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AI calendar magic for activity teams

Your whole month, beautifully laid out — in minutes.

My Activity Genie helps teams build, style, and print monthly activity schedules people will love — with an AI assistant that turns plain English into a finished calendar. Create matching daily flyers, newsletters, signs, and more for assisted living, schools, day care, senior centers, and community programs.

WYSIWYG
what you see is what prints
Genie
plain English to a finished month
PDF
print-ready export and sharing

“Spend less time formatting, more time with people.”

Genie does the layout. You stay in control.
Open beta

My Activity Genie is in open beta — you can sign up and start today.

The product is real and activity directors are using it for their actual monthly calendars. It is also not finished: you will run into bugs, and we fix fastest what people tell us about. Losing work is unlikely, but on beta software it is possible — so export a calendar to PDF when you finish it and keep that copy.

Paid plans are at their normal prices during the beta, and what is included in each plan may still change while we work that out. The calendars you make are yours to keep and print either way.

Built for

  • Assisted living
  • Senior centers
  • Schools
  • Day care
  • Community programs

Makes

  • Monthly calendars
  • Daily flyers
  • Newsletters
  • Signs
  • Sign-up sheets

See it made, start to finish

Watch a professional-looking activity calendar come together.

No slides and no sales pitch — this is the real print builder, building a real month. Seven minutes from an empty page to something you would be happy to post on the wall.

Prefer to share it? Open the video on its own — the link works for anyone, no account needed.

Microsoft Publisher retires October 2026

Publisher is retiring. Your activity calendar isn't.

Microsoft retires Publisher in October 2026. My Activity Genie is the purpose-built next home for activity professionals — and the move starts with the calendar you already made. No special export needed: print it, screenshot it, copy the text, or grab the spreadsheet it came from.

  • A print-first calendar builder — what you see on screen is what comes off the printer.
  • Matching daily flyers, newsletters, and signs from the same month's events.
  • The work around the calendar too: tasks, budgets, professionals, staff, and an event library.
  • Genie, the built-in AI assistant — plain English in, a laid-out month out.

Bring last month’s calendar with you

  1. Paste it in

    Copy your schedule out of an email, a Word document, or an Excel sheet and paste it in — Genie turns it into calendar events.

  2. Upload the spreadsheet you already have

    Excel and OpenDocument files (.xlsx, .xls, .ods) and .csv exports come through intact — even multi-sheet workbooks and month-grid layouts.

  3. Or snap a photo

    Take a photo or screenshot of your printed calendar and watch it become an editable calendar.

Every import is reviewable — the new events land right on your calendar, and one click undoes the whole batch.

From idea to finished calendar

One tool for calendars, flyers, newsletters, signs — and the work around them.

My Activity Genie brings planning, design, AI assistance, approvals, and publishing together in one workspace. Instead of juggling spreadsheets, design tools, shared folders, and email chains, your team works from one source of truth.

  1. Add your events

    Type them in, pull them from your event library, or let Genie do the heavy lifting. It reads plain English, creates recurring events, assigns locations, and organizes the month for you.

  2. Make it yours

    Choose themes, colors, fonts, icons, backgrounds, and graphics. Use AI-generated artwork or your own tagged image library to land a polished, on-brand look.

  3. Generate the extras

    Turn the calendar into matching daily flyers, newsletters, sign-up sheets, supply lists, and signs — all from the same content and the same styling system.

  4. Print, share, approve

    Export print-ready PDFs, route the month for sign-off, publish to your subscriber portal, and sync events out to Google Calendar or Outlook.

Genie reviews

A review of how you work, with a few good suggestions.

Now and then Genie looks at how you use My Activity Genie and emails you a review with a few suggestions — a quicker way to do something you do often, or a feature that would save you time.

Genie works from how you use the app, never from resident information. Suggestions link to step-by-step guides that open right in the app, and you can reply to any review email with a question.

  • Clear a whole day in one request

    When an outing takes over a day, ask Genie to skip every repeating event on that date at once, instead of finding them one at a time.

  • Start your first calendar with a guide

    Haven't made a calendar yet? A step-by-step guide in the app walks you through the month, your repeating activities and the first print.

  • A layout that fits how you print

    If a sheet keeps fighting you, reply to the review email and say what you were trying to change, and Genie will point you to a template that fits.

