SharedStead

For families who share a place

The app for sharing a family cabin or vacation home

SharedStead gives your family one fair booking calendar, the house manual, and a private place to coordinate, so a shared cabin, cottage, or co-owned home stays a joy instead of a chore.

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Sound familiar?

Sharing a well-loved place shouldn't need endless logistics.

A 40-message group text just to settle one weekend

A spreadsheet only one person knows how to read

"Whose turn is it for the July long weekend?" every single year

The closing checklist and Wi-Fi password, lost again

A calmer way than the usual workarounds

Most families patch this together with a spreadsheet, a group text, or a generic calendar. Here is how those compare to one place built for sharing a home.

SharedSteadA spreadsheetA group textA generic calendar
See availability at a glance✓limited–✓
Fair booking rules built in✓–––
House manual & checklists with the place✓–––
Private, invite-only space✓––limited
Everyone has their own login✓–✓limited
Reminders & booking alerts✓––limited
Photos & a family board✓–––

Booking rules and photo albums are in public preview and switched on per family on request, so ask and we turn them on for you.

Everything a shared place needs, in one spot

A fair booking calendar

One calendar per property everyone can see. Claim your weeks in the open and end the "whose turn is it?" debate.

House manuals & checklists

Opening, closing, and storm-prep steps live with the property, so whoever heads up can always find them.

Members & roles

Group people into families and give the right folks admin powers. Invite by email and approve who joins.

Reminders & booking alerts

A gentle nudge before a stay and a heads-up when someone books or cancels, by email and in the app.

Photos & a family board

Shared albums and a private board for plans and news, instead of everything scattered across texts.

Private & invite-only

Your space is sealed off from every other community on SharedStead. Only the people you invite can see it.

Built for places like yours

Family compoundsShared lake cabinsInherited family homesA private lane of cottagesCo-owned vacation homes

Guides for sharing a place

How to share a family cabin without the group-text chaos

One shared calendar for your family’s vacation home or lake house

Inherited a house with your siblings? A fair way to share it

Frequently asked

Can more than one family share a place?+

Yes, and it is the part other tools do not do. A road, a lake, or a compound can hold several families at once. Each keeps its own calendar, its own members, and its own privacy, while still seeing who is around and sharing a board for news. Most apps stop at a single household.

I want to create this but I don’t want to be the admin.+

That’s okay. You can add co-admins to share the work, or hand the admin role to someone else entirely, so the place never depends on any one person.

Is it fair to everyone?+

Yes. Every member sees the same shared calendar, and a family admin can ask us to switch on booking rules: put the family into groups, give each group its turn to book each season, rotate the order every year, and cap nights per person if you like. The calendar tells everyone whose turn it is. Booking rules are in public preview and off until your family asks for them, so families that do not need them never see them.

Is our information private?+

Your community is invite-only and walled off from every other community on SharedStead. Only the people you invite can see your calendar, posts, and photos.

Can we add guests or other families?+

Absolutely. Group people into families, invite as many as you like, and give trusted members admin access to help run the place.

What if someone leaves the group?+

Admins can remove a member at any time. The place, and all its history, stays with the family, not any one person.

Keep the place in the family

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Free · No credit card · Set up in an afternoon