Hearth Display Review (2026): Full Walkthrough + Pros & Cons

Before you spend hundreds of dollars on a hearth display, I thought I would show you what it looks like and how it functions in a real home. That way you can decide if it's right for you. Because I was very skeptical. As a mom to eight kids, I was desperate to find something that would help me manage the mental overwhelm, but every system I tried to make seemed like it lasted a week before it completely flopped. So when I kept seeing ads for the hearth display, I was intrigued, but I don't like spending money on things that don't actually make my life easier. I am guilty for sure of buying a planner, thinking it's going to magically organize my life, only to find out at the end of the calendar year that I maybe used it one month out of the year. So in this video, I'm giving you a complete walkthrough of the hearth display, what we use, what we don't use, and whether or not it's actually been worth it. So after having the hearth display for over a year now, I can tell you it has single-handedly replaced multiple systems in our home. And these were systems that I was running like day to day, having to communicate to the kids over and the rules, the boundaries, what they're supposed to do, what they're supposed to do next, what they can have, when they can have it. All of that has been lifted from my brain and deposited here where they can see it. They don't have to ask me the same questions on loop every single day. I don't have to micromanage and check and keep up with them. It has given them so much more independence and they're responsible for their own things. And it has allowed me to keep track of it and to keep track of making sure they're rewarded properly when they're going above and beyond. So the hearth display is an all-in-one command center. It was designed by moms for real homes. This is what I love about it because they were first. This was a small startup company. I think they crowdfunded their initial launch. A lot of the other calendars you see like this are duplicates that came in with investors and a lot of money and really quickly rolled out products that mimicked or mocked this. So I love knowing the heart and passion that went into creating this, that it was an original idea created to serve real needs. Because it's created by real moms, it is intuitive, it is visual, it is easy to understand, it's easy to learn how to use. I'm going to walk you through all of that. I think my favorite part was honestly the setup. So obviously we have ours already installed but if I could just show you. The setup was so simple. It literally comes with everything you need. There is a level built right into the mounting bracket. It's four screws. Bam. You measure how high you want it based on how tall the people in your home are and what feels comfortable and voila. You screw it in, you set up your power cable. We got this on Amazon, a little cord hider which I love. So you plug it in. The power supply goes right in this little holder there so you don't have to worry about trying to reach your hand behind and get it plugged in. It literally sticks in there and then you just place your display onto the bracket. Bam. Literally it's so easy. It turns on and it's beautiful. The hearth is a 27 inch display. It comes with three different frame options. I love the natural wood one. I think it's so beautiful. It just matches with our house but you could find, you can get a white or a black one to match whatever your aesthetic is. Before this we had another popular digital family calendar. It was one that could go on the countertop or the wall. I love having the large screen and I love this orientation. It makes it easier for all of my kids to reach it. I can't now after using this for so long, I can't imagine having like a tiny display again. I feel like being able to really see everything, especially at a glance if I'm walking by, oh yeah that's right, has been really helpful. One of the best things about this is how responsive the touch screen is. Like it, oh fetching my meals, it is very quick and I love that it lets you know when it's thinking. The other one we had would be like a serious lag. You would click on something and just wait and wonder if you needed to tap it again. Sometimes you did because it didn't always respond. So this has been incredibly responsive and quick and so I love that. The setup process is really simple. On here there's a menu. There's a companion app. You can just scan this barcode. I think one comes in the box too that you could scan to download the app. What's really nice about it is that you can manage your schedule on the go right from your phone. I can, when I set this up, instead of sitting in front of the heart typing everything in here, I think I was laying in bed chilling and just adding all of my kids chores, all of our schedules and routines and everything to it from my phone. I love that especially because again when you're a mom and you're busy you might remember something while you're out and on the go. Instead of trying to write it down somewhere and remember it for later, you can literally put it in the calendar or put it in your meal plan right in the moment whether you're here or not. There's several different settings that it has which I like. You can choose what day of the week you want your calendar to start on. For the display you can do a privacy mode which will put up a wallpaper for you. I love that because I can add any picture. I could do pictures of my kids artwork. I could do pictures of my children. You can change it again from your phone so I could do a picture on each of my children's birthdays of them so it's like celebrating you know I just whatever it's so customizable and so when you walk by it it looks like art on the wall. It looks like a picture of your family. It makes me smile. There's a display lock. There's the weather. One of our children asks on repeat every day what the temperature is outside and what the weather's like. I'm like hello check the hearth. It is displayed right at the top. You can click on that. It shows you the weather for the week. Love