One shared family calendar that fills itself. Forward the school email, and everyone's diary updates — without HelperSkelter ever touching your calendar account.
No calendar access required. HelperSkelter never reads your diary — it sends invites, just like a person would.
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The modern family calendar isn't broken because you're disorganised. It's broken because your data is scattered across separate islands.
Who's collecting who, whose turn for snacks, what's due Friday — it all lives as an invisible spreadsheet only you can read. HelperSkelter takes over that sheet, so it's not just in your head.
School schedules, swimming class rotas, and event notifications pile up in your inbox, requiring constant manual translation into time slots.
The kids are in bed and instead of relaxing you're aligning multiple work and school diaries, you need a hand to automate routines and clarify who's on base.
Send it in, and it's handled. No dashboards, no data entry, no calendar permissions.
Received a messy text block or a detailed timetable email for a school club? Simply forward it straight to your private HelperSkelter chat.
Every event goes out as an invite to everyone it's relevant to, so both parents' diaries move together instead of drifting apart. HelperSkelter keeps an eye on the whole picture and speaks up the moment something's uncovered.
Say "Dad will" and the invite lands in his work diary. He accepts, and it's settled.
Everything the family has going on, side by side. Both parents' commitments, the kids' clubs, what's due at school. Not four calendars you have to mentally overlay at 10pm — one grid, with the gaps showing.
Open it on your laptop or your phone. It's the same grid, and it's what your family's calendars are syncing from.
Free to start · We never read your calendar
"Return the trip form by Friday." "Wear red on Thursday." "£4.50 for the coach." None of these belong in a calendar as a 15-minute appointment, and all of them are the things that actually get forgotten.
HelperSkelter keeps them as a list, and reminds you at the point they matter — the night before, not three weeks early.
The exceptions are the ones that cost you. Holiday club booking opening, a trip payment closing — those get a proper hold in the diary, because missing them costs money or a place.
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How HelperSkelter is already helping families
Forward long, messy school newsletters to HelperSkelter, it extracts every date, makes the appropriate updates and filters out the noise.
Don't miss another birthday or panic over last-minute gifts.
Wake up to what's important. Get a clean, concise summary of who is on base, who's driving, and what's due.
Add swimming three Fridays running and HelperSkelter will offer to make it a standing arrangement — an hour, marked free so you can still take calls, with Dad invited. Say yes and you never set it up again.
You can also just tell it: "Swimming is an hour, mark me free, invite Dad." But you shouldn't have to start there.
Under three minutes in your browser, and most of that is finding an email to forward.
Sign up with your name and email. Add your children's names and year groups so we know which "Year 4 trip" is yours.
Forward the last one you got. You'll see what we pull out of it — and what we ignore.
Their email addresses, that's all. They'll start getting invites; they don't need accounts.
That's it. No templates to build, no calendar to connect, no settings to work through.
Set up your family gridEverything you need to know about setting up and running your automated family grid.
Just add their email address in the app — Settings → Family. That's it.
They don't need an account. They'll start receiving normal calendar invites at whatever address you give us — work Outlook, personal Gmail, Apple Calendar — and they accept or decline like any other meeting. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
If they'd like to see the whole family grid rather than just their own invites, they can create an account from any invite they receive. Most partners never bother, and it works fine either way.
💡 Why this works: grandparents, a nanny, an older child — anyone who needs to see the schedule can, without an account or an app.
No. They receive ordinary calendar invites at whatever address you give us and respond from their own calendar. An account is only for whoever wants to see the whole grid — and it works with locked-down work email too, because there's nothing to connect.
Any calendar that accepts standard email invites — Google Calendar, Apple iCloud, and Microsoft Outlook/Office 365 all work out of the box. HelperSkelter never connects to or reads these accounts; it just sends the invite to whichever address you give it. Add as many addresses as you like — personal, work, whichever you actually check.
Forward them to your family's private HelperSkelter address — you'll get it when you sign up. You can also share straight from your phone, or paste them into the app. If you'd rather use Telegram, our bot still works: say hello to @HelperSkelterBot.
What we store: the event details you forward or type (dates, times, locations, descriptions), the email addresses and templates you set up, and your chat history with the bot.
Where it's parsed: we process the emails you send us to extract dates and deadlines. That content isn't shared with anyone.
How long we keep it: for as long as your account is active. If you close your account, your data is deleted within 90 days.
Who can see it: only you and the family members you've invited to your household. HelperSkelter staff don't access your data except to investigate a bug you've reported.
Calendars: we never connect to or read your Google, Outlook, or iCloud diary. We only send standard calendar invites — the same as any person would.
AI models: your family's data is never used to train AI models, public or private, and is never sold or used for advertising.
Hosting: your data is hosted and processed in the UK, in line with UK GDPR.
Most often it's because the address you sent from isn't on your account yet. Add it in Settings → Family, and anything from that address will come through from then on. If it still doesn't appear, forward it again and we'll take a look.
Yes. We load your school's term dates and INSET days when you set up, so the random Monday off in March doesn't ambush you in March.
Only with things that need your time or a decision from you. Routine items are marked free, and anyone can turn down the volume on what they receive.
Sometimes it genuinely is. We'll ask you — but only about the things that matter, batched into one question rather than pestering you all afternoon.