Genie already works inside the app, too: ask it to fill a week and it does — seven days of activities, laid out on the calendar, in about a minute.

Genie reviews are on from the start. Switch them off any time in Account Settings, or use the unsubscribe link in any review email.

Feature-rich without feeling complicated

The features that make My Activity Genie feel like magic.

Everything an activity team needs to plan the month, make it beautiful, get it approved, and get it out the door.

  • WYSIWYG calendar builder

    What you see is exactly what prints. Drop events onto the page, style them live, and preview the finished sheet at real page size — Letter through Tabloid — with no surprises at the printer.

  • Genie, your AI assistant

    Ask for a month in plain English. Genie adds events, builds recurring patterns, assigns locations, and applies styling — then shows you exactly what it changed.

  • AI artwork & backgrounds

    Generate custom illustrations, day backgrounds, and decorative images from a prompt. No design background required.

  • Themes & full styling control

    Fonts, colours, per-day styling, borders, icons, header rows, and a free-form graphics layer over the grid. Save a whole look as a theme and reuse it every month.

  • Print & export

    One click to print or export a polished PDF. Letter, Legal, Tabloid, A4, A3 and A5 — portrait or landscape — with the page size baked into the print dialog.

  • Documents beyond calendars

    Newsletters, flyers, sign-up sheets, supply lists, and signs in a full rich-text editor with tables, images, and templates — exported as PDF or PNG, with Word (.docx) in pre-alpha for an editable file.

  • Image library with tags

    Organize uploads and generated art with tags, browse a shared library, and reuse the same images across every calendar and document.

  • Event library

    Keep your best activities in one place — descriptions, categories, and supply lists — then drop them onto any month in a couple of clicks.

  • Work calendar & tasks

    A separate operational view for the team: prep tasks, assignees, checklists, reusable templates, and a workload board so nothing about an event gets forgotten.

  • Professionals, budgets & staff

    Track the entertainers and professionals you book, what each event costs against your monthly budget, and which staff members are covering it.

  • Approval workflows

    Route a calendar for sign-off in the app or by emailed link. External reviewers approve without an account, and every decision and comment is recorded.

  • Team workspaces & roles

    Share calendars across your team or your whole organization with owner, admin, editor, and viewer roles — and a facility hierarchy for multi-site operators.

  • Google & Outlook sync

    Connect Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook and sync a calendar in, out, or both ways — with a preview of every change before it is applied.

  • Subscriber portal

    Publish a branded page and calendar feed for residents, families, and staff, with announcements, event invites, and a QR code for the printed calendar.

Why teams love it

Built to save time, reduce friction, and make the finished result look incredible.

  • No design background required

    Genie, the templates, and the themes do the hard parts, so more people on the team can produce polished materials with confidence.

  • Looks genuinely professional

    Calendars and flyers that residents, families, staff, and the wider community are happy to see on the wall.

  • Saves hours every month

    Recurring events, a reusable event library, copy-to-next-month, and AI drafting cut the repetitive part of calendar work dramatically.

  • Private and reviewable

    Your content stays scoped to your workspace, roles decide who can change what, and version history means an edit is never a one-way door.

More than a calendar builder

Monthly calendar on the wall. Daily flyer at the door. Newsletter in hand. Sign by the event.

My Activity Genie keeps the whole communication system aligned. The same events and the same styling can power the monthly schedule, the daily handout, the front-desk sign, and the family newsletter.

  • Your whole month, beautifully laid out — in minutes.
  • Genie does the layout. You stay in control.
  • One tool for calendars, flyers, newsletters, and signs.

Focused on assisted living, useful far beyond it

Start with activity directors. Expand anywhere people plan recurring experiences.

  • Assisted living

    Activity directors get time back.

    Plan resident-centred programming, produce a calendar people are proud of, print daily door flyers, and keep family-facing materials consistent without rebuilding the design every month.

    • Type sizes, colours and layout you control, right down to a single day
    • Rooms, professionals, staff and supplies tracked alongside every event
    • Approval routing for nursing, administration, and leadership
  • Schools

    Polished family calendars, faster.

    Build classroom calendars, spirit weeks, event flyers, and printable schedules that stay consistent across grades and programs.

