Customer Ratings & Reviews

Love love this product!! Best family organization tool!!

This is a great product for family organization! Every person gets their own tabs, there's to-do lists, chore charts, a synced calendar, and meal planning features. On top of that, it works as a digital photo frame when in "sleep mode".

The Skylight Calendar is very user friendly. It’s very easy to see. Being able to color code for family members is a great feature.

The unit is great. It should come with something to secure the cord to the wall. It just hangs loosely and is unsightly.

Great product. Screen looks nice and definitely helped with organization. Only annoying thing is you have to pay $40 a year for photos.

Makes life so much easier. Put all your meetings, payment dues etc and you will always know when and whats going on daily

Took me a minute to get my calendar to sync but got it and love it so much. The picture slideshow is the best since I wanted a electronic picture frame And this did this.

This calendar is amazing. My children love the chore function. Ever since I bought it my family has been more organized. Can’t wait to use this during the school year.

Very impressed with this awesome technology. It's like having your Outlook on the counter.

She's a systems engineer, so she's picky about tech. When she did the setup, she realized how much it helps with meetings and dates and the kids' schedule. She loves it!

Excellent resource to stay organized with work and family. My kids love it and we all enjoy the slide show feature. Unfortunately the one I ordered online did not get delivered to my house and I had to go and purchase it at the store but that was not Beat Buys fault.

I originally bought this item, because I wanted to store my calendar in a location other than my computer and smartphone. I use Microsoft Outlook for my calendar back end, so setting this device up was a little more challenging. The subscription service for this device functioned really well - every calendar item I had emailed to the personalized email address appeared on my calendar within seconds. The reason I rated this calendar two stars, is because when I went to back up the contents of my calendar so I could have an offline copy, I learned from their support department that the calendar export feature is currently in the "experimental" phase. I also learned to my dismay, that using Microsoft Outlook as a calendar back end did not provide two-way synchronization functionality with this device. I only learned this fact after pouring through the Microsoft support forum. The lack of two-way synchronization with Microsoft Outlook, and the export feature being "experimental" was the ultimate deal breaker for me. I have now gone back to storing my calendar on my smartphone, and have recycled this device to my local Goodwill since I can no longer use it.

Absolutely beautiful. The best gift I’ve ever given my husband. Bright, convenient, and handsome. Great addition to our kitchen counter.

Easy to use with the application. No need to pay for upgrade. Color makes it easy for kids to read.

This is so nice to look at every morning to see everything I have for the day/ week. It is a life saver!

I like it but I thought it was going to be able to send notifications to my phone or something other than that it’s just a good calendar and photo frame

Love the calendar, the options it provides. It was a great gift! I do wish that it didn't cost to use some of the options.

Not very many options available for convenience. For instance you can’t have recurring events that are adjustable like a nurse works 3 shifts a week on different days not every week is the same, if there was an options to edit events to make adding 7am-7pm events on certain days and an option to delete make one day if needing to switch days without having to delete the entire event and start over. It’s not thought out very well it’s basically like a big outlook calendar which is already free on iPhone, if I’m paying 200 bucks for a nice digital calendar then I would expect lots of features you can’t even see the whole month’s events because the fonts are just 3 sizes. If you have more than 4 things in one day you have to click on each day individually just to see what’s going on the particular day.

Works great! We love the photo frame feature and the subscription for the chores and reminder options is great! The only issue we’ve had is that it stopped working and had to replace the power plug.

