Open HouseloopA shared family calendar that knows who is free
Houseloop is the follow-through layer on top of your shared family calendar. Instead of replacing Google or Apple Calendar, it connects the calendars you already use through a read-only feed, so it can see who is free and suggest who should handle a task. Dated tasks land in a planner, and each one is assigned to a person so the reminder reaches that assignee, not you.
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Connect the calendar you already use
Houseloop does not ask you to move off Google or Apple Calendar. It connects them through a read-only feed and reads what is already there, so your existing events, work meetings, and school dates stay in one calendar while Houseloop handles the household tasks around them.
It can see who is free
Because it reads your connected calendars, Houseloop knows when each parent is booked and when they are open. When there is a task to hand off, it suggests the person who is actually free to do it instead of guessing or defaulting to whoever noticed it first.
Dated tasks land in a planner
Give a task a date and Houseloop schedules it in a planner alongside the day it belongs to. The dentist call, the permission slip, the pickup swap: each has a day and an owner, so the schedule holds the errands and follow-ups, not just the calendar events.
Assign it and the reminder follows
Every scheduled task has an assignee, and its reminders go to that person on their own phone, not back to you. A shared calendar that only nags you is not shared. Houseloop routes the follow-up to whoever owns the job.
Does Houseloop replace my family calendar?
No, and that is on purpose. Houseloop is not a replacement calendar app. Your family probably already lives in Google or Apple Calendar, and moving everyone to a new calendar is exactly the kind of switch that never fully happens. Instead, Houseloop connects the calendar you already use through a read-only ICS feed. It reads your events but does not change them, so nothing about how you keep your schedule has to move.
What Houseloop adds is the layer a plain calendar is missing: who is free, who owns each task, and whether the follow-up actually happened. A calendar shows the 3pm appointment. Houseloop is what makes sure the errand around it gets assigned, scheduled, and reminded to the right person.
How does it use who is free to hand off tasks?
When Houseloop reads your connected calendars, it can see when each parent is booked and when they have an opening. So when a task needs a home, it does not just add it to a shared list and hope someone picks it up. It can suggest the person who is actually free at that time, which takes the negotiation out of every handoff.
That is the difference between a shared calendar and shared follow-through. Seeing the same schedule does not split the work; someone still has to decide who does what and then remember to chase it. Houseloop uses the free/busy picture to make the suggestion, assigns the task to a person, and sends that person the reminder, so the schedule turns into an actual division of labor.
What else does Houseloop run besides the schedule?
The same app is a full family planner and baby tracker. Capture a messy paragraph with the AI Brain Dump and it splits into clean, assignable tasks. Recurring chores rotate between people on their own, a shared notice board holds the heads-ups everyone needs to see, and invited guests get read-only access so a grandparent or sitter can see the whole picture without editing it.
For new-baby households, Houseloop also logs feeds, diapers, and sleep in real time and notifies the other parent on their phone, with Baby Duty routing the next feed reminder to the on-duty parent. Keeping the calendar, the household tasks, and the nursery in one place is what stops things from getting dropped between separate apps.
Questions
Is Houseloop a replacement for Google or Apple Calendar?
No. Houseloop does not replace your calendar app. It connects the calendar you already use through a read-only feed, reads your events without changing them, and adds a follow-through layer on top: seeing who is free, assigning tasks to people, and scheduling dated tasks in a planner.
How does Houseloop know who is free?
Houseloop connects your existing family calendars through a read-only feed, so it can read when each person is booked and when they are open. It uses that free/busy picture to suggest who should handle a task, then assigns it to that person and sends them the reminder.
Can I schedule tasks on specific days?
Yes. When you give a task a date, Houseloop schedules it in a planner on the day it belongs to, alongside the events it reads from your connected calendar. Each dated task has an owner, so the reminder reaches that assignee instead of landing back on you.
Does connecting my calendar change my existing events?
No. Houseloop connects your calendar through a read-only feed, which means it can see your events but cannot edit, move, or delete them. Your calendar keeps working exactly as it does now, and Houseloop just layers task ownership and scheduling on top.
Is Houseloop free, and does it include a baby tracker?
Houseloop is free to start. Free features include task and chore management plus real-time baby logging with partner notifications. A Plus tier (7-day trial) adds sleep tracking, growth, milestones, the Daycare Sheet, and the AI Brain Dump.
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