The Best Skylight Calendar Alternative: No Hardware Required

Why Families Look for a Skylight Alternative

Skylight Calendar looks appealing on the surface — a dedicated family calendar display. But once families actually use it, three pain points come up again and again.

Skylight Calendar vs. Mango Display

See how they stack up side by side.

Product Device Cost

Screen size	Skylight Calendar	Mango Display
Small (10″)	$149 (calendar)	$60 (10″ Android Tablet)
Larger (15″ and above)	$299 (calendar) $629 (calendar max 27″)	$299 Amazon Echo Show 15″ $399 Amazon Echo Show 21″ OR if you don’t need touch $105 32″ Fire TV — works with any size supported display

Subscription Costs & Features

	Skylight Calendar $40/year (Plus)	Mango Display See Plans & Pricing
Google Photo Album	No	Yes
Apple Photo Album	No	Yes
Chores	Yes – limited	Yes
Touch capability	Yes	Yes
Meal Plan	Yes – limited (no images)	Yes
Notes	No	Yes
Todos & Tasks	Yes – limited	Yes
Photos	Only as screensaver	Backgrounds & widgets
Countdown to events	No	Yes
Fun GIFs and Stickers	No	Yes
News headlines	No	Yes
Quotes & Bible verses	No	Yes
Auto page rotation	No	Yes

Also, Skylight calendar wants you to make your Apple calendar public 😱 in order to connect it? Seriously, you want all your hospital appointments, date night plans, kids events, vacation trips (📢 hello home burglars) to be made public? SMH. With Mango Display you keep your calendar private and secure as it should be. Mango Display uses Apple-approved, secure, and private direct calendar integration.

And on Skylight calendar, the only way you can view photos is as a screensaver? Which means that the calendar is covered until activated by touch. So, no calendar viewing until you go touch it? What if you want your photos as a background or next to your calendar? Nope, not possible with Skylight. Definitely possible with Mango Display.
Also, what’s the deal with uploading photos to Skylight app? What is this — 2008? Nah, with Mango Display you simply connect a Google Photo Album or Apple iCloud Photo Album. Add photos to the album anytime and it automagically gets displayed on Mango Display. You can also share the album with others and they can all add photos to it. No need to manage another app. Welcome to the future.

Mango Display supports two-way calendar sync seamlessly and instantly. You can update your Google, Outlook, or Apple calendars directly from Mango Display if you like, or via the regular calendar apps and see the updates on Mango. No matter how you do it, it keeps everything in sync.

Hardware Design

Why limit yourself to a single-purpose Skylight device when you could have the Amazon Echo Show 21, which has a much better design to match your wonderful taste. And you get the added bonus of using Alexa or watching Fire TV when you are in the mood. You can have it all for way less than a Skylight calendar.

Software Design & Layouts

Do you want a Skylight 1990s inspired grid design calendar that looks like it belongs in a boring office 🤓, and not your wonderful inspiring house?

Or do you want to use Mango Display so you can have your calendar and family command center designed in your own unique way? Fun, exciting and full of joy, like your family! Something that they look forward to checking out every single day.

Here are some Mango Display calendar designs in the real world.

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Comparing Other Calendar & Digital Signage Solutions?

Check out how Mango Display compares to Skylight in a detailed comparison, and see the Hearth Display comparison too. Learn more about digital calendar displays or discover our digital calendar for elderly solution that works perfectly for families.