that. Okay you can adjust your notifications so there are sounds now. So if you set up a calendar event or a to-do that has a notification with it it can actually make a sound and it will pop it up on the screen. Let's start with the calendar. This is what the calendar view looks like. It is color-coded but what I love about it is it is not like overwhelmingly colorful and distracting. I have seen some where it's just like just too much. Again for me I like simple and clean because there's so much going on in our life already. I just need everything else to feel very calm and very orderly. So I love having here this dark blue is our whole family. Things that are for them. They're not like our daughter has a dentist appointment so her color is in here. So you can change the view. So here's a daily view which is really funny because I don't always input everything to the calendar. I like to keep my days pretty flexible so I'm not putting in like work in the garden and stuff like that. John and I both have like our azure standard pickup so we put it in here and about how long it lasts we can see kind of when we're busy. Our three older girls go to school a couple days a week so this shows that. So it's showing each person's day. Then you have a weekly view where it shows the days of the week going across and again you can see how long certain things are going to take and then the monthly overview. You can add additional calendars to it. I find it easier just to keep everything on one but again we don't have a ton of different sports schedules or work schedules. We are very much a family that does a lot of things together so everything's on one for us. The nice thing about this is that everyone can be on the same page. My kids can come down and see oh mom and dad have this going on or we have an appointment or whatever is happening. I love that reminders are built in. Just today a reminder went off about a sale coming up that I didn't want to forget about and it will like pop up on here so I love that they added that feature because then you're walking by and there's like this notification on and I think that's so cool. Alright next is the routines and chores. This is hands down the most life-changing thing it has been for our family. It's what we use this for the most. Like I said we use the calendar but it's not like I live and breathe by it. I live and breathe by the chore chart and the reward system here. This is my husband's favorite thing. He said time and time again he loves this over the other calendar we had because it just is so much more personal where you can see all of our children's faces and it just feels like a part of our family. So in their routines this is so customizable. It is my favorite. It has rewards built into it. One of my biggest struggles was asking my kids to take on a certain chore or task and telling them they would be rewarded for it and then either forgetting or they would ask me hey did you have this for me? I'm like oh yeah just remind me later and it was just always something else living in my brain. This has taken decision fatigue, mental load, like all of that away because everything they need to do is here. The rewards are here and built in with a point system where they're earning the points and cashing in the points and I will show you guys all of that. So our children age from 14 down to two years old. Everything like I said is really customizable. I can give my older kids a lot more responsibilities and less or more points depending on what they're motivated by. For example my 14 year old in the morning make bed, get dressed, style her hair, clean up her breakfast, brush her teeth. These are personal responsibilities. This is part of being a human and I'm not going to reward you with a bunch of points for doing that. There is one point for each of those things. The same with her evening routine which has five points for tidying her bedroom because she does share a room with her sisters so sometimes it involves a little more than just picking up your own stuff but bringing down her laundry, washing her face, brushing her teeth and hair and writing in her prayer journal. Those aren't things that I award a lot of points for. They get one. Her morning routine and evening routine add up to enough points for her to cash in for screen time so she can watch a show. That's how it works with all of my older kids. For my youngest, his morning routine, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush his teeth, help clean up, read a bible story. He gets more points for each of these things because he really doesn't have as many opportunities to earn points because he doesn't have some of the chores that they do. I have a to-do list for my older kids that include feeding the dogs, cleaning up the kitchen. My 13-year-old cleans the kitchen in the morning. My 14-year-old cleans it in the evening so they each get 100 points for that. Their math lessons, language arts lessons, these I give them a little more points for, a little more incentive to get their stuff done but they're still, you know, minimal points for these things because school is still part of their personal responsibilities. My four-year-old on the other hand gets five points for playing outside because sometimes I just need him to go outside so I can get a couple things done but it's also really good for him as a boy, the first boy after six girls, like he has so much energy and he needs to go outside and burn that off. Boy moms, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Just go outside. So he gets points for that, his preschool, some other things. So you can title. I've titled morning routine to do evening routine or bedtime routine. You can make these routines whatever you want them to be. My two-year-old has a potty training routine so he gets points if he pees or poops on the potty and each time I just put in as many as I felt like he might do and then he can work on that through the days. So like I said, I love how I can give more points to motivate my children or less points depending on their age, depending on their interest or willingness to do certain things. If