Family HQ for the wall tablet
Base Command turns a wall-mounted tablet into your family’s headquarters: a shared calendar, daily chores, homeschool tracking, and a rewards game kids actually want to play. Parents run it all from their phones.
HQ, the one home screen. Every number is a button.
The field guide
There’s no menu to learn. Tap a kid’s name for their dashboard, tap “Duties 75%” for today’s chores. Every target is big enough for small hands, and every screen fits without scrolling.
The home screen. Each kid’s Merits, duties and schoolwork at a glance.
The family calendar: day by person, week or month, color-coded for each family member.
Chores for morning and evening, each worth Merits when it’s done.
Homeschool lessons, courses and reading logs, tracked for each kid.
The rewards store, where kids spend Merits on treats and privileges you choose.
A bonus wheel. Finishing things earns crates, and the odds are right there on the wheel.
Savings goals, personal challenges, medals, and a squad goal the whole family works toward.
Spot-check finished duties and approve reward requests.
The parent controls, on your phone or behind a PIN on the tablet.
Ops
Every event takes its person’s color, so everyone can see who has soccer practice and who has the dentist. Switch between a day view split by person, the week and the month. Connect Google Calendar and it all stays in step with your phone.
Duties · Academy
Each kid has a dashboard with today’s duties and lessons, their rank, their current objective and what’s coming up. Checking something off pays Merits right away, and parents can spot-check it later.
The PX · Supply Drop
Kids earn Merits for duties, lessons, finished books and objectives, then spend them at the PX on rewards you set: screen time, picking dessert, a front-seat day. Finishing things also earns crates for the Supply Drop bonus wheel.
Objectives · Medals
Kids save up for something big or take on a challenge like reading twelve books. A squad objective gets everyone pulling together toward a family reward, like pizza and a movie night out.
Command
Parents sign in with Google and get the Command view: every kid at a glance, what needs your attention, and the controls for duties, Academy, PX rewards, objectives, the roster and settings.
Kids swap duties or pay a sibling to take one. A fairness meter flags lopsided deals, and you can require approval.
Extra jobs anyone can claim for bonus Merits.
Only parents can set them, and kids are signed out automatically after a minute without a tap.
Check something off on the wall and it shows up on your phone within seconds.
If the Wi-Fi drops, the tablet keeps working and catches up when it reconnects.
A dark theme for the evening, one tap away on HQ.
Google Calendar
Connecting Google Calendar is optional. A parent turns it on in Command → Settings → Google Calendar, then picks which calendars appear on the wall and who each one belongs to.
| Permission | Why Base Command needs it |
|---|---|
Your name, email address and profile pictureopenid email profile |
To create your parent account and show which parent is signed in. |
See and download any calendar you can accesscalendar.readonly |
To list your calendars so you can choose which ones to show, then read the events on the calendars you turn on and show them on your family’s calendar. |
View and edit events on all your calendarscalendar.events |
To add, change and delete events in your Google Calendar when your family adds, changes or deletes them in Base Command. |
Base Command uses Google data only to provide these features. We don’t sell it, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI models. You can disconnect at any time in Command → Settings → Google Calendar, or remove access from your Google Account.
Base Command’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. How we handle Google data
How it works
Base Command runs in the browser, so there’s nothing to install. You need a tablet for the wall and a phone for each parent.
Open app.familybasecommand.com and sign in with Google. That’s your parent account.
Add your kids, their colors and their 4‑digit PINs. Then set up duties, lessons and PX rewards in Command.
On the tablet, choose “Set up this wall tablet” and enter the 6‑digit code from your phone. No Google account needed.
If you like, connect Google Calendar and choose which calendars show on the wall.
Tablet tip: any tablet with a modern browser works, and 10 inches or larger is best. On Android, a kiosk browser such as Fully Kiosk Browser keeps the screen on HQ around the clock.
Your family’s data
Base Command holds things that matter: your kids’ names, schedules and schoolwork. Here’s how we treat them.
Each family’s data lives in its own separate database. Only your family’s parents and paired tablets can reach it.
Kids use the wall tablet with a PIN. No email addresses, no profiles, no chat.
We don’t sell your data, show ads, or use your family’s information to train AI models.
Export everything to a file, disconnect Google at any time, and ask us to delete your account.
Questions
Base Command is free to use right now. If that ever changes, we’ll tell you well ahead of time, and you won’t be charged unless you agree.
A tablet for the wall (Android or iPad; 10 inches or bigger works best) and a phone for each parent. It all runs in a web browser at app.familybasecommand.com.
No. Kids use the wall tablet with a 4‑digit PIN, and only a parent can set or change it. Only parents sign in, with Google.
No. Ops works on its own as your family calendar. Connecting Google Calendar is optional, and you can disconnect at any time. See what the connection does.
Yes. In Command → Settings → Family & devices, create an invite code for your co-parent. They sign in with their own Google account and enter the code.
No. Merits work like arcade tickets. Kids earn them for duties, schoolwork and goals and spend them on rewards you set in the PX. They can’t be bought or cashed out.
The tablet keeps working with the data it has and syncs any changes as soon as it reconnects.
Disconnect Google Calendar in Command → Settings → Google Calendar. To delete your account or your family’s data, email support@familybasecommand.com. The Privacy Policy has the details.
Sign in with Google, set up your family and pair the tablet. It takes a few minutes.
Open the app