# Fam Pad — Family calendar, chores, lists

> Family calendar, chores, lists (iPhone/iPad app by Martin Griffin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fam-pad/id6817396188 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Martin Griffin](https://appshunter.io/developer/6808288523)
- Category: Productivity, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 10 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-14
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is Fam Pad?

Turn the tablet you already own into your family's wall calendar.
Kids follow morning routines with big picture tiles and earn stars for rewards you choose.
Free to use. No hardware to buy, no subscription, no ads.

ON THE WALL
• The whole family's week at a glance, always on
• Right Now: during the morning, afternoon or evening routine, each kid gets a card with big picture tiles and a ring that fills as they tap. Kids who can't read yet can follow it.
• Kids tick off their own chores and earn stars
• Stars add up to rewards you set. Kids ask on the wall, you approve on your phone.
• Shared grocery and to-do lists that update live
• A weekly meal plan next to the calendar
• Ride badges show who's driving whom
• A photo frame when the day is quiet, dimmed at night

FROM YOUR iPHONE
• Add events, chores, rewards and list items from anywhere
• Magic Import: paste a school email, snap a flyer, upload a PDF or forward an email, and FamPad suggests the events, chores and list items to add. Nothing is added until you approve it.
• Rides: mark an event as needing a ride and pick who's driving
• Approve reward requests and see who finished what
• Google Calendar syncs both ways: an event added on the wall goes into that person's Google Calendar
• iCloud and school or sports calendars can be shown too, view-only
• Invite your partner so you both stay in the loop
• Pair a wall tablet or Apple TV in a minute with a one-time code

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your household's data, including photos, is visible only to your household. No ads and no tracking; crash reports are used only to fix bugs. Magic Import reads what you send it on our own servers, not through an outside AI service. Download a copy of your data or delete your account at any time from Settings.

Also on Apple TV: your family's calendar and photos on the big screen.

Questions or ideas: hello@fampadapp.com

## Is Fam Pad safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Fam Pad.

## Is Fam Pad legit?

Fam Pad has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Fam Pad is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.4 — 2026-11-04

• Setup: set an optional PIN for your wall display and invite a second parent by email right from the setup guide.
• Wall display PIN: if no PIN has been set, the display now says so instead of calling it the wrong PIN. A wrong PIN no longer makes the iPad forget it is paired.
• Notifications: a new "All done for today" alert tells you when a child finishes everything for the day, and tapping it opens your calendar. The setting is now called Chores.
• Morning briefing: an optional 7am notification with how many events and chores today holds. Turn it on in Settings.
• Streaks: one missed day a week no longer breaks a streak.
• Kids see what they earned today when they finish everything.
• Works on iOS 18 and later.
• FamPad asks you to reconnect Google Calendar if access was removed.
• Smoother scrolling in the month view, and fixes for events and rides around daylight saving changes.

### 1.1.2 — 2026-10-29

• Magic Import: paste a school email, snap a photo of a flyer or pick a PDF, and FamPad suggests the events and chores in it. Check them over and add them in one tap.
• Forward emails to your household's own import address and the suggestions are waiting in the app.
• Rides: mark an event as needing a ride and choose who drives. Ride badges show on the calendar, iPad and Apple TV.
• FamPad warns you when a ride has no driver, the driver is busy, or a child is booked twice, with a reminder the evening before.
• Lists: paste a whole shopping or to-do list with Add several. Bullets and checkboxes are tidied away.
• Magic Import reads repeat days from a chore chart, so a weekly chart comes in as repeating chores you check before adding.
• If Google disconnects your calendar, FamPad now tells you and lets you reconnect in one tap. You'll also get a notification if an import can't be read.
• Plus layout fixes on the iPad Dayboard, iPhone Day view and the Apple TV photo screen.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-23

• FamPad on Apple TV: show your family calendar and photos on the TV. Pair it from your phone, just like an iPad.
• Change a wall display's settings from your phone: photos, clock, quiet hours and more.
• Display settings are now grouped into General, Photos, Photo screen and Night.
• Night dimming: choose when the photo screen dims, or turn it off.
• Photo screen: an optional card behind the clock, cards from 20% to fully solid, and a choice of background around whole photos.
• Calendar: sync private iCloud calendars, an all-day row in Week view, and the iPhone Day view opens at the current time.
• Plus many smaller fixes and polish.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-17

• New: household photos. Add photos from the web and your wall iPad shows them behind the idle screen and on a new Photos tab.
• Fixed Google Calendar all-day events showing a day early.
• Creating and editing all-day events now saves the right dates in every time zone.
• The weekday buttons in the new task form are now fully tappable.
• Smaller reliability and polish fixes.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-10-14

No release notes.

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