Beeside guides
Guides.
How families organise groceries, events, meals, chores and subscriptions together, topic by topic, and how Beeside helps.
Topics.
12 guides
- Family organizer app: one app for everything your family keeps in mindWhat makes a good family organizer app: groceries, calendar, meals, chores and subscriptions in one place, on iPhone, Android and the web, one plan for all.
- Shared family calendar: one calendar where everyone sees their own eventsA family calendar that shows who an event is for, reminds only those people and keeps private events private. With a feed for Apple, Google and Outlook.
- Shared grocery list: sorted the way you walk through the storeOne shared grocery list per store, sorted by aisle in the order you walk. Everyone sees ticked items right away, and items go in with quick add.
- Chore chart for kids: with stars, rewards and allowanceA digital chore chart kids tick off themselves: collect stars, redeem rewards, allowance per star or per chore. Even without a phone of their own.
- Family meal planner: plan the week, ingredients on the listPlan the week's meals, import recipes from a link and send the ingredients to your grocery list in one tap, scaled to your servings and added up.
- Family holiday packing list: from templates, per person, with shoppingFamily holiday packing lists from templates, split into adults, kids and shared items. Anything missing goes straight onto the grocery list.
- Never forget a birthday: reminders and gift ideas in one placeAdd birthdays once, get reminded in time, for example 14 and 3 days before, and collect gift ideas per person: idea, bought, given.
- Track subscriptions and notice periods: no more unwanted renewalsStreaming, phone, insurance, travel passes: Beeside adds up what goes out monthly and yearly and reminds the person who pays before the notice period.
- Share passwords and Wi-Fi with your family, end-to-end encryptedYour family's Wi-Fi, codes and accounts in the Beeside vault: end-to-end encrypted, readable only on devices you've approved.
- Snap a school letter: turn it into events and to-dosSnap a school letter, invitation or timetable: Beeside turns it into drafts for events, to-dos and groceries. Only what you accept is saved.
- A private family app: database in Zurich, no ads, no third-party trackersWhat to look for in a family app's privacy, and how Beeside handles it: database in Zurich, no ads, no third-party analytics services.
- Family apps compared: what really mattersNine criteria for choosing a family app: price per family, devices, kids, offline, privacy, features. With an honest answer on where Beeside stands.
Coming soon to Beeside.
We're working on these right now. We won't name a date until a feature is finished and tested.
- SoonSchool holidays and public holidays in your family calendarComing soon to Beeside: school holidays and public holidays for all 26 Swiss cantons, Germany and Austria, right in your family calendar, offline too.
- SoonSubscribe to school and club calendars, private or sharedComing soon to Beeside: subscribe to school, club and timetable calendars by link, choose per event whether it's private or shared, and attach files to events.
- SoonA family wish list: collect wishes, keep the surpriseComing soon to Beeside: a wish list for each person that the others see when planning presents. What gets bought stays hidden, so the surprise survives.
- SoonShare your location with family, only when you want toComing soon to Beeside: share your location with your family, once or for a time you choose, only when you want to and with no history.
Beeside for your family
Beeside is coming to the App Store and Google Play soon. Join the waitlist and we'll write when it launches.