Plannie vs DAKboard: the full comparison.
DAKboard turns a TV or tablet into an always-on wall display that shows calendars, photos and, since July 2026, a chores board. Plannie is the family calendar itself: everyone edits it, from the kitchen tablet or their own phone, and an assistant reads the school emails for you.
Feature by feature
| Plannie | DAKboard | |
|---|---|---|
| Shared colour-coded family calendar | ✓ | ✓ Colour per calendar source. Up to two calendars on Free, five on Essential, unlimited on Plus. |
| Calendar sync | Two-way Google & Outlook Edits flow both ways. Apple/iCloud and any ICS URL come in as subscribed feeds. | Read-only, seven sources Google, iCloud, Microsoft 365/Outlook, ICS files, Cozi, TeamSnap and Facebook Events, refreshed every 60, 30 or 15 minutes by plan. |
| Add or edit events on the wall screen | ✓ | ✗ DAKboard displays calendars. Editing an event on screen or syncing back to the source is not documented. |
| Chores, routines & rewards | Premium | Essential or Plus Family Chores Manager, launched July 2026: per-person columns for up to six people, points, rewards, leaderboard, child lock and seven repeat schedules. Not on Free. |
| Weekly meal planning | ✓ | ● Displays third-party planners such as Plan to Eat and Nutrislice. DAKboard announced its own meal planner with recipes and grocery lists in July 2026 as on the way. |
| Shared and private lists | Shared household lists plus a private list per member | ● To-dos come from Todoist, Asana, Trello and others on Essential and Plus. Native lists and private per-member lists are not documented. |
| AI import of emails, photos & PDFs | Premium Family Inbox turns forwarded emails into events. Magic Import reads photos, PDFs, screenshots and URLs. | ✗ |
| Wall display | Kiosk mode on any tablet | Any screen with a browser Native Fire TV and Android apps, casting, Raspberry Pi, or DAKboard's own hardware: Wall Display Touch 22 $599.95, Touch 27 $799.95, CPU boxes from $99.95. |
| Per-member personal mode on own phones | ✓ | ✗ DAKboard is a display product. The chores board opens in a phone browser one column at a time, but there are no member accounts, notifications or personal views. |
| Open API & MCP for your own agents | REST API + MCP Scoped tokens, documented at plannie.io/developers. MCP server with Premium + MCP. | ● Push-only API on Plus API access is Plus only ($96/yr). Per DAKboard support it pushes data to DAKboard and cannot pull data from other sites. MCP is not documented. |
| Hardware to buy | None | None required Optional: CPU Mini $99.95, CPU v4 $149.95, CPU v5 $179.95, pre-loaded Raspberry Pi SD card $24.95, Wall Display Touch 22 $599.95, Touch 27 $799.95. |
| Subscription | $99/yr whole household | Free, $60/yr or $96/yr Essential $5/month billed annually ($6 monthly); Plus $8/month billed annually ($10 monthly). Extra custom screens cost $4 to $6/month more. |
| 3-year cost, family of four | $297 | $180 to $887.95 Own screen with Essential 3 × $60 = $180, or Plus 3 × $96 = $288. Wall Display Touch 22 plus Essential = $779.95; plus Plus = $887.95. |
DAKboard prices and platform details from dakboard.com, shop.dakboard.com and DAKboard's support site, checked 18 September 2026. In fairness, DAKboard is the wider aggregator: seven calendar sources including Facebook and TeamSnap, seven photo sources, to-do apps, meal-planner feeds, and Home Assistant, SmartThings and Google Nest controls on the screen, with native Fire TV and Android apps. Plannie shows none of that on the wall; it shows your family's own calendar, lists and meals.
Sources: dakboard.com/pricing, DAKboard support: Family Chores Manager, DAKboard support: API overview, shop.dakboard.com: Wall Display Touch
Three things that matter on a Tuesday
Display versus calendar. DAKboard collects things you already have (Google or iCloud calendars, photo albums, a Todoist list, a Plan to Eat menu, your Home Assistant switches) and lays them out on a screen that refreshes every 15 to 60 minutes. It is very good at that and it costs $60 to $96 a year. Plannie is the calendar. Type the dentist into the kitchen tablet and it is on your partner's phone before you have put the kettle on, and in their Google or Outlook calendar too.
Who has a phone in their pocket. DAKboard's chores board is a shared-screen thing: tap to complete, no login, up to six columns, and on a phone it shows one column at a time in a browser. Plannie's household layer follows each person. Personal mode gives every member their own view, their own notifications and a private list, and kiosk mode on the wall shows everyone. One plan covers all of it.
What arrives on its own. DAKboard has no AI import and its own meal planner was still on the way in July 2026. Plannie's Family Inbox gives the household an email address; a forwarded school letter or a PDF timetable becomes events under the right child, each one marked so you can check it. The meal grid, recipe library and grocery list are already there, and the open API and MCP mean your own agent can read and write the lot, where DAKboard's Plus-only API can only push data in.
Choose DAKboard if…
You already keep your calendars, lists and menus in other apps and want them all on one always-on screen, with photos, weather and Home Assistant controls alongside. You are happy editing in the source apps, and $60 a year on a TV you own is the budget.
Choose Plannie if…
You want one calendar the whole family edits, on the wall and on every phone, with chores, meals and lists built in rather than displayed. You want school emails and PDFs turned into events for you, and an API and MCP your own tools can both read and write.
Frequently asked
Does DAKboard do chores?+
Yes, since July 2026. The Family Chores Manager gives each person a column (up to six people), with points, rewards, a leaderboard and a four-digit child lock, and one tap on the screen marks a chore done with no login. It needs the Essential ($60/year) or Plus ($96/year) plan. Plannie's chores also earn tickets and rewards, but they live on each member's phone as well as the wall, so a child can tick off their routine from their room and a parent sees it from work.
Can you add events to a DAKboard calendar?+
Not from the screen, as far as DAKboard documents. DAKboard reads calendars from Google, iCloud, Microsoft 365, ICS files, Cozi, TeamSnap and Facebook and displays them, refreshing every 60 minutes on Free, 30 on Essential and 15 on Plus. To change anything you go back to the source calendar. Plannie is the calendar: add an event on the kitchen tablet and it is on everyone's phone at once, and two-way sync carries it to Google or Outlook.
Is DAKboard free?+
There is a free plan: one predefined screen, up to two calendars, photos changing every two minutes and a 60-minute calendar refresh. Custom layouts, to-do integrations and the chores manager need Essential at $5/month billed annually ($6 monthly); the API and unlimited calendars need Plus at $8/month billed annually ($10 monthly). Plannie's free plan is the shared calendar with all views and two-way Google and Outlook sync; Premium is $99/year for the household.
Which is cheaper over three years, DAKboard or Plannie?+
On a screen you already own, DAKboard: Essential is $60/year, $180 over three years, and Plus $288. Plannie Premium is $99/year, $297. The difference buys the calendar you can edit, native lists, a meal planner that exists today, AI import and a personal view on each phone. If you buy DAKboard's own Wall Display Touch 22 at $599.95, three years on Essential comes to $779.95 and on Plus $887.95.
Does DAKboard have an API?+
Only on the Plus plan ($96/year), and per DAKboard's support docs it is for pushing data into DAKboard; it cannot pull data from other sites. There is no MCP. Plannie's REST API with scoped tokens is documented at plannie.io/developers, and Premium + MCP ($159/year) adds a full MCP server so Claude or any agent can read and write your household's calendar, lists and tasks.