Nelly

Nelly

Hey Nelly · Voice & Language

Nelly is a family AI assistant that reads school emails, nanny texts and calendar invites, then keeps everyone in sync on one shared calendar. It launches in 2026.

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About Nelly

What Is Nelly

Nelly is a family AI assistant built by Hey Nelly, and it targets a specific job that most households hand to one person: remembering everything. It connects to the inbox, the school portal, the family chat and the messages a childminder or nanny sends, then pulls out the dates, deadlines, pickups and payments buried in them. The output is one shared family calendar that updates the moment something changes.

The problem it goes after is mental load. Permission slips due tomorrow, who's on pickup, the party nobody has RSVP'd to, the kit that needs washing before Saturday. That list usually lives in one parent's head, and Nelly is designed to hold it for the whole household instead. Everyone gets a view set by their role: a parent sees the full week, a nanny sees today's plan and handovers, a grandparent sees when the party starts.

Two limits are worth knowing before you sign up. Nelly is still pre-launch, so the site collects waitlist emails and there is no pricing or hands-on demo yet. And it works by reading a lot of family messages, which is why the company puts access controls and encryption at the center of the pitch rather than a footnote.

Getting Started

  1. Join the waitlist on the Hey Nelly site with your email to get notified about the launch
  2. When access opens, connect the sources you want Nelly to read, such as your inbox, the school portal, the family chat and the childminder's messages
  3. Set each household member's role so everyone sees only what they should, from the full week to just today's plan
  4. Let Nelly pull dates, deadlines and payments into the shared calendar, then act on the nudges it sends to whoever needs to do something

Product Information

A quick look at Nelly's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.

Free PlanNo
Paid PlansN/A
PlatformWeb, email, school portal, family chat, childminder and nanny messages
DeveloperHey Nelly
CategoryVoice & Language
Release DateJan 2026
Latest UpdatedOct 2025
Website Visits2.1K
Website Global Rank7.8M
API AvailabilityN/A

Best for

The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.

Users

  • Parents carrying the family admin
  • Two-parent households
  • Nannies and childminders
  • Extended family

Tasks

  • School email triage
  • Pickup coordination
  • Nanny handovers
  • Party and RSVP tracking
  • Payment reminders

Scenarios

  • A school email arrives mid-week
  • A childminder says they'll be ten minutes late
  • A party invite sits unopened
  • A parent asks what's on this week
  • A relative only needs one event

Key features

Reads Family Messages From the Sources You Pick

Nelly connects to the inbox, the school portal, the family chat and a childminder or nanny's messages, then reads them as they arrive. You choose which sources to link, and you can disconnect any of them in a tap. That keeps the setup under your control rather than pulling in every account by default.

Pulls Out Dates, Deadlines and Payments

The assistant works through each message to find the what, when and who. Dates, deadlines, pickups, kit lists, permission slips and small payments like a pound for a cake sale all get lifted out and turned into calendar entries. The aim is to catch the details that normally slip because they're buried in a long email.

One Shared Family Calendar

Everything Nelly finds lands in one calendar that the whole household can see and trust. It updates the instant something changes, so a late pickup or a moved deadline shows up for everyone rather than in one person's memory. The calendar is the single picture the family works from.

Role-Based Views for Each Family Member

You set what each person sees. A parent sees the full week and gets the nudges. A nanny sees today's plan and handovers. A grandparent sees the party and when to arrive. Those roles keep the right information in front of each person without handing everyone the full household schedule.

Nudges to Whoever Needs to Act

Nelly does not just store information, it sends a gentle nudge to the person who actually has to do something. A permission slip due tomorrow, a payment that needs sending, an RSVP that is still open: each one routes to a specific family member instead of sitting in a shared list nobody checks.

Privacy Controls and Encryption

Because Nelly reads a lot to be useful, the company puts privacy first. Your data stays yours, the site states it is never sold and never used to train public models, and each person's messages are encrypted in transit and at rest. You decide what Nelly can see, and you can remove a source at any time.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Pulls dates, deadlines and payments out of school emails and chat threads instead of making you scan them yourself
  • One shared calendar updates the moment something changes, so the household works from the same picture
  • Role-based views mean a nanny or grandparent sees only what they need, not the full household schedule
  • The site states family messages are never sold and never used to train public models, and data is encrypted
  • Free to join the waitlist, and founding families get early access plus a say in what Nelly learns first

Cons

  • Still pre-launch, so there is no app to try, no demo and no confirmed release date beyond 2026
  • No pricing or plan details are published yet, which makes budgeting hard
  • It depends on connecting your inbox, school portal and chats, so it only helps if you're willing to grant that access
  • Coverage depends on what the school and childminder send in a readable format, not every message will parse well

Frequently asked questions

Nelly is a family AI assistant from Hey Nelly. It reads school emails, nanny and childminder messages, calendar invites and household notes, then pulls out dates, deadlines and payments and keeps the whole family in sync on one shared calendar. It is an AI assistant for parents who end up running the household admin.

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