For parents

Two schedules, three drop-offs and one grandparent trying to help

When one parent works a changing schedule, childcare becomes a weekly negotiation. When both do, it becomes a puzzle solved by text message every Sunday. The grandparents who would happily help cannot, because they have no idea which days are the problem.

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The schedules this actually has to cope with

Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.

Two changing schedules

Each one knowable, and the overlap between them knowable by nobody without doing the work.

The handover day

One finishes as the other starts, and the twenty minutes between them decide the whole day.

Grandparent cover

Willing, available, and unable to offer usefully without knowing which days are short.

School and nursery hours

Fixed and unforgiving, and the constraint everything else has to fit around.

What it sounds like at home

“Every Sunday we work out the week by text and get it wrong twice.”
“My mum wants to help but does not know which days to offer.”
“We both booked something on the same evening.”
“The nursery pick-up gets forgotten precisely when both of us are working late.”
“Nobody has the whole picture in one place.”

Where Freeish fits

Both parents’ schedules in one view, so the gaps are visible instead of discovered.

Grandparents follow along and offer the days that actually need covering.

A picked-up shift shows immediately, so the other parent sees the problem before it happens.

What each of you is doing stays private; when you are free is what gets shared.

One week, start to finish

The Harts

She works three 12s; he works four tens on a rotating pattern.
Both put their weeks in and follow each other.
The Thursday neither of them can collect is visible on Monday rather than Thursday.
His mother follows them both and offers Thursdays without being asked.
The Sunday-night planning session stops happening.

Questions parents ask

Do we both need it?

For the overlap to work, yes — each person keeps their own schedule and follows the other. That is also what keeps each of you in control of what you share.

Can grandparents follow without an account?

They can subscribe to a calendar link that puts your schedule into whatever calendar they already use.

Can I keep some things to myself?

Yes. Every event is public or private, and private means nobody else sees it — not even that it exists.

Stop being the schedule. Start sharing it.

Now on iPhone — Android coming soon. Free to start. Import a photo of your next schedule and see who stops asking.