The McMullans

A private app for one family. Most household admin lives in six places at once - a shared note, a calendar, a pile of letters, a photo of a bill, a text asking who's collecting the kids. This puts it in one. WHO HAS THE CHILDREN The first line on the home screen says who has each child and until when. Pick-ups are kept separate, because “who has her this afternoon” and “who is at the gate at quarter past three” are different questions. A pick-up with nobody's name on it sits in red until somebody taps “I'll go”. A HOME SCREEN THAT ONLY SPEAKS UP It answers five questions in the order a household asks them, and anything with nothing to say shows nothing at all. No empty cards, no badges for the sake of it. NOTES BETWEEN THE TWO OF YOU Leave a short note for whoever is on next. It expires on its own, and the person who wrote it can see whether it has been read. NOTIFICATIONS THAT MEAN SOMETHING Your phone tells you when something is needed from the shop, when a note is left for you, and when a pick-up is coming up with nobody on it. Nothing between ten at night and seven in the morning, and never about something you did yourself. ONE PLACE TO PUT THINGS Type one line and it files itself. “Milk” goes on the shopping list. “Dentist Tuesday 3pm” goes in the diary. “Ring the plumber” becomes a job. It shows you where it is going before it saves, and you can change it. EVERYTHING A BABYSITTER NEEDS Each child has a card: allergies in red at the top, the doctor and the nursery with tappable numbers, regular medicine, routines and sizes. Plus a medicine and temperature log, so the last dose is never a guess. CHECKLISTS THAT DON'T PILE UP Nursery bag, overnight stay, swimming, leaving for work. Each run is a fresh copy that gets ticked off and thrown away, so nothing accumulates. BILLS, READ OFF A SCREENSHOT Screen-grab a bill and the phone reads it - amount, due date, who it is from - using Apple's own text recognition. Nothing is uploaded. It shows you what it found so you can correct it before anything is saved. HEALTH AND TRAINING Steps, active calories and last night's sleep, read live from Apple Health. Food logged by typing it or photographing it. Plus a proper strength log: write your own sessions, log every set, and be told what to aim for next based on what you actually did last time. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your household's records are visible to your household and nobody else. Health data belongs to the person it came from - nobody else sees it unless you choose to share it. No advertising, no tracking, nothing sold.