# Anna > Anna is an AI family assistant that helps busy parents manage the mental load of running a household. She connects to your email, calendar, and messaging apps and takes action on your behalf: booking appointments, ordering groceries, coordinating schedules, and handling the invisible admin that eats parents alive. ## Pages - [Home](https://www.hianna.ai): Overview of Anna and how she works - [About](https://www.hianna.ai/about): The team behind Anna - [Pricing](https://www.hianna.ai/pricing): Plans and pricing - [FAQ](https://www.hianna.ai/faq): Common questions - [Security](https://www.hianna.ai/security): How Anna protects your family's data ## Blog - [Your Family's Data and Anna: The Security and Privacy Questions We Get Most](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/family-data-security-questions): Straight, specific answers to the questions families ask before trusting Anna with their email, calendar, and messages: what we read and store, how long we keep it, what deletion and disconnecting really do, our certifications, two-factor authentication, and how email approval works. - [The best AI family assistants in 2026, matched to your situation](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/comparisons/best-ai-family-assistants): The leading AI family assistants and organizers, compared honestly and matched to situations: agents that act, organizers that read your inbox, all-in-one apps, and wall displays. Written by the team behind Anna, with the bias disclosed upfront. - [Anna vs ChatGPT: Which One Actually Runs Your Family Life?](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/comparisons/anna-vs-chatgpt): ChatGPT answers your questions. Anna connects to your email, calendar, and WhatsApp, catches what you'd forget, and acts on it with your approval. An honest comparison of when each one is the right tool. - [The Honest Cozi Alternative for Families Who Want AI](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/comparisons/cozi-alternative): Cozi is a proven, low-cost shared family calendar you fill in by hand. Anna is the AI-native option that catches tasks from your inbox and acts on them. An honest comparison, including when Cozi is still the better pick. - [Maple vs Anna: A Family OS You Fill In, or an Assistant That Acts](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/comparisons/maple-vs-anna): Maple is a low-cost, all-in-one family organizer: shared calendar, tasks, chores, meals, and a family inbox, with a built-in AI assistant. Anna reads your own inbox and acts on what she catches with your approval. An honest comparison, including where Maple wins. - [A Milo Alternative for Families After the Wind-Down](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/comparisons/milo-alternative): Milo, the family AI that tackled the invisible load, is winding down. Its founder announced the goodbye in January 2026. Here is an honest guide to where Milo's users can go next, what to weigh, and how Anna compares. - [Ohai vs Anna: Two AI Household Assistants, Honestly Compared](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/comparisons/ohai-vs-anna): Ohai (O, the household AI assistant) organizes your family's calendars, emails, and meals into one plan. Anna reads your inbox and, with your approval, takes the action. An honest comparison of two AI household assistants, including where Ohai is the better pick. - [A Skylight Alternative With No Hardware to Buy](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/comparisons/skylight-alternative): Skylight is a lovely physical family calendar you hang on the wall. Anna is software only, with no device to buy, and acts on what it catches from your inbox. An honest comparison, including when the Skylight hardware is genuinely the better choice. - [10 Agentic Parenting Examples: What It Actually Looks Like When AI Acts for Your Family](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/agentic-parenting-examples): Agentic parenting goes beyond advice. Here are 10 real examples of AI taking action for families: booking appointments, triaging school emails, coordinating schedules, and more. - [Agentic Parenting Resources: The Definitive Reading List for 2026](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/agentic-parenting-resources): A curated collection of the best articles, podcasts, research, open-source tools, and expert voices on agentic parenting. Everything worth reading on AI that acts for families, in one place. - [Is Agentic Parenting Safe? Trust, Privacy, and What Parents Actually Control](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/agentic-parenting-safety): Agentic parenting can be safe when a tool uses tiered permissions, encrypted data, and explicit child data protections, but not all tools meet this bar. Here's what to look for, what to avoid, and what to demand before trusting AI with your family. - [What Is Agentic Parenting? The Shift From AI That Advises to AI That Acts](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/what-is-agentic-parenting): Agentic parenting is the shift from AI that gives parents advice to AI that takes action: booking, buying, and coordinating on your behalf. Here's what it means, why it matters, and how it changes family life. - [Never Miss Another Game Day](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/features/activity-tracking): Track every practice, recital, and playdate in one family dashboard that actually keeps up with your chaos - [Meet Anna: The AI Family Assistant That Actually Gets Your