one of my kids really struggles to get their laundry away, it's just like the most dreaded chore, I can give them more points for that than I might give their sister because they need that extra motivation until it becomes a habit and so it's really flexible like that. You can also adjust and change things at any time. Okay, so as my kids come down and they do their morning routines, once they click done, it says way to go and it celebrates them with little stars and it's really exciting. It also keeps track so every day in a row that they do everything on their routine, it starts what they call a streak and so it just challenges them to make sure they're doing it every day. Something that I love for my littles, my two and four-year-old who cannot read yet, is that it allows them to put it in an icon view. So as he does each thing in the morning, it tells him great job and then moves to the next one. Great job. Up here, it shows his progress so he can see how many more things. Once he's completed the last one, way to go. What's really cool is all of these images are customizable like for my son, I have a picture of him and my dad on the tractor for my daughter. Her routine has a picture of me and her together. Super sweet. Like I said, my favorite thing about this, the reward system. All of my kids, even my two-year-old, know exactly where to go to keep track of their points and to request a reward. If you'll see here, my daughter Jude has that little trophy which means she has a reward available to cash out. If she clicks on that, it'll say congratulations. But she can go here and she can look through all of the reward options. If she wants to work towards ten dollars, she can click on that and pin it and it'll show here and it'll show the progress and how close is to that goal, which is really nice. If she wants to cash out, we have a little box with prizes in it. She can request that and it will send it to my phone. So I click on that. I can see the pending requests for all of my kids here and I can choose whether to approve it or decline it. Since I did that for her, I will decline it. Sorry. So sorry. And then once I decline it, it'll go away. She can also see all of the rewards she has cashed in over time. You can also make an adjustment. One time my daughter took on the task of cleaning out the garage. She went above and beyond my expectations completely and so I awarded her extra points for that just as a thank you and a way of saying like good job. Way to go the extra mile. So the great thing about the point system is that it is tailored to your individual child. Like I said, you can customize all of it to really focus on what they need. And as they start to develop habits, let's say your young child gets points for brushing their teeth because that's the only way they will brush their teeth as they grow and it becomes a habit. You can lessen those points and start to reward other things. So it's not like you're locked into something. We have redone our point system a couple of times when we first got it and set it up. I had to figure out just a baseline and then go, okay, this is working. This isn't. And then I was able to easily go in and tweak everything. Um, so it can always evolve and it can always be edited and adjusted to work for you and for your kids at each stage of their life. But like I said before, the chore system and reward points has lightened so much for me. My kids aren't asking me for snacks all day. They're not asking me if they can watch TV all day. They know that if they want those things, they need to have the points. They need to request it. Um, and then it needs to be approved and then they can, they can do that. So it really just takes a lot of the conversation off and it sets a boundary. Next we have lists. So with the list feature, we have primarily used that as an extension of a chore chart for the routines. Those are things that they do every day. They're their personal responsibilities, their homework or chores that are just assigned that they do day in, day out. These are extra things that I put on here. Usually I will put chores that contribute to the family or home, whether it's wiping baseboards down, taking the trash out, cleaning a bathroom, shoveling, cow manure, and things like that. These are where they really can earn some points. This is the things you would pay your kids. Like I'll give you $5 to weed eat, um, or trim around the house. You know, those kinds of chores go into the list for us under to do's. Any of my kids can come and choose, okay, I'm going to tidy up the garage. I have notes that I've added for certain big things like that, that they can look at and see exactly what I want done. Tidying the garage means clean out the trash, tidy food areas, tidy the shoe area, tidy up the bikes and toys, et cetera. Once they've done it, they can assign it to themselves and then they get the points that are associated with that specific task. This has been really great for me because I don't have to hunt them down and beg them who will do this or, or tell them to do it and have them complain. I can say, Hey, there are new things loaded in the to-do list. If you guys want to earn some extra points, they use that, like I said, to cash in for money and save up for things that they really want or for extra treats or for extra screen times. So they really love that they can be independent with it. I love that they can take initiative and I'm not having to beg everyone to get things done. They have motivation right there. I can put it on a list and then check it out of my mind and they'll get it done. So, so here you can see other lists that you have. You can use this however you can imagine it. You create the list from your phone. You could do a punch list of things that need to get done around your house. You could do a list for the babysitter of things that they just need to be aware of. Because like I said, for each thing, you can add notes in. So if you say bedtime and then add the notes about what time bedtime is, what they need to do at bedtime, whatever you can dream, you can do. There's also a different layout. You can