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Photo the fridge. Pally builds the whole term into your calendar and texts you each morning with what to bring.

Swim on Tuesdays, soccer photos on the 14th, pyjama day, the half-day nobody mentioned. Send pally a photo of the fridge and it builds the term into your calendar, then sends one morning text with today's version and what goes in the bag.

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The routine

How it works

Photograph whatever you actually have: the flyers on the fridge, a printed term schedule, a whiteboard, or a screenshot of the class app. Pally reads the photos, including handwriting, and pulls out dates, times, locations, and the small print about what each child needs to bring.

Where something is ambiguous it asks rather than guessing. Which child the practice belongs to, whether a session repeats every week, what time a half-day actually ends. Then it builds the events on the calendar you name, recurring ones included, right through to the end of term.

Every morning at the time you choose, one text lands with today's version: who is where, pickup times, and what to pack. On a day with nothing on, it stays quiet, so the message arriving is itself information rather than a routine you learn to ignore.

Term plans change constantly, so keeping it current is part of the job. Send the new flyer and pally updates the events, removes a cancelled practice, and keeps separate nudges for the things with deadlines, like a form to sign or an activity payment due.

A useful fit

Good for

  • A term of flyers turned into a calendar in one photo
  • Recurring practices that never make it onto the calendar
  • Remembering the white socks on photo day
  • Form deadlines and activity payments
  • One morning text instead of three different apps

Text it naturally

Things to try

here's the fridge, put it all in the calendar
text me every morning with today's schedule and what to bring
swim moved to thursdays from next week
what's on this saturday?

Before you start

Common questions

Can pally read handwriting?+

It reads photos of printed and handwritten schedules, including the scribbled changes on a flyer. When something is genuinely unclear it asks you instead of inventing a time that puts you at the pool an hour early.

Which calendar do the events go on?+

The connected calendar you name. Most people point it at the shared family calendar so a partner sees the same events without anyone having to forward a screenshot of the flyer.

What happens when something changes?+

Tell pally in the thread or send the new flyer. It updates the events and any future reminders, so the morning text reflects the change rather than the version stuck to the fridge in September.

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Last updated September 19, 2026.

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