1 of 7 · Meet Milava
Childcare, coordinated.
Bring your children’s schedules and the people who care for them into one shared plan. See what needs attention, and work out the next step together.
Start with your family’s routine.
Add the usual school, daycare, and caregiver hours. Adjust the plan as life happens.
Take the short tour, or choose the topic you need.
2 of 7 · Build your week
Start with your usual week.
School mornings, daycare days, caregiver hours. Give Milava the pieces you already know.
Usual week
Add your children
Open Family and add each child.
Bring your people in
Add a caregiver, then set their recurring days and hours. Use Invite family member for your partner or caregiver; choose the right role.
Add school or daycare
Tap + to add daycare, school or another program. Choose the children, days and hours. Add aftercare where it belongs.
Family view
Share one plan
Today answers who has the children right now. Schedule shows the week, with school, pickups and care together.
Invite your partner
Use Invite family member in Family and choose the Parent role. You both see the same plan and can change it.
Add the parents’ plans
Use + → Traveling when a parent will be away. Add the flight details if you have them, so the trip sits in the same plan.
Care view
Add each caregiver
In Family, add the caregiver with their usual days and hours.
Choose how they take part
Invite them to join Milava with the caregiver role, or share the schedule link from their Family card. The link needs no account.
Keep notes with the plan
Leave a note on a day in Schedule, or add Notes for caregivers in Family. Today’s note and ongoing care notes reach the app and the schedule link.
What about pickups and activities?
Add clubs, lessons and playdates with the + button. In the activity or program editor, use Pickup & Dropoff to name who handles each journey. A pickup also records where it ends and who takes over. Check that the person has accepted.
3 of 7 · Change the plan
Plans change. Start here.
Tap a day, use +, ask Milava, or update a future care plan by text. Choose the way that fits the moment.
Schedule
Start with the day.
Open Schedule and tap the day’s card. Add something with that date filled in, or open an existing item to change it.
Friday → Add caregiver time → Day off
For a repeating plan, check whether you are changing one date or the recurring schedule.
The + button
Add the missing piece.
Use + for caregiver time, days off, activities, daycare or school, and parents’ plans. Set a single date or the recurring days offered by that editor.
Traveling → Jamie’s trip → Friday to Sunday
Pickup & Dropoff lives inside the activity or program editor. Name the person, time and handoff details there.
Ask Milava
Say it in your own words.
Try “Olivia off Friday.” Read the proposed date, person and hours in the preview, then confirm. Nothing is added until you do.
“Olivia off Friday” → Review → Confirm
Plain-words adds and questions share your household’s monthly allowance.
Text
A care plan, from Messages.
With Milava Premium, verify your US mobile number in Milava. Then text a future caregiver shift, day off or sick day, change the hours on a day, or remove a day you added. Send it to the Milava number that messages you.
“Olivia off October 16” → Preview → CONFIRM
Reply VERIFY with the code within 10 minutes to finish setup. Text MENU for examples of adding care, changing hours or removing a day. Use dates within the next 90 days; up to 14 days off fit in one text. Read the preview, then reply CONFIRM within 10 minutes to apply it, or NO to discard. Use the app for recurring plans, activities and pickups. Ask for hours over any stretch up to 90 days back. Pay lines use the plan's hours and the rate you set.
4 of 7 · Use your calendar
Your plan, alongside your day.
See Milava in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook, beside work and everything else. Set it up once.
Google Calendar
Connect Google Calendar
In Milava, open Account → Household → Calendar and choose Connect on Google Calendar.
Choose your Google account
Choose Continue to Google, then sign in and allow access. Milava adds its own calendar to your account and keeps it up to date.
See it on your phone
In the Google Calendar app, open the menu and make sure the Milava calendar is selected. It can take a minute to appear.
Connected the wrong account?
In Account → Household → Calendar, open Google Calendar’s Details and choose Disconnect. Then connect again with the account you use.
Apple Calendar
Tap Apple Calendar
In the Milava app on your iPhone, or in Safari on an iPhone, iPad or Mac, open Account → Household → Calendar and tap Apple Calendar.
Confirm in Calendar
Calendar opens and asks to subscribe. Confirm it.
Keep it visible
In Apple Calendar, open Calendars and select the Milava calendar.
Another way to add it
If Calendar doesn’t open, choose Copy link on Outlook in the same place. In Apple Calendar, tap Calendars → Add Calendar → Add Subscription Calendar, paste it and follow the prompts.
Outlook
Copy your calendar link
In Milava, open Account → Household → Calendar and choose Copy link on Outlook. To move it to a computer, use Email me the link there.
Add it on a computer
At outlook.com, open Calendar → Add calendar → Subscribe from web, paste the link and give it a name.
Show it on your phone
Once it’s added at outlook.com, the calendar can appear in the Outlook app on your phone.
Setting up from your phone?
The Outlook app on your phone can’t add a subscription link. Use outlook.com on a computer for the first setup; the calendar can then appear on your phone.
Keep your plan current
Make changes in Milava. Your calendar refreshes on its own schedule, so updates can take time.
5 of 7 · Find care
See which days need a plan.
When a day needs a plan, open Coverage, or tap + and choose Ask for help. Choose who to ask and the dates you need.
Choose your people
Ask a caregiver in Milava, or share an answer link with someone you trust. They can answer in a browser without an account.
See the offer
Follow replies in Coverage. A helper’s yes is an offer; the day still needs your confirmation.
Confirm who will cover
In Coverage → Needs you, confirm the helper. That adds the care to Schedule. If you arrange care separately, add it in Milava too.
Milava Premium
See which days need a plan. Ask your backups to help with Milava Premium.
Covering it yourselves?
Use We’ll cover it when your family will handle the day. You can also add agreed caregiver time with +. Ask for help through Milava with Milava Premium.
6 of 7 · Include caregivers
An easier day for your caregiver.
A caregiver can join Milava or simply open a schedule link. Choose the level of participation that works for them.
In the app
Invite from Family
Choose the caregiver role. They join with their own account.
The day, made clear
Today and Schedule show their care plan. Requests holds asks they can respond to. Care keeps the family’s shared care information close.
Notes and a daily update
They can read your shared notes and handoff reminders, then send a daily report for you to read in Milava.
Just a link
Open their caregiver card
In Family, open the caregiver and find the schedule link.
Share the link
They open it in a browser. No account or app is required.
A simple read-only view
Their schedule, shared care notes and emergency contacts are available there. Saved allergy and medication fields are not included.
Keep handoff notes with the plan
Open a day in Schedule to leave a note for that day, such as what to bring to pickup. For routines and details that stay useful, add Notes for caregivers in Family. Today’s note and ongoing care notes appear in both the app and the schedule link.
They prefer a morning text?
On their Family card, turn on Send schedule texts. They must reply YES to the invitation before daily texts begin. This is separate from a parent’s Care by text setup.
No extra subscription
Caregivers never need their own subscription.
7 of 7 · Ask & look ahead
Less piecing it together.
Ask about the plan in plain words. Milava can also point out repeating patterns and activities that are coming to an end.
Your Milava allowance
Your household can ask 20 questions or add plans in plain words each month. Milava Premium has no monthly limit, and Ask can look a year back and a year ahead.
Using ChatGPT or Claude with your calendar?
If your assistant can read the calendar subscribed to Milava, try asking about the care events it contains. First ask it to find a specific Milava event: some connections cannot read subscribed calendars. Answers depend on the events and refresh time available to that assistant. Use Milava to check current coverage and make changes.