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Photograph the invitation.
Lightkeep reads the useful details. You review the title, date, time, and place before anything is added to your calendar.
Basic includes five scans each month. Pro includes more.
Wall calendar + companion app
The family calendar you already own.
Lightkeep turns a compatible iPad into a beautiful wall calendar. Use your iPhone to scan invitations, manage the details, and keep the household’s week in view.
How Lightkeep works
A phone handles the details.
An iPad shares them with the household.
Lightkeep gives each screen one clear job. Your family’s calendar remains the source of truth; Lightkeep makes it easier to add events and notes and streamlines planning.
- 1
iPhone
Connect calendars, manage events, and scan the paper invitations that pile up.
- 2
Your calendars
Events sync through Apple’s calendar and iCloud services—not a separate Lightkeep calendar.
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Wall iPad
Day, Week, and Month views keep the household plan readable at a glance.
Invitations + reminders
Less remembering.
More noticing.
Lightkeep handles the small handoffs that make a family calendar useful: getting events and invitations onto the calendar, then keeping the details visible when they matter.
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“Did You Forget?”
Items attached to today’s events and recurring weekday reminders appear above the calendar during the morning window.
“Did You Forget?” is a Pro feature.
Six identities, one familiar calendar
The wall should feel like your wall.
Each identity changes its typeface, geometry, and color scheme, but not the familiar calendar structure.
Lightkeep Basic + Lightkeep Pro
Start with a useful calendar. Add Pro when you’re ready for more.
Lightkeep is free to download. Basic covers the everyday calendar and five invitation scans each month; Pro adds more scans, five expressive identities, and proactive household tools.
Lightkeep
Free Basic
A real household calendar, not a limited preview.
- The calm Basic identity
- Day, Week, and Month calendar views
- Calendar connection and everyday event management
- One household; connect one compatible iPad you own as its wall display
- Five invitation scans each month
Calendar data remains yours whether or not you subscribe.
One-month introductory trial
Lightkeep
$39.99/year Pro
The complete, beautiful, proactive Lightkeep.
- Everything in Basic
- Berlin, Brooklyn, Boston, Barcelona, and Baja identities
- More invitation scans
- Countdowns and recurring reminders
- Active wall notes and “Did You Forget?”
Or $4.99 monthly. Eligible new annual subscribers can try Pro free for one month.
What to know
Privacy and compatibility.
Your family calendar is not our database.
Events and household data live on your devices and in your iCloud. Lightkeep does not sell personal data or use it for advertising.
Read the privacy policyUse a compatible iPad.
Lightkeep requires iOS or iPadOS 18 or later. The wall-display iPad can be one you already own, as long as it supports that version.
How shared calendars work
The iPhone and iPad can use the same Apple ID. If they use different Apple IDs, share the calendar through iCloud first. Lightkeep’s pairing carries display preferences, not calendar events.
Invitation scanning.
When you scan an invitation, the selected photo is securely processed to read its event details. Lightkeep doesn’t keep the image, and you review the details before anything reaches your calendar.
Why this exists
Built from inside a real household.
“I kept seeing families being asked to buy another expensive screen and pay for a subscription covering features they didn’t need. I wanted Lightkeep to be able to use the iPad they already had—and be useful without paying anything at all.”
“I use Lightkeep myself to keep my family and 2 kids organized. Our experience and feedback from users is what helps us know what features to add next”
— Jeff Surette, founder of LightkeepComing soon
Keep a little room on the wall.
Lightkeep is in its final device-testing stretch. Join the waitlist and we’ll let you know when it’s ready.
You’re on the list. We’ll email you when Lightkeep launches.