Shared calendar

No one has touched the kitchen calendar in months.

Liam has football practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 17:30 to 19:00, until 31 December. In EpiHem you set it up as a recurring event: once, and then it is there week after week.

  • Yoga Mondays 19:00
  • Liam football practice Tuesdays and Thursdays 17:30
  • Deep cleaning Saturdays 10:00
  • Ella swimming lessons Sundays 10:00

Four series in one household. Free in EpiHem, on phone and web.

The month view in EpiHem. Tap for the full view.
How we thought about it

Practices, school, work, the holiday, the birthdays. Usually one of you keeps track of it all. In EpiHem everyone can.

Below are the four parts: the views, what comes back, the reminders and the overview.

Football practice on Tuesdays, the parents' meeting, the swimming lessons, the work trip, the holiday weeks, grandma's birthday. Any one of them is easy to remember. All of them, for everyone in the household, is not. So it lands on you or your partner to carry the whole list around and remind the rest of the household.

We built the calendar as a shared thing. What concerns the household belongs in the household's calendar, not in the head of one of you.

So an event can carry a tag, sit with the person who has to be there, and speak up with a notification before it happens. And a lot of what fills a week comes back: the same practice, the same time, all term. That is why we spent the most time on recurring events: one event, one rule, one end date.

01 · The views

The household's whole week in one view.

This is week 25. Every day is a column of its own: yoga on Monday, Doctor John and the football practice on Tuesday, the parents' meeting on Wednesday. Under the events lie the meals you planned, and the receipts from the week's shopping on their own days: Bauhaus, REWE, Carrefour.

Everyone in the household sees the same week. Anyone who wants to look further ahead switches to the month, and anyone who only wants to know what is next takes the agenda. One calendar, three views, and nobody has to tell the others what is in it.

The week view. Every day is a column of its own, with events, meals and receipts in it.
The week

Seven day cards side by side. This is the view you plan in: who does what, and what is already standing there.

The month

The whole month as a grid, with dots on the days that carry something. Tap a day and its rows stand underneath.

The agenda

A list running forward, day by day. It answers what happens next.

02 · What comes back

Once, with the rule in plain words.

Liam has football practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays all term. It goes in once. Tap it and the rule stands there in words: Repeats every week on Tuesday, Thursday, until 2026-12-31. No checkboxes to interpret, no settings page to hunt through.

In the same place sit the tag Kids and the name of whoever has to be there: John. If the time moves, the app asks what you mean before anything changes: only this one, this one and every future one, or the whole series. The weeks already gone and the ones ahead are left alone unless you meant them.

How the household works
The event and its rule: Repeats every week on Tuesday, Thursday, until 2026-12-31.
Three answers to a question the app asks before it changes anything.
03 · Before it is time

It says so before it is time.

Put a reminder on an event and a notification reaches the phone before it starts. The practice sits at 17:30 on Tuesday, and the notification comes ahead of it.

In the calendar it shows on the event itself: a small bell after the title means a reminder is set. The midsummer celebration at grandma's has one. The lunch under it does not.

The bell after the title means a reminder is set. The lunch under it carries none.
04 · The overview

Open the app and the day is there.

The overview is the first thing you see. The date, the next event and how long there is until it: the midsummer celebration at grandma's starts in six hours. Beside it stand the lunch and the dinner you planned.

Under that lies the week as a strip. Liam football practice stands on Tuesday and on Thursday, exactly as it does in the calendar, and the receipts sit on their own days. You do not have to open the calendar to know what the week looks like.

How meal planning works
The overview as the app opens: the date, the next event and how long there is until it.

Also.

The kind of thing that keeps the calendar right without anyone keeping it up to date.

All-day entries

Midsummer's Day sits as a full day, with no time on it, at the top of its own day.

Assigned to the right person

An event can stand on one person in the household or several. The practice is John's, the yoga is Anna's.

Add it on the day

Every day card carries its own add row. You write the event in where the day stands.

Tags to filter on

Kids, Leisure, Household. Filter the week on a tag and you see one thing at a time instead of everything.

Receipts on their own day

A receipt from Tuesday sits on Tuesday. The Bauhaus receipt stands in the middle of the week, where the purchase actually happened.

Export to your usual calendar

Want to see EpiHem next to the work calendar? Export to Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar.

Common questions

Can we change a single occurrence without touching the rest?

Yes. When you change a recurring event the app asks what you mean: only this one, this one and every future one, or the whole series. Choose only this one and the rest of the series is untouched.

Can I see the EpiHem calendar in Google or Apple Calendar?

Yes. You can export the calendar to Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar and have everything in one view.

Do new events show up for everyone straight away?

Yes. What you add shows up for the whole household within the second, without anyone having to pass it on.

Can you put an end date on a series?

Yes. The football practice repeats until 31 December, and then the series ends by itself. Nobody has to remember to clear it away.

Does it work as a family calendar?

Yes. For a family it becomes a shared family calendar with reminders, assigned events and export to your usual calendar. The same calendar works just as well for couples and shared homes, and it is included free.

Anything else?

Write to support@epihem.com, we answer ourselves.

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