This Tablet Sticks to Your Fridge and Automatically Knows Its Contents

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Key Takeaways

Most families have one place where everyone leaves information: the fridge door.

Grocery lists, sticky notes, reminders, kids’ schedules, appointments, and school notices all end up stuck to the same surface. Before long, the fridge door becomes a cluttered information board.

The appliance industry’s answer is to sell you a new smart refrigerator. Samsung’s Bespoke AI Family Hub costs $3,199, with the smart part essentially being a tablet on the door.

That’s where the Everblog FridgeCal™ 2 comes in. Instead of covering your fridge with scattered notes and paper reminders, it puts your family’s schedules, to-do lists, grocery information, and other reminders on one smart screen, turning the fridge into a shared family information center.

And you don’t need to spend thousands replacing the refrigerator to get that kind of smart-home experience. You can add FridgeCal™ 2 to the fridge you already own for a fraction of the cost.

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Everblog Sells You Just the Tablet

The FridgeCal™ 2 is a 15.6-inch touchscreen that magnetically attaches to the fridge you already own. No drilling, no adhesive, no wall bracket, and no cord. The mount on the previous model held over 33 pounds, and a magnetic plate comes in the box for glass and stainless doors that fight magnets. 

That means you can move the tablet to another fridge or take it with you when you move apartments, without the headache of moving a $3,000 box of steel.

Your Receipt Does the Data Entry

How does it work? Easy: when you get home, you photograph your grocery receipt in the Everblog app. The AI reads the line items, works out which ones are food, and fills your inventory without you typing a word.

Other food-tracking apps typically rely on manual entry, but nobody wants to log forty items after a Costco run with a toddler hanging off their leg. Photographing a receipt takes about 3 seconds. 

If you forget the receipt, you can open the fridge and take one picture of the inside. The app will read the shelves and update itself. 

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It Tells You to Eat the Spinach

The screen tracks expiration dates and can warn you before food turns. Everblog’s framing is turning food that’s “about to expire” into “time to cook,” so you won’t have to pull bags of liquid spinach out of the back of the fridge anymore. 

Ask it out loud, “Hi, Everblog, what’s for dinner tonight?” and it builds recipes from what you actually own, then walks you through the steps on screen. Instead of giving you a shopping list for more food, it helps you use what you already have.

Calendar sync, color-coded family schedules, a chore chart and a parental lock come along too, making it more than just a screen that tells you when your milk goes bad.

Nobody Bills You Again in March

Everblog FridgeCal™ 2 will be available for $279 from September 22 through September 25. After September 25, the price will be $299.

And it doesn’t have a subscription like some of its competitors. Skylight’s 15-inch model costs $299.99, but meal planning and chore rewards cost 79 bucks a year, which lands three years near $537. Hearth asks $699 and then requires a $9 monthly membership just to finish setup, which is roughly $801 over the same stretch.

Everblog says the whole feature set works with no recurring fee. Your fridge gets smart for $299 instead of $3,199 and no extra fees after you slap it on your fridge door.

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