have this list of everything, or you can have it viewed per person. So these are things that my kids have done based on their to-do lists. So it did look like there wasn't much, but there's a ton. They've just already done all the things. Next, this is a newer feature that I have only begun to scratch the surface of, and that's because meal planning is just not a strength in general. So if I'm being honest with you, this is just a feature I haven't really used a lot, but it's not because I don't think it's amazing and valuable. It's just because I'm trying to tackle like one organization thing at a time. So if you have any tips about meal planning, please comment them below, but this will make it a lot easier. Anyway, I did try to put some in here. So what's very cool about this is that you can see breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner. I haven't put any snacks in because I don't even, my kids request their snacks mostly with the chore chart. Yeah, you can add in, let's say for lunch, you could do it right here, or you can do it from your phone. I find the phone just way easier to modify everything from, but you can put in what it's called. You can assign who's going to prepare it. Hello. If you have teenagers, this is absolutely brilliant. Um, especially when it comes to dinner, because let's look at this lasagna soup right here. You can add a link to the recipe. So if my husband was going to make dinner and I was like, Hey, it's lasagna soup. He can go on his phone. He can see the link, click on it. It'll open up the recipe and he's got what he needs to make it right there. So let's say I wanted to add something for lunch. You can write out what it is. You can assign it to someone. If I want one of my children to make lunch for all their siblings, which is sometimes a thing that we do, then I can say, okay, Tyler is going to make everyone's lunch today. I can add in notes, like do not feed them sugar only, or, you know, make sure that they eat protein, whatever you can add in whatever you want. And then you can save that. Okay. The last feature is literally brand new. It was just released today and it's called today. Okay. So this is like an overview of your day. So out of glance, you can kind of see they've given you a family rhythm summary, which I think is really cool. It tells you like, how is this working? And I am going to disclose to you that for the last couple of weeks, things have been a little chaotic. We had like a camp out with some friends and I've just been off all of our normal routine. So things were not getting checked off. So that's probably being reflected here. Um, but it helps you find a routine and work towards that. It tells you how it's calculated rhythm and consistency, participation and engagement, follow through and emotional signals. So you can add, we don't have it on just an extra step, but you can add, how are you feeling today? And your kids can check. So you can stay in tune with, you know, if one of them's having a bad day and maybe they're not telling you directly, you can kind of see it there and connect with them. But yeah, notes, you can edit a note for the family. So I'm just reminding everyone here to be grateful. Gratitude is top priority. Then you can see the routine. So this is up next morning and to do routines have already been done. So up next is their evening routines. You can see none of them have started them yet, obviously, but they can even click right on that and it'll take them to their routines. You also have your lists easily accessible. So they can click right here and get to any extra chores that I might have ready for them and the meals in the morning. That's what I was telling you. They walk by and they go, oh, today we're having eggs and sausage for breakfast. So I should not even ask for pancakes and lasagna soup for dinner, packed lunches. I put that under dinner, but it's supposed to be lunch. Yeah. So they can see everything. They can click on the menu if they want to. Everything at a glance, which is beautiful. They can also see their points and click on it and decide if they want to cash something out. I love this. Like I said, it's brand new. So we've used this for like a year without that feature. And I'm telling you that right there is actually so incredibly helpful. You don't have to click through the bottom. They can see all the things who has how many points Elena is clearly in the lead. And then you can see the events. So if there's appointments, um, they'll be able to see that right there. And if you click that, it takes you right to your calendar. Super cool. And then the last thing is that there is a family view on it. Um, but the family view allows you to add, if I add some more, you can kind of see everybody gets their own little bubble and I guess you just scroll. So this allows you to see their to do's everything's done for the day, their evening routine, et cetera, et cetera. This one gives you a deeper overview of everything. This one gives you each person. So if you have kids in sports or with different schedules than you, um, or different, you know, routines and, and to-do lists like this, this allows them to see quickly what they need at a glance. I personally am a fan of this, of this view, uh, because they can still see their routines and I can kind of, as a mom, see, okay, who's started, who hasn't, like, instead of tapping into the routines and having to swipe and look at each person's routine. And instead of having to go to each person's profile to see, I can literally be like seeing these progress bars and be like, Oh, okay. I need to check in with Adeline because she hasn't done much of her evening routine. So I need to go make sure she's, she's getting on that. So I love this. Hopefully this video has helped you kind of navigate that and decide whether or not the hearth display is something you want to add to your home. If you do decide that you want a hearth display in your home, you can use our code for a discount. The link is in the description. If there's anything that I didn't cover that you want to know, drop a comment below and we will answer your questions.