One calendar · Invite-only circles
The room parent. The team parent. The troop leader. The neighbor who plans the block party. CocoCircles holds your home's calendar and every group you organize for, so the class picnic lands on the same day as swim practice and grandma's visit.
Not on the stores yet — these become real download links the day it ships.
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Nothing to migrate and nobody to convince. You set your own home up first; the circles come when you're ready to invite people.
Add the adults who share the load — a partner, a grandparent, a sitter — and a profile for each child with birthdays, allergies and the things they're into. Everyone sees the same calendar in month, week, agenda or day view.
A class, a team, a church group, a troop, a camp, a street. Invite by a link you share from your phone, an eight-character code, or a QR on a handout. Every circle is invite-only, and an organizer approves every join.
RSVP yes to the class picnic and it's on your home calendar beside swim practice. Four circles, one calendar — and a day view that shows the order of things and the gaps between them.
What's inside
Today & the Day Path
Today's events in order, with the free gaps drawn in, and the day sketched as a path: the part you've walked is solid, the part ahead is dashed. The background is your real sky — morning, evening, and the weather where you live.
Errands
"Pick up the dry cleaning" has no start time and no guest list, so it sits under the day rather than on it. Give it an address and the app works out which gap it costs the least driving to fit into — then it asks. Nothing is added to your day without you saying yes.
Circles
Post once and the whole circle has it, with the lightest "did anyone see this" there is: a reaction. Chat is a separate, ordinary room per circle — and one per event for the host and everyone who answered yes or maybe, which the circle's organizers can read in order to moderate it.
Events & RSVPs
Any member can propose a circle event; an organizer approves it. Every event has a public page showing the time, the place and the number going — never the member list — plus a calendar file for parents who never install anything.
Messaging & photos
Photos, voice notes, replies and reactions — but only with people who already share a circle or a home with you. No cold messages. Every picture you're allowed to see gathers in one place, filtered by home, circle or child.
Assist
Photograph the flyer that came home in a backpack, or just type what's happening. Ask it what's on tomorrow and you get an answer; ask it to add something and you get a draft event, errand or plan with the fields filled in — and nothing is saved until you confirm it.
Who it's for
Twenty-four families, one term, and a picnic that needs a headcount by Friday.
Practice moved, the field changed, and half the squad has a sibling elsewhere.
A camp-out, permission slips, and a list of who can and can't eat what.
Nine houses, one street, and no appetite for starting another group chat.
Privacy
Every rule below is how the app is built, not a preference you have to go and find in settings.
No child ever has an account or a login. A child exists as a profile that belongs to a Home and is managed by that Home's guardians, and there is no child-facing screen anywhere in the app.
No public search, no discovery, no open join links. Every request to join a circle waits for an organizer to say yes. The one thing that crosses that wall is an event's public page, and only if its host shares the link: it shows the time, the place, the number of people going and the cover picture — never the circle's name or its members.
It stays inside your home until a guardian turns sharing on — the switch is off to begin with, and turning it back off shrinks its reach again straight away.
Your name, photo and your birthday's day and month start out visible to parents who share a circle or home with you. Your email address starts out hidden, and we don't ask for your birth year. "Visible" never reaches past that shared graph.
The note you leave on an RSVP — a sibling tagging along, an allergy — goes to the event's host. Not to the circle, not to its organizers.
Nothing watches where you are: no background location, no arrival detection, and no notification is ever triggered by you moving. (The app does run background jobs and send notifications about your own circles and events.) There are no advertising networks in it.