A lot of the tools on the site started as a small domestic problem I couldn't be bothered to solve with a spreadsheet. Naming a baby. Keeping a party moving. Working out whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher without a fight. This is the family corner of the collection — all free, all browser-only, nothing uploaded anywhere, because the last thing anyone wants is their unborn child's shortlist sitting on someone's server.
Naming things is hard
Choosing a name is the highest-stakes low-information decision most people ever make, and it turns out a surprising amount of it is process rather than taste.
The baby name elimination game is the one I'd start with: instead of arguing over a giant list, you knock names out one pair at a time until a winner survives — a bracket, basically, which is a much fairer way to surface what you actually prefer than staring at a spreadsheet. The sibling name matcher solves the second-child problem: you already have one name you love, and now you need one that sounds right next to it — not too matchy, not clashing on rhythm or initial — and it scores candidates against the name you've already used. And when it's someone else's baby, the baby shower name game generator builds the guess-the-name and name-related party games you print out for the shower, custom hints and all.
Keeping a party moving
Party games live and die on pacing, and pacing is just timers with a bit of theatre.
The pass the parcel timer is the honest version of the game every parent secretly rigs — it stops at random intervals so every kid gets a turn, without you having to lurk by the music. The minute to win it timer is a big, loud sixty-second countdown for the challenge games of the same name, readable from across a room full of over-excited children. Both do one small thing well and get out of the way, which is all you want when you're also refereeing.
Household logistics
Then the ongoing stuff — the rotas and rituals that keep a household from descending into "but I did it last time."
The chore chart generator takes your list of people and your list of jobs and builds a fair week-by-week rotation where everyone does every job exactly once per cycle — and lets you override it when real life intervenes, marking what you changed so nobody can claim the machine is against them. (It had a genuinely sneaky bug in that override layer once; I wrote about it here if you like your family tools with a side of debugging.) The homeschool schedule generator does the same fairness trick for a learning week. The team snack schedule generator is the sports-parent version — a fair, printable rota for whose turn it is to bring orange slices to the game. And when December comes around the Secret Santa generator draws names with exclusions — so partners don't get matched — and hands each person their assignment privately, no hat required.
The whole shelf
There are a few more in the family tools hub, and plenty of overlap with the classroom set — a chore rota and a classroom jobs chart are the same idea wearing different clothes. And for the makers in the house, the crochet & craft calculators do the fiddly yardage maths — including a yarn substitution calculator for when your shop is out of the exact skein and a bookbinding signature calculator for hand-bound journals. Everything here is free, runs in your browser, and keeps your data on your device. Go make the dishwasher argument someone else's problem.