A calmer family calendar

The letter goes in.The week comes out.

Photograph the note from school. The dates put themselves in the right place, tagged to the right child, with what to bring attached to the day you need it.

Download on the App Store

Free for the whole family plan. No adverts.

What it does

A house runs on things nobody wrote down.

Mantel is where they finally live, roughly in the order they start to matter.

One week, everybody's

Everyone sees the same plan on their own phone. Change it once and it changes for all of you. No forwarding, no two versions of Thursday.

16:00Swimming
Leo · bring kit
17:30Parents evening
Mum

Letters read themselves

Photograph it, paste it, or say it out loud. Dates, places and what to bring are sorted into the right day and tagged to the right child. Nothing is added until you confirm it.

What to bring, on the day you need it

A list hangs off the event it belongs to. The swimming kit sits on Tuesday, not in a notes app you open on Wednesday.

Send one plan to anyone

Share a single event as a link. They open it in any browser, with no app and no account, and add it to whatever calendar they use. They can reply, and the replies come back to you.

Two sentences before eight

A short brief in the morning: what is on, what is due today, and the one thing likely to catch you out. Silent when there is nothing worth saying.

A corner that stays yours

My Space is the private half of the same app. Keep something to yourself, or let the family see only that you are busy. It cannot be shared out of Mantel at all - the app will not offer it, and the database refuses it.

By the numbers

Three numbers worth knowing.

No countdown, and no small print to go hunting for.

Free AI uses

25a month

Shared across the whole household rather than counted per person, and it resets on the first.

The family plan

£0and it stays that way

The shared week, lists, reminders, the daily brief and sharing. Not a trial.

A link you send

30days

How long a shared invitation stays alive after the event, unless you switch it off sooner.

Pricing

The family part is free.

Mantel+ adds the private side, the unlimited magic and every colour.

Mantel

Free

  • The shared week and month
  • Lists, reminders, the daily brief
  • Shareable invitations, with replies
  • Light and dark
  • 25 AI uses a month, shared by the household

✦ Mantel+

£2.99/month

Or £24 a year.

  • Everything in the free plan
  • Unlimited AI
  • All of My Space
  • Tonight's Table, dinner decided by the diary
  • The Week Read, on a Sunday
  • Every colour in the wardrobe

Mantel+ is billed through your Apple account and can be cancelled any time in the App Store. See the terms.

Questions

The things people ask.

Does everyone need the app?

Everyone in your household does, so the plan stays in step. Anyone you send a single invitation to does not - they open a link in the browser they already have.

What happens when the free AI runs out?

Nothing breaks. The whole family plan carries on; you add things yourself for the rest of that month. The allowance is shared by the household, not per person, and resets monthly.

Can my family see what is in My Space?

Only what you choose. Each thing is either yours alone, or shown as simply busy with no detail. It cannot be shared outside the app - enforced in the database, not only in the buttons.

Where do the photographs of letters go?

The text and images you send are passed to Google Gemini through our own server, which holds the key so your phone never does. They are not stored by us. The privacy notice sets out exactly what is sent.

What if I cancel Mantel+?

You keep your family, your plans and your lists. The paid extras switch off and nothing is deleted.

Can I delete my account?

Yes, from inside the app: Settings, then Delete account. How deletion works.

Which phones does it work on?

iPhone. Android is not available yet.