# Skylight Calendar review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Family touchscreen calendar with chore charts and optional Plus plan Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Skylight Calendar is a touchscreen display that shows a family's synced calendars, chores, routines and lists. It is sold as hardware, with a free mobile app and an optional yearly Calendar Plus subscription that adds meal planning, a photo screensaver, rewards and email import. - **Category:** Calendar & Scheduling - **Made by:** Skylight - **Website:** https://myskylight.com - **Runs on:** iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you add it up: $299.99 for the device, $79 a year for Plus. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Skylight Calendar has a free plan, and paid plans start at $299.99 one-time for Calendar 2; optional Calendar Plus $79 per year. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** The device's basic features work without a subscription: calendar sync, color coding, task manager, custom lists and day, week and month views. - **Free trial:** First month of Calendar Plus free with a Calendar purchase; 4-month free returns on hardware. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Calendar 2 (15 inch) | $299.99 one-time | Hardware with swappable Snap Frames and a tabletop stand or wall mount; basic features need no subscription. | | Calendar Plus | $79 per year, after a first free month for new subscribers | Adds meal planning, photo and video screensaver, rewards, Magic Import with Sidekick and Disney Mode. | Read from https://myskylight.com/products/skylight-calendar on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Skylight Calendar before buying. ## Key features - **Synced family calendar:** Pulls in Google, Outlook, Apple, Cozi and Yahoo calendars, with a color for each family member and day, week, month and schedule views. - **Tasks manager:** Interactive checklists for kids' routines and chores, included without a subscription. - **Custom lists:** Task, to-do and grocery lists usable on the device or in the free mobile app. - **Magic Import:** Forward school emails or PDFs, or upload photos of flyers, and they are converted into calendar events (Plus). - **Meal planning and rewards:** Plan meals and add star-based rewards to chores; both are part of Calendar Plus. ## Good for - Families who want a shared wall or countertop calendar - Parents who want kids to check off their own chores - Households that already use Google, Outlook or Apple calendars ## Worth knowing - The hardware costs $299.99 for Calendar 2; there is no software-only version. - Meal planning, photo screensaver, rewards and Magic Import need Calendar Plus at $79 a year. - The page says individual Calendar Plus subscriptions are excluded from promotions and discounts. - Skylight also sells a 27-inch Calendar Max, a Care calendar, a photo Frame and a Buddy routine device, which this entry does not price. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Skylight Calendar is a 15-inch family calendar screen at $299.99, with basic features that work without a subscription. Meal planning, rewards, the photo screensaver and Magic Import need Calendar Plus at $79 a year, and there is no software-only version. - **Value for money: D.** $299.99 one-time, against a calendar-tool one-time middle of $5.99, though it includes the screen. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial; the first Calendar Plus month is free and hardware returns are accepted for 4 months. - **Features: C.** Synced calendar, tasks, lists and views. Meal planning, rewards and Magic Import need Calendar Plus. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You mount it and link family accounts. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** One device with phone apps, linking Google, Outlook, Apple, Cozi and Yahoo calendars. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Skylight's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among calendar and scheduling apps - Skylight Calendar's GPA of 1.4 is higher than 0 of the 114 other calendar and scheduling apps we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (C, above 11 of 114) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/calendar ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Skylight Calendar you could make: calendar, tasks and habit tracking. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 113 of the 114 other calendar and scheduling apps grade higher. It costs $299.99, paid once. - You could make: Calendar, tasks and habit tracking: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, Cozi, Yahoo Calendar **Tags:** Calendar, Tasks, Habit tracking, AI features ## Alternatives - [Hearth Display](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hearth-display): Wall-mounted family touchscreen for calendars, routines and meals. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hearth-display-vs-skylight-calendar) - [DAKboard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dakboard): Wall display for calendars, photos and weather on any screen. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dakboard-vs-skylight-calendar) - [Cozi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cozi): Shared family calendar with shopping lists, to-dos and recipes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cozi-vs-skylight-calendar) - [FamilyWall](https://toolgpa.com/tools/familywall): Family organizer with a shared calendar, lists and messaging. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/familywall-vs-skylight-calendar) - [TimeTree](https://toolgpa.com/tools/timetree): Shared calendar app for families, couples and groups. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/skylight-calendar-vs-timetree) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://myskylight.com/products/skylight-calendar - https://myskylight.com/products/calendar-skylight-plus - https://myskylight.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/skylight-calendar Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).