Apple announced HomeView on October 13, 2026: a $299, 7-inch smart display that ships November 13, with Calendar built in. Hearth Display is the wall calendar built around one thing — each kid gets a column, and it subscribes to calendar URLs directly. So which one belongs in the kitchen?
This page puts the two side by side in Hearth’s terms — columns, URL subscriptions, what happens when a practice moves — using only what Apple has published about HomeView. It ends with the part no spec sheet covers: the feed you hand either screen has to be right before the screen can be.
HomeView column current as of Apple’s October 2026 materials; Hearth column from Hearth’s documentation. Last revised October 16, 2026 — expect an update once we have a HomeView in hand after November 13.
Apple HomeView: $299 (U.S.), tabletop or wall-mounted. Apple’s Power Mount wall connectors are sold separately, from $59.95.
Hearth Display: See Hearth for current pricing — we only publish prices we’ve verified ourselves, and we haven’t verified Hearth’s. Calendar subscriptions by URL are part of the Hearth Companion app as documented in Hearth’s Connect Calendars pages.
Apple HomeView: A 7-inch square (1088 by 1088) Liquid Retina display. No per-person columns are described anywhere in Apple’s materials; the one shared layout Apple names is a single Modular face per household holding up to four widgets.
Hearth Display: A wall display built around the family calendar, laid out in per-person columns — each kid’s calendar gets exactly their events, which is the feature Hearth’s setup is designed around.
Apple HomeView: Ships November 13, 2026 (pre-orders since October 13). Needs an iPhone on iOS 27.2 or later or an iPad on iPadOS 27.2 or later; not sold in the EU.
Hearth Display: On sale now. You manage its calendars from the Hearth Companion app (Manage Calendars → Connect Calendars), which subscribes to URL-based calendars directly — Hearth’s own docs name TeamSnap feeds and school-district calendars as examples.
Apple HomeView: The person standing in front of it. Each enrolled member — up to six, added through the Home app — gets their own Calendar when HomeView recognizes their face and their paired iPhone or iPad is nearby, on the same Wi-Fi, and recently unlocked. The one everyone-sees-it case Apple documents is a member’s Calendar widget placed on the household Modular face.
Hearth Display: Shared, by person. Every subscribed calendar is assigned to a family member so its events land in that person’s column, and the whole household sees the same wall.
Apple HomeView: Through the Calendar app on the paired iPhone. There is no App Store and no “subscribe via URL” on the device itself in anything Apple has published — Calendar on HomeView is the paired phone’s personal content.
Hearth Display: In the Hearth Companion app: Manage Calendars → Connect Calendars → Subscribe via URL → paste the calendar’s URL, name it, Save, then assign it to the right kid. The schedule appears on the display after the first sync.
Apple HomeView: Not stated by Apple — neither a refresh cadence nor any kind of change notice.
Hearth Display: Subscribed URLs refresh on a cycle — Hearth notes external syncs can take hours — and the display self-corrects silently. Nothing tells you what changed.
The HomeView column is deliberately short. The full Apple-sourced detail — every quote, every requirement — lives on HomeView vs Skylight and sports schedules on Apple HomeView.
Hearth facts: Hearth’s Connect Calendars documentation, September 2026. HomeView facts: Apple’s product, specs, Store FAQ, Newsroom and developer pages, October 15, 2026. Apple HomeView and Hearth Display are their owners’ trademarks; we are affiliated with neither.
One caveat that colors this whole page: Apple has not said whether a subscribed, Google, or Outlook calendar appears on HomeView at all, so every HomeView-side step here is a step on your iPhone, not on the display, until we can test one. The running list of what is and isn’t confirmed is on does HomeView show Google Calendar?
Hearth starts from the family. Its Companion app subscribes to calendar URLs, you attach each one to a person, and the wall shows everyone’s week in columns. Hearth’s own documentation names TeamSnap feeds and school-district calendars as the kind of thing you paste in, which tells you who it was built for.
HomeView starts from whoever walks up. Apple’s phrase is “central to the home and personal to everyone in it”: the display recognizes an enrolled member by face, checks that their paired iPhone or iPad is on the Wi-Fi and was recently unlocked, and then shows that person their Calendar. Swap the person, swap the calendar. The household-wide layer Apple describes is thinner than a Hearth wall: one Modular face, up to four widgets, and if a member puts their Calendar widget on it, that member’s calendar is what everyone sees.
So the Hearth question — “which column does this game go in?” — doesn’t have a HomeView equivalent yet. But both displays share the harder problem underneath it: the game has to exist, correctly, in a calendar somebody can subscribe to, and somebody has to notice when the coach moves it.