    • A shared event library so every classroom starts from the same material
    • Team workspaces for rooms, staff, and special events
    • Version history and sign-off before anything goes home
  • Day care

    Turn routine into delight.

    Parent-facing schedules, theme days, snack reminders, and cheerful daily handouts — without starting from a blank page each week.

    • Theme-based activity ideas from Genie
    • Simple printable daily handouts and signs
    • A subscriber page and calendar feed for parents
  • Senior centers & community programs

    Any program with a schedule can look more professional.

    Community centres, libraries, churches, clubs, and wellness programs can publish calendars and supporting print pieces that feel organized and welcoming.

    • Reusable themes and seasonal looks
    • Multi-site planning under one organization
    • Exports for print, email, and display screens

Connected, reviewable, team-ready

Designed for teams that cannot afford calendar surprises.

Sync with the calendars your colleagues already use, route work for sign-off, and keep every approval attached to the actual calendar instead of buried in an inbox.

  • Google & Microsoft

    Connect Google Calendar or Outlook and sync a calendar in, out, or both ways — with a preview of every change before it is applied.

  • Approvals

    In-app review plus emailed magic links, so a nursing lead or administrator can approve without an account. Decisions and comments stay attached to the calendar.

  • Sharing & roles

    Owner, admin, editor, and viewer roles across team workspaces and a facility hierarchy, with version history on calendars and documents.

  • Publishing

    A branded subscriber page, a calendar feed, announcements, and event invites for residents, families, and staff.

Pricing

Priced like a tool, not like software.

Start free and print a real month before you decide. Prices are in US dollars, and a yearly plan is charged once a year.

How plans work here

One thing to know before the prices, because almost nobody guesses it:

  • A plan belongs to a workspace

    Not to you. You can be in more than one — your own, and your facility's — and what you can do depends on the workspace you are working in.

  • A personal workspace is yours alone

    One person doing the work. The moment a colleague needs to edit alongside you, that is a team workspace — and you can move an existing one across without losing anything.

  • People who only read and print are free

    Owners, admins and editors take a seat. Everyone else — the nurse who prints the month, the administrator who checks it — costs nothing, with no limit on how many.

A personal workspace

You. One paid seat.

A team workspace

2 seats are in the price
More people, charged per person per month
Anyone who only reads and prints — free, no limit

Every plan includes the print calendar builder, the work calendar, documents, event templates, the professional directory, tasks, budgets, the professionals CRM, reports, approvals and the subscriber portal.

Documents are on every plan — but not every kind of document:

Free
activity flyers
Basic Plus and up
newsletters, sign-up sheets, activity flyers and text documents

In alpha, and open to try

Games & Puzzles

Bingo cards, word searches, trivia and puzzle sheets, printed with answer keys for whoever is running the session. It is being built in the open: rough in places, changing week by week, and we would rather you tried it and told us what is wrong than waited for it to be finished.

Open on every plan, including Free, while it is in alpha.

Working on your own

  • Free

    Build a real month, print it, and see whether this fits how you work.

    Free

    No card, no trial clock.

    Just you — this workspace holds one person

    • The whole print-calendar builder, themes and templates
    • Print-ready PDF and PNG exports
    • 20 calendars
    • Documents: activity flyers
    • Your facility logo, but no other image uploads
    • The Genie assistant is not included
    • Word (.docx) export — pre-alpha, and available to try
    • Alpha features are open here — today that means Games & Puzzles
    • Calendars are kept 30 days after your last edit
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  • Basic Plus

    Our pick

    Where the product opens up: every document type, images, and Genie.

    $3.99/ month

    or $42.99 a year — save $4.89 a year

    Just you — this workspace holds one person

    • Everything in Free, plus:
    • Genie writes, fills and restyles a month with you
    • As many calendars as you like
    • Documents: newsletters, sign-up sheets, activity flyers, text documents
    • Up to 5 image uploads
    • 5 MB of image storage
    • A monthly allowance for the Genie assistant
    • Modules: Staff, Google & Outlook calendar sync
    • Calendars are kept 90 days after your last edit
    Create your account
  • Power User

    The director's seat — room to work and a year of history.

