Plan with picture cards
Drag a card onto a time, choose the destination calendar and save in Google’s small dialog. Immediate saving is optional and off by default.
Available in the Chrome Web Store
See the week.
Plan with pictures.
Lunch, a trip, time with Grandma: picture cards make the family calendar easier to recognise. Kids Planner adds large symbols, weather and daylight to the Google Calendar you already use.
Now available in the Chrome Web Store
- Events stay with Google
- Local preferences
- Optional weather
Mon🌤️ 17 °C
🍲Lunch12:00
🌇 18:30
Tue🌤️ 18 °C
🏊Swimming12:00
🌇 18:30
Wed🌤️ 19 °C
👵Time with Grandma12:00
🌇 18:30
Your calendar. Easier to recognise.
Weather has its own space
Optional hourly weather occupies a separate lane beside events. Sunrise, sunset and a daylight gradient add context for planning.
Use familiar calendars
Use separate Google calendars for people or shared activities. Google continues to handle times, recurrence, sharing and synchronisation.
What the extension adds
69 picture cards with names and emoji, large symbols in recognised day/week views, and German/English controls. The card palette reserves space beside the calendar, or below it in narrow windows.
What about phones?
Saved emoji and titles also appear in mobile Google Calendar apps. Large symbols, the picture-card palette and weather decoration are added by this desktop Chrome extension only in the browser. It is not a smartphone app.
Know the limits
The extension works with Google’s visible calendar interface. Google changes may require compatibility updates. Custom picture cards are planned for a later version with family sharing. Weather covers the available forecast period only; calculated daylight is not a weather forecast.
Getting started and help
- Install Kids Planner from the Chrome Web Store and review the permissions. Open Google Calendar in desktop Chrome and enable Kids Planner.
- If useful, create and share a separate Google calendar for each family member. Select the destination in the card dock.
- Drag a card onto a time. Dropping follows Google’s 30-minute grid; adjust finer times in Google’s dialog and save.
- Optionally allow weather access in settings, search for a city and select a result. The calendar timezone must match the timezone displayed by Google.
“Save immediately after dropping” is optional and off initially. If saving is not confirmed, inspect the calendar before dropping again. Turning Kids Planner off removes our visual additions; saved events stay with Google.
Report an issue or ask for help – please omit private calendar information.
Available in the Chrome Web Store
Now available in the Chrome Web Store
Version 0.1.35 is publicly available in the Chrome Web Store. Install it in desktop Chrome 126 or newer. A Google Calendar account and internet connection are required.
This extension is a separate project. It does not replace the locally installed Kids Planner application or import its data.
Voluntary support
Help develop Kids Planner.
You can optionally support development and maintenance. Contributions do not unlock features, are not purchases and are not required to use the extension. Payment providers open only after your click.