Greenlight Family Hub Review

About the Greenlight Family Hub

• Screen sizes: 10.1 inches or 15.6 inches
• Dimensions: 10.33 x 7.13 x 0.87 inches (10.1-inch model); 9.37 x 15.55 x 0.87 inches (15.6-inch model)
• Battery: Built-in battery, 4 to 6 hours (10.1-inch model only; the 15.6-inch model is outlet-powered)
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi required
• Included accessories: Power cable, attachable stand, mounting kit, setup instruction guide
• Calendar & photo sync: Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, Google Photos, iCloud
• Features: Calendar sync, photo storage, chores and rewards, task lists, shared documents
• Family Hub+ features: AI text assistant, family AI voice assistant, AI email-to-calendar, real-time location tracking, place alerts, driving reports, crash detection
• Subscription: Free plan available; Family Hub+ is $9.99/month or $99/year. Included with some Greenlight financial plans
• Price: $199 (10.1-inch model); $299 (15.6-inch model)

Notable features

• Available in portable 10.1-inch and wall-mounted 15.6-inch sizes
• Syncs with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, Google Photos, and iCloud
• Built-in chores, rewards, and shared task lists
• Optional Family Hub+ subscription adds an AI voice assistant, real-time location tracking, and crash detection

The Greenlight Family Hub is a shared smart display that organizes family schedules, chores, and photos in one place. Greenlight offers the Hub in two sizes, so it's worth deciding up front whether you want the 10.1-inch model—which has a built-in battery and can move from room to room—or the 15.6-inch model, which is meant to stay mounted in one central spot, like the kitchen.

How we tested

To put the Greenlight Family Hub to the test, I set up the wall-mounted 15.6-inch model in our home with my wife and two kids and used it for several weeks. We synced our entire calendar to it, added all of our upcoming activities, and my kids began using it to track their daily chores, to-do items, and more. We also both downloaded the Greenlight app to add events and track progress, and used the smart features on a trial basis. I also added some to-do items for our dogs, which they failed to do because they are adorable freeloaders.

What we like

As an organizational tool, it's simple, useful, and goes above and beyond

If you have kids, juggling schedules becomes a constant chore, and the family calendar is a critical way to keep on top of what's happening today, tomorrow, next week, and into the future. Activities, school early release days, work trips, birthday parties, more activities, etc. It all adds up in a hurry.

The Family Hub takes all your basic calendars and syncs them into a single centralized hub you can all use—even the kids. It's easy to get the hang of immediately, and intuitive enough that even our young kids could add events, check their schedule, and plan for what they needed the next day.

While a paper calendar can do all that, there are so many times you're out of the house and need to add an event quickly, check if you're free on a certain date, or modify something. Having access to all that remotely, with changes immediately available to everyone in the house, is a lifesaver.

The screen quality is great, giving you a bonus digital photo frame

Quality digital photo frames aren't cheap, so getting one that doubles as a family organizer is a huge plus. We think family photos that run alongside your calendar are a delightful way to display all those digital snaps you've never bothered to print. As someone who was born well before smartphones ever existed, this is welcomed.

The location finder is a useful extra, if your plan includes it

Pulling up a map of everyone's location without opening Find My is a neat extra I didn't know I wanted. It tracks phones, so it's a Life360 substitute rather than something new, but it lives on the same screen as the calendar, which is the point.

One catch worth knowing before you buy: this is a Family Hub+ feature, included only if you're paying $9.99 a month or already on Greenlight's Infinity or Family Shield plan. Because it tracks phones, it does nothing for a kid who doesn't have one yet, which describes both of ours. Greenlight's answer there is Safe Kids, a screen-free GPS tracker with an SOS button and safe-zone alerts that shows up on the Hub alongside everyone else. It's a separate purchase starting at $149 for a 12-month bundle, and no Greenlight plan or Family Hub+ subscription covers it, which is worth knowing before you assume the Hub covers younger kids.

The Family Hub is so easy to hang up, it blew me away

You can always tell when a smart device company cares about the little things, and Greenlight goes the extra mile. The Family Hub comes with a mounting plate that takes two screws and includes a built-in level.

Just find the center of the wall, screw one side in, hold the other so the level shows it's straight, and screw the other in. The frame pops right onto it. The whole thing takes two minutes and will be the easiest object-hanging experience of your life. It's a huge green flag when a company thinks through details like this.

What we don't like

The paid subscription tier is confusing, and the value depends entirely on which plan you're already on

Family Hub+ costs $9.99 a month, and what you get for it depends on a plan structure Greenlight doesn't make easy to parse. If you're on Infinity or Family Shield, the safety features are already yours. If you're on Core or Max, they aren't. And Max costs more per month than Family Hub+, a detail you shouldn't have to email support to learn.

