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The bigger things a family works on, like a kitchen refresh or the vegetable garden, with tasks, progress and linked shopping lists.
11 modulesSource-available · self-host free, or let us host it
Your household, finally on the same page.
Shopping lists, to-dos, the family calendar, spending, projects, recipes and more. One calm app for the people you live with. Switch on only the modules your family actually uses.
- No sign-up for the demo
- Resets every hour
Switch on only what your family uses
11 modules today · yours next
Everything the household
juggles, in one place.
Built for the people you actually live with: partners, kids, grandparents, housemates. Everyone sees the same lists, live.
SHOPPING
One list. Everyone adds. Nobody forgets the milk.
Shared lists grouped by aisle for each shop, so the person at the store walks the aisles once. Add items by voice, or paste a whole list from a message.
- Several shared lists: groceries, Costco run, back to school
- Shopping mode: big tap targets, checked items drop away
- Linked to projects and recipes
CALENDAR
Every pickup, practice and trip, on one calendar.
Month and timeline views with repeating events and the people involved. To-do due dates, birthdays, car services and project starts show up on their own.
- Recurring events like swim practice, set once
- Subscribe from Google or Apple Calendar with a private link
- Filter by person or type
SPENDING
Know where the month went, and who owes whom.
Quick-add an expense in two taps, sort it into categories, and keep shared trackers for trips or the house with the balance worked out for you.
- Multi-currency, receipt photos
- Optional AI receipt scanning: snap it, review, save
- “Other” sorted into the right category automatically
SHARED TRACKERS · GUEST LINKS
Split the trip with people
who don’t even have an account.
Make a tracker for the road trip, the ski chalet or the shared flat. Send one link and lock it with a password if you like. Friends add what they paid from their browser, and FamilyWell works out who owes whom.
- No account neededGuests open the link and pick their name. That’s the whole sign-up.
- Lock it with a passwordOptional. The link alone gets nobody in without it.
- Viewer or editorEditors add what they paid; viewers just follow along.
- Fair splitsCount a family as four heads, or let parents cover the kids.
- Fewest transfersSettle-up suggestions in any currency. Mark paid, done.
AND THE REST OF FAMILY LIFE
Projects, recipes, the car, the pantry.
Recipes
Scale by servings or by what you have, then add it all to the shopping list.
Inventory
What’s in the house, and what’s running low.
Vehicles
Mileage, services, tyres and documents, with reminders before they’re due.
Notes
Wi-Fi passwords, babysitter notes, gift ideas. Shared or private.
BUILT-IN MCP SERVER · CHATGPT · CLAUDE
Your family, right inside
ChatGPT and Claude.
Connect FamilyWell once. Your assistant can read and update the lists, calendar, spending and cars, and it answers with live cards you can tick, not a wall of text.
You pick read or read & write, per module
BUILT TO BE EXTENDED
A small core.
A module for everything else.
Every feature in FamilyWell (shopping, calendar, spending) is a module. Families switch them on and off. Developers add new ones without touching the core.
- 01
Switch on what you use
Settings → Modules. A family that never drives doesn’t see Vehicles. Turn it on later and it just appears.
- 02
Build your own in an afternoon
One folder: routes, models, migrations and an optional React bundle. Start from the tiny modules/hello example.
- 03
Share it with every family
We accept third-party modules. Submit yours for review and it can be listed in the directory and offered on hosted FamilyWell.
Modules we’d love to see →
- Chores & allowance
- Meal planner
- Pet care
- Medications
- School timetable
- Bills & subscriptions
- Garden
THE LITTLE THINGS
Calm on the outside. Clever underneath.
Live for everyone
Tick something off and it disappears on every phone in the house, instantly.
Installs like an app
Add it to your home screen on iPhone, Android or desktop. No app store needed.
Share exactly what you mean
Family-wide, invited-only or private, plus read-only links for the babysitter.
Speaks your language
English and Romanian today, chosen per person. More with your help.
TWO WAYS TO RUN IT
Host it yourself, or let us do it.
Same app, same modules. Pick the one that fits your evenings.
Self-host
For tinkerersFreefor your own family
Run it on your own machine, a Raspberry Pi or a small VPS. Your data never leaves your server.
- Every bundled module, the full app
- One Docker image + docker compose
- PostgreSQL in prod, SQLite to tinker
- Personal & noncommercial use
Hosted FamilyWell
Most families$5per family / month
or $45 / year: that’s 3 months freeSave 25%
No server, no updates, no 2 a.m. backups. We run it at familywell.co. You just use it.
- Every module, updated automatically
- Unlimited family members
- Daily backups & secure storage
- AI receipt scanning & sorting included
- Your fee funds the open project
BUILT IN THE OPEN
Read every line.
Change anything.
FamilyWell’s source lives on GitHub. Open an issue, translate it into your language, fix a bug or send a whole module. It’s source-available under the PolyForm Noncommercial license: free for families and nonprofits, not for resale.
bvdr / familywellPublic
The family organizer for the people you live with: shopping lists, to-dos, calendar, spending, projects, recipes and more.
- PHP 48%
- TypeScript 44%
- Blade 6%
- stars1.2k
- forks86
- contributors14
- modules11
- Laravel 12
- React 19
- Tailwind v4
- Reverb
- PostgreSQL
Questions, answered.
Something else on your mind? Open an issue on GitHub or write to us. A human answers.
Is it really free to self-host?
Yes. For your own family, and for noncommercial groups like a charity or a school, it’s free, forever. You only pay if you want us to run it for you.
What does “source-available” mean?
All the code is public: read it, run it, change it. What the PolyForm Noncommercial license doesn’t allow is selling FamilyWell or offering it as a paid service.
Can I try it without signing up?
Open the live demo at familywell.co. You’re signed into a sample family with one click and can change anything. It resets every hour.
Can I build a module and share it?
Please do. Start from modules/hello and the module guide, then submit it. Reviewed modules can be listed in the directory and enabled on hosted FamilyWell.
Can I move from hosted to self-hosted later?
It’s the same app and the same Docker image, so your family isn’t locked in.
Give your family
one place to land.
Set up your family in two minutes, invite everyone you live with, and switch on the first module.