    $10.99/ month

    or $118.99 a year — save $12.89 a year

    One paid seat, plus unlimited free view-and-print people

    • Everything in Basic Plus, plus:
    • Unlimited image uploads
    • 50 MB of image storage
    • About 3× the monthly Genie allowance
    • Import images straight from a connected cloud drive
    • Modules: Event invites
    • Calendars are kept 500 days after your last edit
    Create your account

Working as a team

One workspace, one bill. The price covers the seats on the card; anyone beyond that is charged per person per month, and people who only read and print are still free.

  • Team Basic Plus

    One shared workspace for the people who plan the month together.

    $6.99/ month

    or $74.99 a year — save $8.89 a year

    Extra seats $2.99 a month or $31.99 a year each

    2 seats included, more at the per-seat price, plus unlimited free view-and-print people

    What it costs a month
    2 people who edit$6.99
    3 people who edit$9.98
    5 people who edit$15.96
    • Everything in Basic Plus, plus:
    • A shared workspace, with roles for who edits and who only views
    • Up to 10 image uploads
    • 10 MB of image storage
    Create your account
  • Team Power

    Everything the director's seat gives, for a whole activity team.

    $19.99/ month

    or $215.99 a year — save $23.89 a year

    Extra seats $5.99 a month or $64.99 a year each

    3 seats included, more at the per-seat price, plus unlimited free view-and-print people

    What it costs a month
    3 people who edit$19.99
    4 people who edit$25.98
    6 people who edit$37.96
    • Everything in Team Basic Plus, plus:
    • Unlimited image uploads
    • 50 MB of image storage
    • About 3× the monthly Genie allowance
    • Import images straight from a connected cloud drive
    • Modules: Event invites
    • Calendars are kept 500 days after your last edit
    Create your account

Custom plans

If none of these fit, the table is not the limit.

Several communities under one roof, an organisation whose shape none of these plans match, or a requirement we have not thought of — arrangements like that are put together by hand. Tell us how your facility actually works and we will build a plan around it.

Questions

The things activity teams ask us first.

What is My Activity Genie?
It is a calendar and publishing tool built specifically for activity teams in senior living. You build a month of activities once, then turn it into a printed calendar, daily activity flyers, a newsletter, and door signs — without fighting a general-purpose design program.
Who is it for?
Activity directors, life-enrichment and recreation staff, and the teams around them in assisted living, memory care, independent living, skilled nursing, and adult day programs. It suits a single community just as well as an organization running several.
Do I need design skills to use it?
No. Templates, themes, and an AI assistant handle layout, spacing, and styling. Most people produce a finished, printable month without touching a design tool, and anything the assistant does can be undone from version history.
Is there a free plan, and do I need a credit card?
Yes to the free plan, and no card is required to start. It gives you 20 calendars and the document editor, and you can upload your facility logo. Image uploads and AI features are on the paid plans, and a calendar left untouched for 30 days is cleaned up automatically — your logo is always kept. If you want more, you can subscribe inside the app without talking to anyone, and cancel the same way.
Can I print the calendar, or export it?
Both. Calendars, flyers, newsletters, and signs export as print-ready PDF or as PNG images, so you can print in-house, send to a print shop, or post them. Word (.docx) export is pre-alpha — available to try when you need to hand someone an editable file, still rough, and not the one to rely on for a finished document. PDF and PNG are the finished paths.
Is this a replacement for Microsoft Publisher?
For activity calendars, yes — that is the job it was built to take over. The difference is that it understands what a month of activities is, rather than treating it as boxes of text, so recurring programs, a reusable event library, and copying last month forward all work without rebuilding the page each time.
Can my team work together on the calendar?
Yes. Team workspaces let several people work in the same calendar, roles decide who can edit and who can only view, and an approval step lets a manager review a month before it is published. Version history means an edit is never a one-way door.
Does it work with the calendar we already use?
It connects to Google Calendar and Outlook, so events already on a shared work calendar can appear alongside what you plan here instead of being retyped.
How long does it take to build a month?
The first month usually takes an afternoon, because you are setting up your locations, recurring programs, and the look you want. After that it is far quicker: copy last month forward, let the recurring events fill themselves in, adjust what changed, and print.
Is resident information safe?
The product is deliberately not designed to hold protected health information, and we ask you not to put it in. Activity calendars are about programs and schedules, not diagnoses or care details. Your content stays scoped to your own workspace, and roles control who can see and change it.

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