This smart screen wants to be your family's command center, not just a calendar

The problem it solves

If you live with other people — a family, roommates, whoever — chances are everyone uses a different calendar app: one person is on Google, another on Apple's iCloud, someone else on Outlook. Getting everyone's schedule into one shared view usually means convincing everyone to switch to a single app, which basically never works.

What Linkdaze actually is

Linkdaze is a touchscreen tablet, available in a smaller 10-inch version or a larger 15-inch one, meant to be mounted somewhere central in the house — like a kitchen wall. Instead of forcing everyone onto one calendar app, it quietly pulls in schedules from Google, Apple, Outlook, Yahoo, and a family organization app called Cozi, merges them, and gives each family member their own color code, so you can see at a glance who's doing what.

Besides showing schedules, it also handles chores, tracks a reward system for kids, keeps grocery lists, and doubles as a digital photo frame when it's not being used for planning.

The clever trick for meal planning

One standout feature: you can literally snap a photo of a paper recipe, or of a school lunch menu handed out on paper, and the device's AI turns that photo into an actual digital meal plan and automatically builds a matching grocery list. That skips the tedious step of manually typing ingredients into an app.

Why the pricing matters

The most interesting business decision here is that Linkdaze doesn't require a subscription to use its core features — you just pay once for the device. Its biggest competitor, a similar smart screen called Skylight, charges a monthly fee on top of the hardware cost to unlock extra features. In a market where everything nowadays seems to want a subscription, skipping that fee is Linkdaze's biggest selling point.