Every Friday, in your inbox

The app that takes the weekend off your mind.

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.

👵 Grandma Sue: I can take Saturday!
Saturday ☀️ 84° · 0% rain
A.M. · 7L.M. · 3
10:30AM

Read to a Therapy Dog

Boise Public Library · 1.2 mi · FREE
♥ Perfect for L.M., animals
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2:00PM

Pete the Cat: Supercool Science Fair

Children's Museum · 6.4 mi · $8
♥ Perfect for A.M., science
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Radar: spot just openedBeginner Swim · Sat 10:30 · 2 left
10,588events scanned this week
17local sources watched
90 secavg. opening detection
0kid names stored. Ever.
How it works

Three minutes of setup. Every weekend after that, done.

1

Tell us about your kids

Ages and interests: dinosaurs, swimming, LEGO, music. Initials or a nickname only. That's all we ever ask.

2

We scan your whole city

Libraries, museums, parks & rec, venues, ticket sites: thousands of events a week, matched to each kid, checked against the weather.

3

Friday: your weekend arrives

A morning-and-afternoon plan for Saturday and Sunday, with backups. One tap adds it to every calendar in the family.

What you get

A planner, a family circle, and a radar for the spots that vanish.

🗞️

The Friday Brief

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 forever
💛

The Circle

Invite 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-approved
📡

Registration Radar

Parents 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 advantage
Built for the whole village

Everyone who loves your kids, on the same page.

One plan, shared. No group-chat chaos, no "what time was that again?", no one left out.

🧑‍🍼

The planner parent

Drops 5 hours of weekly research. Gets the credit anyway.

🤝

The other parent

Knows the plan without asking. Claims Saturday morning in one tap.

👵

Grandparents

Near or far, they see the weekend, pick an outing, and show up. Giftable, too.

🏡

Co-parents & friends

Separate homes, shared plan. Friends' families join the same outing together.

Privacy first, by design

Your kids' privacy isn't a setting. It's the architecture.

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.

Initials or nicknames only.

We never ask for a child's name, birthdate, school, or photo. "A.M., age 7" is all the system knows.

Kids never use the product.

BrightWeekends is for the adults. No kid accounts, no kid data collection. Parent-facing by design.

Your circle is invite-only.

Nothing is public. Every member is someone you chose, and anyone can be removed instantly.

Never sold, never shared.

Your family's data isn't the product. The plan is.

Pricing

The brief is free. The superpowers are cheap.

Free

$0
forever
  • The Friday Brief, every week
  • 1 kid profile · 3 circle seats
  • Add-to-calendar links
  • Full weekend plan & backups
  • Registration Radar
Founding families: locked price

Family

$49/year
about $4/month · giftable by grandparents
  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited kids & interests
  • 8 circle seats + claiming
  • Live calendar feed (auto-updates)
  • Camp & seasonal databases
  • 2 Radar watches included

Radar Watches

$10/watch
à la carte · no subscription needed
  • Watch any camp or class page
  • Instant open-spot & drop alerts
  • Works for free users too
  • Active until registration closes
Questions

Fair questions, straight answers.

Which cities do you cover?

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.

Is the Friday Brief really free forever?

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.

What do you store about my kids?

Initials or a nickname, an age, and interests like "dinosaurs" or "swimming." No names, no birthdates, no photos, no schools. Kids never have accounts.

How does Registration Radar work?

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.

Can grandparents really use this?

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.

This Saturday could be the good kind of busy.

Join the founding families. Your first brief arrives Friday at 7 a.m.