Family](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/features/ai-assistant): Anna is the AI-powered family assistant that helps busy parents manage the mental load, organize daily chaos, and bring calm to family life. - [One Calendar, Zero Chaos](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/features/family-calendar): Keep everyone in sync with Anna's smart family calendar that actually works for real families - [Never lose another precious family moment](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/features/family-memories): Family Memories is coming soon to Anna, a feature designed to capture the chaos and joy of daily life and turn scattered photos and fleeting moments into a family story you'll actually want to revisit. - [Your family life, all connected](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/features/integrations): Anna connects to the apps your family already uses, WhatsApp, Google Calendar, and Gmail, creating one intelligent hub for everything that matters. - [Family Meal Planning with Anna: End the "What's for Dinner" Debate](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/features/meal-planning): Anna's AI meal planning helps families plan weekly meals, build grocery lists, and handle picky eaters, all through a simple conversation. - [How Anna helps parents share the mental load](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/features/mental-load): The mental load of parenting is invisible and exhausting. Anna helps families distribute cognitive labor so no one person carries it all. - [Turn Family Chaos Into Smooth Routines](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/features/skills): Anna's Skills & Routines feature transforms scattered daily tasks into predictable, stress-free patterns your whole family can follow. - [The Family Task App That Actually Gets Things Done](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/features/task-management): Turn your household chaos into coordinated action with Anna's shared todo lists that sync across the whole family. - [Your Family Voice Assistant That Actually Gets It](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/features/voice-assistant): Anna's voice assistant understands family context, from soccer practice schedules to sibling dietary restrictions. Just speak, and watch your mental load lighten. - [Activity Tracking for Co-Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/activity-tracking-for-co-parents): Never miss another soccer practice or piano recital. Keep both households in sync with Anna's activity tracking. - [Turn Chaotic Days into Coordinated Adventures](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/activity-tracking-for-stay-at-home-parents): Anna's Activity Tracking helps stay-at-home parents organize endless activities while actually enjoying time with their kids - [The AI Assistant That Speaks Both Houses' Language](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/ai-assistant-for-co-parents): Transform co-parenting chaos into coordinated care with Anna's intelligent family management system - [Your AI partner in full-time parenting](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/ai-assistant-for-stay-at-home-parents): Stay-at-home parents juggle endless tasks without office support systems. Anna becomes your intelligent assistant, turning chaos into calm with smart organization and gentle reminders. - [The AI Family Assistant That Actually Understands Working Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/ai-assistant-for-working-parents): Finally, an assistant that handles the invisible work of parenting while you handle everything else - [Family Calendar for Co-Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/family-calendar-for-co-parents): A shared family calendar that keeps both co-parents on the same page, so custody days, pickups, and appointments never fall through the cracks. - [The Single Parent's Command Center: How Anna's Family Calendar Saves Your Sanity](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/family-calendar-for-single-parents): Stop juggling soccer practice, dentist appointments, and parent-teacher conferences in your head. One shared family calendar that actually works. - [The Stay-at-Home Parent's Secret to Sanity: A Shared Family Calendar](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/family-calendar-for-stay-at-home-parents): Turn chaos into coordination with one central hub for every appointment, activity, and deadline that keeps your family running. - [Never Miss a Milestone Again](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/family-memories-for-co-parents): Keep your child's precious moments connected across two homes with Anna's family memory keeper - [Your Family's Story Deserves Better Than Lost Phone Photos](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/family-memories-for-stay-at-home-parents): Capture the moments that matter and actually revisit them, without adding another task to your endless list. - [Never Miss Another Family Milestone While Juggling Work Deadlines](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/family-memories-for-working-parents): Anna helps working parents hold onto the moments that matter, catching milestone dates from school email and remembering the details you share between meetings, commutes, and conference calls - [One App to Rule Them All: How Stay-at-Home Parents Use Integrations to Streamline Their Day](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/integrations-for-stay-at-home-parents): Stop juggling 12 apps to