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Skylight Calendar UK: price, Plus and is it worth it?
Debs · 29 September 2026
The short answer
The Skylight Calendar is a touchscreen wall calendar for the kitchen. In the UK, Skylight's own shop lists the 15-inch model at £290 and the 27-inch Calendar Max at £550, and the optional Plus plan (photos, meal planning, rewards and email import) is £60 a year. It's worth it if your family will genuinely look at a screen on the wall and your plans already live in phone calendars. It's less good value if the real problem is the school emails nobody has read.
Somewhere in your Instagram feed there is a kitchen. It has a white worktop, one lemon in a bowl, and a glowing screen on the wall showing five colour-coded people having a beautifully organised week. That's a Skylight Calendar. Judging by how many UK parents search for it, a lot of us have stood at our own fridge, looked at a magnet holding up a party invitation from June, and wondered whether £290 would fix it.
What the Skylight Calendar does
Skylight is a touchscreen that hangs on the wall or stands on a worktop and shows the family calendar. It syncs with the calendars you already use, gives each person a colour, and has a chore chart and lists. The free features cover the calendar itself; the optional Plus plan adds most of what you see in the adverts. There's more on that split in our guide to what works without the Skylight subscription.
- Syncs Google, Apple, Outlook, Yahoo and Cozi calendars, and any calendar with a share link.
- A colour for each person, with day, week and month views.
- A chore chart and lists, without a subscription.
- With Plus: a photo screensaver, meal planning, rewards for chores, and Magic Import, which turns forwarded emails and PDFs into events.
A beautiful calendar of the wrong information is still the wrong information.
Left: Skylight's strength is that it's a single-purpose screen nobody borrows for YouTube. Right: an old iPad or an Echo Show can show a family calendar too, for less.
Skylight Calendar UK price: what you actually pay
On Skylight's UK shop, when we checked in autumn 2026, the 15-inch Skylight Calendar was £290 (£275 when bought with the Plus plan) and the 27-inch Calendar Max was £550 (£525 with Plus). Plus itself is £60 a year in the UK. Prices change and Skylight runs regular sales, so check on the day you buy.
Over three years, a 15-inch Skylight with Plus paid every year comes to roughly £455 to £470, depending on the deal. Without Plus, it's the price of the screen, once. That's the real decision: not whether the screen is nice (it is), but whether the Plus features are worth £5 a month to your family, on top.
Plus is £60 a year. That's £5 a month for photos, meal plans, rewards and email import.
Is the Skylight Calendar worth it for a UK school family?
It's worth it if your family's plans already live in phone calendars and the missing piece is a screen everyone can see. Children who can't yet read a phone can find their colour on the wall, and a screen that only does one job doesn't get borrowed for cartoons. It's less good value if the gap is the school itself. Skylight shows what's in the calendars it syncs, so if nobody has put the INSET day, the PE change or the trip deadline in a calendar, the wall can't show it. That's the part Debs does, and Debs can put the school dates on a Skylight too.
Skylight Calendar UK at a glance
As Skylight's UK shop and help pages listed them in autumn 2026. Check current prices before you buy.
| Skylight Calendar 15" | Skylight Calendar Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Screen | 15 inches, touchscreen | 27 inches, touchscreen |
| Price on Skylight's UK shop | £290 (£275 with Plus) | £550 (£525 with Plus) |
| Plus plan | Optional, £60 a year | Optional, £60 a year |
| Calendar syncing and chore chart | Included | Included |
| Photos, meal planning, rewards, Magic Import | With Plus | With Plus |
Mistakes we've all made
- Buying the screen and assuming it will fill itself in. It shows the calendars you sync; someone still has to keep them true.
- Syncing every calendar you own, including the work one, so the kitchen wall says "Quarterly review" in big letters.
- Hanging it in the hallway nobody stands in. Put it where people wait: the kettle, the back door, the shoe pile.
- Paying for Plus for the photo screensaver, then never uploading a single photo.
Want the school side done for you?
Debs, your own school admin assistant, reads the school's emails and the letters attached to them, and fills in the dates, kit, forms and money. It already knows your school's term dates and INSET days. Debs has its own family wall display for a tablet or Echo Show you already own, or you can add Debs's live calendar link to a Skylight and the school dates appear on the wall with everything else. See them side by side: Debs vs Skylight.
Questions parents ask
How much is the Skylight Calendar in the UK?
When we checked in autumn 2026, Skylight's UK shop listed the 15-inch Skylight Calendar at £290 and the 27-inch Calendar Max at £550, with lower prices when bought with the Plus plan. Prices change and sales are common, so check before you buy.
Does the Skylight Calendar need a subscription?
No. The calendar, calendar syncing, lists and the chore chart work without one. The Plus plan, £60 a year in the UK, adds the photo screensaver, meal planning, chore rewards and Magic Import.
Can you buy a Skylight Calendar in the UK?
Yes. Skylight has a UK shop that sells the 15-inch Calendar and the Calendar Max in pounds, and the Plus plan is priced in pounds too.
Is the Skylight Calendar worth it?
It's worth it if your family will look at a screen on the wall and your plans already live in phone calendars. If the problem is school information nobody has entered, a screen alone won't fix it.
Does Skylight work with Google and Apple calendars?
Yes. Skylight syncs with Google, Apple, Outlook, Yahoo and Cozi calendars, and with any calendar that has a share link.