A product of Longtable Labs
Cadent Family
One calendar for the whole family, chores that earn rewards, shopping lists everyone adds to — and a paper schedule becomes events with one photo. The app proposes; you decide.
Cadent Family membership $1.99/month on Google Play. 10 schedule imports a month for the whole family, with unused imports rolling over up to 20. Android today on Google Play; other platforms later.
What it does — and only what it does
Every point below is built, shipped and working in the app on Google Play today.
Photograph a paper schedule
A school newsletter, a sports card, a party invite. It reads the dates, times and repeats, and shows you what it found before anything is added.
Nothing added without you
Every event it suggests is reviewed first. You keep the ones you want, drop the rest, and only then is it on everyone’s phone.
Private when it needs to be
Mark an event for everyone, just you, or a chosen few. Parents see their children’s days; grown-ups keep their own appointments to themselves.
Share with the people around your family
Give a grandparent, a co-parent in another home or a coach your contact link. Each of you keeps your own calendar and shares only the events you choose.
Chores that earn rewards
Chores earn points, with streaks and a weekly leaderboard. A parent sets the rewards, kids ask to spend their points, and a parent approves the treat. Earned stays earned.
A kitchen tablet the kids can use
Kid mode locks a shared tablet to one child’s view behind a PIN that stays on that device. They tick their chores and see their day; the rest of the family’s settings stay out of reach.
Grows up with your kids
Children don’t need accounts; a parent sets everything up. When a child is old enough for their own phone, they claim their place in the family and keep every point and streak they earned.
Everyone stays in step
Add or change something and it appears on everyone’s phone as it happens. Open the app after a day away and it catches up on its own.
More than a calendar
Shopping lists everyone adds to, reminders and alarms with quiet hours, the school or team calendar followed by link, and themes, fonts and avatars to make it yours. In 13 languages.
A look inside
Real screens from Cadent Family 1.0.9 on a tablet, using an invented sample family in the Citrus theme. No mock-ups.
How the photo feature works
Photograph a school newsletter, a sports card or a party invite, or choose a picture you already took. The app reads the page into suggested events with dates, times and places filled in. Nothing reaches your calendar until you tick the ones you want.
Take a photo
However the schedule arrived — a newsletter, a season card, the sheet on the fridge.
It reads the dates
Dates, times, places and repeats, shown to you as a plain list of what it found.
You approve
Keep the events you want, drop the rest, and they are on everyone’s phone.
The photo is read by Anthropic’s API and is not used to train their models; if you never use the photo feature, no images are sent. Details in the privacy policy. Watch it happen in the short demos on the home page.
Private by design
Your calendar is visible only to your family and to the people you share an event with, and that is enforced in the app and again in the database. No ads. We do not sell your data or share it for advertising. A parent sets up the family; children do not need accounts of their own.
Get Cadent Family
Cadent Family membership $1.99/month on Google Play. One membership covers everyone in the family and includes 10 schedule imports a month; unused imports roll over up to 20. Cancel any time in Google Play.
Android today on Google Play; other platforms later. Questions? Email support@longtablelabs.com.