A shared family screen on the tablet you already own
The kitchen display is part of Bubaly, not a device to buy. Put a tablet in a stand, open the display, and the household's day is on the wall.
What the wall shows
Illustrative sampleToday
Everyone's day in one column, with what is happening now marked as now.
Ask
Type or say a request at the counter. Bubaly answers or proposes a plan; a parent still approves anything that acts.
Handled today
A count of the requests that finished, straight from the record. When the record cannot be read, the tile says so instead of showing a zero.
Six steps, about ten minutes
The same steps the app walks through once you are signed in.
- 1
Sign in on the tablet
The display shows one household's own information, so the tablet signs in like any other device.
- 2
Add Bubaly to the home screen
Share, then Add to Home Screen. It opens without browser bars from then on.
- 3
Open the display and go full screen
The tiles are yours to arrange: today's plan, meals, chores, the list, who is where.
- 4
Keep the screen awake
Bubaly asks the browser to hold a screen lock, and says so when the browser has none.
- 5
Lock it to the one app
Guided Access on iPad, screen pinning on Android. The wall stays the wall.
- 6
Stand it up and plug it in
A stand or a wall mount and a charger left connected. An always-on screen runs a battery down in hours.
What runs the display
A compatibility list, with the minimum each device needs and what to do about the screen going to sleep.
Built and checked against these
Big landscape screens whose browsers hold a screen lock and whose systems can be locked to one app.
iPad (10th generation or newer)
The reference device: a big landscape screen, a browser that holds a screen lock, and Guided Access to keep it on one app.
- Minimum:
- iPadOS 16.4
- Browser:
- Safari
Any stand with a cable pass-through works; keep it plugged in, because an always-on screen empties a battery in hours.
iPad Air / iPad Pro
Brighter and faster than needed for a wall screen, which mostly means the photo background looks better.
- Minimum:
- iPadOS 16.4
- Browser:
- Safari
Magnetic wall mounts exist for these; the same rule applies — leave the charger connected.
Google Pixel Tablet
Ships with a charging speaker dock, so it is a wall screen the moment you put it down.
- Minimum:
- Android 13
- Browser:
- Chrome
The dock in the box is the stand and the charger; nothing else to buy.
Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ / Tab S
Android screen pinning keeps the display in place, and Chrome holds the screen lock.
- Minimum:
- Android 13
- Browser:
- Chrome
A cheap adjustable stand and a long cable is the whole setup.
Works, with one thing to know
Perfectly usable; each row names the one thing to set differently.
Older iPad (iPadOS 15)
Runs the display, but Safari gained the screen lock only in 16.4 — set auto-lock to Never instead.
- Minimum:
- iPadOS 15
- Browser:
- Safari
Perfectly good on a kitchen shelf; run Test this display to see what this one supports.
Amazon Fire HD 10
Works as a browser page. The Silk browser may not offer a screen lock, so the self-check is worth running first.
- Minimum:
- Fire OS 8
- Browser:
- Silk
The charging dock sold for it doubles as the stand.
Any laptop, desktop or Chromebook
The display is a web page, so an old laptop in the kitchen corner is a perfectly ordinary way to run it.
- Minimum:
- Chrome 84 / Edge 84 / Safari 16.4
- Browser:
- Chrome, Edge or Safari
Full screen and a browser that never sleeps is the whole requirement.
This is a compatibility list, not a partnership. Bubaly certifies nothing, sells no hardware and takes no money from any manufacturer — these are simply the devices the display has been built and checked against. Anything else with a current browser will probably work: open the display on it and run Test this display.
What a family has to buy or do
Bubaly on a screen you own, next to a device bought to be a family display.
Bubaly on a screen you already own
- A tablet, laptop or spare phone the household already ownsAlready have it
- The Bubaly plan the family is already onAlready have it
- A stand or wall mount, if the tablet does not already have oneOptional
- A power socket near where the screen will hangAlready have it
- About ten minutes of setup, following the guideAlready have it
A device bought to be a family display
- The display device itselfHave to buy
- Whatever subscription that device's features needHave to buy
- A wall mount, if it is not meant to stand on a counterOptional
- A power socket near where the screen will hangAlready have it
- Unboxing and account setup on the deviceAlready have it
| Question | Bubaly on your own screen | A dedicated display device |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | Whatever screen the household already has. | A device bought for this job. |
| Where it runs | In a browser, so the same screen works on a tablet, a laptop or a phone. | On that device, in the room it was put in. |
| If it breaks | Open the display on another device and carry on; nothing lives only on the tablet. | The screen is replaced or repaired. |
| What it shows | The same household information as the app, including what Bubaly finished today. | Whatever that product's own app puts on it. |
| More than one screen | Open it on as many devices as the household has; the layout is saved per family. | One more device per room. |
A dedicated display is a different product with tradeoffs of its own: it arrives ready to hang, and it is one less browser to look after. This table compares what a family has to buy or do, not which one is better.
Already using Bubaly?
The in-app guide has the same steps plus a self-check that tests full screen, the screen lock and the network on the tablet in your hands.