Planning family logistics is a 30-hour-a-week unpaid job, and it usually lands on one parent. BrightWeekends scans everything happening near you, matches it to each kid's interests, checks the weather, and hands your whole family a finished plan every Friday.
Free forever. No app required to start. Kids stay anonymous, initials only, always.
Ages and interests: dinosaurs, swimming, LEGO, music. Initials or a nickname only. That's all we ever ask.
Libraries, museums, parks & rec, venues, ticket sites: thousands of events a week, matched to each kid, checked against the weather.
A morning-and-afternoon plan for Saturday and Sunday, with backups. One tap adds it to every calendar in the family.
Your weekend, sequenced: what, when, where, how much, and why it fits each kid. Weather-aware, with rainy-day backups included. Never a feed to scroll, always a plan to follow.
Free foreverInvite the other parent, grandparents, close friends. Everyone sees the same plan, claims outings, and adds to their own calendar. It takes a village. Yours is finally in sync.
Grandparent-approvedParents call camp registration "the Hunger Games": two browsers open, hitting refresh, sold out in minutes. Radar watches the signup pages around the clock and alerts you the moment registration opens or a spot frees up. No more 5 a.m. alarms.
The unfair advantageOne plan, shared. No group-chat chaos, no "what time was that again?", no one left out.
Drops 5 hours of weekly research. Gets the credit anyway.
Knows the plan without asking. Claims Saturday morning in one tap.
Near or far, they see the weekend, pick an outing, and show up. Giftable, too.
Separate homes, shared plan. Friends' families join the same outing together.
If you don't post your kids online, you're our people. No names, no photos, no profiles. We built BrightWeekends so there's nothing sensitive to leak in the first place.
We never ask for a child's name, birthdate, school, or photo. "A.M., age 7" is all the system knows.
BrightWeekends is for the adults. No kid accounts, no kid data collection. Parent-facing by design.
Nothing is public. Every member is someone you chose, and anyone can be removed instantly.
Your family's data isn't the product. The plan is.
We're live in Boise and expanding city by city. Every metro gets the same treatment: libraries, parks & rec, museums, venues, and ticket platforms, all watched continuously. Tell us your city and you'll be first in line when we arrive.
Yes. The brief is how families discover us, and we never ransom safety or the basics. Paid tiers add depth, the full sequenced plan, the circle, the Radar, not the essentials.
Initials or a nickname, an age, and interests like "dinosaurs" or "swimming." No names, no birthdates, no photos, no schools. Kids never have accounts.
You point it at a camp, class, or swim-lesson page. We check it around the clock and alert you within minutes when registration opens or a spot frees up. You register on the provider's own site; we never hold your payment details.
They're often the most active members. The brief is an email, nothing to install, and one tap puts an outing on their calendar. Many families have grandparents gift the Family plan.
Join the founding families. Your first brief arrives Friday at 7 a.m.