A wall-mounted family hub for the calendar, chores, lists, photos, and meals your household already runs on. Synced through Google. Calm by design. Free forever.
A mantel is the shelf above the fireplace — the place a family keeps photos, candles, and the things that matter. The product takes that as its premise. Not a productivity tool. Not a smart-home controller. A warm, shared surface in the home.
It belongs next to family photos, not next to a thermostat. Nothing on screen is cold or clinical.
Information at a glance — never demands. The brand should lower a heart rate, not raise it.
Reliable like a clock on the wall. Always on, always accurate, always there.
Nine surfaces, one app. Each one synced bidirectionally with the Google service the family already uses.
Day, week, and month views with family color-coding. Two-way sync with every Google Calendar in the household.
Per-member boards, due dates, repeat metadata. Anyone can swipe to mark done.
Grocery and to-do lists everyone in the family can edit live from any device.
Pick a Google Photos album. Idle triggers a slow crossfade slideshow with the clock overlay.
A folder of Google Docs becomes a searchable cookbook. One Doc per recipe — own your data.
Weekly grid backed by a Google Sheet. Drag a recipe onto a slot; the wall shows tonight's dinner.
Earn / spend / save / give buckets per child, with savings goals and clear transaction history.
Track minutes read or plants watered. Spreadsheet-backed — extend with any new tab.
A morning summary: weather, today's events, chores, and family birthdays — surfaced once.
Mantel is the same PWA on both. Glanceable from across the room at six feet, tappable from your pocket. Add a grocery item from the car, see it appear on the kitchen wall by the time you're home.
Sidebar + main, 84px clock, no header chrome. Designed to be read from 6–8 feet away.
Bottom tab bar, FAB quick-add. Same data, same Google account, scales to a 390px screen.
A CSS filter quietly dims the display after sunset so the screen never glares in a dim room.
Mantel is a thin, pretty layer over services your family already pays Google nothing extra for. No proprietary database. No vendor lock-in. Cancel Mantel and your data is still right there in Google.
Edits on the wall flow back; edits in native Google apps flow forward.
IndexedDB keeps the last sync. Pending writes queue and replay.
Static site on GitHub Pages. Nothing to host. Nothing to expire.
Cancel anytime. Native Google Calendar / Tasks still work the same.
No subscription, no account, no upsell. Self-host on GitHub Pages and that's the bill.
Bring your own screen. Sign in with Google. Hang it on the wall. Forget about it. Glance at it forever.