The household calendar

The household calendar shows every member's events in a single view, colour-coded by person so you can see at a glance who has what on. Connect your existing Google Calendar or a CalDAV calendar such as iCloud and Orbrey imports your events without modifying anything in your calendar app. Calendar connections are being rolled out and may not be available to you yet.

Connecting Google or a CalDAV calendar

Go to Settings, then Integrations, then Calendar and choose your provider. For Google you sign in on Google's own consent screen. For a CalDAV calendar such as iCloud you enter the server address, your username and an app password. Each household member connects their own calendar separately.

Google's consent screen says Orbrey asks to view and edit your calendars, but today Orbrey only reads: it does not create, change or delete events in your calendar. It imports each event's title, start and end, all-day flag, location and description (and, for CalDAV, the time zone and repeat rule), and not the attendee list.

Creating events

Tap any time slot in the calendar to create an event. You can set a title, date and time, location, and attendees (other household members). Events you create in Orbrey stay in Orbrey; they are not written to a connected calendar.

Colour-coded member views

Each household member gets a distinct colour in the shared calendar. You can toggle individual members on and off using the member chips at the top of the calendar view to reduce clutter when you only need to see certain people's schedules.

Importing a school calendar or PDF

School calendars are often distributed as PDFs or ICS files. To import an ICS file, use the calendar settings import option. For a PDF, you can use the Orbrey Claude Code plugin or your connected AI assistant. Upload the PDF and ask it to import the events into Orbrey, and it will parse the dates and create the events for you.

Calendar conflict detection

Orbrey flags scheduling conflicts when two events overlap for the same member, or when there is insufficient travel time between back-to-back events at different locations. Conflicts show as a warning badge on the calendar tile. The calendar-conflict-finder AI skill provides a detailed conflict report across all members for any date range.

Two homes

Orbrey does not link events between households: each household has its own calendar. For a co-parenting arrangement, add the shared custody days, pickups, and drop-offs in each household's calendar.