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You shouldn't have to hold the whole family in your head.

Parallel helps you organise the plans, tasks and everyday things that keep family life moving — with Elle, your AI planning assistant, there to help you make sense of it all.

Free on the App Store · 7-day free trial · then £5.99/month

Built for real family life. Not perfect routines.

Tuesday · 18 June

Your day
08:45
School run
11:00
Work call
16:30
Dinner prep
Theo's day
09:00
School
15:15
Pickup
16:00
Swimming

It's not just the doing. It's remembering everything needs doing.

The things you need to do, the things you need to remember, and the things nobody else even knows you're remembering.

Parallel gives all of that somewhere to go.

Meet Elle

Meet Elle. The extra brain for family life.

Elle is Parallel's AI planning assistant. Tell her what's going on, what you need to remember or what feels overwhelming, and she can help you turn the mess in your head into something you can actually work through.

Plan with Elle

I need to sort the nursery form, remember nappies, book the dentist and get a birthday present before Saturday.

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Let's get that out of your head and into a plan.

  • Sort the nursery formNursery
  • Pick up nappiesShopping
  • Book the dentistHealth
  • Birthday present — before SaturdaySocial

The mental load

Planning for the person who remembers everything.

Parallel isn't designed around perfect productivity. It's designed around real family life — interrupted mornings, forgotten forms, changing plans, work, children, appointments and the thousand small things sitting quietly in the background.

The goal isn't to help you do more. It's to help you carry less in your head.

You don't need another system to manage. You need something that helps manage the system.

How it works

Three simple steps.

  1. 1

    Get it out of your head

    Add what you need to remember, plan or work through.

  2. 2

    Let Elle help

    Use Elle to bring some structure to everything competing for your attention.

  3. 3

    Get on with your day

    Keep the important things somewhere you can actually find them again.

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What you can do with Parallel.

Plan your days

Keep plans and important things together

  • Day, week and month views — your time and each child's, side by side
  • Lock the school run, the work call, the non-negotiables — Elle won't move them
  • Optional times for the things that really do start at 3:15

Keep track of what needs doing

Give the list in your head somewhere visible to live

  • Add your kids — tasks route to the right column automatically
  • Categories for school, activity, health, household, work, self and social
  • Flag the must-happen-today essentials

Ask Elle

Help when everything feels scattered

  • Brain dump the wall of mental notes — Elle turns it into real tasks
  • Ask her to plan your day around what's already there
  • Gentle heads-ups on conflicts and unassigned kid bits

See family life more clearly

Your week, in one calm place

  • Anchor List — your three priorities for the week
  • Win of the day — one daily focus, gently tracked
  • Warm-paper design that feels nothing like a productivity app

Try Parallel free for 7 days.

Then £5.99/month. Cancel anytime. No hidden tiers — just one simple subscription for the whole family.

Why Parallel exists

Parallel started with a very familiar feeling: "Why am I the one remembering all of this?"

Parallel came from trying to manage children, work, appointments, home life and everything in between.

The problem wasn't simply having too much to do. It was being the person expected to remember what needed doing in the first place.

Parallel was created to give that mental load somewhere else to live.

Where we're heading

We're building towards something bigger.

Family life doesn't happen in separate boxes. Meals affect schedules. Schedules affect energy. Appointments need remembering. Weekends need planning. Someone has to keep track of all of it.

Parallel is being built towards a more intelligent way of supporting family life — where planning, routines, meals, activities and everyday family admin can work together rather than creating more things for parents to manage. Elle is at the centre of that vision.

One place for the things your family needs. One less place for them to live: your head.

Get some of it out of your head.

Start planning with Parallel and let Elle help you make sense of everything competing for your attention.

Start with Parallel

Free to download · 7-day free trial · then £5.99/month

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Updates, tips for easing the mental load, and the honest behind-the-scenes of building an app as a parent. We'd love to see you there.

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