Having a multi-platform household with voice command devices from 3 major platforms, and a couple of screens from one of those, but mobile phones and laptops from a different platform is a recipe for chaos. So having one place to combine and collate, organize, and put it all on one timeline seems like magic. Certainly calendars are the backbone of the product, with date, time, and the person involved via color coding is clearly displayed, at a glance. Items can be added via your phone, the Skylight mobile app, or on the frame itself. You can quickly with a single click see a list of all of your own schedule entries It was actually easy to use the physical frame for entry, as the touchscreen keyboard was quite accurate, and gave a confirmatory “click” with each touch. Calendars and persons were color coded to make it easy to focus on the items that were your most pressing concerns. This is much superior to having to visually scan all the entries, or to require your family to use different colors Dry Erase pens for the white board. Grocery list to add items through the week, which pairs nicely with the Meal Planner which can announce for all viewers the entrée for upcoming dinners. Chore/project/task list, for the children or handy persons in the household, as reminders and a scorecard, as they can be checked off once completed. These can be assigned a “weekly” status to automate repeating actions so that memory does not whittle down oversight of the list, and keeps the list authentic. The calendar will import your entries automatically from any one of your devices, once you have set up a synch with your calendars. Whatever device you are using to enter a new item: your phone (Android or iPhone), your computer (iCal on Apple, Google Calendar, or Outlook on Windows), Yahoo! calendar, Chromebook, or the free Cozi family calendar app. I did note that having a “shared” calendar with my spouse, and having both my phone and her phone linked to the Skylight seemed to automatically duplicate on the Frame two entries of the same event. I need to experiment how to fix this. I am supposing it can be remedied by removing the linkage from one of the two phones to the Skylight. I will query customer support for how best to do this. The iPhone mobile app was very easy to install and activate the Skylight Frame. All of it seemed very well engineered. A new version was available in only a couple of days after I had installed, upgrading to version 1.61.1. Looking at the version history it seems they are very active with updates; at least twice a month! That (to me, at least) speaks to a responsive and engaged support team; although it could also be due to an initial app that was plagued with lots of bugs, I suppose. However the very high satisfaction Star count on the App Store seemed to support the former theory. There were over 32,000 reports on the App Store, with a score of 4.8 out of 5! So that speaks volumes to me about the ease and power of the device and its linked app. The mobile app is synchronized with all the other calendars, so you get real time updates as events are added or altered, to the Frame and any linked devices. So a new item on the grocery list shows up on your phone Skylight app, even if you are already at the grocery store when it is added. Color categories makes it easy to discern which items need your personal awareness You can choose to view a day, week, or month view. Scrolling forward in a day or to the next month, is a swipe of the finger on the screen, all very intuitive. The Frame is very substantial, rather heavy, giving a sense of a sturdy and durable build quality. However, that also makes me a bit hesitant about wall mounting, although wall anchors and stout screws were provided. The metal “kick stand” was well machined and had well placed padding to keep it stable and to avoid scratching of a wooden table top. installing the mobile app and linking the various iCal calendars (Apple products were my only foray, no Android phones in our home) was very simple. The screen warned to allow for a certain length of time for the synchronization to finish, so I just let it run and came back to it later. Linking my wife’s calendars and installing the app on her phone was very easy, and the entries she makes on the phone’s calendar (the app she is used to) automatically arrive on the Skylight App and Frame, without having to change her routine or learn a new system. Almost magic. There is a subscription option, named Skylight Photo Plus plan, that I have not used. This Plan allows the Calendar Frame to be an automatic sequential digital photo frame, similar to the many such items for this function. There is, with this $39 annual extra subscription, the ability to send photos and video clips to a remote frame via email or the app. You can also add captions to your photos, but at the expense of some of the real estate used for the photograph. The Plus Plan also adds the “Magic Import” function. The import option allows you to add important school dates to your calendar by simply forwarding any email or PDF containing dates. Then remotely Skylight will automatically convert the dates from the text into events on your Calendar. The monthly fee for this was my stumbling block to activating it, since the other smart displays that we have in our house have linked photo galleries that do NOT charge a monthly fee. You can send photos to the Skylight App with the basic frame, without paying for the Plus Plan. That way you can explore the photo feature on your own, before you commit for the extra features. But if you try to view these on your Skylight Frame, with the tempting “Photos” icon along the left edge, you get a paywall explaining that you need to subscribe. You are able to send your photos to anyone who has a Skylight Calendar Frame. So you could keep the whole family up to date on your tribe and activities. I am assuming that they would need to pay the monthly fee as well; so a gift that requires them to shell out $40/year might be a mixed blessing. Just be aware, unless you pay for the first couple of years… The photos can be sent via the Skylight app, with the choice of either your phone’s camera for a live shot, or selecting from the photo archive on your device. Or you can go to your photo library and email it to them via an attachment sending it to: <your calendar name>@ourskylight.com . This could make the Skylight Frame a cherished gift to the extended family. The photo montage feature versus the calendar view is toggled on/off with a single tap of the settings gear icon in the upper right corner. And the screen can be dimmed off via a schedule easily set. In summary, this is the best I’ve seen in a synchronized calendar and organization tool for a multi-user group. The add-on option of a smart and flexible digital photo frame for both still photos, with captions, and video clips is optional, but would become more compelling if your remote family members also had Skylight Frame/Calendars. I would definitely recommend this to a friend, and am sending my daughter one for their family with three sons in the middle school/high school range!