Hearth’s columns are only as good as the URLs behind them, and HomeView’s Calendar is only as good as what the paired iPhone is subscribed to. Neither display creates a schedule; each one repeats whatever it is pointed at. A family with two kids on TeamSnap, a third on GameChanger, a league on SportsEngine, and a school calendar that only exists as a PDF has four links and a piece of paper, not a calendar.
Schedule Caddie turns that pile into one feed, free. Paste each team app’s link (there are step-by-step guides for 20+ platforms), upload the school PDF, and everything merges into one family calendar that is color-coded by kid inside Schedule Caddie. Every source is re-checked hourly, and when a time changes you get an email that names the game and the new time. The wall updates on its own, quietly; the email is how you find out it did.
Hearth’s per-kid columns are the natural match for Schedule Caddie’s filtered feeds: make one feed per kid in Subscribe & Share, then in the Hearth Companion app go Manage Calendars → Connect Calendars → Subscribe via URL, paste, name it, Save, and assign it to that kid. (One All Events feed assigned to one person works too if you prefer a single column.) The walkthrough is sports schedules on a Hearth Display.
On the iPhone you’ll pair with HomeView, open the Calendar app, tap Calendars, then Add Calendar → Add Subscription Calendar, paste your Schedule Caddie feed, tap Find, and set Account to iCloud so Apple’s support guide applies and the subscription follows you across your Apple devices. Whether HomeView then displays it is the open question; the why and the fine print are in sports schedules on Apple HomeView.
If the job is “everyone’s schedule on the kitchen wall, one column per kid, from calendar links we already have,” Hearth is built for exactly that today, and its URL subscription takes a Schedule Caddie feed as-is. If the job is a shared Apple screen for the household — FaceTime, Messages, smart-home control, and each person’s own Calendar when they walk up — that is what Apple is describing with HomeView, and it only makes sense in an iPhone or iPad household on iOS/iPadOS 27.2 or later.
Choosing between them on the calendar alone? Hearth is the known quantity. HomeView is four weeks from shipping, Apple has been silent on subscribed calendars, and a column-per-kid view is not something Apple has described. We’ll put a real family’s feeds on one the week it lands and say what we found.
Not on anything Apple has published. Hearth’s whole pitch is a shared wall with a column per kid, fed by calendar URLs you paste in the Companion app. Apple describes HomeView as a personal screen: Calendar, Messages, Reminders shown to the person it recognizes, with FaceTime and smart-home control around it, and a single household Modular face as the shared spot. Those are different jobs. Until HomeView ships on November 13 and someone has lived with one next to a Hearth, calling either a replacement for the other would be a guess.
Apple hasn’t described anything like that. What Apple has said is that each enrolled person (up to six) sees their own Calendar when HomeView recognizes their face and their paired iPhone is nearby and recently unlocked, and that one household Modular face can hold up to four widgets from different members’ iPhones. A Calendar widget placed there shows that person’s calendar for everyone. That is Apple’s wording, and we’re not reading more into it until we can test it.
Yes — Hearth’s docs list TeamSnap and school-district calendars as URL-subscribe examples, and for one team that is fine. The merged-feed route earns its keep at family scale: one URL instead of one per team, duplicates cleaned up, the school PDF (which has no URL at all) included, per-kid filtered feeds that match Hearth’s columns — and change-alert emails, which no wall display sends.
Nothing Apple has published says so. Hearth’s Subscribe via URL is a documented feature of Hearth’s own Companion app. For HomeView, Apple’s pages describe Calendar as content pulled from the paired iPhone or iPad, and say nothing about subscribed (webcal/ICS), Google, or Outlook calendars one way or the other. We keep a running list of what is and isn’t confirmed on our HomeView and Google Calendar page.
We don’t know yet, and we won’t pretend to. The subscription lands your Schedule Caddie feed in the Calendar app on the iPhone HomeView pairs with; Apple says that phone is where HomeView gets your Calendar from. Whether the HomeView screen then shows a subscribed calendar — and whether a Modular-face widget of it looks anything like Hearth’s columns — is exactly what we will test the week it arrives. The iPhone step is safe to do today regardless.
Hearth: Hearth’s published Connect Calendars documentation, as of September 2026. HomeView: Apple’s product page, tech specs, Apple Store FAQ, the October 13 Newsroom release, and the Human Interface Guidelines, all read October 15, 2026 — no hands-on review has been written yet, including by us. If either company changes something, tell us and we’ll update this page.
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