + events
    • AI photo highlights + slideshow reels
    • 25 GB encrypted photo storage
    • Unlimited paired devices (fridge, iPads, phones)

Prices in USD. Annual plans billed yearly. Cancel anytime; your data stays encrypted and exportable for 30 days after.

Common questions

Frequently asked.

What does "end-to-end encrypted" actually mean here?

Each family is assigned its own encryption key the first time you sign up. Sensitive fields (event titles, chore names, photos, comments) are encrypted with that key before they leave your device. Lumera's servers only ever see ciphertext. By default we hold an escrow copy of your family key, encrypted under a separate server-side key, so a locked-out spouse can recover with email + their authenticator code + a 24-hour cooling-off window. Power users can switch to self-custody in Settings — Lumera then literally cannot help recover the data, even under subpoena.

Will it work with Google Calendar / Outlook / Apple Calendar?

Yes — two-way sync with all three. Changes you make in Lumera push to the upstream calendar, and changes upstream pull into Lumera. You can pick which sub-calendars to import per connection.

Do you sell my family's data or use it to train AI?

No. We don't sell data, we don't run ads, and we don't train any model on your content. The AI features (inbox classifier, photo highlights, voice notes) run on third-party model APIs with zero-data-retention contracts — your forwards aren't kept by them either.

What devices does it run on?

Anything with a modern browser. Specifically tested: iPhone (iOS Safari + PWA), Android (Chrome + PWA), kitchen iPads, Samsung Family Hub fridges, Tesla in-car browser, MacBook + Windows desktops.

What's the kids' experience like?

Kids get a separate, age-themed dashboard with chores, calendar, and rewards. No inbox, no settings, no parent-only events. PINs are required below a configurable age. Children's content never leaves the encrypted boundary.