On its own merits, the location map and driving reports didn't feel worth $120 a year to me.

The app integration is great, but certain features are harder than they need to be

While I absolutely love that you can upload digital photos to the Family Hub, I've found the process tedious. There is no way to automatically pull certain photo albums from a Google Photos account onto the Family Hub. Instead, you have to add photos to the Greenlight app one by one. When you have several hundred photos of your kids that you'd like to drop in, the one-by-one method gets old quick.

What a Greenlight subscription actually costs

Greenlight offers two Family Hub plans if you're not already a Greenlight customer: a free version with most features, and Family Hub+ at $9.99 per month or $99 per year.

If you already subscribe to a Greenlight financial plan—say, an account and debit card for your child—the options get more complicated. The Core ($5.99/month), Max ($10.98/month), and the bank-partner Select plans include the free Hub features plus the AI text assistant at no extra charge. Still, Greenlight reserves the safety suite for Infinity ($15.98/month) and Family Shield ($19.98/month), which bundle Family Hub+ in full.

If you're already paying for a Greenlight card, Life360 to keep tabs on the kids, and a Skylight calendar subscription, the math gets interesting. Skylight Plus runs $79 a year; Life360 is $9.99 to $16.99 a month depending on the tier; and Greenlight Core is $5.99. That's $23 to $30 a month for three subscriptions. Greenlight Infinity, on the other hand, costs $15.98 and consolidates all three jobs into a single bill. In a world where parents pay for apps to track their kids' physical and financial safety, plus scheduling that runs in 12 directions at once, I think this is the real case for the paid features, and it's a good one.

The frustrating part for customers and potential customers is that Greenlight buries all this information. Max, at $10.98 a month, costs more than Family Hub+ and includes none of it. Greenlight also doesn't publish whether Core or Max subscribers can add Family Hub+ on its own for $9.99 (if they can, that's about $14.24 a month and a cheaper route to the same features than upgrading).

Here's how the plans actually break down.

Greenlight subscription plans at a glance

Hardware, sold separately from all plans: Family Hub 10.1-inch, $199; Family Hub 15.6-inch, $299.

Pricing and feature allocations verified September 2026. All subscription prices are plus applicable taxes.

Warranty

The Family Hub comes with a one-year warranty for parts and labor, though that coverage excludes accidental damage, water damage, and consumable parts like batteries worn down through normal use. Greenlight also reserves the right to reduce the covered amount if you don't keep all the box contents, so hang onto the stand hardware even if you plan to wall-mount the device.

Should you buy the Greenlight Family Hub?

Yes, if you're tired of juggling a fridge calendar, a group chat, and three different apps to stay organized

As with other digital organizers, the Family Hub (available at Amazon for $299.00) works best for people already juggling multiple calendars. Our kids are both in grade school now and have after-school activities at least three days per week, plus weekends, plus playdates. It's impossible to keep it all straight, and the family calendar is critical infrastructure in our house. The Family Hub is such a massive upgrade from our paper calendar; I'm kicking myself we didn't get one sooner.

It earns its spot in other ways, too, doubling as a sharp, simple photo frame once you get through loading the photos, and it puts to-do lists, grocery lists, chores, and kid rewards on a surface the whole house walks past.

It took maybe a day for the Hub to become second nature for us, especially for the kids. The benefits showed up right away: more than once we were out running errands and needed to remember the date of something coming up. With our old calendar, I'd have to hope I took a photo of it sometime recently. But with the Family Hub, I just pulled up the app, and there it was. I could immediately add doctor appointments from the office or change something while on the phone with a provider.

Choice of size matters more than the spec sheet suggests, and I'd point most families toward the 15.6-inch model we tested. A family calendar earns its keep by sitting where everyone passes it, and ours became the household's default surface within a day of going up on the kitchen wall. The 10.1-inch model, which we didn't test, makes sense if wall space is tight or you want to carry the calendar from room to room, but its 4- to 6-hour battery life means it lives on a charger most of the day anyway.

The subscription is where the "should you buy" question gets interesting. For most families, the free plan covers the whole reason to buy the Hub—calendar sync, chores, lists, and photos are all included. The $ 9.99-a-month fee for the location map and driving reports didn't earn its keep for us on its own merits. But the math changes fast if you're already stacking subscriptions. A Greenlight card, Life360, and a Skylight calendar plan run $23 to $30 a month between them; Greenlight Infinity covers all three jobs for $15.98. If that's your current bill, the paid tier isn't an upsell so much as a consolidation, and a good one.