What's for dinner? Whose turn is the bins? How much have we spent this month?
Family Matters keeps the week's menu, the shopping list, chores, the kids' activities and the household accounts. Everyone in the family logs in with their own account.
Free. In English, Spanish and Catalan.
What it does
The week's menu in five minutes
Pick dishes for each day and meal, or let the generator fill the week with the dishes you cook. Fixed dishes, like Friday pizza, stay where they are. You can also copy the menu from a previous week.
The shopping list comes from the menu
The ingredients of the week's dishes are grouped by category. Anyone at home can tick off what they bought. You can add items by hand, print it, download it as Excel or copy it as text to send in a message.
Household money without a spreadsheet
Fixed, one-off and recurring expenses, each member's income and a budget per category. Every month you see what is left, which payments are coming and which categories are close to their limit. Exports to Excel.
Ask Claude or ChatGPT
Connect Family Matters to Claude or ChatGPT and ask things like "plan this week's dinners" or "add the dentist on Thursday". It uses your permissions, and every change is logged as made on your behalf.
Also
Dishes and recipes
With photo, time, difficulty and ingredients. Each member marks the dishes they like.
Chores
Assign them to someone, with a date or repeating every week. Whoever does it ticks it off.
Activities
Each member's weekly schedule of after-school classes and training.
Roles and permissions
Parents decide what teens and children can see and edit in each section.
Friend families
Connect with another family using their code and share dishes. Whatever you accept is copied into your recipes.
Three languages
Each member uses the app in English, Spanish or Catalan.
Getting started
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1
Create the account
Sign up and give your family a name.
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Invite your family
Send each member an email invitation with their role. You can create the account yourself for young children.
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Start with the menu
Add a few dishes you cook often and plan the first week. The shopping list fills itself in.
Frequently asked questions
What is Family Matters?
A web app to run the household as a family: the week's menu, the shopping list, chores, each member's activities and the household accounts. Each person in the family logs in with their own account.
How much does it cost?
It is free.
How do I start?
Create an account with your name, an email and the family name. Then invite the rest of the family and add a few dishes you often cook: with that you can plan the first week, and the shopping list builds itself.
How does the rest of the family join?
From the panel, you send an email invitation to each person and choose their role: parent, teen or child. The invitation link expires after 7 days. If someone has no email of their own or cannot open the invitation, you can create their account directly.
I created a new family by mistake. How do I join my family?
Ask someone in your family to invite you from the app with the same email you registered with. Open the invitation link, log in and accept it. If you were the only member of the family you created by mistake, that family is deleted.
What can children see and do?
Parents decide. For each area (tasks, activities, recipes, finances, members) teens and children can be allowed to view, edit or delete. By default, children do not see finances.
Try it with this week's menu
Creating the account is free and asks for your name, an email address and your family name.
Create a free account