manage your family. Anna's integrations connect your tools so you can focus on what matters most. - [Meal Planning for Co-Parents: Finally, Food Coordination That Works](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/meal-planning-for-co-parents): Keep kids' nutrition consistent across both homes with shared meal planning that actually sticks - [Meal Planning for Single Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/meal-planning-for-single-parents): Simple weekly meal planning for single parents, so dinner is one less thing to figure out at 5 PM with tired kids and a tighter budget. - [Finally, Meal Planning Help That Gets Your Stay-at-Home Parent Life](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/meal-planning-for-stay-at-home-parents): Stop staring at the pantry at 4:30 PM wondering what's for dinner. Anna carries the meal plan for you and turns chaotic kitchen moments into smooth daily wins. - [Stop the 5 PM Panic: Meal Planning That Actually Works for Working Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/meal-planning-for-working-parents): Transform those frantic 'what's for dinner?' moments into calm, organized family meals with Anna's weekly meal planner - [Mental Load Sharing for Co-Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/mental-load-for-co-parents): How co-parents can share the mental load, so appointments, permission slips, and reminders do not live in one parent's head alone. - [Mental Load Sharing for Single Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/mental-load-for-single-parents): Practical ways to lighten the mental load as a single parent, so the endless checklist stops running through your head at bedtime. - [Mental Load Sharing for Stay-at-Home Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/mental-load-for-stay-at-home-parents): Transform invisible work into shared family responsibility - [Stop being the family's only memory bank](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/mental-load-for-working-parents): Working parents shouldn't carry the entire mental load alone. Anna helps you share the invisible work of running a family. - [Skills & Routines for Single Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/skills-for-single-parents): Set up daily routines and skills that run the household for you, so a single parent can stop tracking every small task by memory. - [Transform Chaos into Calm: Family Routine Management for Stay-at-Home Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/skills-for-stay-at-home-parents): Turn overwhelming days into structured success with smart routine planning that actually works for your family's unique rhythm. - [Turn Family Chaos Into Smooth Routines](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/skills-for-working-parents): Anna's Skills & Routines feature helps working parents create predictable structure that actually sticks, even on the busiest days. - [The SAHM's Secret Weapon: Task Management That Actually Works](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/task-management-for-stay-at-home-parents): Transform your endless mental to-do list into an organized family task app that keeps everyone (including you) on track - [Stop Playing Task Tag with Your Family](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/task-management-for-working-parents): Working parents deserve a task management system that actually works for families, not another app that makes you do more work. - [Voice Commands That Keep Co-Parents Connected](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/voice-assistant-for-co-parents): When you're juggling pickup times and shared calendars, Anna's voice assistant lets you stay on top of family schedules hands-free, even when your ex has the kids. - [Your Voice-Activated Family Command Center](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/voice-assistant-for-single-parents): When you're juggling everything solo, Anna's voice assistant gives you hands-free help exactly when you need it most - [Finally, a Family Assistant That Works While Your Hands Are Full](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/voice-assistant-for-stay-at-home-parents): Anna's voice assistant helps stay-at-home parents manage family chaos without putting down what they're doing - [Voice Assistant for Working Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/guides/voice-assistant-for-working-parents): A hands-free family voice assistant for working parents, so you can add tasks, lists, and reminders in the middle of a busy day. - [Two Homes, One Family](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/use-cases/co-parents): Anna helps co-parents stay connected across households, ensuring your kids get consistent care no matter which door they walk through. - [You're not just managing a family, you're the CEO](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/use-cases/single-parents): Single parents juggle every detail alone. Anna helps you stay organized without the overwhelm. - [Running a Household Shouldn't Feel Like a Full-Time Job](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/use-cases/stay-at-home-parents): Stay-at-home parents juggle dozens of tasks every day. Anna helps you handle them all without losing your mind. - [Anna for Working Parents](https://www.hianna.ai/blog/use-cases/working-parents): Keep your family running smoothly while crushing it at work ## Links - [Anna App](https://app.hianna.ai): Sign in to the Anna AI family assistant - [Anna Blog](https://www.hianna.ai/blog): All articles and guides