Cozi Calendar Display: Put Your Cozi Calendar on a Wall Screen
Cozi has no wall display of its own — it is a phone app, and there is no Cozi screen to buy. But Cozi does hand out a shareable calendar URL, and any display that reads calendar feeds can subscribe to it. So you can put the family's Cozi calendar on a screen in the kitchen today, on a screen you already own.
Two parts: get the URL out of Cozi, then point something at it.
Part 1 — get your Cozi calendar URL
Do this on a computer; the flow is easier to reach than in the app.
- Sign in to Cozi in a browser.
- Open Settings from the menu on the left of your account page.
- In the calendar section, open Shared Cozi Calendars. A window lists everybody in the family.
- Switch the calendar you want from Unshared to Shared.
- Press View or send Cozi URL, then Copy Cozi URL.
What you get is a long https:// address on a cozi.com server, ending in .ics. The long
random string in the middle of it is the part that matters — that is the bit standing in for
a password.
You do not need Cozi Gold for this. The shared calendar URL is part of the free account. Gold removes the adverts and adds the month view and birthday tracking; it does not gate the outbound feed.
Each family member is a separate feed. If you want two children's calendars on the screen, share each of them and copy both URLs. Most displays merge several feeds into one agenda, so two links do not mean two lists.
Treat the URL like a password. There is no sign-in at the other end — the random string in the address is what stands in for one — so anyone holding the link can read that calendar until you set it back to Unshared. Keep it out of screenshots, shared documents and group chats.
Part 2 — put it on a screen
DinkyDash is free, open-source software that turns a screen you already own into a family dashboard: today's events, a chore chart that rotates between people by itself, countdowns to birthdays and holidays, and a short line written fresh every morning by AI. It runs in a browser, so an old tablet, a spare monitor, a TV or a Raspberry Pi will all do.
Which screen? An old iPad or an Android tablet is the cheapest good panel, a Raspberry Pi the tidiest, and a smart TV or Fire TV will show it on the big screen. There is one device it does not work on, and the Echo Show page says why.
Point it at Cozi:
- Open Settings → Calendars → Add a calendar.
- Give it a name — "Cozi" or the child's name — and paste the URL into iCal link.
- Press Check this link. It reports how many events it found and what the next one is, so you know it works before you save.
- Repeat for each family member's feed you shared.
Everything stays where it is. You keep adding events in Cozi on your phone, because the feed is read-only and a display cannot write back to it. The screen just shows what Cozi already knows.
What the screen adds that Cozi does not
Cozi is good at capture — you type an appointment into your phone on the way out of school pickup. It is less good at the other half, which is everybody in the house knowing what is happening without asking a parent to unlock a phone.
A wall screen fills that half, and once it is up it does a few things Cozi has no place to show:
- A chore chart that rotates. List who is in the rota and it moves on one person a day, by itself. Nobody has to update a chart, and the screen — not a parent — is the one saying whose turn it is.
- Countdowns. Birthdays, Christmas, the school holidays. This is the feature children actually use, and it retires the "how many days until…" question.
- A daily line. A greeting and one line of copy, written each morning around the family's real day.
More on that combination on the digital calendar and chore chart page.
What it costs
Nothing, if you have a spare screen. DinkyDash is MIT-licensed and free to run yourself.
- A tablet or monitor you already own — $0. The cheapest way to find out whether the family will look at it.
- A Raspberry Pi and a small touchscreen — about $100 in parts, and the tidiest wall panel. The Raspberry Pi build guide has the parts list.
There is no subscription for the self-hosted version. The one running cost is the AI daily line, which is a Claude API call once a day — roughly $0.13 a month — and the board works without it.
Compare that with a dedicated display: a Skylight Calendar is $299.99 to $599.99 plus an optional $79 a year, and a Hearth is $699 plus $9 a month. Both are nicely made. Neither reads your Cozi calendar any better than a browser does. The full comparison is on the best digital family calendar page.
If Cozi is not the only calendar in the house
Most families end up with more than one. Work is often in Outlook, the school sends an iCal subscription, and one parent lives in Google Calendar. All of them publish a link, and they all merge into a single agenda on the screen:
- Google Calendar — Settings → Integrate calendar → Secret address in iCal format
- Apple iCloud Calendar — turn on Public Calendar and copy the link
- Outlook and Microsoft 365 — publish the calendar, then take the ICS link
Start here
The setup guide walks the whole thing: run the board on your own computer first, see your own family on it, then move it onto the screen that stays on the wall. Budget an evening for the Raspberry Pi version; a spare tablet takes about ten minutes.
The code is on GitHub under an MIT licence.
Last updated 2026-09-08.