The whole week, on the kitchen wall.

Mantel arrives as a working family dashboard. Scan the code on the back, connect your calendars, and everyone’s day is on one screen. It is still a photo frame when nobody is looking at it.

$149, frame included. Five minutes to set up.

The Mantel frame, a dark photo frame with a white mount, showing the family dashboard: 3:20 pm on Thursday 8 October, 15 degrees and overcast with rain from 4, the piano lesson next up in 25 minutes, each family member’s day, chores progress, the shopping list and the state of the house.

Plug it in, scan the code, done.

  1. 01

    Plug it in

    It arrives with the software already on it. There is nothing to flash, sideload or update on day one.

  2. 02

    Scan the code on the back

    Setup happens on your phone, not by tapping letters out on a screen with a remote.

  3. 03

    Connect a calendar

    Google, Outlook or iCloud. Whoever is in the household connects theirs and gets their own colour.

The frame does not need an account of its own, and nobody has to learn an interface.

Three rooms, three layouts.

Kitchen

The full dashboard: everyone’s day side by side, next up, weather, chores, shopping. The one in the photograph.

Hallway

Built for leaving the house: next up in very large type, a leave-by time, today’s weather, what each person needs to take, and nothing else.

Bedside

Dims to a clock after dark, with tomorrow’s first event in small type beneath and the slideshow off until morning.

You choose which widgets go where. The frame in the hallway does not need to know about the shopping.

Forward the school email. Get the actual week.

Harlow Vale Primary
Fwd: Harlow Vale News – Autumn wk 6 (pls read!!)
07:52

Dear Parents/Carers, what a busy half term it has been!! A huge thank you to everyone who came to Harvest Assembly, the hall looked wonderful.

REMINDER Non-uniform day is FRIDAY 16th Oct, children may come in something red (donations to the school fund appreciated).

Year 4 – aquarium trip Thurs 22nd Oct, please drop off by 8.30am at the front gate. Trip money $12 due by Mon 20th via ParentPay or in an envelope.

PTA bake sale coming soon, cakes welcome! Lost property is overflowing again…

It assigns things to the right person and it asks when it is not sure. Everything it creates is editable, and nothing is sent to anyone.

  • Sat 10 Oct10:00Home v Ashby Rangers · Millfield Rec
  • Sat 17 Oct09:30Away v Coltsfoot Juniors · Coltsfoot Park
  • Sat 24 Oct10:00Home v Brindle Town · Millfield Rec
  • Sat 7 Nov11:00Away v Fernhill Youth · Fernhill Lane
  • Sat 14 Nov10:00Home v Oakmoor Colts · Millfield Rec
  • Sat 21 Nov09:30Away v Kestrel Vale · Kestrel Vale School

When nobody is standing in front of it.

Motion sensing flips it. Walk up and the dashboard is there. Walk away and it goes back to your photos after a minute. You can turn that off, pin it to the dashboard permanently, or set hours.

What arrives.

The frame
Pre-flashed, with its stand and wall mount.
A power cable
Long enough for a kitchen shelf.
A setup card
With the code you scan.
The software
Which updates itself.

If you already own a compatible frame, there is a software-only option and the setup is the same.

$149 for the frame. Then nothing.

The frame and the software, once. Calendars, widgets, layouts and photos are included and stay included. The email and fixtures parsing runs on a monthly plan at $4, because it costs us money every time it runs, and the dashboard works perfectly well without it.

Event · Skidmark
Year 4 trip to the aquarium, Thursday 22 October, 08:30 drop-off

From a school email nobody read to the end.

Put it on the kitchen wall.

One frame, one scan, and the week stops living in your head.